"Truth"
By The Blood and the Bones
they own pieces of you I’ll never touch
impulsive moves, impulsive love
their reminders plain upon your skin, your heart, your tongue
what is it that you really want?
I fear I am too different
I wait in hesitation and old wounds
I say nothing but I’m splitting myself all the way through
with words of ambiguity and self hatred equally matched in their injury and abuse
am I left with the rest of you?
or are you giving me what they could not get to?
I wait in doubt and sorrow subdued
I say nothing but I’m cutting myself all the way through
with vague illusions and questions I cannot ask
each just as sharp as their counterpart
do you want this just as much as you did before?
or are you just seeing it through?
then I didn’t know any better
blind in love and all it’s tethers
but now the veil has come undone
I say nothing but uncertainty is the blade you gave
and it is
carving me
all the way
through
and I am unsure if knowing might be worse
but I am convinced that this love will die
if you can’t find a way to tell the truth
The Blood and the Bones is the pseudonym for a former lover of a US servicemember. Follow her here.
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