Sick

this sadness
eats 
me
from the insides
like a disease
infecting every
inch of my body
until my lungs 
turn to ashes
as 
i slowly
melt away
choking
bleeding through the ears
coughing
the
gaseous
poisons
of hatred
that leak from my 
last breath
Oh she died
that
soul
who used to reside
in 
me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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