Thank You
The bottom fell out of my soul last night under the stars
And the big back nothingness that surrounds them
Shoved itself inside
Where a smile use to be.
My world, so carefully arrange, did a summersault and spun backwards on its head,
Then settled in the pit of my stomach, in
The place that dark things crawl from;
The screams and the tears would have come if I hadn’t held everything in with all I was—
I was once again alone
With myself, against the world and all it stood for.
Everyone in it was a hater,
As the demons took up their chanting.
But you:
You yanked me back to my senses,
And put the bottom back in.
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