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destroyed by hope

Jack Henry

i watch the sun rise
through green leaves.
dogs bark, birds sing,
cars race along the road.
my mind races w/o pause,
neurons snap through fissures
that beg forgiveness when
my fingers caress the rope.

she offered promise, desire
fulfilled, yet the sentence
announced perpetual miscalculation -
i stood before christ
and pushed in the blade.

unbound from my heart,
crows peck at the remains -
i drift slowly through
vapors of heat rising
from black asphalt -
her smile burns my flesh
as simple as chance
destroys my soul.

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