Literature
liber
my heart is screaming may-day, "i need to
get out of here, out
of you."
i am smudged out ink on a paper,
water running down
dirty car windows.
i am
a broken elevator, stuck
between places.
(bury your heart where it won't find
an escape route, let it
pound, like a prisoner
shaking the bars,
and never let it out
"don't wear your pain too proudly",
they said, "hide
like the demon you truly are.")
i am the missing page in a dusty novel
from 1932, forgotten words
of war.