Calcium
These flowers dug roots deep
where the bodies, where the old love
grows.
It doesn't grow up, it grows down.
You don't grow up, you grow down.
This love/loss & breakdowns,
the syntax of decay, the questions.
And if?
If you ask me one more time, I'll say:
"I don't know, but I want to know,"
and I'll mean it but you'll say that
our love-bones need calcium
they are brittle & they break.
We break.
We dig our graves deep.
We bury time & love & memories
like we would bury ourselves.
We bury time & love & loss
like we would or could never
unearth them.
We die & we break quietly,
But we dig our graves deep.
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