Discomfort Revisited

You carry an illness
 Practically know it by name
 It seldom speaks for you
 You learned to tune it away
 But it wasn't easy
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 Was fond of your writing
 It allowed me to see into you
 You hid behind the similes
 Like fractal light in all shades of blue
 
 Pebbles and mirrors
 I'm just jealous because I tried
 Mapping out your mind's inconsistent ways
 Tangled and untied
 I watched your ends start to fray
 You felt buried from the start, tearing you apart
 Constricting the free beating of your heart
 I knew your postcard would say
 "Wish you could stay, wish you felt the same way"
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 Asked to be admitted
 And they put a lock on your door
 Subdued, medicated
 Face to linoleum floor
 And you tried to break away, painted window panes
 Bars behind the glass molded to the frame
 You saw yourself in those days
 You felt buried from the start, tearing you apart
 Constricting the free beating of your heart
 I knew your postcard would say
 "Wish you could stay, wish you felt the same way"
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 I am tearing up pieces of old news
 To mend the leaks in my open wounds
 Protect your pressure points I refuse
 To press against, let yourself renew
 Project the voice that I found for you
 Pull up the weeds from the ground you grew
 Feel soil under your toes, it's you
 You have forever
 I felt weaker when I bent, beaten to the end
 Folding on myself, too damaged to mend
 I couldn't hold all the weight
 You felt buried from the start, tearing you apart
 Injuring yourself dragging from my arm
 I knew your postcard would say
 "I know your new heart still desires to play
 And who would I be to keep it all for me
 Wish I could stay, wish I felt the same way"