Craving Rejection

As I have sinned

Nora Donahue
Paper Poetry
Aug 29, 2024

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Nora Donahue - MJ

I yearn for rejection
Not as a verdict on my being
But justified by the choreography
By slow dances of my bullets
As I watch them explode on your skin
Bringing my hell to your bliss

Your verse is the one
I long to feel on repeat
Want to hand you the lantern
Let your gaze slip through the caverns
See my alcoves, chambers and trifling stones

Yet can’t imagine what it’ll feel like
If I let my soul flutter
If I let you feel my engraves
What happens if you swell
From the poison I let you smell
I know it’s in my air

Echoes of abandonment’s rhyme
I’ve heard them now, too many times
It’s why I cannot stand the probable belief
Indicating the fault of my flesh
Not my sins

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