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Some sort of Superman
Her body is patched together with
those memories that
pound in her head at night,
The tears that cover her frayed
body glistening in the dark
making her look like some sort of superman
Her soft round head a movie of
every time you weren't there to tell her the everythings-all-right lines,
right on que
Her eyes a clip for each place in time you marked with a scream and a
nasty word or two
Her gentle, pink lips a black hole where there should have been a kiss
goodnight,
or an i-love-you-sweetheart
Her small small shoulders hunched forward to shake off the sting of
the punching of the walls as she tried and tried for sweet dreams
Her tiny hands melted together to pray to a god she didn't believe in,
balancing on her fingertips her own muttered words that might not even make it to the beige ceiling let alone a
heaven-watcha-ma-call-it.
Her legs a moving picture replaying and replaying every time she could not walk away
and her tiny feet resurface a broken record of it's-your-faults and
i-don't-want-to-do-this-anymores
and the words of each memory sew
her together at the seams, binding her tight to a
happily never after.
the light of her tears glimmer gently in her eyes,
giving her a glimpse to a better life
like some sort of superman.
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