Breathe Festering lungs Deprived of oxygen Sycosis Lining your Engorging lymph nodes Selfish Such intrusive thoughts Disregarded conversations Abusive elation One less confining relationship Shut off your phone Pretend you're asleep Roll on your side Curled legs to your chest Between the gnawing teeth in my stomach And the knives growing out of my bones I couldn't clean the salt out from your eyes For the rust Silence Just one more sleepless night before we Speak