A short poem, but intense. You have been warned.

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Inexplicable

© 2003 Brodiss

when you misunderstood
i tried to explain
tried to be clear
but words failed me
thickened my tongue
with the mucus of self-betrayal
stopped my throat
as surely as the strongest hand
clenched
clasping
crushing down on my windpipe and larynx
strangling
no word i could say
no sound could you hear
and so the misunderstanding remained
a swollen pulsating mass
suspended between us
rotten fruit ready to burst
decomposing
blackening and corroding
eating away at what once was
and now
now nothing can be the same
ever again.

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