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Coarse Heart

A Poem

By Matthew ClarkPublished 7 years ago 1 min read
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Your indelible hand has marked me the most

Its song is sustained within me

Its thirst is still unquenched

I cannot remove your face from my head

I cannot live without your presence

The streets are all familiar because of you

My thoughts are all on repeat

These people with whom I try to recreate

Our thoughts our fucks our feelings

Only reflect you and our moments

Were you ever this disgusting?

Glimpses of beauty do nothing to help

Smells and stares and sweat are rank

Were yours?

I’ll never know

Every breath every lick every slap was a cut

Cutting deeper than any knife ever could

Carving out my heart to put on your mantel

It’s funny

Even now I can feel you reading my mind

Every thought I have you seem to have had already

Do I even exist to you?

Whenever your face appears my stomach eats itself

Implodes and pulls my body in with it

Slowly it is digesting my brain

I feel cursed

Have you cursed me?

I remember talk of witches

White witches?

Highland witches ghosts and goblins

Feasting on man’s flesh because their hearts weren’t enough

Harping soprano runs roar in my ears

The dark mountains of Summer gleam

They fill me with awe

Were they to blame?

Did they bewitch my simple English psyche?

Let me be let me live let me have my mind back

My ghost is happiest in the grass

He only wants to be content artistic loved

But your shadow blocks the sunrise

And the night is endless

surreal poetry
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About the Creator

Matthew Clark

I am a poet-writer-actor-singer living in Cardiff, Wales; originally from Brighton, England.

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