sigh, my love;

let go the worries from your lungs,

breathe out the toxic fumes

that have long clung to your ribs

(festering and fuming)

let go the anxious insects

that flutter ceaselessly

through the pathways built of veins

that run up and down your arms

(blue-blooded highways)

just under your gooseflesh skin.

sigh, my love;

exhale and release the pent-up pain,

the tears and the fears

that have hurt and hindered and haunted

for countless years.

let go those heartless tendrils of doubt

that whisper along your collarbone

and creep up your pallid throat

and murmur into your ear

(all lies and lunacy)

si...

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