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Bruised Strawberry


There you are.
Hidden among dysfunctional shapes.
Envious green leaves.
Pointy seeds embedded in bodies of nosey red skin.
When I pick you, shyness exudes:
Painting a picture
  a painful story-
Hidden within your soft shell.

Tell me.
Tell me please.
Is it abuse? Infidelity? Rape?
Is it obesity? Tactfulness? Shame?
Is it lies? Separation? Drugs?
When I cut you, white insides give in to demands of rage in hue.
Letting an idea engulf and develop:
Buried in your precious core.


I am waiting-
for you to tell me your coast is clear.
Lines of communication are breaking up-
Like celebrity relationships.
Static-filled like long-distance calls.
Foggy like a Seattle bay in April.
I want clarity.
Wait.
I want to give you clarity.
Your silence sealant fills your cracks.
I can not penetrate.
I can not get through.


So lay there
Open on white cutting board-
Waiting for a moment when you can forget the pain,
Abandonment,
Alienation,
Loneliness.
It shouldn't exist but it does-
Keeping you from producing deliciousness and awesomeness.


No
            dipped white chocolate.
            expensive wine or champagne.
It doesn't take those materialistic means.
Just know-
You are wounded
But
You are special.

Written by JW Bella

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