Sorrow

I’ve been wearing my tears

Lately

On my face

Like a shining

Burning

Curtain

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It always starts as irritation

And then it explodes

Sharp with spikes

Shredding through the center of me

Or

It contracts to the point where I am tightly compacted

A singularity

To which all outside stimulus

Causes further collapse.

Senses

How much of life

Is simply perception?

The sightssoundssmellstastestouchesemotions

Distilled to the

I