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And once again my chest expands with dragon fangs and teething pains in the splits of my veins, the ouroboros circling around my heart blind and hungry and I hiss as its scales drag across my voice like a blade at the neck of a crying infant. Immortality spins beneath the hollow of my throat and I bleed from the truth, the glass of the world breaking on my back. Take the shards and eat it. There is no life without pain.

You hid the knife beneath your spine, Bleeding malice through the layers of your skin. Pain felt more like home than the paved road That led to your corpse. And I learned the hard way That not everyone who screams Wants to be saved, But for me to watch them bleed. I hid my tears along with my fears, Hoping no one could hear where I laid them to rest. Holding my breath, trying to pretend That the worst has passed. And I learned the hard way That not everyone who bleeds Wants to be saved.