why do we feel when we can feel nothing at all

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she takes her arm off his shoulder

the thing inside him stirs

it cries 

he cries


it steels itself up

into a tight little thing

it takes his heart 

and covers it with stone


but when your heart 

is covered with stone

it becomes bare

and nothing


so now he cuts at his wrists,

his thighs, his face

he sits in a pool of his blood, dying

trying to feel anything


while the little thing inside him

frantically chips away 

at his empty heart

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