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In Black And Blue
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Causes In Black And Blue
Karyn Indursky
Thick heather hair spills
upon ruffled watercolor silk
crinkled from your hands
grabbing her paled body
growing limp under pressure
applied by your fists
pounding your urgent messages
into fragile bones cracking
beneath your calloused force
pushing her emptied head
against a bloodied hollow
brick red wall silently
telling your brutal story
as your fist smashes
through her shattered soul
until her glass heart
breaks into blackened nothingness
before unconsciousness claims her
blood dripping seafoam eyes
hurriedly while she collapses
onto waiting outreached arms
provided not by you,
but the manmade cement
letting her ripped flesh
finish its bleeding externally
while internally she's lifeless
to the blind world
never seeing your damage
when she's secretly hid
everything you've repeatedly done
for merciless years now
always covered in love
or so you made
your rag doll woman
naively believe until now
without even an ounce
of control left to
badger her further as
she's floating into heaven
and yet there's nothing
left to save her body
from a battering husband
leaving her externally dead
instead of having her
handcrafted figure only colored
in black and blue.
