where were you?

when my heart broke into a million
jagged crumbled bleeding sighing aching moaning
sewn back sewn shut plastered and spackled and
the poor pulsating wound tumbled out of my screaming hole
where were you?
tiny outstretched hands slapped the walls
my hard little fists pounded the floor boards
heard hollow reverberations echoes of nothingness
the loneliness of my core spilled out onto the world
translation
a sick lolita sway
my eyes greener
my lips pinker
spiked with glistening fangs
my once innocent mouth
filled with
the warm liquor of
the hopeful
the eager
the adoring
the vipers became the hunted
the knowing closed their eyes willingly
and curled into precious bits of food
to try and quell my hunger
to try to fill the void
so, where were you?

~jani rosado

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