Swollen eyes

Upon your eyes rests two globes

Unbalanced, population of comic characters

Heads swollen

Limbs shrivelled, a species known as

The weight upon the eyelids:

The world deciding to turn itself off, or tries to, or

At least it seems to you. What your body knows is to

Shut the blinds when the sun is out

Sun the moisture in your eyes

Till it evaporates, the surface foreign, skin

Never folding this way before. It does not know

How to clench a fist when there are no palm lines.

What your eyes know is to, like welts

Rising, rashes to pain, make a new line

Where your eyelids were.

Cry and always feels better after to

Close your eyes. Listen to the world go on

Without you, you

Waiting in a dark cinema

Watching the darkness.

The eternal and only thing within your control

Is this pause that you needed.

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