Disintegrating Heart from Before You by Alicia Palmquist Hansen

Even your eyes
Even your dark eyes
Shed more light
Than a sunrise

Just your voice
Just your bright voice
Sheds enough light
Light to see by

I was broken
I was lonely
I was disintegrating heart
Before you
I gave everything too much thought
Before you
Everything was overwrought
Before you, before you

Even your cries
Even your blind rage
Are like the open air
After a tiny cage

I was dead-ended
A bruised and distended,
trapped and disintegrating heart
I was up-ended
Lost and expended,
trapped and disintegrating heart
Before you
I gave everything too much thought
Before you
Everything was overwrought
Before you, before you

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