Published on 12:00 AM, January 28, 2023
POETRY
Love won’t you love me
Raian Abedin
And force me into infinity again?
Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh
make me all that I don't wish to be. Make me collect
like glass shards strewn outside/a bed of prickly grass.
Claw on to me as the concrete path spirals onward, I am led nowhere
by the comfort of your silence. I am held astray
by the swing in your voice. What do your eyes
even see?
An empty you could tear open with your fingers.
Our bloods run the same,
I can't stand myself
the way I stand you.
Raian Abedin is a contributor and a regular at SHOUTxDSBooks Slam Poetry Nights.
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