freeze fight flight

how to put this in words
the way it hurts
when your limbs are aching
simply 'cause you're kin
you feel her sore bones
right under your skin

in silence you've been crying
for giants dying
in the consuming shadows
of a stadium
for all the dirges being drowned
in waves of cheering

fear is circling
fierce like a hurricane
a spiral of suffering
in the dark
spinning, spinning, spark!

imagine the first leaf being
set on fire
and how the flames would infest
every branch of love
language is a hollow
body if it cannot carry sorrow
and let

them
feel it too
damn
you never meant to
damn
you were not prone, you were forced to
but there
is nothing left to prove

your searing hand
touched every single one
before they could fall
into the sun

it has finally begun
all the weight on your chest
butterflies unfolding their wings
on your breast
soaring with the ashes