We’re tangled up on purpose,

letting loose-ends unravel.

I can only hope they continue

_to _

_ flare_

_ out._

I’m all caught up, but leave me be.

**I am an ****addict**

These days without you leave me strung out.

My hands

_s a e_

__

_ h k_

when they aren’t against you.

A flame dances with the tip of my cigarette.

Nicotine limbo, until I get another hit.

"_Staying alive was never my intention_"

days of withdrawals on repeat

you’ve **shattered** all my reason

**Give me anything**

Red surrounds each iris

CO2 saturated,

"**_you’re a panic _****_attack._**"

Blood vessels constrict. I’m _numb_.

My pulse on display of this cardboard torso. "_Pleading_" at every intersection,

**_I was given the shirt off of a man’s back

It wiped detox from my eyes_**.

Pressure induced white noise galaxies.

Blinks of lubrication, a subtle sniff

A beggar slips away.

**Now I’ve given myself**