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when was it that I first knew you?

Eternity — at the age of two

I think I first saw you.

gazing through my tear-soaked blindfold

that my mitten-bound hands could not remove,

I lost myself in the warm colours of your embrace

as terror descended on a body no longer mine.

you remain my first memory. but then,

how could I understand you?

seven. on dark basement steps, you found me again.

though you took me by surprise.

soothing and seducing

were your intoxicating whispers —

yet silent were your eyes.

I took in your ethereal liquor —

I breathed your whispers in.

“You don’t have to be here and suffer;

you just have to imagine.”

so imagine I did. I buried […]