set me free

i carry wounds deep within filled with salt and rotten to the core.

there is no saving me, i often think.

but hibiscus tea glimmers a certain way,

a beautiful cat visits and says hello from the corner.

pillows don’t make my neck hurt anymore

and i am not chained.

but why can’t i fucking move?

it is the gum on my shoe

the dentist in my mouth

the attention i didn’t receive

the emotions i suppressed

SET ME FREE