quiet noticing
of what I’d take with me
there things I’d like to say
I am tested
while you
get to
walk away
how to think of all those years if I
were to never speak again
let you
I will
let you
Live

Other lyrics by BIG BRAVE:
a shape of shame
carve out any kind of semblance of a life cutting along the lines of what may shape this shame I stand unready in this much exposure to shape or to shield, define or …
an uttering of antipathy
a presence inverted none of them mine bending around me slow and metallic and thought leaking laden in censure an abject unearthing a history reshaped god only blames me …
holding tongue
quiet noticing of what I’d take with me there things I’d like to say I am tested while you get to walk away how to think of all those years if I were to never speak again …
in grief or in hope
for the life of me - it’s all I have so I thought I’d - I could try again when does one feel the most is it in grief or is it in hope? then there’s the strain of guilt …
skin ripper
the vacant machinery of peeling back skin burdened by gravity can’t quite control it the truth of grief lies in what is left of hope the gravity that tethers me - I can’t …