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10-assassins

assassins

be careful what you write.

when truth takes its knife,

you’re not here to rescue

me if i bleed out,

spilling secrets,

pouring condemnations,

dripping regrets,

staining your love

maximum red,

color of betrayal,

color of deception,

color of disloyalty.

blood cries out.

did you hear it?

maybe it was only

that dog’s cry,

the one beaten,

neglected,

left to lick

its wounds.

hardly have

i healed

from the last time,

sealed, scarred.

how tiring to die again

to come back

to your indifference.

words take on another poem.

here they go again.

they do not know their weight,

sometimes it’s too late,

unable to stop themselves

beauty crushing beauty,

until there’s nothing left

back to where i started.

what a mess you left,

wielding sharp words

getting nothing out of me.

Alexander Perez

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