You could be happy

You don’t know me, but I knew you when
you said you carved your wrist like a turkey
on Thanksgiving, and I thought about running
out of the room to release my cries, but instead,
I swallowed back the bones you broke of mine.
That was the first time in nine months I’ve been
forced to listen to someone cut my scars open—
they bled down my arm as you spoke.

You said, “If you’ve ever gone through a
break-up, you probably know what it feels like
to have someone make your heart feel like
a pile of dog shit,” and I wanted to run up
to you and tell you someone tried to hang
themselves in front of me once and in English,
we’re learning about ethics but I still don’t know
if it was ethical or not to kill myself over it.
And after all that, if I told you a girl told me she
was dying but I ignored her, would you judge me?
I bet you would. I bet you wouldn’t get me.

If I saw you on the street, I wouldn’t look twice
and if I knew you well, we probably wouldn’t
get along, but I barely resisted the urge to hug
you because you are not afraid of your hurt.
While I shiver at the anticipation of my
own voice, you share so much of yourself,
and while my voice shakes, you scream.

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