Lizzy Burnam 🐞

You can tear each other apart 
All you want 
You can fear love 
You can love fear 
You can burn books 
You can burn books having never read them 
You can throw bricks through storefront windows 
You can throw lightning at tiny yellow houses 
You can sit in your own tiny house 
And tell yourself it’s perched 
On the greenest grass 
On the tallest mountain
Under the bluest sky 
All you want 
You can bite your tongue 
Or not 
You can slice off each other’s tongues
And raise the tongues high and bleeding over your head 
And bark like a rabid dog 
That you’ve won, you’ve won 
Goddammit you’ve won 
You can be anyone 
You can be everyone 
Yes, you can do it all 
With enthusiasm 
And with absolute undying faith 
That what you’re doing 
Or who you’re being 
Is right 
Or God’s will 
Or beyond a reasonable doubt 
Or however you swing it 
But you cannot 
No
You cannot 
Push blood
Back into an open wound 
Or unfuck a man 
Or unspeak a word 
Or explain the unspeakable 
After the fact
After the fact check 
What?
Check again 
Are you sure? 
Oh god 
Yes, you 
With the knife 
With the gun 
Remember this moment 
Once it’s over
It’s done