a crystalline decline

By Sophia Kalo

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i’m always lingering - breath shallow, tense, but fragile, hanging by a thread of desperate expectation,
you,

weighted unaware. 
i’m grasping onto the short stabs that prod my chest
seized up in the centre of a mental merry-go-round,
headspun relentless
heavily light my tendons knotting
tense
frozen fear leaves me frigid, fragile -

don’t touch me, i fear you’ll break the ice.