Cristina Ventura

So vivid it bleeds with the element that feeds it

So black it causes the darkest depths of the ocean to shudder
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I don’t think I can tell you that I love you,
Although I am fairly certain I do
I don’t know why but I don’t want to stop,
Because if I did
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The crows are singing
Nails on a chalkboard,
Hair saluting
Follicular chills.
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I think and think and watch my brain burst
The pieces fall gently to the ground as time seems to proceed at half the speed
Fragments of grey matter are spewed in every which way
My thoughts like competitors in a race with individualized finish lines
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And when I do fall from broken grace

I will fall, I will fall
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And all the sudden the little things don’t matter
It’s like I have surfaced from a life underwater
A magnificent metamorphosis of person
Like someone has lifted the grand obscuring curtain
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The intensity of my emotions seems to engulf me
I am lost, lost in a jungle of savage beasts
They know no limits, they have no boundaries;
Infinity
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III
I blew out the windows in my aquarium heart
I meant to warn you of the broken glass from the start
I tried my hardest to calm the creatures swimming inside
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