how.you.will.die

You go on a walk

 …

The world a grave on your shoulders

The pressure against your feet

The concrete beneath you

You finally understand the gravity.

Thinking

 …

She told you a story of the man swimming in the Puget Sound, intending to stay

They found his body a few days later

You think it’s inspiring

And you think of your old friend

He said he thought suicide was selfish

You think about him still

And you’re still thinking about it

 …

You’ve talked about the end with her a lot

It would be over something significant and uncompromising

Maybe it’s finally here

The residue of this argument left you

Wrangling in the web

It’s the first time you promised to bear living

 …

You talk and talk and talk and reach the resolution, the concrete beneath you

The confetti of grime splattered on your body

These nights that she won’t let slip through the cracks of your rumination

And the gravity pulling down on her eyes

Maybe it’s finally here

You said that she’s the best you’ve ever had

But you’re still thinking about it

 …

Somebody asks you what your spider tattoo means

And you think of your old friend

How he collected spiders in the corner of his bedroom; watched as they spent days eating each other

You thought it inspiring

You made it a permanent memory

And it became a reminder of your tendency to stray

 …

It’s different, you’re different now

You etch promises into someone who wholeheartedly believes you instead of into your skin

It’s different

You feel the pressure on your feet

But you’re still thinking about it

 …

Last night

The truth whisks the web away

And you see your home disintegrating

It was killing you, but what she said was pertinent

You feel dead anyway

You think of the man

What you imagine is that you’ll be cast in ice immediately

 …

It’s all becoming increasingly unbearable

Surges of happy, surges of freedom

Exploding into a vastness

It’s all becoming increasingly floating

Suspended in the mass

 …

Cast in ice immediately

But it doesn’t work that way

The day you fall in, when you accept the fate

Thrashing. Pulling you down

There’s enough time to learn the feeling

Of suffocating and how it kills

 …

Looming inside, suffocating

Throughout, throughout, throughout

So until the last moment

When you fall inside

You’ll be grateful that you know how to die

 …

You go home

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