Bitter Steps

This is why I learned to walk
For these belated bitter steps

Your last words still throb in my throat
A lingering move in the cracks

Time weighs heavier in the dark
Upon my mind than in the light

Stars are bruises on the sky
The dawn bites the pupil-dark night

I bear the wounds of all the fights
I avoided in the past

I bear the wounds of all the fights
I avoided in the past