1,2,3 1,2,3
- Shelby Salerno
- Aug 15, 2018
- 3 min read

1,2,3 fractures,
Cracks in the heart,
After I had decided to be honest
My liquid emotion pumps earnest
But the good intentions no longer matter much
When the receiver is a busted socket and I am the plug
A love-hate relationship without the love
Already 1,2,3 sessions to electrocute this bug
I have inside of me
But the sickness hides so deep in me
So
Straight to the heart goes the electricity
A twisted current of intensity
Washing over my everything
Until I am nothing
1,2,3 suddenly
He knocks my mind away from me
Oh god,
Not again,
I cannot breath
Stop this End
And end with me
I think my mind is behind the bed
3,2,1 the blinding white tightens around my chest
I am forced to hug it out, across my heaving breasts
The first time, the second, I never learned
Third times the charm but the doctor can’t seem to cure
Me of my obsession
The world spins on while I am in regression
Human growth in retrograde motion
1 need, 2 wants, 3 wishes
I wish I could close my eyes and smash the clean, holiday dishes
Out of my world
And on to the stone cold floor
Those glittering pieces of shard will be no more
To me
Just a silly, once a yea thing
A thin sheen of anything
I cannot grasp on to the heavenly
Front of the mind
Only the back, with the creepy voice and the clown noses and the scratched out signs
1 me, 2 things, 3 stories
A silly thing I pushed passed the rusted bars and down the window
A hundred times over so I could beat those fantasies out of my mind, out of my, I feel out of my,
A dismal thought but I am done with the dread
Tired of the moths cuddling with me in bed, thank you for the courtesy, but I can no longer stand being carved out hollow
1, modest, 2, elated, 3, I tripped on my skirts and
Face planted
A pumpkin mutilated by a group of “oh boys will be boys”
I force myself to swallow pathetic thoughts and
Cover up the cootie spots
Burned in my cheeks
From the kisses so soft
So clean
So warm
So free
So lost in the moment until my entire being
Falls down,
Down,
Down the rabbit hole
Title me crazy, I don’t know
Anymore on this subject than I am told
The lessons require an exchanging of souls
So I struggle and fight and do not pass go
Just sit here in jail, my heart in a cage
They feed it every once in a while but I still feel the decay
1 right, 2 wrong, 3 neither is the answer
Forming in to a habit
Storming, stirring my emotions rabid
Moldy meat, cold room
The ghostly arms have left me chilling by myself without a clue
No bodies, no feeling at this point
Safe cuddles and sweet words and such trivial slices of cheese not here
The four walls close in, I can sense them near, sense him clear every point he makes is clear
I am not sensed by anyone like that but fear
Until I get out of my head
Out of my mind
Out of this tragic shy
From okayness and self loving wildness
1,2,3
1,2,3
1,2,3
1,2,3
Think about the numbers
Then maybe I’ll be free
Of my self doing
A life lesson filled with undoing
And finally the fractures will relent to gluing
My heart back in to one peace
So that I may be me again
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