HyperactivePanda

before I lived in silence darkness broken by murmured sound and vague light of new-developed eyes; translucent veins and pale irises. ribcages grew in the dark no sunlight to help them bloom from paper-thin spines. ivory branches; brittle. caging in a heart born to beat. tall above my curved frame, - a comma, brief pause - [the breath between screams and raw red skin] you stood, copper hair and freckled laughter. I peered through the gaps in your eyelashes and we smiled. but before before bones and summer skin, North Carolina and early sunsets, before songs and sarcasm and so much more, I lived in silence a reprieve fro