i dreamt you were dead

irrational grief

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in it
I swatted the dark
like a child swaddled in a curtain
missing the call

I wanted to snatch you
before they led you offstage
before the frightful sea of
vacant theater seats separated us
eternally

in it
that grief, fermenting in that
poisoned drink they poured down
my throat, my stomach aching
at the thought of your barren eyes

I wanted to run away with you
chased down blueprinted corridors and hallways
these phantasmal captors, blackened claws
rigid as cadavers, daggers poised
to sink themselves into us

in it
you evaporated, elusive
you became a vapor, too
I couldn’t break that curtain
capsized on that darkened platform

i didn’t
see you
relinquish
your essence

still
i felt them
rip you
away from me

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