Mazeika - Trinket

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"Lonely bauble on a string
Strange little thing dangling on a soft wire
Rescued from the bin
Perfect in my arms

This trinket catches the light
Lost tidbit, pretty junk, it sits in my throat
Safe from their clubbed paws and wild eyes
They can’t hear me
They won’t know it’s missing

With me always
On me always
Keeping me company in these rotting walls
In the silence between their sentences
In open stretches of untouched dark
In all that empty time

This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light
This trinket catches the light

Their steps get faster
Mood builds to a high pitch
Something’s wrong now
Something’s gone now
Big sounds, big words
Bags dumped everywhere
Zipper mouths hang open like cut bodies
Guts all over the floor
No one could’ve, who could’ve, where

I hang from above
Holding the thing by its thread
Pretty in the soft night
Slight shimmer in the corner of their eyes
Panic in their faces
Shock at the sight

This trinket catches the light
Lost tidbit, pretty junk, it sits in my throat
Safe from their clubbed paws and wild eyes
They can’t hear me
They won’t know it’s missing"

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from Painting a Song: Season 3, Volume 2, released March 10, 2023
by Bobby Dallas

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