Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 77

Blood and Honesty
Hannah Kirkman
Air dribbles blue blood into boiling hot.
Purple veins, secrets half-showing,
Please stay unexposed.
Parted flesh and the wounds will come.
Dark infections, ever lurking,
Must hide from hurt.
These twisted veins they stay shut.
Like these lips, they don’t open,
Hiding honest red.
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