Behind Closed Lips

There, the music

absorbing into my frame

and it’s starting to swell

________

It’s  there

there, on the tip of my tongue

and it’s starting to spill

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There’s a weight

in the accuracy of the fantasy

and it’s starting to multiply

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There, now magnified

the secrets echoed behind closed lips

and it’s starting to materialize

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There, compressing my lungs

a twenty years weight

lifted