Flavor of Voice

Taste the words upon you lips

How they are so bitter

The citrus encircling your smile

Did you think before you spoke?

Because all I hear is sour

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Sweet words

So sugary I'm feeling sick

A potent mix of ecstasy

Has got me feeling dizzy

Comforts of a sugar high

Failures of the senses

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Salty drops

Laments of years gone by

These tears uttered into the air

The sweats of miles of anguish

Becoming shuddered lies

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A sharpness coating the tongue

Sandpaper rips the words away

Burning senses are inflamed

Heat forced out with each breath

Scorching each thing it does touch

My ears are ringing

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Each flavor scarring me

Slowly intoxicating me

Wishing my mouth were numb

I'm allowing myself to be force fed

Simply cannot force the words away

Even though they're killing me

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I shouldn't take your home brewed poison

It is yours to drink, not mine

I need to purge the death out

Drink in the water of life

Wash these flavors from my throat.