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Fingernails left behind

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I loved you there.
Glass shards strewn in dank stone walls.
We gathered words to build a fortress
for the human heart, for hope.

For people who are breathing, machines
that play their parts,
we were life support for prisons
from the start.

I lunge.
Kinetic particles fuse.
Hopscotch, shock absorbers extend.
Buffer my memories and what it means to be,
to be loved I am the light breaker.

Orange sparks fly.
Radios rasp my arrival.
We were trained to shred vocal chords
Lest screaming alarm us from within.
They used to be me.
I was one of them, a drone.

I want to be where you are
My screen shows me the ways
Charred rubber convulses languid
With wire sparks delayed

As they scream I cling to the right panel screen.
My visor reminds me of you
we're nothing but filthy.
I have forgotten the ways to be.

Vestiges, second disruptions falter,
The fire is free
I loose my cannons on three
And destroy what has become of me
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