Anthony Hanible

I’m Titled All Out

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They fell like stars  

Breaking open jars  

Of ancient scars

Each spark rising  

Past the bars  

Of every name  

I ever wore

I’m titled all out

The words I used  

Turned into birds  

With burning wings

Flying through  

Forgotten things

Dropping feathers  

Made of rings  

That never fit  

My hands before

I wrote each wound  

In liquid clocks

Time dripping down  

In molten blocks

Each tick a knock  

On doors of smoke  

That open only  

When I choke  

The past back  

Into metaphor

Now I write  

With no design

The lines arrive  

Like serpents fine

Twisting through  

A silver spine

Glowing symbols  

That align  

Only when  

I stop the war  

Inside my mind  

And let them pour

I’m titled all out

The truth steps in  

With mirrored skin

Reflecting worlds  

I’ve never been

Speaking in  

A phantom din  

That feels like loss  

And sounds like win  

And pulls me  

Through another door

Title me out any day  

No hold backs  

I can say anything  

Anyway  

Any how  

And the ink keeps shifting shape

Turns to wolves  

That guard my cape

Turns to moons  

That bend and scrape

Turns to storms  

That split the drape  

Between the real  

And what I draw

I’m titled all out

And still I rise

A myth rebuilt  

From shattered skies

A voice that walks  

Without disguise

A flame that learns  

Its own surprise  

Each time it burns  

A truer law