i'm too young to be running out of dreams

the brave kids
tore them in half
& the pretty
screamed

but it was a secret for us
that the other
side
was really blue &
worms had
ten
hearts

there was a note
of cruelty
in salt water & drowning
being torn
apart
for the benefit of the
species

so we came with a solution:
live forever
or
tear the wings &
bleed them out