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Literature
Ashes to Ashes
Once upon a time
there was a house
haunted by a monster.
It raged, night and day.
Sometimes it slept
but nothing was spared.
So I packed a bowl,
lit a match, and I
smoked the monster out
until it became
an empty house,
an empty husk,
where once
a person
used to be.
Literature
Inside a Girl
"Adelaiiiiiiiiiide....Aaaaaaaaadelaiii duh..." she hummed as lullingly as a lullably, as gently and as certain as a hummingbird's beating wings.
I awoke before I lifted my lids, such an easy thing to do. Open the eyes yet still not waken from sleep, sometimes not even through the day nor several series of days...this is quite frequent for me for I am a dreamer and dreaming requires deep sleeping, as deep as a bear hibernates in a safe, warm cave until the unforgiving frost of winter has given itself away to the tender tendrils of warm, sweet as honey sun rays that fill the air with a lemon zestyness and a minty mellowness, all that which enc
Literature
Thoughts in Quatrains
Today, the sky is sunny still
The light without to touch within
The view from every windowsill
Of dreams and things that might have been
I'd rather leave the silence there
If time is just too much to ask
The words and aimless thoughts I wear
Like feathers on a reveler's mask
For secrets kept are those to hold
And bury till the morning comes
But leave no fairytales untold
To bless the few, the happy some
I've all the world to see, to know
To hold within my fearful hands
And every place on earth to go
A long way gone from where we stand
So will you take a leap for me?
If lives can be so freely lost
The story ends, and so do we
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I'm feeling more than a little melancholy at the moment. I know it will pass, but I find it always helps to write. :/
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If you ever need to talk to someone I don't mind listening, Sylvia.