you’ll always be alone
in the city;
gone,
the final breath
in the icy mouths
the secret of a lover,
in the absence of morning
and the affinity of dark at night;
a fucked up dream
stares left in its presence
in the old city lights,
warmer than the protestation
that rebels against animal bones
for different gods, this sacrifice,
in the brutality that begs our need,
denied and dead,
forgotten past our time;
susurration in the white magnolia
silence—pixelated
to surrender in derangement,
for we are only flesh and bone
& thought & sleep,
we are poison
deformed ghosts
at the grey hour of 3:00 am
as the blinds blow hollowly
from the air vent,
the moment that keeps
me from sleeping
there is silence
and sometimes, it is endless,
and sometimes, it is a fucking eternity
in a world hunted with regions
of blood lust, and shallow eyes
that illuminate in the cigarette light
in the evening.
Surrounded in the morning light
it is the same day but a different one
it is the same fucking day
a ritual of compulsion,
fleeting in thoughts each day,
fallen silent
like the leaf,
susurration,
you’ll always be alone.
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Wow, so much texture to the imagery here. It deserves many readings, I’ll come back to this for sure.
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Aww, thank you so much. I’m very happy you enjoyed this piece.
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Excellent excellent excellent!!!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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So beautiful and heartbreaking, Lucy!
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Thank you so much. ❤
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Very powerful
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Thank you.
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‘That illuminate in the cigarette light Of the evening.’ Great imagery/shorthand/wordplay.
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Thank you! 😀
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This was incredible! You had me hooked on every word
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I’m so glad. Thank you for the lovely comment!
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This is so raw and powerful, Lucy. Definitely one I will keep coming back to.
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Thank you so much. ❤ I am so glad you enjoyed reading it.
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