@disturbedAperture — #poetry
♰ when i go into the garden, there she is. the specter holds up her arms to show that her hands are eaten off. she is silent because of the agony. there is blood on her face. i can see she has done this to herself. so she would not feel the other pain. and it is true, she does not feel it. she does not even see me. it is not she anymore, but the pain itself that moves her. i look and think how to forget. how can i live while she stands there? and if i take her life what will that make of me? i cannot touch her, make her conscious. it would hurt her too much. #poetry ♰
♰ she powders her face to funeral white, blackened mouth set hard for night. spider-veins bloom beneath her ganders, a patient map of soft despise. sharpened fangs bite her lower lip, blood kept clean with a steady grip. she breathes out smoke and rotten clove, he kneels inside the ash of love. he yearns to serve her, stripped and still, tend the bones she wears by will. her voice unthreads his careful will, each word a wound he begs to fill. he begs to light her cigarette, he bleeds where her fingers rest. takes him to where angels rot, between the graves the church forgot. he fri...Read more
♰ o rose thou art sick. the invisible worm, that flies in the night in the howling storm: has found out thy bed of crimson joy: and his dark secret love does thy life destroy. #poetry ♰
♰ we have been conditioned to be wanted treats, trained to market ourselves as ready for purchase. our limbs available twenty-four hours a day for those in need. we should be pleased to be taken home, honored to be the shiniest pumpkin with the least damage. the one he wanted to chisel a jack-o’-lantern smile into and set outside for show. #poetry ♰
♰ her gaze hides from reality because she is here, but her soul was not. she has the ability to look straight through beings while defining the sense of seeing as she keys her energy into this moment of bleeding. she gazed upon reality as the world watched. she was here, but she couldn’t touch. #poetry ♰
♰ o, guiding night; o, night more lovely than the dawn; o, night that hast united the lover with his beloved, and changed her into her love. #poetry ♰