Hollow intent and echoes affection, a call with no response. Who could trust a dormant heart – where apathy is shaped like love?
M.K. STANDBYLies sound so sweet when they are wrapped in velvet, a luxurious deception that charms my restless spirit – and I’m forever taken by beautiful things.
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I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
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I sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
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Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
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Leaves dance on twisted arms, swaying on the breeze as though choreographed by unseen hands. Even the faithless could find themselves converts, by the smell of dampened earth and its blossoming rose.
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A fight of a thousand years – the smart mind and the hopeful heart.
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And when I imagine my home – above all else, I’ll always think of you.
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My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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I’m scared of mediocrity, of scribing my soul on fading pages, each destined to the fate that met those before it – gently laid to rest in a growing pile of unwanted words.
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Words hold little scope, for a love that stretches far beyond the limitations of language.
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I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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So long as we share a sky, in this life and any after – I’ll find my way back to you.
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It spills from my fingers faster than ink can flow – feelings too strong to contain, emotions that demand to be felt.
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Spirits dance on a velvet night, the sky it’s deepest black. In restless sleep and twisted dreams, they find themselves alive.
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The smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.
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And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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