Lies 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.
M.K. STANDBY
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M.K. Standby49 quotes“Lies 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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Hollow intent and echoes affection, a call with no response. Who could trust a dormant heart – where apathy is shaped like love?
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby 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.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I see the way that he is with you – holding your heart with softness he never spared for mine.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I fill the shadow of the girl you want, a placeholder to the one I know you’d rather – I’ll do for now, but not forever.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby The knot in a grain of wood, a frost covering sodden grass. Mornings warmed by the rising sun and brewing coffee – the vision of the poet.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby My thoughts feel like plagiarism – a feeling already felt, the words already written.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby It spills from my fingers faster than ink can flow – feelings too strong to contain, emotions that demand to be felt.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby 14 days, but I can’t change my sheets. Your scents still marks my pillow – and its all that I have left.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Peace found me in a wordless embrace – in the rising of autumn sun, and the sound of turning pages.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Scribbled lines and crumpled pages – piles of rejection and resurrection. There will never be the right words to amend a lost goodbye.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Building a fire from a ash, what did I expect?
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Just tell me that it won’t be the same- that one day I won’t look at you, and only see a stranger.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Born in one country and raised in another – seperated by ocean, but tied in blood.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby It started the way it always does. A broken heart, and a blank page.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby Don’t give your heart to a poet – we see stories in a sentence and haunt you with our ink.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby
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