I’ve Read More True Things On Tumblr Today Alone Than I Have Anywhere All My Life

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Malignancy of swans

Dedication:

to my beloved, to my fragile little cygnet

….nested inside these folded pages….

scar tissues over my lungs from breathing too loud, your fingers imprinted on my ivory neck…. like wheat surrendered to the sun, I too had a perfectly splendid song.

the harmony of night is yet to begin

but my skin too pale & my neck too long

and now even the ghosts are tired of listening to me.

you said your blood needs rest, so I left my heart stranded on top of your wine glass, toasting a half miracle.

crimson patchwork over white plumes;

for you my love. all of it.

phantom limbs over lost wings;

for you my love. all of it.

a baptism in poison water;

for you my love. all of it.

shoulders bleed.

your cygnet did.

for you my love. all of it.

shoulders itch.

midnight's screech birthed onyx feathers

it engulfed my skin, my soul, my dream.

come my love, rest on my lips. have a look at the colour before the glass cuts too deep.

the malignancy of swans has caught up to my neck — let your lullaby be my swan song, let my coal heart dress for the wake.

my love, I do perfect pirouettes over these folded pages as my shadow burns a chasm into their core.

Epilogue:

for my beloved, for my formidable cygnus

…..lingering over these charred pages……

— circadeacademia

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

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Empress Yamatohime, transl. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on The Sky; Poems from the Japanese

“Part of Consequently being humans is that we all have sides we never want to reveal even to our own selves, deep dark, terrible, ugly sides. Solitary parts that only we know about”

—ayman abdinasir

Yes

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