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A Mute Requiem For Vanity
By DescendingDown
carve out the eyes of my heart
I should of left before it couldn't
hear anything other than his name
& like ripping through tiny little
stitches
a burning lilac breath
............& awareness fills
my mind
behind stardust & whiskey
I imagine him & I under
a moonless sky
in the foolish hope of a forever (kind of) love
dancing upon molten wings of fallen gods
...........like
my love was strong enough to drown out the hallowed moans of our ghosts
but if this is love
I know now why the stars are bleeding
for my tired eyes ache
of deaf whispers from my lonely heart
I wish I was blind
behind sulfur rain
in a reflective
haze, you'll find me going under
screaming paralytic
with nothing
left..... .but the static ringing in my ears
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Copyright 2010 Kandice Bush
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A former member wrote:
I love this... the middle stanzas, the heart if you will, of the poem especially. Reads like burning flowers. "a burning lilac breath" -- gorgeous, hushed beauty.
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A former member wrote:
it's the stand alone line of 'ghosts' that haunts me; the resonance of something not-quite-regret and mingled misery......feels like more than loss. more like abruptly abandoned.
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A former member wrote:
gosh, this tore me apart inside.... "screaming paralytic".. i've known this.. all that's felt in the breaking of a heart.... this is just too tragic, and you're so beautiful.
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A former member wrote:
This was really moving...... and oh so subtly it slipped under my heart's defenses and made me feel, something I usually hate to do. Thank you for writing something I too felt.... I could never express it with such skill
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