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Always something thereYour earrings are still beside my bed
They're on the floor
Gathering cobwebs and dust bunnies
But they're there
I can't make myself pick them up
Because that might disturb the memories
That faintly shimmer
Black and white like these mesmerizing ovals
Tracing dreamlight-nights on your skin
As I rake meaningless mandalas on another's back
I only ever worshiped you
Heaped my lips like garlands on your breasts
Never daring to violate a goddess
So desecrating an atheist worshiper
To remove all memories
Except a goddess's earrings on my floor

A goddess who was only a woman

                                       But the only woma
LiesShe always covered herself in lies
Tracing 'unworthy' on her arms
And 'never hungry or good enough' on her belly
Her masks were always artfully applied
And her made-up happiness as perfect as her make-up

We always ignored her reality
Typing 'clichéd' as a perfect label
And 'pretender' as an explanation for inattention
We hid behind self-satisfaction
And laughter as artificial as our acrylic nails

He always stood off to the side
Tracing 'unworthy' on acts of praise
And 'for your glory and praise alone' on sunrises
He never said a word to her
And his shimmering silent life changed her forever
JoyWho wants to die to live forever
Or somehow stand for eons among the stars
When the raindrops now waken
With thunderstorm alarm clocks
And life and love are inextricably twined
RosesI've been:

Clutching roses too tightly
Scattering their petals to the five winds
North, East, South, West, and Nowhere

Bleeding from paper cuts
Inflicted with velvet honesty
Pain from the most innocent blooms

I realized:

Some underlying balance
Never came in your arms
It was found in gratuitous charity

I will always love you
Even if my passion is elsewhere
And my heart is more fully drawn to Christ
MayThere are diamonds,
strung out like headlights on an empty highway,
scattered and clumped into brilliant blindness.
The velvet they scream on is fraying
twisted and shredded apart, like power lines
swaying forlornly on a somber sky.
This edge beyond the edge lights up,
pop concert bright behind the jagged-tooth fringe,
and I wonder:
How many more must die before summer is born?
allow me to tell youi can lie and be happy to
your face
genteel in its blushes
and refined attempts to cast off
the lingering smell of cows
and cheap cigarette smoke
but where there are no lies
i must tell you

this
is
hell

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The glorious Holly, of This City Sucks, a series of OC's belonging to the equally glorious :iconkampfkohlrabi:
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~Simply-V Dec 31, 2011
I am not sitting next to you while typing this......
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~MimiLynch Dec 31, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Of course you're not. that would be crazy. Even crazier han me typing this out with you sitting rigfht beside me. Which you are not.
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~shadowsphade Dec 29, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
She's got Galaxia hair :D
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~MimiLynch Dec 30, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ha! Too true...
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