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Evergreen

Written by my Body, for my Heart.

By Kristian ProudPublished 5 years ago 2 min read

When you are away, you flood my mind.

I feel your touch of love, smell of pine.

Taste of wine, tingling spine...

warping time, a star-crossed mind.

Crown cracked wide, why this divide?

Our souls inside of one another...

Using each other for the cover?

My green and pink blankie,

I hide my head under for safety.

When I wake up lately,

I got your glow on my face up...

Up in flames of greatly healing magenta.

I'm happy you sent ya.

But now I'm feelin' the pressure,

feelin' neglected and peelin' my reckless back.

Revealin' the passion that

keeps on.

You know, like that Alfa Mist song

I had showed you?

Wishin' you was still in love with me,

I really wanna grow you,

I wanna be the backdrop,

The sky you coexist with.

The love burns through the blacktop.

A being I co-exist with,

yet one I can not hold.

But if I stand still long enough,

on my skin all my bluffs intrude into me...

my core.

The center of my being.

The glow gets warm and turns blindness into seeing.

I know I pine for this,

but if I had you in my palm,

would your color chlorophyll me with agape?

Turning my dormant side on,

you'd awaken the sleeping being inside of me.

A voice can not hide from me, a voice is deciding me.

They say distance makes the heart grow fonder...

but is distance becoming our alma mater?

Is pain the way the seed must break

to grow the tree of strength so great?

I'm learning.

I'm rooting,

grounding my energy.

It's been a cold winter but there is no forgetting these

seeds so powerful,

planted in our DNA, I see the sky, a flowerful,

and blooming into eyes so grey.

13 strands is better,

we can make it if that's what we say...

infinite hand may as well flow and ebb,

infinite strands in the heart of the web.

I just wanna grow with you babe.

Maybe that's why the distance pays.

Because if we was any closer,

we'd stunt each others growth, huh?

But I'd be stunted for you,

already stuntin' for you.

I more than just adore you,

my infinite love...

is pouring, pouring...

in downfalls and torrents.

storm watches.

storm watches.

I hope my storm watches me through the eye who sees,

cause I don't wanna fly solo.

Let me fly with Ororo.

Flying high without knowing,

both shy and outgoing.

Unfurl these twins like two intimate doves.

An evergreen love...

an evergreen love...

for even when my tears freeze,

and drift as snow from clouds above,

you will always be the one of whom I am the proudest of.

inspirational

About the Creator

Kristian Proud

Kristian Proud (he/she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist of life, born in the mid-90s in Rochester, NY. Their first self-published book, entitled 'Majesty & Travesty' was released in 2020. Next up for Mr. Proud is a heroic sci-fi series.

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