Glass Tears of Memory
What if we're alive in a memory we haven’t made yet?
What if we're already in the future,
Thinking back on this moment?
Two magnolia blossoms sprout in crisp April
Swaying, naive, to the robin's sonnet
Blind to the path unwinding ahead
Where the wind conspires to blow them free
Onto mist-cloaked streets, aglow in magenta
From a theater’s flickering marquee
The constellations danced to spell their name
The Milky Way stooped low
Took their dainty, fragile stems
To teach the braille of petals and skin
Memorized by summer's end
Tangled sheets steeped in moonlight
Galaxies twinkle and decorate the bed
They're the scattered spheres of pearl and marble
Holding glimmering tears
As oceans and mountains learned to collide
So they carve together a cave
Where time resides and breathes to life the world
In which they're meant to be
About the Creator
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Day 4 of Quitting
If this is how sobriety feels, maybe it’s better to go through life a little buzzed… this, along with other hits like, I want to kill myself, I wish I was dead, and I’m going to throw myself off a bridge have been the only thoughts on rotation these past few days. I promise myself that if, in a month, I still feel like this (‘this’ meaning despondent, full of rage, and simultaneously numb) I can go back to smoking. Until mid-February though? Nicotine is off the table.
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The dreamy atmosphere is perfectly complimented by the image you used.
I want to be a part of this world. Such a flowy, dreamy place!
Dreamy and beautiful
This is absolutely beautiful
ooo this is so elegant and dreamlike! i got caught up and pulled along by the soft flow and immersive imagerz, loved it, Dalma!
Lovely imagery! I especially liked the line “To teach the braille of petals and skin”-