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she says "I'm worried if I breathe
too loud the silence will
swallow me."
I watch her hands press butterfly
wings between the pages.
does she know that
I'm the queen of silence?
my corpse lungs and
graveyard lips; a decomposing
tongue lurking behind white-washed
tombstones. paint me with sunbeams,
I'm still the same.
[death warmed over]
her tropic gaze rakes over
the bone-white snow. "I keep
swallowing the snow-flakes. they
remind me of frozen flowers.
their dead sweetness is
addicting."
I close my eyes. 'yeah,' I would
whisper silently. 'I seem to be that
kind of obliterating drug.'
she turns back to the pages,
her hands stained with
shimmering wing-scales. "butterflies
don't belong in jars," she breathes.
her fingers pluck their wings, one
by one, like petals. "they have wings
for a reason."
and I've become jealous of a
dead insect that knew the dance
of flight: an intimate lover.
[but I can't learn the steps]
"how do they survive the winter?"
just like you, my darling. they
curl up and go to sleep.
"the snow looks peaceful." her eyes
wander to mine: "heavenly."
her mind gropes on ice; "like you
could just lay down and die."
[inviting]
"but I don't think I'm afraid
of the mouth of silence; just
her throat. it's an excruciating
beauty." she pauses before
unleashing her private storm.
"I always wanted to tangle tounges
with silence."
I tread on moody toes through
the silent snow. in every
breath I capture a piece of the snowstorm.
too loud the silence will
swallow me."
I watch her hands press butterfly
wings between the pages.
does she know that
I'm the queen of silence?
my corpse lungs and
graveyard lips; a decomposing
tongue lurking behind white-washed
tombstones. paint me with sunbeams,
I'm still the same.
[death warmed over]
her tropic gaze rakes over
the bone-white snow. "I keep
swallowing the snow-flakes. they
remind me of frozen flowers.
their dead sweetness is
addicting."
I close my eyes. 'yeah,' I would
whisper silently. 'I seem to be that
kind of obliterating drug.'
she turns back to the pages,
her hands stained with
shimmering wing-scales. "butterflies
don't belong in jars," she breathes.
her fingers pluck their wings, one
by one, like petals. "they have wings
for a reason."
and I've become jealous of a
dead insect that knew the dance
of flight: an intimate lover.
[but I can't learn the steps]
"how do they survive the winter?"
just like you, my darling. they
curl up and go to sleep.
"the snow looks peaceful." her eyes
wander to mine: "heavenly."
her mind gropes on ice; "like you
could just lay down and die."
[inviting]
"but I don't think I'm afraid
of the mouth of silence; just
her throat. it's an excruciating
beauty." she pauses before
unleashing her private storm.
"I always wanted to tangle tounges
with silence."
I tread on moody toes through
the silent snow. in every
breath I capture a piece of the snowstorm.
Literature
i should have stayed quiet
i tried not to wear my words on a sleeve, but the
poetry poured out anyway,
revealing sorrow
i never thought would surface.
(i was bulletproof once, but my luggage slipped out of
the quarantine zone, and now
i'm coughing up memories, all those seconds
i wished i didn't exist).
Literature
cobblestones
.
i pulled a napkin from the silver tin,
wiped the table clear, drops of ketchup staining the center.
i crushed the paper in my palm, felt the dampness reach the edges.
hurt cloud, she said as i let it roll across the table.
.
shooting baskets as the day ended,
the ball went over the backboard, disappeared into the dark.
she shrugged, then bent low, picked up pebbles.
aimed
and threw.
.
your poor hands, she said. you have so many scars,
and you're still so young. (she, younger than i, saying this)
she touched one hand, then after a pause she took the other
without looking at me.
some things take so much
Literature
Why Does It Have to be You?
Yes, yes, I know.
This is a mistake...
loving you, that is.
Yes, I know last time it ended badly,
but can I deny my heart of what
it truly wants?
I try, darling,
really I do.
But I'm addicted to you.
Love is a curse - binding me to the depths of hell...
all because its unrequited?
How is that fair?
You light up my world
and make me smile.
It's an impressing feat these days.
I blush when I read your texts.
I smile when I send one back,
blushing, of course.
Why are you the one that races through my mind?
Why are you the one invading my dreams?
And most of all...
Why do I still love you?
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Immensely beautiful.