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The day that you left me

Things began to turn

 

The wallpaper bled butterflies

The taps all spat out treacle

Water turned to blood

 

The fridge door hung limp

Jagged fangs bursting from inside

Thirsty for my sweat

 

The cooker turned atomic

All flayed souls and napalm shadows

 

Hate filled nocturnes and placental arias

 

Spiders crawled from under the sofa

Burrowing beneath my skin

 

The photo album screamed

Each image drip dripping

Ink and sweat and tears

Years of memories pooling at my feet

Glistening reflections of life and love

 

Of childhood and death

 

ducunt in bonis dies suos et in puncto ad inferna descendun

 

Like the weightless passage of eternity

 

Stars bore down their weight upon me

 

Big bangs banged below

 

Hands formed light and love

 

Held the whip

Held the soul

Held the words

 Heal with light

 

Galaxies poured from my silent scream

 

As I became one with the Queen of time

 

Oh Athena casts aside my enemies

Oh Eos gives me sweet incipience

Oh Hebe saves these withered hands

 

Lay with me now

 

On a bed of silken souls

 

And drink only from the fountain

 

Presbyter Johannes

 

Lead me past this life

 

Lead me past your arms

 

Bathe me in evermore

 

Let me make love

 

To everything

 

All the time

 

Forever.

 

 

 

just a little something

◄ boo

i got the sad sad blues ►

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Stu Buck

Mon 2nd Nov 2015 14:10

i think so. i just wanted it to start out as a simple breakup and become something huge. i feel like the house is attacking me when emma leaves. i miss her! but sometimes when im having a bad day i think to myself 'god, if i wasnt here and now i could be doing so much more'. i wanted to illustrate that through the protagonist changing and becoming light and energy when his girlfriend left him. the fountain of youth part at the end was purely to illustrate that he has now become weightless and infinite. does that make sense?

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Mon 2nd Nov 2015 12:44

Are we to reduce all this cauldron of animated thoughts to Prester John?

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