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Loss starts with your first breath Either accept defeat with smeared eyes Or smile when you encounter death
Emptiness has the fragility of feathers and bears the weight of mountains.
A dangerous part of her enjoyed toying with destruction. She didn’t mind playing deadly games and winning deadlier prizes. In fact, she yearned for it. Because it had to end. Some way or another. She needed everything to end.
“That’s a little dark,” Khalani said. Mr. Harroway chuckled. “That’s human history. Darker than midnight. Why do you think we fled underground?”
The truth is, it’s not the hurt you see that’s dangerous. It’s the hurt you hide that’s the real menace.
That’s the beauty of knowledge. If it’s remembered, the meaning can’t be fully erased.”
“I’m sorry they got to you. Made you forget that surviving is not living,” Winnie whispered. Khalani frowned, opening her mouth in rebuttal but found no words. Winnie’s words sank deeper into her skin. Deeper… And deeper. Till they consumed everything.
You hide from devils in your sleep. I smile at them in greeting.
“I’ve been at death’s door many times. I call it home.”
When you face death, give the cold bastard my condolences.
In another world, they would be free. But the only place freedom resided in was dreams. And in death. ***
“Love transcends space and time. It holds no bounds or limits. Dear girl, love is stronger than death because if you love someone, they can never truly die.
Leave the chips and cracks in my sculpture. Capture my failures in all their misshapen beauty.
There lies a riot in you. With your very first breath, you cried in protest.
You’re the story I read slowly. I want to savor and memorize every word of you.
Carve open my mind and witness a sea of you pouring out.
