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Evanescent

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lupus-astra

Published: Jan 15, 2014

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only the most
beautiful of creatures
live the shortest.

red roses and quivering
butterflies and other
useless things, like the 
way she wishes on every star
she sees for a different 
soul because she can't stand
the way it's rotting inside.

and it's only when
the thorns beneath her skin
start to bleed that her
monsters whisper, "have 
you ever trembled, my dear?"

because they know
for every whimper that hides
faintly in the dark,
there is a pair of lips stretched
into a smile pretending
that all that is beautiful
is timeless and unbroken.

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