“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via coral)
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The way my skin wraps my bones
Brittle branches breaking, bearing
The weight of the coming months
A dejected farewell to the fairy tale
Of open doors and open eyes, a sky
Soft like summer kisses growing
Wistful as the doors slam shut, a shell
Of silence draped, a soundproof
Room, I am clenched into a grimace
Trapped by hair and time and the
Edges shredding in the firelight
Golden glow glides away
These Days
These days
Are short in number
From the time
Our minds can
Realize
All worry
Is a wasted effort
Which hastens
Nothing
But pain
Despite
How hearts can change
Over spans
Of years
Turning decades
Into journeys
Riddled with failure
That is purpose
Taking
Its toll
From balance
Playing our parts
As agony learns
What we witness
Is sacrifice
Making us
Better
To admire
Death
As a whole
Like deer
Within endless woods
Quiet
Content to be waiting
For their hunter
Bound
To be killing
Such fragile
Souls
That are weak
Upon faith
With gentle hooves
Among leaves
So fallen
And desparate
To be one
With this ground
Below them
As they struggle
Through colorful bliss
Proving
Hurt doesn’t end
As loss
Is a season
Grieving
Where beauty
Is cyclically
Fated
By nature
Alive but brief.
- J. Pigno
Dancing with Fire
I once danced with Fire,
No burns, just desire
That inspires, calls me, beckons
Leaves me wanting more, seconds
I tried to tease the flame
But it struck, impossible to tame
It bit, it scratched, it hit
Left me marks until I submit
You took the lead, lead the dance
Didn’t leave anything to chance
Placed my head, where you need it
Blew on the flame, the wind feeds it
Blew so much, the flame roared
Thrashing, moving, until it soared
Grabbing me, and pinning me down
Unable to move, with flames around
Unable to move, or make a sound
On the ground, tethered, bound
Locked in place, in an embrace
Touching my neck, my face
When I whisper in your ear
Your whimper I can hear
You told me to be quiet, to hush
That night, found out fire can blush
love me like my demons do
love me like my demons do
look me in the eyes like how they would scrutinize; preying on me
caress me the way their claws would hold me tight at night,
never letting go
when i’m in tears pour me your loving words like how they whisper me lullabies;
all full of lies,
a song of deceit,
then, like always
i will listen
and fall into slumber;
deeper than ever before.
x. РФМ
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