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"Once upon a time an angel fell in love with a demon"

[1ghibligirl]

When people ask me how I am, I want to tell them the truth that I feel as though I am rotting within the confines of my bones. This unraveling thing that I am bound in skin held taught by the hopes of dreams of the people who need me to be who I am in their heads. The ooze of my failure being held at bay by teeth bared in a smile and nails manicured. I feel as though I am rotting within the confines of my bones a cage of flesh I dress up so pretty for everyone to admire while my own eyes beg to close to cease to see to be at rest. But I am a liar, so instead I smile and say I'm well, how are you?

[nosferatvpussy]

Livraria Lello (Lello Bookstore) - Porto, Portugal. 2018.

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love"

[1ghibligirl]

My lover called me beautiful while gazing upon another. I wish to be unperceivable. He said he loved me with those very same lips. I wish I could believe him.

[1ghibligirl]

I never deserved you. I never deserved kindness or love. You never knew me, for if you did how could it be that you could come to love a wretched thing like me? You don't deserve me. A battered, beaten, worn-out monster, a wretched thing that can do you no good. You should leave me. I wait for it to happen while you send another message, another one I don't deserve. I wanted to live for you but I fear the best thing I may do for you is die. I never should've been here. I wasn't meant to live yet here I stand. A testament to the suffering I cause just by being. I will never deserve you.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

[springwagashi]

[waitinqroom]

i made a new uquiz: are you an ocean, lake, waterfall, river, stream, pool, or raindrop?

[1ghibligirl]

I truly wish I'd never experienced the sheer violence of being born and forced into being.

[elvensoul]

[1ghibligirl]

I've forgotten what it is to be human, it's been so long since someone saw me as one.

-🍃

[shisasan]

“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”

— J. W. Goethe

[thefallenauthor-deactivated2023]

yeah, life is cool, but where is my secret lover, who shows up at my house in the middle of the night with several books to read together and analyze, under the sound of raindrops pattering on the window?

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

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[peacefulandcozy]

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