ink on flesh

nicolette // old enough to party poet laureate of the goth ihop

[freshmoviequotes]

The Pillow Book (1996)

[blyythespirit]

i dreamt of you

and thought to keep it

to myself

i am unwell

and i

have bothered you

quite enough

for a decade

all false starts

and pump fakes

perhaps you think

i mean to torment you

the truth is

no one lives quite closer

to the fire than i do

[macabrevampire]

i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time

[icaseybaybee]

[blyythespirit]

i don’t think of you anymore

except in summer

when the grass grows wild

and the air softens with smoke

except when in august rain

and the roof of the car

fills with weather

i do not think of you

except in winter

when water hardens

and the snow crunches under my feet

and in spring

when things bloom anew

and the ground rediscovers itself

you do not cross my mind

except in dreams

where you return

the way old photographs do

soft at the edges

untouched by time

all sepia and silver

otherwise

the rest of the year

you fill my thoughts

hardly ever

[free-my-mindd]

[blyythespirit]

Tierno

careful with my heart

i was made too delicate

for your kind of fire

still, i move closer to you

warming where i should retreat

Nicolette Craft

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[blyythespirit]

winter again

i find myself stood in the street

a beggar

i offer you

a song, for warmth

a dance, for bread

if you leave me hungry

and i keep performing

which of us has committed the greater abandonment

Nicolette Craft

[blyythespirit]

why trust so faulty

a device as one’s own heart,

the compass of fools

N.C

[blyythespirit]

sun // moon

your name resonates

like a reality that

wants to see sunlight

the moon obscures all

i am a bat seeking the

frequency of home

N.C

[blyythespirit]

what use are warnings

to the willing

do as thou wilt

if ruin is your choosing

who am i to deny you

should i wound

i would do so sweetly

should i devastate

i would try for gentleness

you will know, at least,

the torment came

from somewhere tender

Nicolette Craft

[blyythespirit]

it doesn’t matter

how gentle

you bring me to ruin

[blyythespirit]

lover, you

sicken me softly

like my body knows

something i don’t

N.C

[blyythespirit]

if i stole your heart,

don’t blame me

it only looked

like it would fit

in my chest

i wanted to try

it on

N.C

[blyythespirit]

i do not fear your devotion

nor the danger of the fall

desire, in all its depth,

tastes familiar

i fear only this:

that should you drown

i would let the water take you

that should you bleed

i would bring it to my mouth

i know how to invite

but not how to deny

N.C

[blyythespirit]

starlight travels far

arriving without warmth

still, i look up

Nicolette Craft