Hallowed Kingdom

Leonius C Valentine, A place for my writing

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Thorns

Your petals are withered from fear A fear of being snipped You grow but aren’t able to bloom For you stop your beauty Afraid that the beauty won’t last… But isn’t that what beauty is about? It’s to be cherished until it fades but not bittersweetly For the cycle of rebirth is continuous

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flamma amoris

I wish to share whispered words Onto your lips, hushed sweetness Taste of milk and honey To heal your wounds from within To touch your soul’s beauty Together, our broken bones weave themselves anew in gold

Despite my own broken body you look beyond it into my eyes To see beyond the physical to see the shapeless Imperfect but soul-crushingly bittersweet and warm like fire The fuel of life coursing through the vessel of body Like a Phoenix, one’s flame relights Through Love, through blood The horns upon my head a sign of rebirth And one of Retribution

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Hand

Uncertainty lingers in the eyes of the sallow beast His heart is a storm ancient callousness rearing it’s fangs

Across from him is the being that has shown him true kindness, a trueness so simple So clean It makes a scarred heart doubt itself For venom may no longer linger within its chambers But the damage has been dealt A reminder of what happened what could happen

What could repeat

The hand reaches for him an offer beyond his understanding

A price so little, but so little is all he has

Two hands meet one another Alas, what else has he left to lose