Grace

look up to find me

[ddestroyangels]

Forest Nymph by Paul Hermann Wagner, 1870

Private Collection, Texas

[goddessdiary]

[ellieangelellieangel]

[04k96]

[alexanderrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

[eightloukref]

[starg0ld]

[perriaeyjeve]

[kosmogrl]

let’s all quit our jobs and just go on walks

[itsabluefiction]

Somewhere between an ending

that never said its name

and a beginning

that refuses to introduce itself,

she has been walking.

Miles of quiet pavement,

streetlights humming softly

like tired witnesses.

Notebook full of half-poems,

lungs full of cold air,

Her hands remembering

other hands

they shouldn’t miss.

The city sleeps

but her body stays locked

a door someone forgot how to open.

Dreams come violent lately.

Metal flashes.

A lover who was never a lover with unfamiliar eyes.

Wake up before the pain lands.

Leave the room

before it swallows you whole.

4am

Empty streets,

footsteps echoing

like a question.

A walk just to feel something

The wind on her face,

the slow forgiveness of sunrise,

the quiet proof

that she is still here

heart beating

through the shadow.

[coquette-club]

[jinxproof]

Devon Aoki i-D #179 (September 1998) ph. Ellen von Unwerth

[onlycheffings]

[zzzziamasleep]

[rainwashedsoul]

[dirt-cake-doll]

by artist Maddie Duda

[angelicdewdrop]