A.M.Lacey

[laceyam]

I left to become who I am,

whomever that may be,

my bound wings set finally free. 

Yet behind lay my bruised soul, 

a shell, a ghost, a blank page.

How can one fully escape their cage? 

[laceyam]

Happiness writes white

Henry de Montherlant

[laceyam]

"Remember you must live. Remember you most love. Remainder you mist leaf."

Ali Smith

[laceyam]

"Remember you must die"

Muriel Spark

[laceyam]

Dmitri Shostakovich

As empty notes fell on my shades of blue,

The silent echoes from the chamber faded,

The dull cries of the Night-Ride grew,

A faith lost from a performance so jaded.

Then, entered a pianist of such skill,

The unforgiving world stood still.

Tears pooled in a delicate whirlwind of black and white,

Who would have thought that music could reach such heights?

In a playful dance, the sun rays beamed,

It was here that the night was redeemed.

The sureness of his touch across the keys,

To seal away a life so young

Is an evil tease.