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Beauty As I Rot

November 8, 2012
By MorganLewis PLATINUM, Greensboro, North Carolina
MorganLewis PLATINUM, Greensboro, North Carolina
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I've breathed your name
setting fire to this room just to keep you
"forget this world" you said
"with me you will see"
so I held your large hands
cut my soul upon the broken glass you brought me through
I let you tie this knot
across broken ribs
and you let me be the wanderer
as long as you held the power
I know what crawls behind your eyes at night
for it has lived within me for months
you took with you, a butterfly
caged within a jar
and you watched her silent beauty
as she would rot from a far


The author's comments:
I wrote this about my depression when I couldn't seem to stand on my own two feet; Instead, I let others guide me, hurting me, and furthering my "rotting" instead of trying to help my depression. I let my "need" for love cloud my vision of what was right and wrong, and what really was love.

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PUretOxiC said...
on Dec. 12 2012 at 11:33 am
PUretOxiC, Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Absolutely LOVE this!!!