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Death By Metaphor
Each lullably her mother sang
was a white dove feather
she'd adhere onto her ashen wings,
in waiting for a wind
to scoop her up into a full, celestial ellipse
into the cerulean perhaps she'd look at
from her small, bedroom window.
Lullabies of a once gallant sovereign of stars
and his decorated soldiers,
of milky stardust silhouettes,
pastel dainties,
and of dimming staircases
her mother would each describe
with a euphoric voice enough
to bloom cut flowers.
She'd finger-print her skin with dandelion wine
and press flowers onto her palms and kneecaps,
then fall asleep within velvet nights
in her hometown glade
as the constellations above her
read her cursive thoughts as stichs.
Years passed and on one wistful dawn,
she bid her callow wings and tip-toed
onto the eave of her small, bedroom window.
The opalescent sun glistened like a pearl,
and she felt like she could touch it.
Then, she let go.
She remembered falling
before the wind scooped her up
and led her into a slow pattern of
lissome ellipses into her great perhaps.
Celestial kingdom clouds caressed her porcelain palms
as the gallant sovereign of stars echoed
that she could never return back home,
and she never did.
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