There are days when life is cold
no matter the heat outside
days when life is sickening
no matter the taste
days when life is desert-parched
no matter how long you linger at oases
There are days when the music plays
and never once do you feel like dancing;
when the neat pictures on the wall
seem slanted;
when the rain falls and doesn't wash away
the exhaustion
in your eyes
or the copper taste
on your tongue
or the flames
in your skin
or the broken glass case
around your heart;
days when life is crushing
no matter your armor
or the walls you have built in desperation
and you think of surrender
and it seems like you might fall
before sleep flutters forth
on angel-wings
and you fly away
in dreams of
greater things
floating
to another
tomorrow
This is beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
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