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  Feb 2016 Dark Musings
ashley
you dont know me
once the lights go out
you dont know me
once my blood starts running
you dont know me
when i collapse on the floor screaming
you dont know me
when i scratch at my skin
you dont know me
you dont know my sin
you dont know me
the depths i hide within
you dont
Dark Musings Feb 2016
Is it still night if you don’t sleep?
Or is night that darkness that soothes the soul, the warmth of a fire in the middle of snow?
Darkness, that promises light and gives you the moon as proof.
The moon that becomes a beacon and watches those demons you keep at bay through the day, come out to play.
And with its light, gives you the courage to face them until you thrive in the dark and they burn in the light.
Is it still night if you don’t close your eyes in fear when the clock strikes midnight?
Or is night a siren’s song that wakes and beckons,
Like a lighthouse, calling home ships lost at sea?
Because you weren’t meant to simply survive the night, but revel in it and come alive.
people write poems comparing
smiles to sunsets and rain
and stars and meteor showers

eclipsing entirely that sunsets give way to the charcoal wraith of night
rain riddles the most novel of metals
supernovas sink entire galaxies
and meteors are just meteorites with less ambition

but what about earthquakes
and black holes
and wildfires

rib rattling
song swallowing
too close for comfort

what once warmed us to our core now leaves us in embers

and still we burn for more
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