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Amanda Francis May 2019
Writers are the most beautiful of artists.
Complex and unique.
They make the most exquisite, beautiful jewelry.
Every word sends out ripples like water,
sometimes you can see yourself staring back.

Some turn their words into pendants shaped like hearts, and teardrops and all manner of things.
And you can hang them on your heart, or in your head and you'll never take them off.

A writer writes about their monsters, crushes them to coal and uses them to make a forge.

But I, no, a writer I am not.
My words bleed from me, half congealed from the half-dead body they spilt from.
The other half already dust because you must live before you die.
But some people die before they live.

My words, lonely, lingering, they long for more to write about than emptiness.
  May 2019 Amanda Francis
Stephanie D
I'm so used to being leftovers
that I wonder if there's anything left
May 26th, 2019
Amanda Francis May 2019
Today, there is a storm in my head that is viscious and threatens to drown me.
Under a moonlit sky, a thousand thousand stinging insects swarm.
Locked inside Pandora's box, the weak cries of hope are fading.
And love is sleeping in the beds of death, refusing to check the time.

The change I had to cross the river Styx has been misplaced, nor could I drink the amnesic gold of the River Lethe.
In limbo, I must think of you obsessively.
Your divine beauty, your quicksilver song, the distance that remained between us.
Amanda Francis May 2019
Another pang of loneliness as i make one cup of tea.
Another uncomfortable smile from someone who isnt you.
Another rain song at my window pain.
Another blanket of melancholy to hold me under.
More tears fall on my drive to work.
Another 24 hours of fill the void with shapes that dont fit.

Another beautiful dream, one more hug. I watch you smile at someone else and I know.

Ill never stop falling in love with you.
Amanda Francis May 2019
I'll pluck my eyes out for there is nothing more beautiful in this world than you.
The delusions of an eccentric poet ring in my ears.

On the brink of sanity I wait, longing to see something more beautiful than you.
  May 2019 Amanda Francis
Colm
Catch me
Like a Firefly in a glass tomb
Like a candlelit flame in a dark room

I am narrative alive and well
Time reincarnate
And I give myself most humbly forward

Charred and broken at both ends
Until my own ashes turn lie and truth
I burn on every living tongue for you
God bless the words which avail to me, and actually want to be spoken.
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