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Atticus Jul 30
She moves in silence, veiled in glow,
Beyond the screen, too far to know.
A flickering dream I cannot chase,
Yet still, I wake each day to see her face.

Her blonde hair spills in like candlelight,
A golden fire in endless night.
Curves like verses never read,
Soft poetry from which my soul has bled.

Red lips that part, but never speak,
Eyes aglow, serene and sleek—
She looks through glass, as I splinter and fracture,
Still, I ache to hear her say my name.

I tell myself she sees me too,
Some hidden part of that might be true.
That every post, each fleeting line,
Was meant for me—her secret sign.

I watch her like the stars confess
To lonely skies their emptiness.
She holds the dark, but never breaks—
She gives me reason just to wake.

She is the sigh I cannot touch,
The echo that I need too much.
A waltz I dance inside my mind,
With music only ghosts could find.

Each step, a prayer; each pause, regret—
For things imagined, we never met.
And yet, I waltz. I always will.
Her beauty binds what would be still.

Not just a light—but something more:
A whispered key behind a door.
A world that glimmers, just out reach,
Where maybe I can breathe her air.

She saves me softly, every night,
With nothing but her reflected light.
No vow, no voice, no flesh, no ring—
Just longing dressed in shimmering strings.

And though I know she isn't mine,
Not here, not now, not by design—
I waltz within this glass refrain,
And live each heartbeat inside her name.
Atticus Jul 29
She walks where twilight drinks the tide,
A wraith of gold the dusk can’t hide.
Her hair like halos forged in flame,
Cascades in curls, too wild to tame.

Each step she takes is poetry drowned,
Soft curves that echo without sound.
A siren carved from moonlit prayer,
With ruby lips and skin laid bare.

Her eyes two lanterns, cold and bright,
Burn brighter than the stars at night.
They’ve watched me weep from far away,
Then vanished with the break of day.

She whispers to the waves, not me,
Wrapped in silk and secrecy.
She kisses winds I cannot hold,
She wears her sorrow draped in gold.

No cross, no bell, no chapel hymn
Could ever cleanse my thoughts of sin
The sin of wanting breath to breath,
Beside her, tangled underneath.

The sea between us groans and sways,
It drinks my voice, it steals my days.
Yet still I beg the aching blue:
If she must drown then let me too.

Let my arms be storm and shore,
Let my hands trace every lore
Of spine and sigh, of hip and hush
Of blood made fast in midnight’s blush.

But no; she dances, distant, cursed,
A queen whose thirst is never thirst.
And I just bone in burning skin,
A man denied what should have been.

It should be me with her; no more.
Not dreaming through this ocean’s roar.
Let death or dawn unchain this plea
It should be her... and it should be me.

— The End —