she was a wash of milky moonlight with purple iris veins her fingernails glimmered like the insides of shells as she laid a delicate palm on the sleeping boy's brow. "i am your winter, i am your heartbreak" she whispered into his dreams and a shadow passed over his slumbering frame, and it was nothing but night and rain inside his subconscious. she left with the scars of past regrets and frosted jars filled with all the tragedies of first love the springs that turned rotten and foul into a sticky heat when flower buds die before they bloom. with slow blinking eyes the boy awoke with his chest opened wide. he clutched at his dilapidated heart and wished for the icy caress of sleep to pull him back under.