Monday: Poetry
Hi there! I'm your host for the week, beckonade, and today's theme is poetry. All prompts should be either poems or quotes from poems. If the poem you'd like to use as a prompt is long enough to be unwieldy, feel free to simply provide a link to it.
Just a few rules:No more than five prompts in a row ( Read more... )
Just a few rules:No more than five prompts in a row ( Read more... )
He wonders if they all leave,
not because of the burn of his touch,
but from the plague beneath his skin.
('gone' hurts less than saying 'dead')
(c.ruth tumblr)
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Abandonment requires expectation, Will tells him once, and Will hasn't bothered with expectations in a very long time.
Hannibal puts Will in a cage, ruins what little good name he had, kills the daughter Will believed he wanted; Will weaves a web that very nearly catches Hannibal, playacting the monster Hannibal wants him to be; Hannibal guts him and leaves him lying on the floor.
(honestly, Will muses, still stuck in the hospital bed, a literal gut wound for a metaphorical one--you're so dramatic, you bastard)
Will, exhausted in heart and in mind, turns Hannibal away--at last he has expectations and they hurt. Hannibal, the dramatic monster, decides to surrender himself to a cage.
(it has become a cycle of blood and of pain, whatever this thing between them is, and if Will ignores it, it will fade)
(oh, but we know better, don't we, my dear? whispers a voice he will never forget)
Abandonment requires expectation, Will tells him once. Will has long since learned that everyone leaves -- and so he choose to leave instead, ( ... )
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thank you so very much!
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