Three Libras ( Read more... )

Sometimes it is curious to me that those closest to me, who say that they understand my nature....truly forget what I am.

It is in my children that I recognize my failings, my tragic flaws. All that I am not is mirrored in their little perfections. I am not superior to them for I was poorly made, a broken soul overcome by a bitter life and a longing that can never be sated, even after all this time. Through my mistakes and misfortunes, I have become infamous and ( Read more... )

White fingers pull at silver silken threads and I am unbound, unchained, unleashed. Over banks of white, snow blind and lost, I run until my feet no longer touch the ground. If I had wings, I would fly but instead I am mantled in ice and effort steals the warmth that was not ever mine. To make my mark on heaven though upon my lips, a crimson lie ( Read more... )

There would be a sacrifice here tonight. I would offer up my body, my blood and it seemed appropriate to be laying here upon this table dressed for a banquet. The cloth beneath me seemed a kind of luxury and this small sensuality gave me comfort in my final moments. My outstretched hands slid over burgundy velvet, my nails tapped against ( Read more... )

I dance here under the spotlight of the night, in the shell of this anti-bellum ballroom. The shards are sharp beneath my bare feet from the shattered remnants of my reflection and bits of broken skylight. There is no vanity left in this space. Only joy and pain dwell here. I stain the rotting oak floor crimson while the sky above me washes it ( Read more... )

Do the walls come down ( Read more... )

How can you say that you've put away such beautiful music? That your fingers find no grace when touching each significant string or shaping my emotions with every draw of the bow ( Read more... )

I can fly ( Read more... )

I dropped my violet glasses upon the foyer table and let the bare tips of my fingers smoothe over the bevelled marble edge. The texture is familiar to me, no seperation between flesh and stone any longer ( Read more... )