

she... you're painting pretty lies, alabastershe... by ~SmileforSomeone
secrets, forgotten covenants saved for
bad luck days and sinking-ship smiles,
and there are fireflies in your veins,
impassioned promises in your eyes.
i am tired of the monosyllabic angry words
emanating from the room downstairs, crystalline
lungs exhaling choleric clouds of some long
extinct virus, contaminating this empty house,
slipping under closed doors and poisoning
the last ray of sunshine we had left.
she said: looking and seeing are two
very different things
we created a universe between sunset
irises and milkweed butterfly queens,
turning rainy days into a cathartic fix


her pain is not my gain I see her hurt. I see her scars and pain.her pain is not my gain by ~shes-so-unusual
I can see it in her eyes. Her tremble and her sad and miserable frown.
only I notice the way she melts and fades, I notice how she crumbles slowly without anyone to hold her. And when she is alone. She is breaking into pieces.
I can see it right before me. And it kills me. More than anyone knows.
She has a mask. everyone she has met has been fooled by it. By her played on happiness and her tuneless laughs. But not me.
Her hurt is deadly, it is hurting her more and more each day.. I feel it when she leans on me. I feel it when she parts from me.
but then I notice the way her eyes sparkle at the s