Addiction, The Meretricious Wyvern by Leehon, literature
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Addiction, The Meretricious Wyvern
A faint image of my smile stretched across the palm of your hand A false epoch formed from the stochastic weavings of life Dual fissures that softly tugged me in like a lover promising me That she'll cure my purity without letting its thorns take any more Pieces of my bemoaned soul The memories you gave were less fleshy than they needed to be, But each shard plunged itself into the veins of my discontentment; That's why I don't regret meeting you However, I do regret forgetting that-- just like me-- you were an adult, More than capable of finding reasons to slit every eye of your Ophanim Using the combination of tongue and demon powder, you found an escape From the rancor that never entered my library; the coyotes eating the Functionless computers in the dooryard must have scared you away They were always harmless, but there's a reason why the mantra "Opposites attract" stays between the teeth of those who abhor Echo chambers Now that your tendrils nurture only corpses, I see that