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Diavolo by InnocenceOfOurHearts, literature
Literature
Diavolo
there's this part. squishy.
you can trap it in a bottle
like a Genie
if you trap it well
it will fulfill all your wishes
I was so scared
what if someone wished
for my skin, my eyes, my soul?
what if someone swallowed me whole?
I wouldn't get out no more.
there is either hurt or lust and I'm running
on edges from the melting of both. I am running
from hell
by trying to become it.
I dreamt of Death and Death dreamt me.
Cold sweat. Live and regret. Endure,
make a bet,
inhaled my breath and gave it back.
heart attack.
with every day spent on the mirror's edge,
the ocean in her eyes is departing
to make room for a sick
death-shade of green
called "believing".
Sleep and sleep and sleep some more
the faceless silhouettes whisper.
To no one I talk. I just
eat and breathe and sleep.
They fill me
like a caterpillar. I shall be
round, youthful and vital, before
the stage of the butterfly, before
the world catches fire.
Secret signs, I am losing my mind.
Fair Lady in Black visited me
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Been searching across every uncharted territory smudged on parchment
Vanquishing the true colors of my room to a realm beyond cartography.
Floorboards condescendingly creak as I pace in hopes of one coming loose,
Leading to endless darkness far preferable to the scent of stagnation:
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The jailer has received his payment, keys still swung out of reach
Until their whispers savor the nectar of this supposed sanctum's god.
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Swept into my grasp to leave this personal prison deservedly desolate.
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