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the light spilling through the airport glass SLASHED GOLD bars over esme's SUNTANNED SKIN, kissed with sprinkles of golden cookie crumbs. the lights spilled miniscule RAINBOWS over her glistening eyelashes, eyelashes brushing her cheeks like dragonflies dipping into a
pond
of
whiskey.
dragonflies dipping into a pond of whiskey,
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dragonflies,
dipping into a pond of whiskey, flying f a r f a r a w a y
esme's thirteen-year old eyes were glossed with a plastic smile. a beautiful dollhouse filled with plastic beings who had lost their humanities and concealed it with a pretty surface
no one sees, no one knows. no one hears the muffled tears. no one... no one cares.
his parents smiled plastic smiles, their eyes cold, crinkled with faked remorse. he was only 8 but old enough to know that his parents didn't give A DAMN.
everything is so dull
the PLANES fly in slow motion, flashing past like subway trains, shooting up like falling stars that could never grant a wish
esme's eyes were swirled with OCEAN GREEN and open SKY, as if the sky was bleeding (PAIN)T dripping and mixing with the sea because they could never be completely apart. he stared into them so he could memorize the color of her nectared GAZE, so that he could hold on to the MEMORY as it faded away like a POLAROID.
something flashed in her eyes, as if she were slipping away a FACADE when no one was looking. he looked up into his sister's eyes and he saw a barren underwater wasteland, CORALS bleached and the COLD blue green salt tears obscuring the gloom.
they were so indifferent that it scared him
she blinked and it was all gone, replaced by a pretty plastic smiles and sparkling eyes
the rest was all a blur. he watched he hug his parents, as if they were all molded STATUES with no warmth where their chests met in forced embraces. he wondered if they could even feel each other's HEARTS between them
at last, she kneeled down in front of him and slipped her velvet arms around his skinny shoulders, the way the SUN would hold a FLOWER. but the sun would be gone soon
"i
love you,
goodbye,"
his father held his hand too tightly, looking down at him with stone eyes as she turned her back on them.
"be a man," his voice was so empty that it scared him.
his whole body ACHED and the world tipped and squeezed into his throat, choking away his breaths and stuffing his YOUNG chest with cotton. his eyes stung from the pain. his heart was too big for such a small chest, so the world decided to smother it completely with all the tears he was not allowed to cry over the years as he BROKE and BROKE and BROKE and BROKE without his sister, his sanctuary, his whole WORLD, when she left for boarding school
as she walked away, her figure disappearing through the crowd of FADED jackets, he thought she BLENDED in too. just as dull and empty.
and he was the only one wearing red in a sea of gray.
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