Quill of Blood

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She laid on her bed in rumination

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She laid on her bed in rumination

Glaring at her lunatic, invisible reflection

Her head ringing with madness

As her real self stood a witness


On the left, a silver dagger stared at her with yearning

On the right, a crow quill peered with a gaze so striking

Her brown eyes shifted in confusion,

Asking her throbbing mind-

"a ballad or a contusion?"


The white pages threatened to fly in the chamber,

But the soft cloth joyously stayed unlike the nervous papers

She drew the quill close to her side

But the blade proudly shone at the disconsolate sight


"Do you want floral words of black ink,

 Or scarlet scars of a weakling?"

The reflection questioned her in anger.


She wondered if she could put down her letters of sadness

Or must there be drops of blood dripping into darkness

Because carving lines on wheatish skin

Could hurt just as much the twisted words written with pristine


The callous hands got hold of both the handle and the tip

Silence and shadows gloomed over her cracked lips


"It is always a toss of dime for this broken imbecile,

Every time, I urge her to be more sensible!"

The pen faded away alone in the abyss,

As she pushed away the quill and prepared herself for the bruises.


-Grisha. S

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