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Forsaken Places

They used to tell me to never bring my imagination to forsaken places.

I never knew what it meant.

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I saw you, and when I did, I thought the day was bright and the night was dark. Actually, it's the other way round, you said.

I believed you.

And when you pulled me deep into the sulphur lakes of your heart, I got helplessly lost. Searching, wandering, scavenging for pieces.

Pieces of lost souls and painful breaths, of liquid complexities and shattering betrayals. I never knew why I searched for them.

They scar(r)ed me, and they made me scream and squirm in its grasp. But you made me like them as much as I loathed them.

I was soon swallowed whole by the depths of your ungodly sorrows and the dark, dark tragedies of your being.

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"Never take your imagination to forsaken places."