♚ An untitled ballerina... ♚

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4 YEARS AGO:

I wonder if the metal cried...

I watched how the sun bounced off the small knife while I twirled it on my finger.

Huh...

The blade spun once more on my fingertip before I grabbed it and brought it close to my face. Small lines criss-crossed on its surface and little chips peppered its sides.

"Maybe it is a vengeful spirit?" I breathed...
So quietly the greedy breeze could've stolen my words away.

"If you think about it..."
"They forced it to become a pool of molten agony, forged to submission, this - "

I twisted the small knife, testing its weight.

"This was born out of destruction... it would've been in a lot of pain. So, now maybe it exists to cause pain and to destroy?"

"Like..."

"Like revenge." I mumbled.

Leaning my back against the old willow tree I let out a slow sigh - closing my eyes for 3 seconds, or maybe 3 minutes.

"But still... Did the metal cry?"

After a while of listening to the cricket that was hiding somewhere in the thick grass, and absentmindedly fiddling with my pocket knife, I frowned slightly before I opened my eyes.

I'm not a fan of long, sullen silences.

"Mum?"

I looked to the side and my expression fell.

"Of course... I always forget."

You're not really here...

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"Look how ordered you are...
Look how you don't have a choice but to be in rows."
-Eris Raine

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