Letting Go

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She bled roses on the charred floors

Raw glass fractured along wasted skin

She was withered away by the flooding depths

The water overlapping in churning vermillion

A dead portrait, cold and bloodless


She bled charcoal and starless tears

Shuddering hands pallid with iridescent shards

Black boiling on her fingertips

Lifted by a breathing touch of warmth

An evaporation of murky rivulets


She bled ghostly eyes upon the world

Fixated by a touch of fire

Electricity surging down her spine

Her frame gathered, yet splintered

Cautious words from a glass tongue


She bled scarred and faint sunlight

Now dancing upon the past shards of fears

Sailing away on the broken rivers

Liquid of translucent melancholy

Away, away she let go


And she learned to swim

~ Kes


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