077: Counterpart

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Inspired by the titles of the "project books" of my high school classmates, each first line of each verse is a title of each book we made.

(A/N: Classmates, alphabetical, except me.)

LXXVII

COUNTERPART

A flip-side

Turn against the fading memory

A path, barren and indistinct, twisted

A wallow carved and melting

Gaseous blood diffuses

Wax and acid tears

Random circumstances

Conjure a simple getaway

Mistaken first impression, of doom

An ambiguous undercurrent

Caught under the influence

Modest temperance

Attitude matters

Paint the mockery-stained façade

A trance of smooth inflection, voice

Affective afterlife cycle

Reiterates the critical point

Overt smile

Different paths to success

One that bends in a lacerative line

To meet the same end

Keeping the heart unknown

To those who can recall

A familiar name

Love, happiness, and everything in between

Rendering the middle phase void

Closure upon closure of bond

Finger, every finger untouched

Grows a new life ahead

A twinkling hope

It's time

Every piece of love must let

Go the distance, decision unfold

Walking like a shadow possessed

Spiral around the edge

Footsteps erased

A boy becomes a man

Solid, clueless crowd deposed

Lock on, target of totality

Evolve into the dawn of change

Like a veiled butterfly,

Mind metamorphosis

A heart full of love

Truth was the common eye

Until the scars were wounded, struck

Hair shall fall upon a face

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