POETIC VERSE. i am mine; fully, irrevocably. © 2021, khadija faleel. #25 in poetry

⋆·˚ ༘ * 𝖻𝗎𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋𝖿𝗅𝗒 𝗄𝗂𝗌𝗌𝖾𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖺𝗌𝗒 𝗈𝖿𝖿𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗆𝗆𝗈𝗋𝗍𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗒 © 𝗊𝗈𝗅𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗌𝗄𝗂𝖾𝗌𝗌

── 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘. and i'll watch your words of cloying sweet honeycomb snap into thick silence, thicker than roses drowned in ivory milk, engrave tragedy into my fate with the blade of my own archenemy.

there's bravery in being soft

virtues are for fools, darling.