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Published: 2010-05-08 08:27:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 121; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 4
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I can feel cold seep into my bones through my fingertips. It sets deep inside me like it has every day since you found me. You feel like an inevitable apocalypse, but I'd follow you through the energy of a meltdown. I know I have no reason to, but I won't tear myself away until I am sitting in the dust staring at your back as you join everything else that has walked away from me (my entire life...)I have lied to myself that this is for my own benefit, but my muscles are made of regret and my bones of ice and I am trying to let go of my fleshy beating heart as you cup it in your stony hand. I'll stand on a pedestal too, with a crown of thorns just like yours. The only difference is that thorns don't hurt statues, so I'll pretend I can't feel the blood dripping down my face.
If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you follow?
You are everyone. You are everything. Yes.
But somehow I think that I am already f
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Korimito [2010-05-25 11:25:12 +0000 UTC]
I like the formatting. There's a word for it but it's left me. Uhh... Oh, well.
I like the line "the only difference is that thorns don't hurt statues..." because it seems spiteful and I think it's powerful.
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