Alyssa Monks

I know this, I can't go up against your Musician. I won't. Someone who breathes his music into you and touches you in his absence. Lute or flute - who's fluent in your folklore, one who is well versed in Icelandic mythos. See, what I do is slowly killing me, patiently even. What he does can kill you immediately, finish you off all at once. It's about picking the right poison, it's all about toxicity and surviving the loneliest day by system that will always remain down. You are vaguely intelligent though you are no Jenny Lee. So I can't tell you what not to do. Be wary where you should be, avoid where you must. You exist for yourself, I can't help that, but I trust you with your own existence. Though I must tell you, in the smoke of last night, in the haze that was last night, in that fog I didn't tell you. I had the most weirdest dream and in the fever of its grip, I liked you.

In the dream that didn't follow, I liked you too. I thought I was a dream, but I am just a borrowed word from another's quill, a vault in the sky that's being shattered, a wan light squeezed through the event horizon. But it was your dream I was having and it is pretty hard to wake up from someone else's dream. It's hard to remember a song that way.
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Published on June 08, 2017 04:09 Tags: javeria, painterly-mouth
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message 1: by Mir (new)

Mir Some of these posts are like imagistic poetry waiting for line arrangement.


I won't.
I know I can't compete with your Musician.
He breathes his music into you
and touches you in his absence.
Lute or flute - he's fluent in your folklore,
He has your measure, meter, mythos.
What I do kills me patiently.
You think you know better,
but you're just dying faster,
High on the toxicity
that you aren't smart enough to see
Trusting what you should avoid,
wary where you shouldn't be.
You say you've survived loneliness:
Does that mean you'll survive this?
After is the loneliest day.
I wish I knew what to say.
In dreams I have a borrowed word
a crack of light in a shattered sky
the right song in a hazy bar.
But when I wake the word is gone
the light is wan
and the song
you're hearing isn't mine.


message 2: by Asghar (new)

Asghar Abbas This is seriously beautiful, made me shiver, it's like you kneaded the words and made this so much better.

This made me happy, love all the line arrangements, ty.


message 3: by Asghar (new)

Asghar Abbas imagistic poetry :)


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