freeze my pain in the musings of a poet

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The air tasted like asphalt on my tongue.

Songs of the dead pile up against my doorstep alongside

the snow-fed orchids you left a week ago.

November flushed beneath the slices of the

tangerine sun, rippling in decayed beauty.

We were made of stardust—a rare color of

the rotten azure in the bleak sky.

A 70s song starts in the middle of nowhere.

I remember hearing it the first time you took me to your house.

As much as I swore to the baby blue peonies,

my inebriated eyes always found yours.

The bracelet you gave me on my birthday felt 

heavier than anything under the sleeves.

Time has swallowed the melon sun, squeezing

its glory and chewing on its paint.

Sunflower girls always burn away for others, 

slipping away in the soil of stained gardens.

Rose thorns prickled my skull, bleeding

in the dampened, lost desires.

I dreamed in the liquid moonlight,

writing notes of the blossoming decay of plastic love.

A sublime version of my dreams spilled

over the baby blue waves and peonies.

The art in us was now a black hole in my collarbones.

We were but an abstract

of perished melodies over withered violets.

A meek of dust collected in the crevices of your brain 

till you planted lilacs on them.

A moon-clogged prison drowned in the death of a million stars.

A beautiful nightmare painted with trampled sunflowers.

But I saw it through the cracks of sunlight.

And it felt too real under my skin.

We bled in the folds of anguish as you looked down at me.

We were burning excruciatingly fast—hypnotized

in the blue hour—till you caught the wildfire

under the moonlight and became a dead poet's muse.

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