honey and venom | poetry

By roseways

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so this is what it's like to be human More

prologue; note
prologue; epiphany
CHAPTER ONE
lost
love not a poet
beautiful
to your face
dormant
losers' club
red
hell is empty
brain fog
equal
changed
changed, pt. 2
yearnings
exams
shreds
chaos
smoke
overthinking
scream
it
blue
hide and seek
you
strong
fake love
the last day, prologue: apart
the last day, pt. 1
a drunk daze
cold to the core
on the passage of time
toxic
the mask
(rest in) peace
alone and lonely
CHAPTER TWO
sunrise
clock
the waves
forgive yourself
interlude: the trouble with growth
chaos, rediscovered

the last day, pt. 2

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By roseways


just this once
i can't articulate my feelings
because right now,
tonight,
they're a bittersweet compound
of everything under the sun
and absolutely nothing at all.

and that's just it.
i have so many things to say,
so many metaphors,
they all get mixed up in my head.

it's like the night sky,
when you look up,
and there's so many things to stare at;
there's stars and satellites
and new worlds and black holes,
all at once.

so many meanings.

but
you know when you look up
and it's all so far away?
you're so small, and so distant,
you forget that you're part of it all?
and you're just so
painfully, heartbreakingly

lost?

yeah, it's...
it's like that.

kind of.

i really don't know how to explain.

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