Elizabeth Hefty

It flickers
- fragile
struggling for breath
deep in the shadows of my chest.
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Beyond this smile my heart is shattered,
A thousand fragments bound by string.
Dreams, like dust, swept by the wind,
Strength now broken by relentless blows,
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You want love without expectations,
To curb the longings you dare not hope,
But they flutter within you,
Butterflies emerging,
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Today I let the past fall.
The fight to hold it in my hands,
relinquished.
Not a crash.
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This isn't my battle;
Your heart was never mine to lose.
I can only watch your struggles,
Powerless from the edge.
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A frail light flickers
Alone in the dark.
Weak and fading
In…
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And I would've tightly held your hand
As we stepped out into the abyss
But you doubt with
The doubts of your years of pain
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Sleep eludes me
Slipping from my fingers like quicksilver
Broken nights filled
With half heard whispers
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Call me a knight,
Clad in rusted armour.
I fight demons,
Mine and yours;
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With stealth they creep into your affections,
finding the chinks in your battered armour.
Growing
like a virus in the blood,
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Through sleepless nights
I reach out into the void
beside me
searching for your skin.
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Life is just fragments.
A series of events,
emotions,
people,
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So I will leave you where I found you,
on a sunlit street in summer
with the noise and dust swirling in eddies around us.
But I'm wearing new scars,
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Sometimes
In the depths of night
when despair seems at its deepest,
we clutch onto straws.
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You know,
I miss
those quiet moments
sitting in your company,
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Between light and the darkness
When imagination runs wild,
There comes that moment when the sky turns to fire
When our memories touch us most deeply,
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Standing on the edge of a white fogged world
Staring into the abyss.
Chill night air kisses our skin
But all cold melts in your embrace.
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today I let the past fall
it fell in silence
not a crash
not a sound
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We are like shards
of broken glass
he & I.
Discarded, forever lost
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