the fire coiled 'round the
throbbing, beating heart,
and the blood that flowed soaked across
lines of chakra
that made a family.
and still, i don't know where you went. i don't know why we scattered, as if we had been paper in the wind--ashes in the wind--not pillars of stone that held up a world. (more accurately, pillars of flesh and wood, crowned in leaves that always shone emerald, even when they fell to the ground and betrayed us. they were proud. prouder than us.)
there was something in every word, just the right amount of emotion, and it made us
--famous. lucky, lucky, unlucky thirteen, Thirteen--
no, no. say it like it's meant to be. 13. so we can all see it.
13.
the luckiest damn girls in the world, and we
lost it. lost it because we were always already lost.
squad, team, cell--none of these are words. none of them encompasses all of us. only family. only sisters.
"yes, i can tell," she said. "you didn't know us in our heyday. you didn't laugh or cry, and you can't understand. but i promise, we were beautiful." when our knives were sharp, our blades razors that cut through bone like butterflies.
when blood flowed
as easily as rapids in a river
and mirrors broke
but it was ok because we were unlucky enough as it is.
i haven't decided yet if we've all forgotten--me, you, her, them--or if we're trying to forget or if we'd kill ourselves for forgetting. (i would... i would.) see, there was no single piece to that puzzle of us. there was only the whole jigsaw.
the whole damn jigsaw that just fell apart.
i can't take it. i can't can't can't. do you see? i waited for you. every day, when dawn fell and dusk came and our whole mixed up world of glossed-over pain gleamed in the dying, dying flames. flames. that's what we're all about. the dying flames that fade to embers... but there are still a few who linger around to fan the fire. guardians.
guardians
who come and go like squirrels among our leaves, choosing a branch here or there to pause for just a [momentminuteyear]. look again.
please. just look again.
"i remember," she whispered, and she almost couldn't be heard among the hissing and crying of the smoldering remains. "i remember when everyone knew our names. and we still had to hide."
death never came
swiftly.
that just wouldn't be allowed.
and now, now i have to go. now the waves crash over us, but they burn, burn with a fire that no one [liar] can rekindle. [look for the light, though, just look. the masks never hide the eyes.] it always was strange that we could still see.
[even when we didn't know the truth.]
i've lost a heart again. [i believe i told you about it before.] it fled in the night without a word of warning [just like everyone we had to kill]. i watched it go, whispering away into the shadows cast by the flames as they fell.
[now we are housewives and teachers and we don't know how to live. now we are bitter and quiet and ordinary and some of us forgot.]
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so so very pretty indeed.
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The problem with here is that it's where I'm from.
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"You think we're dancing?"
"That's all we've ever done."
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You taste like ashes.
Awesome job~
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Rest in peace, Jack, Ciocza Kriszia, Priest Stanislaw
I'll paint the walls of the palace with your blood. ~Touzokuou
Chuuuuu~ =3
Lol, this is good. (And forgive the quirky writing. I do that. Idn't it fun? X3)
It gives more than a hint of pain, and more than a hint of secrets. I like it.
And it makes me curious; is there any person's point of vieyou're going from in particular? Or is it general?
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"I've missed Monday."
"...What?"
"I missed Monday. Mentally, i've missed Monday completely."
"Heh-ha, oh, gawd, that's awesome. I love you."
~AR (Misser)& Twin ~DL
"Hold still, why prolong the inevitable?"
"To avoid it?" X3
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"You think we're dancing?"
"That's all we've ever done."
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You taste like ashes.
(I did another F<3 one today, too. XD [link] If you care. <3)
As for POV... It sort of fluctuates. Between me, personally, girls of the squad, and everyone connected to F<3 at all.
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"You think we're dancing?"
"That's all we've ever done."
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You taste like ashes.
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Rest in peace, Jack, Ciocza Kriszia, Priest Stanislaw
I'll paint the walls of the palace with your blood. ~Touzokuou
Chuuuuu~ =3
Ah, makes sense. i like it.
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"I've missed Monday."
"...What?"
"I missed Monday. Mentally, i've missed Monday completely."
"Heh-ha, oh, gawd, that's awesome. I love you."
~AR (Misser)& Twin ~DL
"Hold still, why prolong the inevitable?"
"To avoid it?" X3
do tell what inspired this!?! I really really want to know!!
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Seems like everyone else has the someone they need
And there's an odd number of people like me
But this can't be, because I believe in something better than love
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