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[love letters] - Flames

  • 05-10-2003 5:34pm
    #1
    oddlyaromatic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭


    I still have it, you know.
    Remember how intense your words were?
    Little barbs and daggers and hooks -
    I didn't even notice when you slid them in.

    But I knew when you ripped them out,
    Every little metallic point
    tearing flesh from bones and bones from flesh and
    I forgave you.

    But I still have it, you know.
    Maybe I'll burn it -
    And your "eternal" love
    will turn to flame and ash.

    Just like the real thing really,
    While the flame burned nothing mattered
    And now all I have are ashes
    charred and useless.


Comments

  • #2
    Roller Toaster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Roller Toaster


    Nice work oddlyaromatic. I like how you link the hurtful words to the barbs, daggers and hooks, very effective image.


  • #3
    oddlyaromatic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭oddlyaromatic


    Thanks. It's an obvious analogy, but it just appealed to me when I sat down to write.


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