Curtains
Sometimes, I’m so careless / that the weeks arrange themselves into a routine / I resent for being so predictable.
Sometimes, I’m so careless / that the weeks arrange themselves into a routine / I resent for being so predictable.
Every morning he left and I dreamed / of frozen eyelids- brown and blue like the dirt / I see stuck in the sky.
He sees the first flash. It’s a small one, nothing more than a brief line of blindingly beautiful energy.
“Art means the freedom to express myself and to be myself. I can be alone in a room for hours and focus on creating something, and the limits are only my own skills. Art is that hard to pin down and explain part of the brain that nonetheless demands attention. But in a way, trying to explain what art means to me is like trying explain what air means. I can’t live without it.”
We walked along the ground that rearranged with each step, grains molding and melding in surrender. The lights and music of the nightclub faded into uncertainty. Perhaps a memory, perhaps only an illusion.
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