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Through the Lens of Melancholy

The demons gaze at me like they’ve drunken malice tea. A beverage filled with pure hate, only my spilt blood will fully satiate. Their thirst, and their hunger, because they feed on my worst. My thoughts and my feelings, all my troubled dealings. The times that I reached up and hit into glass ceilings…
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Moth

Moth, night time’s butterfly. Absent in colour. Forever drawn to all things bright. The sun of darkness, a lamp that’s artificial. Attracted to its heat, it begs for some colour within their blackened world…