Athena King

There are many monsters in the world,
Some that grasp,
Some that bite,
But worst of all,
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These halls hold sorrow and pain.
They are far from empty.
Just two walls running parallel,
Full of me.
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People tend to think that I am as strong as stone, but even the toughest diamond has its flaws.

People tend to think that my knowledge is as vast as the universe, but even the universe has empty parts.
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The sun rises,
As always.
It does not care if no human is there to see its glory,
As it chases away the fears of the night.
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Pine trees dance through the night
lit only by snow.
Their lower branches brushing the ground
Like a noble lady's skirts as she dances a broad and sweeping waltz.
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The sunlight is heavy and golden
It falls like manna
From
The Dome
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I am a wanderer of worlds.
I have traipsed through the sands of time and knocked the dust off of my boot heels upon the doorstep of Fate herself.
I know every atom of my soul down to the base and have learned to love every crack and shadow.
I learned my body down to the particles of stardust that flow through my veins and the iron that makes my heart hard enough to exist and soft enough to survive.
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A peculiar beauty is given to the fall of snowflakes-
The gentle dance of glitter upon the face of a velvet night
So strong that you feel it in your marrow-
Carried on the backs of softly swirling eddies of air
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I.
Dearest little one,
I have tried for the longest time to forget that You exist.
To forget a time when I was
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1. A series of "no" chanted into the ear of night. Each one more. Choked than. the. last. Until they break my very heart.
2. I have been a coffin for a month. The only words my mother could speak when my older sister died within her.
3. If you knew how much I wanted to die you would let me. Lit up on a screen in the middle of the night that was not seen until the morning but for once it was not too late.
4. A three-inch binder filled to the brim. A binder that is filled with the reports a single person made about being bullied.
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God,
Heavenly Father,
Lord,
My shield is heavy,
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I want to hit something.
I want to tear somethingapart.
I want to. spit. words. of. acid. That melt all those that oppose my not-so-righteous fury.
I want to run and run and run and run and run and run and run and run and run and run until my iron will is worn to nothing and the world beneath me dissolves from the friction.
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You
were Our Older Brothers.
Older Brother:Protector, Friend, Defender.
You did not do your job.
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It has been years and months and weeks and days and hours and minutes and second since
Then.
So long that a chasm has opened and the memories are blurred
on the other side by time.
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Fuzzy socks.
Books on rainy days while liberally supplied with tea.
A hot shower and warm pajamas after a day in the snow.
Being surrounded by the arms of a loved one while your heart breaks into a thousand small pieces that you know they will be there to help you pick up and put back together.
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Clickclickclickclick
A clean white sheet
I am ready
Clack
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When We all sing
in the gold-topped
stone-caged room
the sound of all of Our voices
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I sometimes find myself
Full to the brim of my skull
with nouns
verbs
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It has been what feels like a lifetime since I have written.
The words that come out of me are harsh and painful
and clumsy and freeing
It is hard and bloody and horrible.
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I have a Very Specific Aesthetic.
I am
Crazy hair
Cozy cardigan
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