scarlet butterflies
hide me from their sacred sight
whirling me away
groping for reason, alone
every garden its lover


Idiom its so quiet my eyes hurtIdiom by ~feebleantelope
as I stare into the computer screen.
Man has always loved to stare into the abyss -- though
(didn't your mother ever tell you its not polite)
the abyss always stares back.
lost in this technological abyss,
the Messiah will only come
when he is no longer needed --
too late, we ask
"Where have all the flowers gone?"
There is no answer.


Ennui ennui draws the lonely to heightsEnnui by ~feebleantelope
as moths to a flickering flame,
the quiet pain, chronicled;
only this remains.
if dreams were hopeless
and hopes were gone,
the result would be the same:
all would be the same.


A Gathering of Souls It looked so lonely. That bundle of papers that I'd poured every drop of heart and mind and soul into. All of me was squeezed into that mesh of paper and ink.A Gathering of Souls by ~Toadstoolsemiku
This is what it had been reduced to? A single, lonely looking paperback on a much-too-large seeming shelf is all? Is this all it's worth?
My eyes scrunched up; my hands slipped under my glasses to push at them and try to keep the tears away. My frown tightened into a grimace of pain. My eyebrows sank in frustration. My head fell and I cut myself off from the world for a few moments of isolation.
I wiped my hands aside my eyes, the tears no longer threatening to fall. I dragged i
