There is a darkness inside of me
I want to hurt the one that hurt you
There is a darkness inside of me
I no longer read
***
Why did you stop me
When I went after him
Clutching my Swiss Army knife?
There is a darkness inside of me
***
Why did you let me kiss
Your forehead but not your lips
You showed me that cursed ring
That separated me from you
***
I loved you first
But left in the night
I felt like I am not good enough
I know I am not good enough
***
You choose your words carefully
I am crass and cruel
You look like a goddess
I have gone grey
***
There is a darkness inside of me
I want to hurt the one that hurt you
I want revenge
I no longer read
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Livia Caci
dramatic autistic lesbian
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The Salt in her Voice
The myth says mermaids sing to lure sailors to their death. But why? The ocean is huge. Only 5 percent has been discovered by man. Why would a creature of the sea with that much space to roam ever care about the fate of men on ships? The answer, as it turns out, is not a simple one at all. The truth about the myth is older than the tides. Long ago before the first ship ever cut across the surface, the sea made a pact with the sky. The sky would take the souls of the drowned. Anyone who died in storms or any quiet accidents of the deep would have their soul lifted upward to the Heavens while the bodies would remain below, feeding the oceans endless hunger. The greedy sea however wanted more souls than the sky would claim. So it created mermaids. It gave them beautiful voices woven from currents and moonlight. It commanded them to sing. "Bring forth the ones who float where they should sink." it instructed them. So they did. They never killed out of malice but out of obligation. They sung to summon, not to seduce. A mermaid's voice could loosen the tether between the body and soul, making any man step willingly into the water. The sea would take the body and the sky would take the soul. Balance maintained.
By Sara Wilson6 days ago in Fiction
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