There are some mirrors that tell you what you want to hear, yet some mirrors get pleasure from revealing all you fear Every spot, every line, every hair out of place Oh the pressure, the politic, the horror of owning a face! Yet in its games, the ones all mirrors play, there is something even…
Tag: beauty
waking beauty
People don’t look their best when they try to mimic the features and demeanors of others. Embrace the natural state of who you are. ~Sammicakes
perfect, perfect!
not presenting or showing up in the world unless I am perfect–in my head, in my appearance, in my totality with this guiding dogma, I almost never showed up! ~Sammicakes
Where do you belong in the world?
to find yourself old in a world filled with ideals that frighten you with ideals of beauty you do not find beautiful would be quite sad, alongside dying ~Sammicakes
Wicked Beauty of the Only Queen
A moment of recollection: Her humor, her compassion, her intellect, her passion, her love– all of it had once stemmed from her sadness. It guided her perspective and worldview. It led her actions, and it inspired the thoughts she shared aloud with me. That ache of emptiness ascended her to the stars. Now all I…
Yuki-Onna | Poem
Dark coils of raven hair whitened by winter’s snow Skin pale and blue from antiquated rage and the unrelenting, tumultuous cold Poised in a glistening meadow of snowflakes, of ice To steal the souls and petrify the bodies of any mortal life A disconcerted but enchanted mortal would wander to her form Too entranced to…
adonis atop stone | short story
Ascend the steps to the raised city above, hear those wild and intrepid bumbles and trips over drapes and cloths, hear the bodies of breath as we climb, ducking our heads as carriages fly by, the pillars of white marble standing stoic to catch our trembling hands. All about us are the people and its…
flicker out | poem
what a short, miserable life you have lived born in a tree and dead in the styx marshes of despair and pity and pain all of your own accord, nothing more to sustain irreproachable on paper, but ultimately flawed in practice and design hanging from street lamps as if you’re alive what a short, miserable…
queen in a clock at 6
Never mind your potential. Never mind your sacrifices and courage. Never mind your hours of work and diligence and persistence. Never mind the time it took and the tears it took and the friendships it took and life it took. Mind it no more. It’s time for you to look beautiful and gaze upon the…
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