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Where Love Lasts Longer

"Where Love Lasts Longer" My world is blue and green I sleep within the blue I see through the green the dreams that follow me overtake the black and white bleeding into whitewashed gray within the inner portrait of me the ruins they spray painted covered in graffitti the core like a diamond remains from what they framed the day of great betrayal hung on a wall like flowers to dry with the life sucked out of me, flattened like a bad memory pressed between indolent pages the dreams that follow me overtake the black and white bleeding into whitewashed gray within the inner portrait of me the core like a diamond unbreakable remains My world is blue and green I sleep within the blue I see through the green eventually I awake from the dream into another dream where sentences are shorter and love lasts longer and the unwanted memories fade (LadyLabyrinth / 2023) “You are a diamond my dear, they can’t break you”.

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/1/2023 6:51:00 PM

“Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.” (John Webster)

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/1/2023 6:43:00 PM

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.” (Daniel Defoe).

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/1/2023 6:43:00 PM

“Let us suppose that this ounce of mud is left in perfect rest, and that its elements gather together, like to like, so that their atoms may get into the closest relations possible.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/1/2023 6:44:00 PM

Let the clay begin. Ridding itself of all foreign substance, it gradually becomes a white earth, already very beautiful; and fit, with help of congealing fire, to be made into finest porcelain, and painted on, and be kept in kings’ palaces. But such artificial consistence is not its best. Leave it still quiet to follow its own instinct of unity, and it becomes not only white, but clear; not only clear, but hard; not only clear and hard, but so set that it can deal with light in a wonderful way, and gather out of it the loveliest blue rays only, refusing the rest. We call it then a sapphire.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/1/2023 6:44:00 PM

Such being the consummation of the clay, we give similar permission of quiet to the sand. It also becomes, first, a white earth, then proceeds to grow clear and hard, and at last arranges itself in mysterious, infinitely fine, parallel lines, which have the power of reflecting not merely the blue rays, but the blue, green, purple, and red rays in the greatest beauty in which they can be seen through any hard material whatsoever. We call it then an opal.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/1/2023 6:44:00 PM

In next order the soot sets to work; it cannot make itself white at first, but instead of being discouraged, tries harder and harder, and comes out clear at last, and the hardest thing in the world; and for the blackness that it had, obtains in exchange the power of reflecting all the rays of the sun at once in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. We call it then a diamond.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/1/2023 6:44:00 PM

Last of all the water purifies or unites itself, contented enough if it only reach the form of a dew-drop; but if we insist on its proceeding to a more perfect consistence, it crystallizes into the shape of a star." (John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 5. Of Leaf Beauty. Of Cloud Beauty. Of Ideas Of Relation).

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/1/2023 6:09:00 PM

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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/1/2023 6:09:00 PM

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