Aurelia
Written: June 2nd, 2026, for a contest sponsored by Seth Pina
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Aurelia is a fictional character representing obsession, longing, and danger. I created her name since it sounded like gold "aureus".
She should be like someone who could exist — a muse, an obsession, a gravitational pull — but is unrelated to any living person.
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Aurelia, I wake to ache in your amber crown—
A moth in the broth of the molten glow you cast.
Your name is a beacon I weaken to lean down,
Turning and burning my breath as I circle too fast.
You shimmer as shadows on shattered glass,
A pulse I can’t quite, a tide I can’t pass.
I whisper your syllables, soft as a truth—
Yet each strikes flint on the flames of my youth.
You move—and my marrow recalls your grace,
A rhythm that rattles the ribs of my pace.
I tread your track onto heat and rime . . .
No way back after being enthralled all time.
Your shade soars in the nooks of my sleep—
A specter whose hues are saffron and heap.
I ransack the pathos left in the gale . . .
A wild awakened ardor—no hollow can veil.
Aurelia, I follow your cynosure divine,
A tearing vortex into katabatic space.
Caged in the bend of your shining line,
No tether grants me to walk—
Or switch my pace.
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