Luminance for the Leaving
To open your heart
in this predatory world—
is to pour starlights
into hands that may
never intend to stay.
And if they do leave—
as some daemons do—
perhaps the glows you bestow
will illuminate their quiet violence
through every future
abandon.
8.8.25
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2025
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