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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”. 

Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2023

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