Gem
Smooth - Cunning - Alluring
The man in the shadows
Pet Name: Gem
Owner: Metaphor
Theme / Type: Wintergala Skillow
Battle Portal Stats
Hit Points: 3 / 3
Strength: 1
Defense: 1
Speed: 3
Intellect: 7
Misticpower: 1
Books Read: 2/373 [ View Books ]
1. A Spark
2. Mistic Mist
2. Mistic Mist
Exotic Foods Eaten
Foods Eaten: 0/1254 [ View Foods ]
Surely Heaven waits for you."
~From "Carry on Wayward Son"
When I go empty, it is not an act of sadness.
It is not cleansing, erosion, a cry for light, a perch for shadow.
When I go empty, I wish to stay unfilled, a tide pool
that water steps over rather than in,
one with a silenced ecosystem, where the starfish
flicker on and off like squinting quasars,
and only when seeing is a necessity.
When I go empty, I do not need to see.
I dismiss darkness because all I need to know
are shapes--the hooked ends of memories,
the cold ovals of afterthoughts, the simmering circles
of self-talk I taught myself how to reject.
I feel around myself, never within. I put an ear to a lung,
and no breath escapes. Breath settles like moths
that forgot what led them here.
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