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Alessiah

Published: Aug 4, 2016

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_{days (aeons felt-like) ago
i wrote about the leave-taking
on the back side of a snapshot of a girl
mantled in a dress that had drawn garden on its fabric
on a xanthous, pristine paper;

then, i wrote inter every two lines of a diary's sheet:
fear's not always seen through
a lens of monochrome

-for a seed of reason
in a soil of artistic insanity of mind
has always known that you cannot say goodbye
to someone whose hello
you have never tasted on a tongue

from their own.

(we've been severed long before
the letter-written-with-the-vaguest-handwriting on a xanthous paper
was born)}

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_{this was inspired by a poem my grandmother wrote to her then boyfriend on the backside of a picture of her (in those technology-free times!), back in the May 1960: when we separate someday/will you remember me/ probably with the separation/ our friendship won't become a void?/ (translated)
this is one of the most beautiful things i've seen/read in my whole life: so simple yet so thoughtful and emotion-filled and of course it was just a matter of a day i would write something that is inspired by that
i wrote the og version last night, where my personal touch was much more obvious, but today i re-wrote it in a way that should put more focus on a theme of longing for something that (probably) had never existed, and less on my personal story behind. sorrynotsoryy
^{notice little experiments}

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music: Delain-Lucidity

© Alessiah 2016.}