Violet Fluff The Legend of Dance

 

I

 I remember you,

tell me

do you

remember

anything at all?

The lights

in all my dreams

have gone dark

ever since

I showed you

every part of me.

I let you in

my soul,

I never go that deep,

somehow

you took control.

So in the night

when you're asleep,

I keep on dancing

by myself

trying not to fall asleep.

All those lights,

hurt my eyes.

All those lights,

hurt my eyes

wherever I go,

so I move slow.

Wherever I go,

I close my eyes,

I hide

and search for you

in the darkness

you brought me.

II

I never loved

the way I love you,

I wasn't able

until I found you.

Secrets and lies

surround us at night,

you leave with the sun

back to your mystery.

And no one knows,

how old we've grown.

Most nights I sleep alone,

back in the mystery.

Once I looked

into those eyes...

I...

I died inside.

Now only

your eyes

bring me back

to life.

III

I want

nothing else

but to hear you

calling.

I don't want to

wait another second.

The memories

of us

begin to fade.

No I don't want to

wait another second,

but still I wait

and I'm tired.

Mrs.

No secrets,

I'll listen.

Mrs.

No secrets,

I've kept yours

and ours

for too long.

I waited around

and you called it secrets.

I wandered around

for you

and you called it secrets.

I don't want to

wait another second

but I

will probably

be waiting my whole life.

I don't want to,

but I know I will.

I'll be waiting my whole life.

I will.

What have you done to me?

IV

There's something

in me

broken now.

Our love broke me,

because only our love

knows me.

I'm lost

in a song

you once played

while we made love.

I've been trying

to find

that same song.

I need to hear it again,

so I'm stuck in here,

inside myself searching.

I'm still here

wrapped in the velvet sheets

you gave me.

I'm still here

in the bed

where our love was born.

I wait for you

to come through the door

you destroyed.

My life

revolves around this

bed now.

You told me

to wait for you here,

so I haven't moved

in years.

V

I don't want to share you,

not even with

other eyes.

I don't want to let you go

I honestly

wouldn't know how.

And still you run,

still you run away,

back to the arms

of the one

who makes you feel safe.

Why don't you feel safe with me?

Why don't you feel

wild and beautiful?

Why don't you see yourself

the way I see you?

You deserve more

than a home to die in.

You deserve the world,

but you feel

you don't deserve it.

Why don't you feel

you deserve love

the way I love you?

You say you're ugly,

I say there's no such thing,

but you don't believe me.

I think you confuse

the beast inside you

with ugly,

but you shouldn't

feel shame

just because you want a love

that rages.

You shouldn't run

from what your soul

is asking for.

Look around my love,

if everybody's watching

it must be cause

you’re beautiful.

You're a beautiful beast.

Such a beautiful beast.

VI

Oh,

I know

there's something different now

in your tone.

Come alive,

won't you come open?

Why won't you reply

when in my arms?

You've slowly owned

all the lies that I've told.

You said we'd run away,

but still I wait

for that day.

You say

in time

they will find us.

You say I'm

too young to know,

but still you want me

inside your body

and I could die

if I had you

one last time.

I could live

a whole life

in your arms.

So now I fall asleep,

and now you fall asleep

in my dreams.

.

Poetry by Eduardo Santos

Art by Gianna Dispenza

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