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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn:
The humble Sheep. a threatning horn:
While the Lily white, shall in Love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright
Your eyes burned and danced between
First blue then green, then blue
The driftwood fires, beachfront pyres,
Your essence clashing too.

Cracking, burning, twisting with
The knowledge close at hand
The truth within the salted seas
That lap and brush the sand.

I had placed you there and you
Like sun-bleached ocean wood
Went willing trapped up in my grip
Although you understood...

The mark those waters left upon
Your brittle, scorched treebones
Your twisted fingers skyward
With your back against the stone.

And somehow I, though conflicted, danced
Around you both between
Consuming and devouring
Both fallow earth and sea.
He told her she was pottery; a vase with grooves and cracks.
The patterns of the history she hid behind her back.

Within his words he layered in- like thread upon a loom-
The sweetest undercurrent to illuminate that gloom.

In certain cultures, he decreed, when pottery is cracked
They aggrandize them with gleaming gold to bring their splendor back

For they believe, with certainty, once damage has been wrought
Those tiny cracks, now filled with light, hold truths that can't be taught.
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Madilynn
I hope you miss me.
I hope you drown in the loneliness
Of the silence that will greet you.
I hope the depths of sadness
Never really leave you.
Not even when you scream
As the pain cuts through your body.
I hope my face is forever printed in the back of your mind,
So when you look at her
You will always see me.
I hope you never move on.
But of course,
This poem is a lie.
I love you
And I would never wish what you have done to me,
Upon you.
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Jellyfish
I love reading your books
but cannot anymore.
I burst into tears
each time I open that door,
the one that leads into
the library of your heart.
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Eunoia
Torn
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Eunoia
I am torn between the
Sunrise and sunset
To the
Sun and Moon,
Rain or Shine,
Believe or not,
Cry or laugh
But the hardest choices from all of that is
I am torn between
Loving or hating you,
For I know that breathing will be too hard for me if I'm going to let go of you.
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Eunoia
No one dared to look into her eyes,
For they are afraid to be a stone-like human,
No one dared to look into her eyes,
That's why no one ever saw the pain and loneliness she's feeling inside,
She used to be like us,
But cursed in the name of love
So the question that remained in her mind is
"Is it wrong to fall in Love?"
Greek Mythology Fiction installment number one
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Eunoia
Kiss
 Aug 2017 Leila Whitney
Eunoia
Bloodshot eyes,
Papers are burned,
Inks dried up,
Can I write my poetry in your lips?
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