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Too many dreams,
trapped between the lines on faded paper;
together, they're thrown,
spent and wasted for, day and night
those hopes fall from your lips,
broken by this reality.

And this, this is how reality
treats you, devouring your dreams.
I'm wishing for a tender kiss from your lips
as I look at the sorrow-letter soaked into this paper
empty of my memories of you, of who you are. And each lonely night
is spent cursing you - you, on your dais atop your throne.

You had me thrown;
like a child you can't understand my reality,
where I was a damsel and you a knight:
a partnership, a joining of fantasy, a romance of dreams
kept only in tomes on aged parchment paper
with tales of sweet girls and their blood-red lips.

Girls so unlike me and my full pink lips -
lips that never speak but only throw
sorrows and desperate wishes and words down on lined paper
to keep close a fallacy, my precious reality.
But these wishes, these hopeless dreams,
they will fester today, tomorrow, tonight.

And yes, this very night
these lying smiling lips
will form the telling of a dying dream
(of a girl cruelly thrown
from her frail surreal reality),
reduced to ashes, like written passion-fire burning paper

hearts. Each relationship, each lover, is chronicled on this notebook's paper.
I express my love every night
that you talk to me, remind me of collapsed realities,
of those lies, of each kiss that you placed on my lips.
It was just a game of pretend - you, a king high on his throne
allowing me to fall in love, to fall asleep, to live within a dream.

Cutting pain in my paper heart, one last time on my lips
you let me relive those nights where, before I was thrown
away, my reality was not a dream.



© 2010 Maria Daniels
My first sestina. Featured: [link]
The words?
1. dream
2. paper
3. throne
4. night
5. lips
6. reality

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Is the situation clear in this?
It's that, the girl was lying to herself, telling herself that the guy was a knight-in-shining-armor, that everything was okay, but then everything came crashing down around her. She realized the lie. All of her hopes for their future together were torn to pieces.
Is the flow awkward? Should I use other words instead?
© 2010 - 2024 LoveDestructive
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littleshireling's avatar
This hits me. Not exactly what i went through but... I love it. I felt right along with it.
'lips that never speak but only throw
sorrows and desperate wishes and words down on lined paper'
Absolutely loved this line.