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the bells

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you run your fingers
along the broken-brick-down
sanctuary walls
this was your haven, but feels
like nothing under your hand.

you weren't just buried
we aren't all in black today
because of you, love, but those
bells aren't for joy or christmas
you aren't bright.  you're almost gone.

you're almost gone, my
slit-winged angel child, and
oh god, i can see
that soon you'll have really left
me alone in the churchyard.

the bells ring for you
today, my dear, old churches
call on God for you
brass and stained glass struggling fast
as you echo off the sky.
<3

anyway. kind of inspired by lucy's latest. it's a series of tankas, syllable pattern 5-7-5-7-7. it's kind of emo. but i really truly adore it.
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orangezest's avatar
love. do i really need to say more? and how much do i love "brass and stained glass struggling fast"? oof. yay.