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You Were Like The Sun. I Was Blinded By Your Presence, By That Glowing Smile. By The Warmth Of Your Hands,
you were like the sun. I was blinded by your presence, by that glowing smile. by the warmth of your hands, the gold of your heart. I watched you from afar, for I knew if I came too close my walls would all come burning down. if my heart was ablaze with you were near, then it was so cold, so lonesome, without you.
but I pushed you away.
out of fear, out of anger,
because I didn’t want to change. I feared change. I feared what would irreversibly change if I let you in my heart.
but now you’re gone, and I’m frozen. my sun hidden behind clouds of my making. and I realized that I needed you. I needed the warmth you gave. and I was willing to burn.
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I think that if you were to melt
You’d melt like sugar
Sticky-sweet
Molten—golden;
Flaking on my lips and fingers
You’d melt like ice cream
Slow dribbling spilling seeping
Brimming over the goblet
White wine (not red)
seductively sweet
You’d melt like honey pouring
Viscous and luminous
Like your eyes in the sun
Ah—the sun!
The light—your light—
Your warmth like the sun
Like apricity—
Like sunbursts after the tempest
Golden sunshine spilling over
Like warm hands cradling me
you touch me and
I’m burning
melting
for you.
gilded
gilded like priceless treasure
but gold is so cold and
so heavy to bear so plate
it in unbreakable steel
don’t let warm hands
melt soft metal like honey
oozing dripping spilling
over like a brimming cup
of wine trickling through and
staining the ground with
gold, gold, gold like a
vein of fool’s gold and
sunsets as they bleed into night and
leaves in the autumn and
the hourglass’s sands and
the eyes of a deity who only
watches the passing of time
coldly—
heavily—
softly—
like the sun watching over
the demise of the earth
the solemn unraveling
into dust and stars.
coffee and roses
It’s the way your name tastes like
coffee beans and rose petals.
How your golden hoops,
Glittering like precious metals,
Swing with their embedded rhinestones.
It’s the way you run your tongue
over your teeth and bite your lip.
How you prove my arguments wrong,
But with a playful quip
As if you don’t know the warm glow in my chest.
It’s the way you invited me to
That coffee date and we took
Pictures like a real couple.
How we folded stars with their colorful look
With those strips of colored paper.
It’s the way you gifted me
That jar with our paper stars.
How the jar’s glass refracts the sun
And scatters the light across my room
In dappled spots like komorebi.
It’s the way I felt when you
Told me I tasted of the
Lip gloss you wear
How I felt when you said that
I tasted of your lips.
It’s the way you hold my heart
Cradle it oh so gently
In your hands as if you don’t
Have the power to crush it
Into a million tiny pieces.
It’s the way I know that
Even if my name on your lips
Tastes of ecstasy
You will be
The death of me
kindred stars
night unveils her jewels at
your askance, painting each
star with patient detail; the
heavens murmur to you and
gift you gossamer wings.
climbing silken ropes of
nebulae, delicate in their
earthen creation, as if you
are always reaching for
the cosmos up above.
You lift earthbound eyes to
kindred stars—reaching, always
reaching, for a light that I
cannot see, yet—I want
to see what you reach for.
From corded aerie to stardust—
the velvet night spinning your
dreams to eternity’s archive
holding you in its arms;
slowly—softly—gently…
Snaggle-Toothed Smile
TW: abusive relationship, grooming, death
Wolf is knocking on the front door
Sharp sharp teeth in a snaggle-toothed smile
Come here, little rabbit, let us play
Come here, little rabbit, for I’ll stay here awhile
Wolf brings food to me every day
Come, little rabbit, I’ve come to play
Wolf brings gifts to me every day
Come, little rabbit, have this beautiful bouquet
Wolf combs my fur for me every day
Protects me and never leaves me alone
Careful, little rabbit, it’s dangerous outside
Careful, little rabbit, don’t be on your own
Wolf tells me how lucky I am every day
That he takes care of me, little rabbit
And then he smiles that snaggle-toothed smile
Oh, little rabbit, you could become a habit
Wolf accidentally hurt me today
He asks me and asks me why did you make me do it?
Feather-light kisses upon each wound
Snow white rabbit has become blood red rabbit
Wolf smiled that smile today
Sharp sharp teeth with a snaggle-toothed smile
Asked me, are you afraid of me?
Run, little rabbit, run, run to the wild
Wolf didn’t come back today.
Wolf didn’t give me gifts today.
Wolf didn’t give me food today.
My only companion was gone today.
Wolf was oh so tender today.
Wolf apologized for not coming yesterday.
Oh, little rabbit, you will never be free.
Wolf killed me so gently today.