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Writer of poetry, romance, & fiction. Cloves, hot tea, & scorched sugar.

Requiem of Untainted Love

work in progress / poetry / toxic / 2025.

Synopsis

After being in a co-dependent relationship for two years, I start college with slow-healing wounds and new rose-tinted glasses slipping over my eyes.

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Sun Haven and Warframe

The fog rolled through the early Sunday morning streets.

The gravel left dents in our thighs as we sat in the

haze of the almost heavy rain clouds.

There is no worry about Monday morning traffic

or the loud call of buses crowding children.

It’s just our sleepy smiles and spoons clinking

against bowls of milk and off-brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

We grow comfortable in the sunrise and sip coffee

that warms us down to the bones in our feet.

Nothing important is said,

just your next archon hunt in Warframe

and my plan to woo Dr. Wormhardt in Sun Haven.

I get lost in the fog curling around the streetlamps,

still buzzing with artificial light for people

lost in the night’s solitude.

"We need to go on a midnight walk soon."

You look at me with eyes mixed

with warm blue and hazel.

I ask why you stare at me.

You shake your head, smile too bright for my heart

and whisper into the fog,

"No reason. Just stay the way you are."

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