DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
They could always build testaments and columns of their grief, but it was the way they forged onward that cast him askew. Too many times he’d been told not to be bogged down by memories, to not root himself so precariously in the dark that there was no longer any light to see, to not be mired in the past and have no future – and the notions instilled of those beacons never yearning, never wanting, to be the reason he dimmed. So he tried and tried and tried, and then would do so for Ru too. “Then, if she is anything like yourself, she and her own have found a way to prevail.” A sincere smile to follow, even if it was aimed at the ground.
Mulling over the foundations of pains wasn’t going to get him anywhere either, though her support was appreciated in the slightest alteration of his gaze, in the Attuned measures of their bond. Sometimes its weight, the aches, the numbing, binding wakes, were the most familiar in his chest; so accustomed to their thresholds that the exposure was often harsher. He sighed as she relented her own semblances with Kiada – which was none at all – and all that could possibly mean. “Have you reached out?”
Thereafter, he turned the lantern around, seeking out her approval for the depictions and images granted, or if he was to scrap the whole thing and start anew.
Mulling over the foundations of pains wasn’t going to get him anywhere either, though her support was appreciated in the slightest alteration of his gaze, in the Attuned measures of their bond. Sometimes its weight, the aches, the numbing, binding wakes, were the most familiar in his chest; so accustomed to their thresholds that the exposure was often harsher. He sighed as she relented her own semblances with Kiada – which was none at all – and all that could possibly mean. “Have you reached out?”
Thereafter, he turned the lantern around, seeking out her approval for the depictions and images granted, or if he was to scrap the whole thing and start anew.
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
