YOU REACH for the sun / with your paint-stained fingers / want splashed clearly across your face / (and if i can see it) / (doesn't it mean the entire world can?) / stars scattered across the landscape of your cheeks / you reach for / the big one up in the sky / 'cause you say it / matches the ones tattooed on your skin / you reach for the sun / and you swallow it whole / without a second thought / there are a million moments / that fill in between / it starts off fine / there is warmth in your soul / for what feels like the first time / there is something there in your chest / filling the cavern of your heart / and it feels right, for once / because you have the sun / nothing can hurt you now / nothing can do you wrong / but it's always / the objects of your affection / the things you love / always end up killing you in the end / (all good things) / (must come to an end, right?)
SO YOU have the sun in your mouth / and it begins to burn red / it feels like / bridges burning down / a second coming of pompeii / smoke pouring out of your lungs / where there should be breath / it tastes like / dying redemption / and twisted victory / and somehow / those two always turn bitter in your mouth / you hear this terrible ringing in your ears / something like alarm bells going off / but you've never been one for listening / so you take / another gulp of the sun / another mouthful of blistering heat / you don't have the heart to spit it out / there's red around your mouth / but i can't tell if that's / smeared lipstick / or blood / can't tell if you're dying / or if it's all for show / or if it's only in the metaphorical sense / i watch as you plummet / and i think / i can't / i couldn't / i could have ―
IN YOUR place / is a grave / is a six-foot hole in the ground / is stone cold marble / is an empty pit / is a whisper of the magnificent boy you used to be / and you, my dear icarus / are dead / was your dream worth it? / was the sun worth swallowing? / i have a feeling it was
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otherwise entitled:
"the boy, the myth, a legend"
6.28.16 || kt
a/n: inspired by tumblr & the ever so wonderful kaye aka hellshow
