"Confessions Of A Cynical Romantic: Part One"
...the infatuation before intrigue.
I.
I want to be simple.
I want to dream my dreams in black and white;
See the world with darkened eyes;
Black-rimmed, raging, and hollow
Rather than delicately tear-stained.
I want to live the angst,
Drown in the fierce contempt
I've been told a woman of my experience
Should have toward the world.
I long to scar my heart with the remnants
Of a jagged bottle
And celebrate my emptiness.
I want to be ravished
With the unceasing gluttony of love and hate
And passion,
Finally becoming wise enough
To recognize the difference.
I long to sob with tears unlike my own,
Blood-red and violent,
Without once seeing them turn
To the beautifully shattered fragments
Of a perfect flower, immortalized.
I am consumed with need,
Ready to bury myself within the cold, unforgiving earth,
Tear my face with briars and
Dare the world to call me beautiful.
I ache only to be at one with myself,
Tranquil and absolved;
Without flesh, without form,
Without feeling---
Pure, unadulterated
Simplicity.
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