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Oh,
but I am going to regret you
in the morning
and the way
you made
my skin feel
too real for living.
I went at you
with hands too clean
for this world
and a heart
full of dirty days
and violated your wings
and coveted
the lump in your throat.
You
brought me something
eternal
as precious
as a new name
that I almost recognized
as hope....
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You're only as good as the world allows you to be
She looks like The Joker without needing the makeup, the way her lips curl into sharp points at the edges.
It makes the madness sadness her face holds even more pronounced, yet she's expressionless.
She's a mess of smudged makeup and tousled hair, perfectly arranged. Every picture of her is the same.
It gives her that she's-so-damaged-she's-a-creative-genius look and she wears it well.
Her drawings are as boring and messy as the stare cast from her black, pleading eyes.
But they can't compete with her heirloom scars, carved so deep you can see the dark light seeping out.
And her words make you want to press fingers into your eye sockets befo
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Daily Lit Deviant - @BeyondJen
Daily Lit Deviant is an article put out on a daily basis throughout the year that is devoted to showing the work and accomplishments of one writer per article and presenting exemplary pieces of their work. It is based off of bowie-loon123 (https://www.deviantart.com/bowie-loon123)'s series of articles of the same name.
Join me in welcoming BeyondJen (https://www.deviantart.com/beyondjen) as our Daily Lit Deviant for February 1st, 2014.
Nominated by Nichrysalis (https://www.deviantart.com/nichrysalis)
~BeyondJen (https://www.deviantart.com/beyondjen)
Jen is appreciative of everything, however little and important, and this is often reflected in her work— patches of words where she has often bared a part of herself or her past in the text in the most vulnerable of ways.
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