Matchbook promises and needle thin pages

The pen pierces the paper

The ink leaks into the page and spreads over an old empty space

Pouring into time the moment the paper was no longer perfect and the second the pen soaked through

Ink like tears and words unsaid

If the memories are terrible who will be near when they get me?

Birds float through the sky

But the feeling is always there

Bubbling under the paper skin

Covering up from within

Telling tales of stories of the soul

Like a silent promise

Like the ink as it dried

The paper is beautiful even once dyed.

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