[ the boy's pov ]

e s m    e s m    e s m
e r  a    e  r a     e r a
l  d a    l  d a     l d a

e s m
e  r a
l  d a

e s m    e s m    e s m
e r  a    e  r a     e r a
l  d a    l  d a     l d a

e s m
e  r a
l  d a

e s m   e s m    e s m
e r  a   e  r a    e r  a
l  d a   l  d a     l d  a

|in which he faded into the|
|hazy days when the world|
|was still new,  in which he|
|f      a       d       e      d|

to the old days when he had young eyes flecked with sunburnt skies and rolling spring forests, cheeks flushed with coral blush windflowers and painted with bronze splashes over his nose, breeze kissed

to the old days when his hair was a a flowing mass of gold beginning to turn brown at the roots, chocolate rolling into toffee into cornflower meadows, starkissed with night sky wishes, blowing dandelions to kiss the thinlips of the crescent moon, holding the hand of esme

es                                    me

ral

d                                       a

in which he'd scribbled strings of misspelled words with missing letters over the underside of his bed when his parents were fighting and he was still so young that he was scared

deer essme,

i lov yoo that my hart herts
hold me, essme

|and he faded  into the days|
|when he was even younger|
|to a  world that was  even|
|newer,             in which...|

when he was young the trees were

s k  y  s   c    r     a
p      e      r         s

with crowns of green dew

shaking from the sky

live your childhood dream, my love

the sky whispered

oh esme

when he was so young that he could

barely

remember(remember((remember)))

the backyard that he lived in

where the flowers were petaled supernovae

spiriting away like the

wind of a butterfly's wings

oh esme

remember that cold summer day

ice cubes melting between your

young lips

when you were 10 and he was 4

when you told your baby brother

live

your

childhood dream,

my love

live it with me when the world is too cold just let it all fade when you are lonely lets lie in the meadow in the shade ill never leave you my love

-{🌙}-

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. ⋆ ● ∙ • :       * . •    • ∙ * • .• .

-{🌙}-

ill be the sunlight dancing between crosshatched leaves and a world where no punctuation is needed we could change the world and make laughter the common language and dreams can only be taken away by yourself / lets run away and we will only fade away together we will always be the same constellation

-{🌙}-

* • .  •    ●  • ✧˖ ∙∙ • *.     : *
. ⋆ ● ∙ • :       * . •    • ∙ * • .• .

-{🌙}-

/hiding under the bed,
cradling his fragile heart
as your parents wage war
against your world. back
when you shared that world.
when you'd tell him "live
your childhood dream, my
love" and "i'll always protect
you," oh esme, oh esme, did
you know then that you lied?/

|and he faded back into the|
|world that  only gave pain|
|faded from   halcyon days|
|and into         winter gray|

brother and sister

a small seedling wavering against

the summer sunset

looking into his sister's face as if

he could fall up into andromeda and

she'd still catch him.

in truth she was just a dying star

but no, esmeralda lied
she said she'd never leave
you but even at 10 she was
dead inside, lying to keep
you alive, telling you stories
to give you false hope,
giving you her feeble heart
strings instead of a real 
life line

oh, esme,

oh esme,

did you know then that you lied