warning: they deal w heavy themes cs i can't write happy stuff 1. epilogue: i become one with the forest, forever and ever i choke on vines. why am i reduced to this? helpless, like the songbird that i saw the emerald-eyed beast devour, now nothing left but bones, pearly white bones. like my ma, with her blood-kissed lips, when the teeth came for her. i am sleeping beauty, but i lie in the sprawling roots, twisted like snakes around me, crying. no prince will come for me. 2. i'll paint the sky, the earth, the sea red with blood burn it down, brighter than the stars could ever shine devour me let the thirst for vengeance consume me wholly 3. if you were going to leave why did you tell me that you would protect me from the shadows? why did you make me care so much i feel i would shatter if you weren't there? all i see are bruises a painting on my soft skin curling around the edges like smoke that is purple. why did you leave me prey to the demons that choke me, screaming at me to drown on my own jagged soul? sometimes, i wonder if you left me on purpose because you were scared, terrified of what i truly am. i wouldn't blame you but still i am drowning and you were the closest thing to air why did you stay, then if you were going to leave? 4. she chased crimson euphoria, where every cursed tear bled her dry. she starred in her own tragedy, where all her words were twisted lies. she met him at an evening dance, where in his arms she learned to cry. she lost herself in fantasies, where drunk on hope she reached too high. in just a night, the girl was gone, where grief, not light, clouded her eyes. her poisoned soul began to weep, where she suffered 'neath cold, dark skies. she pricked her hand on roses' thorns, where she knew she would say goodbye. she lay there trembling and alone, where she touched heaven just to die.
