Submissions by AutoDice

The warm raspy voice echoes through my head

“Hey, promise me you’ll keep moving on? Yeah?”

I hold them in my arms
Their tender eyes snowing like a winter wonderland

I lost someone.

The gentle keys of a piano are overburdened with hardy, steady fingers

Fresh wind whips and twirls around them

Their soulless, cumbersome and frozen body
Resting away in the meadow of flowers

Seeping away.

Unbroken ballerina shoes on stage, demonstrating our foreboding relationship.
A chime from the outside wind, that sounds vaguely of freedom.

With every careful close caress, a poisoned word leaves the tip of my lips in this disconsolately lit room.
Crack, crack, crack.

My string is broken, as they cannot mend.
They are as defective as those who created themself.

My cheap porcelain joints crack everytime I hold you close.
Closer, closer, closer.

They wanted you to learn more, more about my secrets and the ones I’ve taken away from...