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Published: 2015-10-28 01:54:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 1722; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
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I will make this up to you, Summer. In whatever way you ask.

 

…no clever quip?

“I’m still waiting”?

“You underestimate my resilience”?

No?

Asleep, then?

Hm.

July, July, my hope against hope.

“I’m not your anything”? Still no?

What to do with you, my love?

It is truly, truly unfair that I should be made to feel this way.

My dark-sky darling, all storms and hidden starlight.

Were you not meant to be a punishment?

No, not at all. Being without you was the punishment.

And how fortunate for me that it couldn’t last forever.

 

There have been times, my jaded gem, that I wished…

I have wished not to feel this—

               this everything that boils and builds in my chest at the scent of your hair.

               this nothing that unravels and voids my mind when I wake alone.

               this something, something indescribable for even me, on the so rare occasions I see you smile.

My lucid dream, I wished all this away with the hope to stop caring,

               to stop fearing your rejection.

               to stop the compulsion to throw myself at your feet.

And what, Miss Morgan, do you suppose is the worst of all this?

That even when you wanted nothing more than to see me dead,

I was still—am still—yours above all.

…you must be asleep.

 

You are so beautiful, July.

This isn’t fair to either of us.

That you should be forced to suffer my affection.

That you should be weathered into loving me.

And do you not love me?

Are you an even better liar than I am? I wonder at times.

My love—love—love….

My light, wholly and only.

My all that is good in me, in all the world, the things I’ve done to you…

               yet here you sleep at my side.

If that cannot be called the greatest of divine fortune, what else could it be?

We both know I’ve done nothing to deserve you or the way you see me.

What, then, if not luck?

 

O, my icy Summer.

O, my bitter sweet.

You don’t know the power you have.

 

I have never met anyone so oblivious.

My golden-eyed god,

               my silver-tongued snake,

                              don’t ask me again if I love you.

 



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Comments: 5

Saya1984 [2015-11-11 08:29:07 +0000 UTC]

What ~succulent~ verse.
As you stated, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but then, does love ever?
I've missed your writing

And while I know it has nothing to do with anything, "my golden-eyed god" got someone smiling

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Syntaxeme In reply to Saya1984 [2015-11-12 05:10:44 +0000 UTC]

"Succulent." I like that. XD So does Hotep. 
I've missed talking to you. ;_; But I'm never here, and as far as I can tell, you seem to be away more often than not, too. I can't even tell you how much has happened in my book since the last time we talked about it. And it's still nowhere near done. v.v

How are you? Is work still going well? What's the happs? >.>

Hey, I could very easily see how that phrase might make a certain someone feel a little squirmy and nice. XP

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Saya1984 In reply to Syntaxeme [2015-11-18 02:30:22 +0000 UTC]

I've been having some weird online social anxiety issues that have kept me away so stupid. I managed to plough through the ones on dA for the most part, so I should be able to return here more often. Now I just gotta get over my FB panic. It is times like these that I"m especially grateful to not have even more social networks ( I mean I do, but I've given up on those years ago >_>).
Writing a novel is no joke. Keep up the good work! I wanna read it from a signed hard copy! And listen to whatever updates you are willing to provide in the mean time
Work still going well, relationship well, cat well, new roommates well, new Tomb Raider f*cking amazing (commandeered bf's brand new XBox1 to play it XD). I think my life's been going so well, I just had to come up with some imaginary problems over which to lose sleep.
How are you then?

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Syntaxeme In reply to Saya1984 [2015-11-18 18:11:05 +0000 UTC]

Hey, I don't blame you; I deleted my facebook months ago. Too many people I love being stupid and ignorant. -_- 
I'm not even done yet. v_v Like, the semester is ending, so I have to turn it in, but it's not finished; I'll just have to keep working on it after graduation. Which will be a lot more difficult without my advisor's help. There's so much to say story-wise that I can't even...uff. No. I'm working on structure right now, taking the thirty-eight individual scenes I've written thus far and trying to form them into a cohesive whole. Thing. In rereading and revising everything I've written, though, I am pretty happy with where it's going. ^^ I think I'm around 54,000 words at this point. Which is still not as long as Redmail at 69,000.

Oh man. I am so jelly you get to play the new Tomb Raider. I am deeply and personally offended that it's an Xbox exclusive. -_- How dare. But I'm glad it's good anyway, not that I doubted it for a second. I've seen gifs and stuff, and it looks really pretty. ;3; I'm glad things are going well for you, too. It sounds like everything's pretty sweet right now, so I don't blame you for staying in that rather than coming back here. >_>

I'm...okay. I guess. Stressed, as usual--no, more so than usual because oh my god graduation is literally a month from tomorrow, and there's still so much to get done before then. Essays to write and tests to take and just trying to be absolutely certain that I'm passing everything so there are no issues with my credits and...ugh. Yeah. Busy. Our BFA reading is tomorrow night, wherein all the graduating Creative Writing majors are forced to read parts of our thesis works aloud in front of an audience. In a big lecture-type room. But y'know, no big deal, I'm totally confident about it and not panicking at all. Yep.

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Saya1984 In reply to Syntaxeme [2015-11-19 07:23:50 +0000 UTC]

~answered in note~

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