we are all made of stardust by pansydiv, literature
Literature
we are all made of stardust
1.
he’ll say that i’m his favourite nightmare
i know it all too well, the gasps between breaths
and the choking that comes with breathing.
i know white light in waiting rooms
and i know boys like him, asleep
always asleep.
2.
sunset flickers over his face and his hollow eyes
his card-castle body curls into itself,
his hands are an empire of shivering and trembling
and there are shadows the colour of midnight running down his eyes.
he is the damaged good that was declared redundant at customs
and i love using pretty words to cloak the broken
and make them aesthetic masterpieces.
3.
daydreamer, he sits in terraces
with shoelace to