Librettos of Lily

24 Sep 2024 13:20

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Librettos of Lily

24 Sep 2024 12:01

The natural instinct to draw your face in the poetry pages >>

Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 10:14

My purity is my freedom not my prison.

~don't let them get it twisted around, ladies

Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 09:23

Words called her to them like a mother calls her child, like a flame pulls the moth to surrender as though she would be the answer to every question and invent every little mashed letter into words that make sense.

Words of her father ever so present and alive since the day they were spoken shaped her thoughts into values and principles.

  Words of her mother ever so cut-throat and true were ever so sparking in the air ever since they were spoken into existence, revealing new truths as she grew older.

~now she knows, she belongs to words

Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 08:31

My paradise was hidden beneath layers, protected from here and it seems to thrive in the shed I provided. It grips on to the mud of the earth and grows tall without sunlight.

And it lasted this long because it wasn't seen.

Librettos of Lily

21 Sep 2024 13:56

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Librettos of Lily

21 Sep 2024 08:26

I am kind of glad that the only person you couldn't imitate was me. Everyone would think you are just like them, like you understand them, but darling you don't know a quarter of me and even if you did, you couldn't pretend to be someone like me.

Librettos of Lily

11 Sep 2024 16:51

When opposition and differences come so easily to you, you forget the influences of others and blame yourself for every wrong and immoral thought that crosses your mind but in fact when constant voices around you speak whether you wanted to listen to them or not, you have been in their presence.  You mustn't underestimate what you consume. You could change your views slowly but surely as the setting sun.

Librettos of Lily

11 Sep 2024 08:54

I never wanted your death to speak for me in the name of love. Because the greatest testimony of love was to continue living this hellish life. To loathe the separation from the other despite suffering here. To miss the absence of content for the greatness of love. To stand the test of time, to know how much it takes each day to love someone knowing their irredeemable flaws. To protect them from yourself and others when the situation calls for it. To accept the changes they go through everyday as you do. To know it is never about getting reciprocation, to never make them pay for the things you gave up for them. Your love should be a free gift that keeps on giving. I have often heard people say "I would die for you.", but living is the ultimate sacrifice you would pay for someone you love so pay it without wanting it in return.

Librettos of Lily

10 Sep 2024 10:42

And each time a tragedy flirts with you in circles, I hope you would proudly show off those threatening knives,

And each time the storm wipes traces of you from the battle grounds, I hope you'd proudly show off markers of fearless lives.

Librettos of Lily

09 Sep 2024 17:36

To hold power and not  let it change you. To hold such allure but be bound by the goodness that flows like the river from within.

To hold the shapes of lives by the hands but to still not crush and mold it to favour you.

To be able to rain on everyone and fill the senses with the scent of you but staying away.

   

"How does it feel?"
   
"You don't want to know."

"Like I am supposed to feel bad for you for being envied?"

"You'd never understand."

Librettos of Lily

05 Sep 2024 14:32

But please hurry if you really love me
You'll dispose of me unceremoniously in the waves

Librettos of Lily

28 Aug 2024 18:35

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Librettos of Lily

28 Aug 2024 18:00

And from one milestone to the next, you're still the girl in the picture. The same old joyful smile peeks through a prison of scowls at moments like this. I admire the person you have become, wise, grounded,  imaginative, and through everything you're still a pure of heart.


And from one big life event to the next. You flourish and grow into the person that's content with just being.  Not to please or offend. Just being the moment. I could still see the life that coursed through you when we first met face to face in these pages.


        ~Vanity is not it.

Librettos of Lily

18 Aug 2024 08:17

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Librettos of Lily

24 Sep 2024 12:04

This earth is hostile to me. I thought it was because I wasn't who I was supposed to be. I blame the monstrous nature of my habitat on myself. If I had been more ruthless or more fearless, but nothing resisted me as my mind if I ever tried to come up with a excusable reason. It found no connection between the venom of my surroundings and me. I was just there. I existed somehow in the middle of my nightmares and they showered me with loss before I learned how to walk. It was a choice but not mine.

The earth was hostile to me. I could feel it in the sharpness of the wind, in the whispers of the meadows, in the slight brush of my untamed hair, or the gaze of an old hungry man. There was nothing that I did, but just because I was there. I drew breath among fallen angels and I sinned on my first breath. Was birth death in itself? It must be. It must be because I was seen as if I dared endure all this.

~And the discomfort of the soul could not be contained unless it left

Librettos of Lily

24 Sep 2024 11:51

"People can only meet you as far as they have met themselves." And some are strangers to their own soul. It is disturbing to imagine what that would be like for the people around them.

Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 09:45

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Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 09:13

Oh vain Jane, she sits on the edge of her dressing table, staring into the void of a mirror that reflects nothing of who she is,

Oh vain Jane, she trims and styles her luscious hair as though it would matter how it was glided down her slender shoulders,


Oh vain Jane, she seems out of this universe in that satin dress that she seems to fit into perfectly, bearing a grave of mad lore,

Oh vain Jane, she wants to hear herself but she is met with silence and this silence was worth a thousand words in the eyes of the beholder.

Librettos of Lily

22 Sep 2024 08:20

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Librettos of Lily

21 Sep 2024 08:41

Must the bride be in veils to hide herself from spectators, cover the things that made her, her?
Must she be overshadowed by her outward beauty, convince everyone she is worthy to be in a white dress?

Must the groom expect another person to emerge from the piles of pearly garments, expect someone he has never seen to suddenly appear?
Must the groom be blinded by her irresistible face to finally take a step towards a life as one pair?

Librettos of Lily

20 Sep 2024 08:00

And of all the prices she paid, she dearly loved the one that she gave her blood to. Something about the scarlet identity of her soul breathing in the lungs of another was just so beautiful. Tattooed on another far from her sight and oftentimes her mind, lived another not knowing his veins needed her blood to even perish in peace.

And all of the waters she drowned in, she dearly loved the one that almost killed her, knocked her off her feet with it's force. Something about that force clung to her restless thoughts. Drawn on another amidst a deserted sanctuary lived an image of her clarify and the shape of her distortion, not knowing it too was birthed from suffocation.

Librettos of Lily

11 Sep 2024 09:14

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Librettos of Lily

11 Sep 2024 08:36

But then what were you really fighting off, this dark ocean, the sharks or your reflection in the mirror? I could mimic your habits until you start to hate the way you are, the way you chose to become.

But then what is it really that challenges you, this empty city with curtain walls, these haunting eyes that remember everything? I could shape shift into your soul, until you can hear the shame of death from it's fame.

Librettos of Lily

09 Sep 2024 17:56

You don't wonder. The lights cease to make sense to your cells and your core doesn't jump at the sight of the mystery of my worlds.

You don't wonder. The recognition of someone a little too big for this small life doesn't cross your mind as you ask for my hand.

You don't wonder. The burns marks haven't taught you to be cautious. You'd believed you were the worst but I might just prove you wrong.


I wonder. What it is like to notice my light and love the darkness, to choose mere defenses to stand between us.

I wonder. What it's like to notice my expressive face and be tempted to pick apart every meaningful look and still ask all the wrong questions.

I wonder. What it's like to pretend to see the sear of my body parts as a costume, to swear you're innocent after all this.

   -I wonder but you don't.

Librettos of Lily

05 Sep 2024 14:35

This song is just an agony women face at the hands of society that normalizes hate and objectification.And any woman who thinks she is above it all. Any woman that trusts a man has regretted. ~We're devolving , honestly

Librettos of Lily

31 Aug 2024 12:26

Brings back memories now. Thanks 📍

Librettos of Lily

28 Aug 2024 18:25

How so lockable, not even trying to leave a dent on your walk to the end,
How so withdrawn, even separate from the spirit land,

How so loud, not even the mountains could swallow your sound,
How so tactful, even the liars believe your castle of sand.

Librettos of Lily

23 Aug 2024 18:03

"This one will have grit, fire and steel."

Librettos of Lily

17 Aug 2024 13:04

She was a doctor, a girl, a caregiver. She was someone. Someone meant to live and reach her full potential. She was her own person and her mother's person, and a daughter, a friend, live saviour, smart and dedicated. And that was makes her sound like she is the past but how come she may be the future of every girl if she was indeed an accidental tragedy. Wasn't she just like us? Couldn't she have easily been any one of us? A human minding her business, trying to keep up and survive and even more serve the sick. So let me rephrase it. She is a doctor. She is still someone. She needs our help because she is us.