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Moon-boy

December challenge

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished about a month ago 1 min read
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the boy is dragged across the sky

Like a dying, fallen angel that glides like a blistering star

He climbs his paintbrush with a shaking hand, creating a new hemisphere, atmosphere

Attached to his retina like a gland growing into a new universe

He grew too monumental, too gargantuan for his own form, for even the green and blue human world

The pain of growth burning his cheek like a fire that never died

He asked his love Saturn when he could return home

“Assssk me in December, my life, my love,” came the cool whisper that chilled the Moon-boy into the saddest tears

The tears felt so fresh and real and terribly painful

He cried into the core of the moon, hitting the sub past it like a perfect weapon

The implosion fresh and terrible and beautiful

The wolf-boy was now a part of the moon’s terrible glow

December never came

His name stretches in a mountain’s agonizing death

Of the soft water slowly ending it's mighty cursed face

heartbreak
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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

I am a published author on Patheos,

I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels

The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.

My novella The Job and Atonement will be published this year by JMS Books

Carnivorous published by Eukalypto

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout a month ago

    Omgggg, this so sad and emotional. Loved it so much!

  • Babs Iversonabout a month ago

    Heartbreaking!!!

  • Christy Munsonabout a month ago

    howling good take on the unofficial challenge :)

  • Daphsamabout a month ago

    Very beautiful!

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