The advantageous nature of digging one’s own grave
Based on Yorgos Lanthimos‘ film The Lobster
are we short-sighted in nature or by nature
Or by your short-sighted gleaning?
You cut me piece by piece
You sliced my well-worn mask,
And made me, forced me
I’d say, to open up my windowless, scratched up mirrors—-short-sighted
You’d say we both are—-
My eyes are open now.
And finally we saw the gleaming, blackened and burnt and hot white, blackberry, milky, greened like curled lips of a budded spring flower—-hips that my mother liked to show off to my dad when I wasn’t looking—-
Thankless, deathless, moony, fervent, grasping, kissing, laughing, licking star-sky.
And oh
My
Fucking
God,
You looked so damn gorgeous
In that moonlight.
You rare, unearthly, Moon-Milk-Eyes,
What are you made of,
Something more rare than anything that rare could be? You define it.
Even stuck with muddy shoes in a six foot grave I dug myself piece by piece, as short-sighted as I am,
I knew you were as real and as rare as that piece of heaven shining down on us, through that earthly lightning eve.
About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos.
I am Bexley is published by Resurgence Novels here.
The Half Paper Moon is available on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella Carnivorous is to be published by Eukalypto soon! Coming soon
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Fools rush in where angels dare not tread. Yet only the fool becomes wise for the angel never dies. A riddle or a parable or both! Your work never fails to impress!
This was very deep and brimming with emotions! Loved it so much! You're amazingly super talented!