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billet-doux

(translates to love letter - sweet note in literal 17th century french :))


billet doux

for me for me for me.


love letters

and promises and

hearts scrawled on my hand.


sweet kisses

on stained hands

from me now

to me then,

in the

moonlight of my room.


the sun wakes

earlier now,

knocking on my window

and pulling

me out of

my warmed sheets.


my skin is warm too,

basked

for the night in

starlight and bruised

from the strength

of my love.


there is some degree of

comfort knowing

i could be better.


some degree of

comf

ort

knowing myself

and knowing my

flawless flaws.


and i wake to find

every morning,

billet doux under

my pillow.


under my pillow

and in my eyelashes

and in my hands

and tangled in my hair

and burned behind my eyes.


everywhere i turn

i see the same, beautiful,

agonising,

burning,

image of

lace and love.



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