Dreamwidth Red #17, Off-White #15, Warm Heart #04

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Story: Poetry Collection | Title: the box of relics of grief
Colours: Dreamwidth Red #17. Message, Off-White #15. Reach, Warm Heart #04. Pain
Supplies and styles: miniature, chiaroscuro, photograph, resin, grafitti
Resin: 100words - #441. key
Word count: 100
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: implied child abuse

she carries the key beside the cross

almost as heavy as her loss

for the locked box under the bed

filled with messages left unread,

with drawings of a daydream,

memories left unseen

how much pain can a heart contain

as the mind continues sane?

her life was agony

now she lives in apathy

laying on the floor

she asks “what’s all this for?”

punishment for being born strong

a guide on how to be strong

all these dirty lies reached her before

when did she sign up for this war?

forsaking her belief

she chooses relics of her grief