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Once upon a time, such a fairy-tale beginning I even doubted if it was my place to use it. Such a dark fairy-tale stripped of all my love and hope. Once my life was perfect; I sent my days cloaked in all he wonders I'd been told of through tragic French romances. Daily I could have lost myself in the enchantments I found in the summer and all of its golden splendours. Stories of love and happily ever after, cut short by those puppeteers with bitterness, words laced with hatred… I found myself there, laughing at them in a voice like a string of gracious bells.
None of them could touch me, not even come close. I was found lost in a world of light and pleasures well those around me got drawn further and further into the abyss that I danced so ignorantly by. I was truly happy, glad to know what that meant, overjoyed to know it had found me… I was so naïve, naïve to the powers it held over people, much less helpless little girls such as me.
My light, the one we had basked in had dulled even against my dark surroundings once he delivered that departing word. The cursed word that ghosted over every part of me, send me cold with less than a breath. I can say my vision dulled forever his turned back but that was not true, the world had dulled in its entirety.
The sweet promises as they flew from his budding lips in my cloudy mind only dulled the crushing disappointment.
Now that light began to fade, my vision scratched, fraying around the edges like it was nothing, only in those moments like no other before I understood what those poets meant in those scattered lyrics of life and death. No more uncertainty. The face of heaven stretched out before me like a scene from a over dramatic and mediocre play.
My final soothing breaths clearing my mind of its dust, his hand clearing my mind with each soft stroke across my bruised skin; I felt at peace with myself, no struggles of hardships and I loved it more that I had loved any man.
The world pulled from beyond my reach and faded into a soft and blissful black.
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