Lily's poem from chapter ten of Shadows, as she wrote it over the next few days. But can be read as standalone :)


Beat

Beat

Thousand repeated sounds of my heart against my ribs

It cries out and whimpers for him even as my mind says no and my body refuses

But it

Is relentless-

Whispers

Cries

Endless little ideas and hopes invading my dreams and waking thoughts

Flit away in my denial

But

IlovehimIlovehimIlovehim

Scrawled on my bones and the air leaving my lungs

And I see him there

He walks and laughs and I know he does not want me

Even as he teases with his soft kisses and gilded eyes

Igniting a fire in my soul

An ache between my thighs

A hollow in ribs

Where my heart beats beats b e a t s

And knows it will be denied


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