plea to my alter ego
Teach me how to tell lies like you:
calm hands like an ice-glass highland lake,
mouth full of opaline teeth like raindrops
Teach me how to fly like a belfry bird:
cyprus shade feathers on a cold north wind,
soaring in the flashes of the firebrand lightning
Most of all, teach me to scream like you:
teach me how to let my words tear through the sky
and not stick like stone curses between my teeth.
Chrissie Demailly is a UK-based creative writing student with a love of nature, the humanities and gothic literature. While currently enjoying writing poetry and short stories to submit to literary magazines, Chrissie hopes to one day have a full-length novel published, and until then can be found sitting in the garden watching the crows and insects.
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