Sunflower Stars for May
All Things Broken and Beautiful
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
― E.E. s
(I imagined) Luhan and Yoona.
Sunflower Stars for May.
it was august when i first saw her
and may when we actually met;
i reached her through broken chords,
the nervous stutter of fingers on ivory.
she asked me to become a violinist,
to entice notes from her ivory ribs;
i tried, and now she says she'll be
beautiful forever (i still don't understand).
sometime in winter, when notes
become shaky trust just strong enough
to break heartstring barriers, she
tells me why she's half-shattered glass.
i come from a land where money and
talent don't mean nothing if you ain't
like them window china dolls, she
tells me, and i think she must be lying.
lying isn't something she can't do,
but listening is my A+ amongst a
list of my other B- personality traits,
and so for her, i try to ace this class.
her momma said she 'ain't pretty
no more'; she cries 'cos never found
out why, and i wonder if her voice
was always this painful to listen to.
blossoms are blinking pink eyelashes
like it's not almost halloween, when
she asks me why she isn't good
enough for her
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