Chapters The heart is a rock.
Shine! Shine!
Little Stallion, live for Love.
live for life!
Live Forever!
Shine on!
but nothing’s Forever, no…
Shine on!
(your Sister)
Shine on!
(your Daughter)
Shine on!
(your Wife)
No!
Every sun Bursts, every sparkle has its Twilight.
So Shine, Shine, Forever!
but Sun Breaks.
No, no!
Forever is a long time.
Without you.
so Shine! Shine!
Shine on, as you will.
As you can.
If you can…
Burst, Break! Brittle frame! Brain strains!
Try as you might!
Try as you might to Shine!
and the hoof lays softly, over the side of the bed…
and the words come out limp, over the side of the bed…
and the gleam drains slowly, over the side of the bed…
so Shine! if you can.
Shine! while you can.
they'll miss you, remember that.
your Shine is all they have.
Your shine is all they have.
Lightning strikes twice,
Her mane flows like daggers in the rain,
And your eyes, tears stuck in mid air.
her eyes.
It hurts to know her eyes are greyed and marbled,
Is she here with you?
…
Sister! (Destroyer!)
…
Has she already gone?
and a hoof that once nicked the floor beneath now only hangs mid air.
The moon gloats in a pitch sky, bearing with its shine words of its own:
You just want an answer.
Has someone got to fall before someone goes free?
Standing,
in an empty room.
the crowd
wandered
and
d r i p p e d
a
way.
The blood you gave.
Sun, now.
In little spatters on the floor.
Shining sun.
Watching it seep…
Onto the planks.
Into the planks.
Setting, now.
A gash torn open.
Orange beams illuminate…
Let it bleed!
Little spatters on the floor.
Let it bleed.
invisible
once
more
Blood.
to fire the horn.
to cast the spell.
to make them see.
to give them heart.
to feed the mass.
to get more blood.
to fire the horn.
to cast the spell.
to make them see.
to give them heart.
to feed the mass.
to
get
more
blood.
horn.
spell.
see.
heart.
feed.
Blood.
A cabin, alone.
A place not home.
The mirror that serves.
A face not hers.
No crowd to watch.
No heart to beat.
No thought to save.
No one to be.
i exist as observed
therefore
every moment
i
am
alone
is a moment
i
am
dead.
That empty room.
That stage, that grave.
A place to rest.
A place of rest.
A place to be seen.
The sun has set.
I’ve never been good at poetry,
I’ve seen everything you are,
I know that you blame yourself.
I know things for you haven’t been easy.
I know what it’s like,
I know what all of it’s like.
How do you
I know you can’t tell me.
I know you won’t tell me.
For one night,
and wake up as you.
Retrospect,
At night:
So it’s here, again,
These bottles that I
All those nights,
I was never shouting at the void.
I was screaming in your face.
Your words,
They cut the fur,
Your words…
I...
They puncture the skin,
Your words,
Forgive…
They pierce the flesh,
And I can’t stand to hear them,
You.
They snap the bones,
I
Forgive
You
That bursts the heart,
I
Forgive
You
That seeps through,
It hurts to see my own Cutie Mark.
Would that I were a bunny!
And if it turned out I was a bear,
Maybe if I was a toucan,
And if ever that I were a giraffe,
Well, I guess that I'm just a pony,