Act I: Petrichor

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Look at me; your eyes are drifting to the floor…
Show me the worst things in your heart, but beat
a bit more.

So, have we reached a point of bliss?
Or of sin?
Drops of redemption pierce my skin.
Wings be your guide, but they’re made not of feathers but pills
Icarus flies, for this modern day Lazaran thrill.

Is that what you need?
Is that what you need?

Look at me once more,
Never end this dawn; it’s
Coming as a watercolour
Painting our descent.
Look at me, your soul
In this midnight smoulders,
Lustrous as an ember
In the midst of a squall.
In petrichor…
In petrichor…
These cheeks beneath the waterfall,
I’m left infused with petrichor.

If that’s what you need,
Then cut to stem the bleed.
Suture all this rust…
Preserve these signs of us.

As you cast yourself in this sunrise
And seal away your amber fate,
A fragment of a roman wind
Might blow a different way
And love might win, if you let it in.

Look at me once more,
Never end this dawn; it’s
Coming as a watercolour
Painting our descent.
Look at me, your soul
In this midnight smoulders,
Lustrous as an ember
In the midst of a squall.
In petrichor…
In petrichor…
These cheeks beneath the waterfall,
I’m left infused with petrichor.

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