“Broken”
by Gabrielle Faust

Place your heart within it, you fool,
You are only worth what is darkest in the
Midland folds of night,
The sweet velveteen spaces in between
Self and sanctity where the soft
Vulnerable aspects of our selves are stored,
Cowering with fairly unbalanced swords,
Fledged like warrior beckoning wounds they
Once remembered and hardly recollect now,
In the haze of this new battle
The dust settling like the traces
Of another residual ritual wanting for
The issue of terminal momentous occasion,
For we are only the devils that
Stretch us taught upon the wrack
And slice us lean and thin
Of all of our mortal trappings,
All of the things that gods
Might accuse us of weakness
When in those moments of weakness
We find our strength;
If they only knew that we
Would then rise up with
Our swords raised
In the times when our
Hearts are broken…

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In other news, you can catch me May 28th at Red Eyed Fly in Austin, Texas at 11pm in the Lounge!

And one last note, I am currently accepting new freelance editing clients. If you have a story, article or book you would like edited before submitting to a publisher for review, please contact me at info [at] gabriellefaust [dot] com for details.

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