{"id":415,"date":"2024-03-08T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/?p=415"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:43:09","slug":"pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re scaring me now&#8221;, she said. &#8220;Be scared, then&#8221;, I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gave me a certain convulsion to force her graceful nails into my little wound. That feeling still remains inexplicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t know it, but I find myself tracing the contours of her beautiful nails each time I gaze at her hands. The urge to kiss her hands arises every time I look. A vicious cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed by her slender, almost sculpted hands. Every now and then, specially when we&#8217;re out in the sun, I am fortunate enough to observe her green, alluring veins meandering effortlessly through her wrists. I discreetly trace her veins when she&#8217;s not paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try my hardest but it&#8217;s difficult to not get lost in that green. I think that&#8217;s the right green. The color of her veins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are the hands I wish to die upon. How serene would that death be. The gods will look at me with respectful envy if I get to draw my last breath in her arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my devotion comes at a price too. If I&#8217;m willing <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0WQiDwKJclirSYG9v5tayI?si=oJrQG7ZFQ7-4qY3AF75RGw\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0WQiDwKJclirSYG9v5tayI?si=oJrQG7ZFQ7-4qY3AF75RGw\">to die by your side<\/a>, I&#8217;ll make sure I make it hard for her to love me sometimes. She&#8217;ll feel she&#8217;s truly incapable of loving. She&#8217;ll feel I&#8217;m unlovable. She will feel it&#8217;s scary, difficult and suffocating to love. I&#8217;ll be watching. I&#8217;ll be attentive. If she pulls through, I&#8217;ll give my life for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If she prefers cowardice, I can only imagine how excruciating my absence will be.<br>I&#8217;ll meet her in her dreams, like finding dried flowers in old books. She&#8217;ll scour through the wastelands to seek my presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope she pulls through, so that I can have her petal hands all by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She will have to intentionally, even forcefully, scrape every little piece of me out of her heart, because even if a little is left, she would find herself there, between death and madness. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if she attempts to pluck everything out with the weapon of time, one day she&#8217;ll sit alone, and a glimmer deep within her soul will shine. As if illuminated, she&#8217;ll be in disbelief, thinking she removed everything, while there, sitting in the corner of her heart, filled with my love for her, it will gracefully smile at her existence&#8212;a pearl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re scaring me now&#8221;, she said. &#8220;Be scared, then&#8221;, I thought. It gave me a certain convulsion to force her graceful nails into my little wound. That feeling still remains inexplicable. She doesn&#8217;t know it, but I find myself tracing the contours of her beautiful nails each time I gaze at her hands. 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