Lingering Despair.

Dress: Urban Outfitters($15), Boots: Steven Madden($99), Rings: Target & Forever 21($4-$8)

Open eyes see nothing

Life fails her everyday

Every moment is filled with regret

She closes her eyes and sees peace

The stars beneath her skin

still into dark corners

desire, hunger

demand flight

but somehow it asphyxiates

into stillness

grappling between memories 

and dreams

With her days spent in despair

her eyes gazing out

with a wretched soul,

she sits still with only a sigh to spare

Pieces of three different poems, by each of us, edited together to create one.

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This look was inspired by the photography of Lara Jade - who is a freakin' genius - we only recently discovered her because of someone we know, let's call her JM. If you go on Book II - second photograph, of her portfolio on her website, you will see the resemblance - after that it kind of took it's own life and this is what we have.

The title of this post is the title of A's blog, it seemed fitting for this post so we used it.

Peace

Waking in Winter.

I can taste the tin of the sky --- the real tin thing.
Winter dawn is the color of metal,
The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.
All night I have dreamed of destruction, annihilations ---
An assembly-line of cut throats, and you and I
Inching off in the gray Chevrolet, drinking the green
Poison of stilled lawns, the little clapboard gravestones,
Noiseless, on rubber wheels, on the way to the sea resort.
How the balconies echoed! How the sun lit up
The skulls, the unbuckled bones facing the view!
Space! Space! The bed linen was giving out entirely.
Cot legs melted in terrible attitudes, and the nurses ---
Each nurse patched her soul to a wound and disappeared.
The deathly guests had not been satisfied
With the rooms, or the smiles, or the beautiful rubber plants,
Or the sea, Hushing their peeled sense like Old Mother Morphia
- Sylvia Plath

Dress: Ecote via Urban Outfitters($15), Boots: Kelsi Dagger($35), Necklace: Forever 21 with additional rings added on as charms($28), Bangles: India, Knuckle Ring: Target($8)