An Ode to Recovery: Delicate

Yellow, white, golden and brown: same old curtains surround me every morning;

Morbid, plain, so delicate, so pale.

They bend and break too, but in their ruins, all you see are loose threads;

In mine, you see placid, darkened eyes and a lucid existence.

A faint Beethoven resides on the brinks, drinking from my faded colors, leaving splotches like an overrun candle wax;

I have had my fill of empty glasses, I am done sewing on patches, but the threads keep coming off more and more.

I have thought of letting go, of playing along with the rusty ensemble; and every time, I was lesser like me, a little more hollow.

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