"You’ve kept your heart hard and hidden,
you unsuspecting, solemn thing,
determined to keep the stone beating
in your rotting chest
a secret.

Love for you was such a flood
and you drowned in her-
in the softness of flesh,
in the sweetness of breath,
in the sun that slept her veins.

She tastes red
like pomegranate,
like blood.

She tastes gold
like nectar,
like salvation."

— Emily Palermo, Hades (source: http://starredsoul.tumblr.com/post/91097791177)

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