"O Beauty! dost thou generate
from Heaven or from Hell?"
Charles Baudelaire
It's in our nature to idealize things.
Even hell.
It's in our nature to bring anger to a laugh fight,
Fury to a funhouse,
Tragedy in lights.
We pause before the abyss
To kiss
Our reflection in the flames;
Flower petals writhe
And hiss;
We raise the flowered fist.
We desecrate our bliss.
How easily the shadow fits!
Darkness shines on our regrets.
We light our hearts like cigarettes.
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