We light our hearts like cigarettes

"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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