the compendium of iridescence: my heart is a paperweight

Thursday, February 9, 2012

my heart is a paperweight

In this world
the living grow fewer,
the dead increase
how much longer
must I carry this body of grief?

- Ono no Komachi (As seen in "The Ink Dark Moon")

poem via PoemHunter and All Poetry

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