Tourniquet Girl
Tourniquet Girl: Unraveling the Dark Symphony of Desolation
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Be still and dead.
Expressing a desire for stillness and death.
You have been too sweet and so sedated.
Addressing the person as excessively sweet and sedated.
You've kept those pins and needles for too damn long inside your organs.
Criticizing the retention of emotional pain (pins and needles) within the body for an extended period.
I hope the worms can find you and smell your perfume before the day is done.
Wishing that decay and decomposition are swift and noticeable.
I visioned you with eyes of painted black and silver beauty.
Imagining the person with eyes representing a dark and beautiful appearance.
Glistening.
Describing the eyes as glistening.
Understanding that your never perfect.
Acknowledging imperfection and understanding it.
We have put ourselves in your shoes without looking back at what you have done.
Reflecting on empathizing with the person without judging their past actions.
Without arms to touch the design of an angel gone horribly wrong.
Describing a lack of arms to reach out and touch an angelic design gone wrong.
Now you fall from the stars.
Metaphorically describing a fall from grace.
Leaving rays of the sunlight behind.
Leaving behind positive traces despite the fall.
Now you fall from the throne.
Continuing the metaphorical fall, this time from a position of power.
Leaving traces of scars at the side.
Leaving scars as evidence of past struggles.
No remorse to confide.
Asserting a lack of regret or guilt.
As the tourniquet slowly unwinds.
Describing a slow release from a tourniquet, possibly symbolic of emotional or physical pain.
Amputate this lifeless figure.
Metaphorically suggesting the removal of a lifeless figure through amputation.
Binded by the perfect stitches.
Describing a binding with perfect stitches, possibly alluding to attempts to mend or control.
She was beside herself.
Referring to a person being beside themselves, possibly emotionally or mentally.
The urge to mend appendages has grown from a daytime hobby to a revelation.
Expressing a growing compulsion to mend broken parts, evolving from a hobby to a revelation.
To envision a skin of paper white catastrophes.
Imagining a catastrophic, paper-white skin.
I pull her bandages and watch her fall to pieces.
Physically pulling bandages, causing the person to fall apart.
I visioned you with eyes of painted black and silver beauty.
Repeating the earlier vision of dark and beautiful eyes.
Glistening.
Reiterating the glistening quality of the eyes.
Understanding that your never perfect.
Reiterating the acknowledgment of imperfection.
We put ourselves in your shoes without looking back at what you have done without arms to touch.
Repeating the empathy without looking back at past actions, emphasizing the lack of arms to touch.
With no compassion inside you fall apart.
Highlighting a lack of compassion leading to a figurative falling apart.
You fall from this waste of life.
Describing a fall from a wasted life.
You will fall from your own devastation.
Predicting a fall from self-created devastation.
With no compassion inside.
Reiterating the absence of compassion inside.
The mind and heart will whither.
Suggesting a decline of both mind and heart.
To dust.
Metaphorically expressing deterioration to dust.
Resin.
Mentioning resin as a symbolic substance, possibly related to preservation or stagnation.
Marrow.
Referring to marrow, possibly symbolizing the essence of life.
I hope your happy this way.
Expressing a hope for happiness in the current state, suggesting a twisted perspective on contentment.
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