Landays

What are Landays?:

Line one has only nine syllables.

Line two has a little bit more, thirteen syllables.

Twenty-two syllables in total.

Most Landays involve themes of love, sex, grief, home, and war.

Content is often sharp and witty.

Shared by blue ghosts of a torn country when they're alone.

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You grip my throat, the same spot he did,

but sow seeds of love in the tilled wounds he left on me.

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Short daggers cut deeper than longswords,

especially paired with a persuasive man’s quick tongue.

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Oh boy, you must ready yourself now.

I am the fiercest storm you have ever met—Oh boy!

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You hear me, don’t you? Can you? Will you?

How much louder? Must I shake the world beneath your feet?

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Snowflakes drifted down from the mountains,

melted rivers which killed the fish and roused the cheetahs.

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Wield me as much as you do your gun,

hear all the sounds I make when you press on my trigger.

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You want to hear a beautiful song,

so put me between your lips and play me like a flute

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I want all the sunrises with you

even if it means I’ll have all the sunsets without.

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We loved, if not for ourselves, we loved

for those who loved before and those who will love after.

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All the good days and all the bad days.

When we're together or apart. I live through them all.

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If I do this knowing it will hurt

does that make me my best friend or my worst enemy?

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Oh? Oh! Oh. Oh... Okay, it's okay.

I'm—no. It's okay, really, it's fine. It's okay.

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I watch you save souls from the river

Whoops! I fell. Who will save me? Not you. It’s never you.

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