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Based of a prompt from ravenbringslight's fic, Face hell and walk backward into the light: "Thanos is defeated, but the cost for Thor seems too high to bear. Left without a home, a family, or most of his friends, how can he lead his people when he can barely lead himself? And every time he closes his eyes he sees his brother's dead face.Until the time that he closes his eyes and he sees his actual brother."The poem is a direct address to Thor.
April 30, 2025 at 03:29 AM
Gusty, with a chance of thunderstorms
Propelled by inertia,
the bitter meal of sorrow
tasted familiar.
Fierce and consuming
it drives you
forward
until you slam
into the brick wall
at the end of your battle.
In the aftermath
you feel absurdly small,
dwarfed by losses
too numerous for a single bonfire
stripped bare
of meaning.
Absence
wraps around your heart
sharp as barbed wire.
Closed eyes
offer you all the clarity
you know.
“I see you every day.”
When you wake
every sigh is a prayer,
a supplication
for charity,
for the droplet that bursts
the dam,
for the tremor that shakes loose
the avalanche
to bury you
so you may start
anew.