#this is...dark

thanks bie 💛here is your poem:

on the night line oh, misty eye of the mountain below down below, my thoughts can wander and i let go where are you now? someone wake me up from this nightmare

(songs, in order: lovely day by alt-j, i see fire by ed sheeran, anemone by slenderbodies, catherine by magic man, wrapped around your finger by etched in blue)

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “Salve Regina” scene from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, of the final scene where the sisters go, one by one, to the guillotine. I’ve been thinking about how a situation where religion was outlawed, where these sisters persisted in their faith only to martyr themselves, where one who had forsaken them came back in the end to share death (and salvation?) at the edge of a blade.