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Fragile Nostalgia

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You are the smell of old leather jackets,
Well-worn and loved with years of use.

The smell of new books, their pages crips and clean,
Spines uncracked.
You are the electric smell before the downpour of rain.

You are the fresh breeze rolling in the car windows on a soft Spring afternoon.

The smell of lingering chocolate, clinging to the wrapper.

You are that new-car smell that I cannot get enough of.

Breathing in each and every fiber of you
Sets my heart ablaze with ambedo.
For Daniella,
Always able to take my breath away.


ambedo--
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.

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alkaline-earth-11's avatar
This reminds me of The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot by Brand New. I like it. c: