Violence Ended Delights by Enna Mari [Based on Chloe Gong’s Duology]

MAJOR SPOILERS for These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong.

Violence Ended Delights by Enna Mari [Based on Chloe Gong's Duology] 

Our streets run red,
But our hearts in shreds, 
The love that was meant to hold,
Received, what was meant to be told,
It’s forbidden and lost,
But we wondered at what cost,
The hate that lined the lanes,
A monster going quite insane, 
Rampaged and killed someway,
Bugs dug the brain preparing to stay,
As streets line with chaos,
We stand without remorse,
We were grown and sold,
Working to be as good as the old,
Hoping we will be great enough,
Perhaps they are, they are rough,
Silk tided after a knockout,
The intention to kill was without,
Surprised, yet a trigger was aimed,
They were then brought, shamed,
Panic and love grows within, 
Someone was about to win,
A sacrifice was going to be made,
Someone was shot, becoming a fade,
No one could know of the blood spilled,
Of family and the next heir killed,
The rules broken, a stunned moment,
A forgotten friend, the component,
Shocked and struck the love turns,
A forced conversation churns,
While city undergoes revolution, 
We said the words with absolution, 
No more leaving, together at last,
A time just as short as the past, 
A fire of sacrifice, a claim of life,
Façade of safety and a security strife,
They ended by laying side by side,
Names carved in stone, but everything feels lied. 

Violence Ended Delights is a poem I wrote quite a while ago on Chloe Gong’s duology: These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends. I wrote this before Foul Lady Fortune so I did not know anything that might happen to any of the characters in the duology. The main reason I wanted to write it was due to the way Chloe wrote the books, her writing style is so unique and beautiful, as well as her overall storylines which are delightfully composed. I also loved her books and this was a way I could spotlight them. Although the poem is quite long, longer in length than what I usually would write, it hardly capture the duology but those who have read it will understand the very niche references.