Ch 3: Ballista (Dear Aria, I Love Myself) (feat. Lenval Brown)

Lyrics: Vylet Pony Music: Vylet Pony Warm tears disappear at once into disheveled shrouds of faded eyeshadow. Then, slither down your cheeks, and into your mouth.​ Fragrances of bitter salt permeate your laboured breaths. You sense, distantly, the gentle embrace of your pegasus companion.​ What do I do man? What do I do, I’ve been trying so hard to just get over Dub.​ What am I missing? I don't understand why this is so hard... Love is a pain. An endeavour. Temporary.​ But love is necessary, and inevitable.​ The self is permutated by it. Thus, it is necessary to wield it shrewdly I just wanna love, I don’t know what this feeling is, like, my heart aches. What do I do with it? I'm such a bitch... Understand this, and this above all other things.​ Before you can truly love anyone else. Before you can fall in love with the world itself. You must love yourself first.​ How the **** do I love myself when I’m so awful? Your conscious experience is filtered through your brain, and your brain alone.​ To dare and ask these questions to yourself indicates a primal desire to be better, and to heal.​ Submerged beneath cynicism and irony, your heart lusts for the ordinary and the sensory.​ The prickle of the grass beneath your hooves. A distant chatter on a safe day.​ Stifling a giggle with a friend, in delight of the absurd.​ The thrill of the trickshot. The thrill of the game.​ Everything that you experience is because you have chosen to get up again in service to that will.​ When you are all that you have, endeavour to be something that you love. Then, love yourself.​ Nothing else matters. There is absolutely no other way to live. And, you must live.​ Cause it ends up hurting everyone around me when I'm so mean to myself, and I don't need to be.​ And it's like, I live in my own world. So I have to love myself becauseβ€” Nothing truly matters until you decide that it does.​ And baby, does it feel good to love yourself.​ You must only allow yourself that freedom.​ Because, my own mind creates the world. It’s all about the game because I make the rules.​ Yes. And, it has always been this way.​ And to love myself, I don't have to win.​ I don't have to be perfect, I just have to keep going.​ I have to make new rules.​ And I must keep changing.​