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He’s known all along Of your straying Vice- riddled path Every rolling hill of your despair He’s known Of the treachery they bring Every withering dune you forge From the grains of your verse He’s known all along Of the towering faults you breed In the heartless Stride of your days He’s known And…
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Confess You impressionist of men As your noose draws tight In your fearful delay Let the masses consume Let them plunder and feed Until agony prevails In every cavern you bear The hour draws near You must gracefully fall And dissolve in the sway Of your bellowing regrets Confess, confess Or silence is king…
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You run warm with courage And I sink tried and true Untethered From the roles I know All time disbands Before triumph disrobed Uncorked, unsheathed And primed for the fall A torturous dawn Is my pride and joy The heaving The sputter Of my worthless form
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I chase the daily refrain In an offbeat stride With fault lines raging Across my flesh Refuge is few and far between In the maddened trail I carve For the rail-bound peril I trust A deathly pulse is spawned And off I race Into frostbitten arms For the coils Of the common man’s strife…
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Above my frantic reach I endlessly clamor Driven to savagery’s brink As affections coast on high Devoured in their ease And treasured by sacred blue skies To soar Above spire and shroud Where the envious peer In the throes of their newborn rage They are not meant to graze These downtrodden eyes My sorrowful…
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Once dire words had stalled Calmed to a breeze So thankful and dull And all we could spare Was short and sweet In our fruitless quarrel With sheer satisfaction There was only pure silence For our skin and bones The dog-tired gasps Of words well-spent
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Our words were free of concern Our reluctance was meek As we raged All through the dusk We sang our kindred concerns A heartfelt verse Unyielding Untiring and pure To pause was sacrilege We breathed in haste To the tune Of our trembling joy Mad Became the docile night So choked with elation Its…
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In the earth’s new shadowy phase We chatter away Of murder and malice So swift to speak Broad and obscene To mindlessly spin The truth’s we crave As madmen afar All foam for blood We burden the kind And merciful with shame
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I seek refuge In the passing slums The roving shadows Of brief satisfaction The passage of joy Colors mere moments Of the bright, broader days So impassioned So reckless and full I shed words In monotone Beyond the reach of dusk Amid a spell of worry I totter unhinged Until refuge returns And the…
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