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They embarked gleefullyFor the hopeless void Yearning to elope To be free of scalding glances Beyond all voices The shrill cries of guardiansA truth-bearing romance Was swallowed whole By a charitable Merciful distance Hidden away Their affections flourishedAs they traveled carelesslyAlong the curves and contoursThey conjured as one Carnivorous huntsmen Remained in savage want…
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They are black linesLumberingToward certain oblivion Unaware of their purposeOf the truth they bearWithin their every morsel They march onwardDriven By the edge Of a madman’s quill Sewing shutThe greater fableLaboring, for the closeOf worlds carefully spun Black linesCannot waverIf steady handsLead them on
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Nothing stirs within In the hours I departThoughtlessly roving Among Patches of green CradlingTheir newborn Springtime shades I am boxed in Bound to eternal grey Trudging through Its lifeless and hollow refrain How I yearn to be windedTruly, devoid of words To be fully engulfed By the agony of raw emotion I mustReclaim…
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Falling salvos Pummeled me with bare fists And the earth danced wildlyColors mingling As I caved with haste Forward I tumbledCoursing with peril and shock My bones still thundering Ringing As the curtains were drawn Nightfall was brief As I struggled to ascend Reclaiming my resolve To seize the faltering day Like deafening howitzers…
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How easilyI become hollowFar from the mountainsI’ve sculpted with care So swiftlyI become derailedA tower of ruinOverrun by despair Exhaustion clingsForcefullyAnd the earth grows silentWithering, unclaimed How I’ve thoughtlesslyDisbandedSuccumbed to a fearI’ve coddled deep within
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Home brewed sentiments Are worthless fodder Gourged upon thoughtlessly Like chum, in a starving frenzy Like skin Slowly rolled away I convulse In the offering of self As blood streams I dwell in silence Plagued by worry Overtaken by hunger The raw patches Never reclaim color In the endless butchering In the eternal massacre Until…
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Shallow breaths Were all I could muster In the hour she arose Pristine, valient, and sure Anticipation Was a thick humid day The lingering scourge Of red Georgia roads My insides quaked In the shock of first glance Blending my thoughts To a useless, oozing pulp Within adolescence I could not speak As chance drew…
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Wading through sunlight The dejected sway As agony fillets them Mercilessly Inside iron shackles The tired prevail With a single-file tune Echoing Unheeded and solemn The wretches all dwindle At the cruel lash of day Drawing, rivers of sweat From their maimed and tattered flesh Sunlight recedes And darkness transpires Birthing, the shrill cries Of…
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If only I knew How to truly draw breath To drink in the world Unbound, by the curse of fear While passersby Glide on, masterfully I simmer through the nights Growing, full with despair Some gorge passionately On the fibers of living While the full, totter miserably Looping, forever more If only I knew The…
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Hollow eyes Sway quietly Frozen over and numb At home In the care Of charitable winds Drained of all color and sound Beyond the clatter Of friend and foe Beyond the cries Of the merciful few Barren glances Shall sway and turn Never knowing The wind is their master




