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A steep fall And lightening flares In bolts of agony Spiraling up my legs I endure the scream Which never departs In moments of staggering Driven By the fumes of spite Pain flourishes Through the sprawl of darkness This harrowing strand of night Up ivory roads Reduced to shambles Torment climbs To claim My fragmented…
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Thin walls Lend me the world The ills of kinship All trials endured I brace in the swell Of transient memories First world gossip The flare of household names Through frailest ivory Coarse words intrude Coiling the solitude That ensnares my peace of mind Racing thoughts Blend With a flurry of everyday musings My name…
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I’ve seen them before Those scarred sandy roads The endless trails Of discarded youth Withdraw Withdraw Safety, dwells within Familiar words Singe heartlessly As burrowing vermin I’ll harbor day to day Withdraw Withdraw Safety, rings true within Home falls desolate A spanning desert of peril Where slews scour hopeful To reap the scraps not wanted…
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Is it true Stouthearted men Stagger drunkenly From a hard day’s labor? Is it true they arise Unscathed from it all And yearn to overflow With a pub’s fleeting thrills? Perhaps they swear? Unashamed and brazen Letting foul words stream Behind each cigarette’s Cavalier plume Or true valor lies In the spun deeds of battle…
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Like cheap driftwood Torn asunder Spiraling hopelessly In a stormy river’s current Speeding For whatever looms The glorious culmination I am destined To be swept away My demise unheard For kin have fallen deaf Skewered upon rock The wail of strife calms Gradually winded Hoarse, as the earth pulls away There are no splinters Washed…
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I recall fallen leaves Crumbling beneath my treads As the songbirds flourished In tune with the unkempt wilderness Roads frayed At the helm of restless trees Swaying thoughtlessly Brimmed with nature’s Unwavering toll I was consumed With every passionate stride The further I roamed Determined to be undone Crumbling leaves I revert to their soothing…
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Great pillars cave And tumble into dust In their timeless crumbling As they cleave the infinite fog Thick plumes rage on Reveling at fallen titans As swarms stagger mournfully Through the familiar span of decay These fumes matter not For it is truly all they know The shards and the shambles Are the beloved signatures…
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When will I succumb To the soothing sway of calm? Unscathed from the day And brimmed with warm content I’d surrender my all To the droning ambience of sleep Where nothingness reigns And time is without a trace To eviscerate the scourge Of the trails I carve by day My arms strain and strive For…
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Moments reclaim me And replenish my mind With the scalding wraith of sorrow Reborn into distress I adhere to the movements The merciless cull Of past refrains I retreat Into the violent throes of boyhood The menacing toll of schooldays That once dragged me along I yearn resurface From the frost bitten shackles Of the…