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The blood washed sunrise Beads upon my head Soaked in the offerings Of brazen passersby Through the palm’s early sway The rays hail Somberly Its mournful toll For the gallant young So hastily Carelessly bartered The weight of sunlight Overtakes me Pinning my thoughts Into faithful servitude For the valiant tussle In the coils of…
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In the cascading embers The delicate faltering Of blissfulness, torn asunder I race through the blaze Scouring for promise In the sweltering folds Of frantic disarray The calm demise Concludes in ash Grey and black heaps Adrift In the gust of turmoil’s whim Panic’s stern grip Propels me forth In the flickering hail That covets…
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Defer from the swarms Who hiss coldly, with contempt Comfortable not knowing Gleefully unaware They’ll slip away From the sternness they adore In the passage of time Surely Without delay Surely they’ll burn With primal affection And yearn to cleave For their distant kin Surely they must Fully know The foremost truth That bellows from…
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The ever-baying darkness Cradles me in its fear In the cloak of boundless quivering In the anguish propelled To the high glittering heavens The night wheels along My worn and tattered flesh Cruelly sent stirring Until sunlight roars Restored to its prime Beneath the throes Of curtains of black I writhe and dissolve In the…
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In the thick of jet exhausts As trends plume And cleave the adoring clouds I cling to ease Root firmly in bliss At peace with all I am And all I strive to be Before the tracks That scar dormant roads I trudge faithfully Bound only To an oath of defiance Beneath the Swirl The…
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Like spent shell casings Mindlessly strewn Deflowered and simmering Billowing with plumes of unrest Bygone worlds, linger In the stagnant seas of kin Glittering hopelessly Until their sparks Drift and dwindle unseen Waves of the foregone Remain As shadowy forebearers As festering heaps of scrap The multitudes I’ve dispatched with pride Have deferred to death…
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Bereft of all sound I weave without care Through the mournful bends Of carnage and ruin Undeterred By the fuming wreckage The merciless skewering Of the high, brazen heavens Despair eludes me In this gradual stride Through the great sprawl of heartache Bleeding, its plumes of black All I retain Are the timid wisps of…
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The hours straddle Ceaseless waves Of light and shadow Ever-teetering Taunting my frame Forever confined To the quaint limits of home The sullen drone, wavers In patches of clarity Grand illumination The fleeting rays of solace Yet it all dives For the harrowing depths of grey Thick with tribulation With bygone heartache The hours lumber…
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Iron rails quake In fearful suspense As the black plumes near Wailing, their good morrow The rattling moments Grow in malice Menacingly sprawling Into their final deathly tremor What is promised exclaims Whistling through the pines Wading through the mists That shroud each morn It pierces with vigor Barreling unchallenged A fate, so sudden Unyielding…