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We carry on In spite Of our withering radiance Defiantly joyful Before roads That tragically diverge Beyond the fork We’ll propel onward Feigning our wholeness Never forced To utter farewell For we take root In the soils of ages passed Forever bound By kinship Against each transient morn
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Denial latches To his motionless state Lacking in urge Depleted, low, and wretched From time to time He scours uncertain For the hope that heaves And plumes redemption Recovery Injects its scalding vigor The villainous sludge That courses undeterred Caffeine courage Is his friendly façade A propelling falsehood That reigns so brief He muses among…
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Rage lays claim To the very heights I scale Hammering away At the lowly depths I hail Once tranquil ground Is shroud with flame and iron Beneath the mechanized hail That sears away at composure Rage slaves maniacally From the higher ground I yearn to attain The ever-hopeful festering Withheld by dreams Night after night…
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Ceaseless mutterings Transpire In the absolute dark In the quiet nothingness Where I am marooned To revolve past doings Sharp, and ever-vigilant Beneath the veil I pry out the flaws Scouring ancient trials I believe unresolved Musings speed away And collide With dormant ears Against untroubled lives Sent miles away By slumber I shed the…
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Exhaustion spreads Its momentary curse Binding my limbs To its ghostly whim And panic crumbles In the choke-hold of sleep A dormant foe I’ll vanquish another day It is A bitter offering A gift I am slow to take The tranquility that soothes Yet causes My mind to reel I do not stir In the…
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In the mire of predawn The conscience sways Through the bends of fever dreams Guilt trips and forgotten dismay Past grief emerges From the churning insides Coiled by the fatal Steam of remembrance Voices Once deferred from Follow closely through the muck Defiantly echoing Of misfortune and distress And the bog does not waver It…
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Uncorked and riled I rave into exhaustion Depleting all words And forgoing the luxury of breath On and on Is the maddening drag The uprooting of silence The flooding of solitude Rattled thoughts Leave coherence bloodied Mangled, ragged And swallowed by disarray Until mountainous veins Rise proudly from my skin A showcasing of contempt The…
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This transient age Slips through my nimble fingers Pooling onto the concrete And streaming For the nearest drain It all rains from me Fervently pouring In torrential buckets I’ll never regain Time gushes From my droning thoughts The ceaseless blare Of eras departed I am hopelessly woven Into the flair of jazz halls Speakeasy reveries…
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Remedy Sways from my quivering lips The nightmarish tremor That rages beneath my skin To the high dosage That drained away reveries Carted off my hopes The urges that fueled my stride When I feigned control As I coasted day to day Better off not knowing Hollow and far from certain Risperidone slays And slashes…