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“Only for a moment” Loops day after day In the back of the mind When the flood waters rise And wrap around my throat – It’s a soothing balm For a weary plain Of thistle and thorn Where stray winds catch fire – “This too shall pass” Only strengthens its bind Around my dulled,…
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Frozen, Before a universe of roads Weaving every direction, Holding tight to a lie Its bitter light gently fades – A steady thunder is rising Stealing air from my lungs As the galaxy expands And I sink into worry – My frozen form is a liar, Within havoc resides As a miserable ghost A…
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Warplanes blot the sun With their pitch-black moan, Twisting and gliding And spiraling undone – There is business at hand That of clearing and culling To the hangman’s refrain “For the siblings we lost” – There’s an undead scream Lifting over the wire An outburst, a prayer A mother’s stifled goodbye – Who…
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Cut down At the beginning By the strike of a hammer By a flash of anger By a piercing thunder – Sharp and shallow breaths, Cold through and through Splayed apart In denial “I must fight; I must fight” – What remains unfinished Circles high above Impossible Out of reach For tomorrow to attain –…
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A railway quakes Through the calm of dreamland’s plains Ahead the columns of smoke From a sweltering machine – Georgia steams and wails On a westward line Charging over my body And its quiet frame of mind – It barrels forward enraged To clear the slate and rearrange, To obliterate every deed I have fastened…
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My songs are just weightless luxuries From the crater-pocked ground, Flying high and hollow On a perfumed breeze – I’m drunk on sweet-nothings Two seconds from midnight So shameless and sunken In a paradise’s run off – A new troop is on the march And I have dulled my conscience My outrage, my ire Fall…
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Scarce is the driving rhythm, The eyes lost in a trance, The nagging hunger To repair and replenish – It’s a luxury to roam The inner worlds of another, To know the warmth of their sun To know the depths of their winters – These delights are in hiding From our violence and vices In…
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Outliving a lie Is sweet revenge, When the machinery collapses And breathes its last – Outliving a lie Keeps a memory alight Long after the shadows Of its killers have fled – Outliving a lie Supplants the despot Of some far away dawn Filling the streets with fanfare – Outliving a lie Is a tried-and-true…









