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Acoustic savior Won’t you carry me for a while? Through the dwindling lights That yield the sky to harrowing frights Strum away As I wither for slumber In service of bliss, opulence and plunder Salvage this mind In this moment, so gratefully confined
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Father, I must speak As the peace I’ve held, has reached its peak The boy I was, is thought to have strayed But in your blood he has always stayed I cannot hold For this heart of mine, grows certain and bold Shackled to manhood I must confess The façade I’ve grown, was far from…
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What I would spare For those scarce and sporadic smiles Our sparse and fleeting glances Our few visions into the unknown I crave our sluggish efforts The notion to look away When wonder is sought Back and forth, as we turn and grin How the angst in me strives For those squandered days When the…
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Precision and focus She slaves atop her kit Rattling under the haze of the saxophone’s fit It wafts with ease Through the crowd to appease Crawling into the alley so everyone may see Devotion Births her erratic percussion Forever locked, within a bassists baritone discussion His eyes long fallen shut All so the wild dresses…
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I strain to appear alive To appease my closest kin I move what is left within my control My exuberance fleeting and all too soon spent Straining to look vibrant! Yet I tilt at the whim of death Shifting, as the earth pulls away Tearing aimlessly into a newborn day Straining to hold… As acceptance…
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I’d rather pace around Reeling in agony Dragging down the torn and frayedThe remnants of my better half, I’ve badly scathed I relinquish my posture Hunched over and heaving Harshly bruised at the temple By my spent words, so weightless and simple Marred by daylight Cruel Judgment holds supremeAs I chase my thoughts in a…
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Hollow stanzas The carefully gilded verses All that I am All that I ever will be Revisit peril Revisit peril All I can achieve All that i will ever perceive Rushed summaries of heartache My words plummet like hailstones Captive to a boiling current All coming to pass, within my girth Guilt ridden eyes Prevail…
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To whom I crave When all is sullen, melancholy and grave Where are you now? To the shed of blessed verse When my earth is defiled, and shrouded in curse Where are they now? By day I pay homage to her fluctuating form The vision I wield to brave every storm Her elusive frame is…
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The lovers restrained Unfazed by the solitude they’ve gained They instead nurture the soul of their bond Whisking ones earnest emotion, To where the words are also fond Here’s to these honest few At the helm of their romance Fresh faced and new Here’s to an age of foolish reluctance Buttoned down by innocence And…