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Pure Consciousness

August 25, 2009
By expression91 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
expression91 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 5 comments

I want to drink this cool night in
Let it burrow in all my pores
Take my pulse and make it sing

(Lost souls are in the stars
The ones gone nova
The northern lights)

I inhale chill alpine air
My lungs burn like living
I’m sightless and weightless

(We are all just floating
We are in a void
Why don’t you scream?)

I am an animal
I am a newborn
I am your soulmate

(I am lost, so find me
Freezedry my tears
They are precious)

My lips are parted
Our hands are woven
We are dancing

(You know how to kiss
You are like a flightless bird
I could never be so beautiful)

You know incantations
I can speak in tongues
We could make music

(Let us call to the others
Make a wish on them
Their evenstar still lives)

Blue-and-purple creeps
I feel blood flowing
Your skin is of paper

(We can only go
If we go together
The world's shrinking)

Cover me in sheets
I want to be a ghost
Unmake me

The author's comments:
I wrote this a hot summer night when I couldn't sleep at three a.m. It was a stream of consciousness of sorts.

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Mckay ELITE said...
on Jun. 15 2014 at 9:56 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
—Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Weihui Zhou

L.O.V.E.L.Y. 

on Sep. 12 2009 at 11:24 pm
expression91 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 5 comments
Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you think so. :)

on Sep. 12 2009 at 7:59 pm
MorningStar15 DIAMOND, Orange, Vermont
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foe 3a.m. this is awesome for anytime this is awesome! :)

on Sep. 11 2009 at 5:46 pm
expression91 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 5 comments
Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you like this piece. :)

Emmalee SILVER said...
on Sep. 11 2009 at 10:58 am
Emmalee SILVER, Rayville, Louisiana
9 articles 14 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

B-E-A-utiful. :) I'm keeping up with you.