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  Drift

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  No creeping light shines through The curtains that have blinded me Repelling all that unwanted light away But have I tried to stay true? Happiness is never free Drop to our knees, time to pray Can't find myself beneath the surface tension Solace finds me in due time Without a rhyme ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Today I Die As One, But As Millions I'll Return

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  A million dreams below the desolate sky Seeking waters of life upon barren streets so dry Children line the streets holding back their angry cries I'll be the one to step away, and hear their desperate plight One man cannot stand alone But his ideas have been the light that's shone ...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Stratosphere

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Am I so nonexistent Have you heard me calling Out to you in the distance? I am just the ghost That brings a chill to the atmosphere I remember lifting you up to the heavens Watching your smile reflect light off the stars In the stratosphere Shapeless like the water I jus...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  You Gave Me Strength Again

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  I wrapped up your memories in the quilts Surrounded by the scent of your hair And the stinging feeling of guilt I see your hair flowing all around And you don't even make a sound But the first impression had me so captivated Another day behind my former self And anothe...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  It's Cold Out There

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  High rises down to to the inner city slums Alley cats hustle with street math And 11 year old kids selling drugs Gamblers roll the dice Hoping to strike it rich Instead they lose their small fortunes Or wind up buried in a ditch Never get too many chances To marry and gr...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  The Last Great Uprising

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  We've kept our coffins stained With the impurities of guilt Sheltered from prosperity and light And brought down by the families we've built Generations passed through waters of deceit And to carry on this dying plague of memories It's not the bitter recourse that gave me my rec...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  This Angry Train Is A Howlin

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  As I'm staring down into that sunset Mahogany in it's radius and subtle glow I've seen those good people working so damn hard But maybe I have judged the ensemble before the show I have kissed the ground before the feet of Abraham Cause he was a wiser man than me Cau...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  In Distress - The Butterfly Effect

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Droplets of rain Slide down my roof Looking through the window To where I might find some proof I contained my heart inside a vial And you found it in the gutter in just a little while It's placed my mind in an ocean of distress Is this the butterfly effect? I'...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  My Story......

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Oh, little boy, have you lost your way? Moving on from the times of visiting That wishing well to pray Throw a coin in the water And make another wish Revisit a much simpler time Where ignorance was bliss Where guidance was provided When you had nowhere to go A map, a comp...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Am I So Lifeless?

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  A thousand times I'm just you're victim To play with A thousand times again you say you've Always been my friend And a thousand times more I say a thousand times more You'll say That you've always wanted something more When I'm slipping, ben...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Art Is Vindictive

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  If it's only self destruction That serves as the greater antithesis Than would you value your life more If all your goals broke free of hypothesis Overestimate your objective analysis Subjected to emotional torment Rationally is victimized by desire Judgement is clouded ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  I Can't See The Sun, Because The Stars Are In My Eyes

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Do I, echo some kind of Forsaken truth? Have I been a part of your Elaborate ruse? Where it's been, how it's seen Can you find some peace of mind On your way to someone new? I give answers to the Questions never asked I drill holes in the identities of Th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dance Isn't Over Yet

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  I gave up on life When I thought I'd lost my way Still searching still a struggle Just to find my place Heartbreak, couple drinks just to forget But you're always gonna be someone to remember Baby my heart is hurting but you're the best I've had yet Gave you ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  The Fall

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  I always find myself falling On the way down to seeing you I always find myself falling Just trying to keep loving you So I stood next to the side And saw the view so clear But lately my head has been so dizzy With everything I fear But I always find a way to hold o...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Who I Am Is Dead

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  The waves crash off shore and don't you feel it? I'm speaking to you a thousand miles away If I'm screaming in pain you can't believe it If I'm suffering you can't perceive it I'm breaking away from me I'm breaking away from me I'm killi...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Graceful Flame

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  In my mind, an image of your face A shadow burned into the fireplace So come and take my hand Let me lead you to a place Where the dark is not so bright And the candle flame is not so full of life Once you were the wax, burning strong and slow by my side Now you are the win...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Graceful Flame

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  In my mind, an image of your face A shadow burned into the fireplace So come and take my hand Let me lead you to a place Where the dark is not so bright And the candle flame is not so full of life Once you were the wax, burning strong and slow by my side Now you are the win...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Sister Raven and Brother Crow

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  She will fly valiantly over time's abyss If not to remember, than only to reminisce Voyages across a thunderous black sea Where mountains stood over the land triumphantly The sky bled it's purple blood across the canvas of the world She may only be a bird, but in her hands s...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Angel Tears

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  My deepest thoughts provides warmth I had sought Like being cradled in a mothers arms a feeling I had forgot How I miss that warmth and safety and the love Isolation once drove me to a breaking point But like the black flame of the candles I'll rejoice And dance with such grace ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  The Four Horsemen

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Predators roam the plains, savage and fatal, I project my vision with words that pierce through you like a nucleus quasar Call me Gabriel or Raphael the new archangel, I cross mental plains of the spatial so I can surf the wormhole of the time space mechanism and silence the faithful Like cloc...
• Opinion > Points of View
  Food For Thought. part 2.

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Architecture, the construction, the building and planning of an elaborate design per whatever our hearts desire or our necessities so demand. Let us break this definition down into something more simple and streamlined. Perhaps you are of a young age and happen upon a sandy beach. Would it not be th...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Food For Thought.

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  Food For Thought. The Anarchist Diaries Part 1. by Brandon on Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 8:46pm · What does life mean to us? All too often we are faced with such adversities and complications in life that we sometimes forget what value really means to us. As a general misconception it's co...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  A man, a mastermind, a man of no remorse Cruelty in his veins and cold frost in his gaze The string bender, the man with nothing left to lose He is the man behind the curtain veil at every sadistic play He is the puppeteer and you are the victim on the string You’ll dance for h...
• Poetry > Ballad
  November

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  November light whispers of forgiveness in my ear She speaks to me about my life and what it looks like to me A reflection of the beauty that it once shone And the rain clouds that now sleep over me November light is hiding in my shadow from dusk until dawn Praising me for the right and showin...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  The Wolf Of German Spite

  

  By SonOfTheReaper, New London, CT

  The chill that races and shivers up your spine As the clock is running out of precious time You sprint forward, dash back, nowhere left to run He’ll have your throat before light of morning sun This beast calls the kindred forest land home His fangs glisten moonlight beautifully shone Claw...