So what if the river dries up?
Black clouds over paradise-
the death of potential at the spawn of the uncontrollable.
I cant rewind time,
End up looking back instead of down.
I’m a walking skeleton,
an ignorant chaser,
hunting mirages in the desert of the past.
But the past has writ,
...
I'm drowning in my own venom. I've overdosed on myself once more.
Light blinds my heart, and again I'm stuck in a world unknown.
And so I listen and pray for guidance, but I can't hide the emotion on my lips.
I bite my tongue and plant my feet - It's my heart and mine ...
I'm the external product of frustration,
of the artist whose paint can never dry.
There's a difference between us.
We're skin deep, but we're not the same.
I can cut myself here and now-
Blood curdles to ink, and my heart's here on the page.
I can stand naked in th...
What you do isn't real
You're in my head and I'm twisted.
You come again and I'm drowning-
Soul heavy, eyes throbbing.
If this is love what's the point?
If this is real why keep fighting?
I can talk but can't speak, I can kiss but can't touch.
You need to...
The Conductor
Three small taps of His baton, and the crowd was silenced. Players straightened tentatively- arched their backs with the heavy burdens of metal. One flick of His wrist, and the instruments were raised- weapons primed against the deafening strokes of silence, a collective exhale be...
Dust gathers on my window
the rays of light traverse the glass
People scurry by – conscious on the horizon;
as if they fear what lay behind,
and so it is we build higher.
Until the tops of towers scratch the sky,
limbs quivering; to heaven they reach.
I wonder what they run from, the pe...
A thin trail scarred the sand beneath the weight: a fingerprint in the dust, subject to the whim of the hot, heavy breeze. Each leg pushed forward, forced into reluctant movement as the hands swung in a subconscious trance.
It was far from the gaping chasms of rock that used to be streets and the ...
Who are you?
Stop. Don’t do this; not again-
Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do? You who have been gone for my life; who have missed more birthdays than you dare to count.
I didn’t have a choice…
There’s always a choice! Why can’t you see that? Why can’t you ...
Glued erect; memorized
A tranquil gaze of this world within a world.
The boy's shrill laughter flooded my ears, as he swam across the ground.
And my heart stopped in the sweetness of climax
when his feet left the earth,
his golden hair
swaying to the mercy of the wind.
His feet touched first
...
Jew
he
had said
a salty venom bubbling
on his
hissing tongue.
my eyes
crumbled
beneath the weight of shame
or maybe
to dodge muffled eruptions
of the cackling crowd.
cheeks crackling
like twigs
the air
thick, heavy
dense with passion
his rosy lips
melting
to a victorious g...
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