sean-c-johnsonWhisper

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TriggerI braced for the sound, the inevitable blast that would deafen my ears and jolt my nerves / they came streaming out in my words / every syllable sounded like rounds from the chamber
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Dec 19, 2014
VictimI'll ignore the symptoms, embrace the syndrome / I'm damaged baby, so ******* damaged, but wouldn't that be so perfect of me to play the victim / I've disavowed the emotions that swell and seek to surge the barriers I so delicately built over this life
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Nov 16, 2014
The AbyssHer voice was as the sirens of past, the lovely melodies that nearly entranced Homer to a treacherous fate upon the sea / Tucked deep in the mountains the ocean was far from reach, yet her voice still called out to me / Subtle at first, muffled by whipping winds full of snow coming from all directions
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Oct 28, 2014
Remember whenRemember when these words leapt from my mouth, letters became gazelles bounding across the high plains of my tongue / rolling off my lips like a ship cresting the waves of a treacherous storm ravaged sea / Thrown to and fro, sloshing along the surface with the inertia of 24 years of anticipation pushing them to the edge
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Aug 1, 2014
ScalesScratching at the surface, a mass of desperation weighing over my gentle soul / yearning, scraping trying to dig out of this hole / I'm scraping to make it out of this whole
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Jul 8, 2014
SheThe weight of the world weighed heavy / She was a modern day Olympus feeling the pressure cracks of a spherical burden / Bearing the full brunt she winces yet sheds no tears
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Jan 13, 2014
FallThe wailing winds sear their caress in my memory / The cold of an eastern Pennsylvanian winter / Stinging yet rejuvenating, surrounded by ubiquitous gusts
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Nov 11, 2013
AnchorCast your wishes to the wind / Launch your desires to the sea / Throw your emotions to the ocean
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Oct 18, 2013
EyelidsI find myself tormented at night / eyes bloodshot staring at the light / pupils drying out, attempting to remove your image so perfectly painted on my eyelids every evening
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Oct 15, 2013
AudacityShe said "how do you have the audacity?!" / I felt her words, tearing, blasting me / words cut like shards of glass to me
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Oct 14, 2013
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