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My Holy Ghost
I am happy now, I am here / I needed a rest, a break away / But I am here now and I promise not to stray
17
Feb 16, 2021
Pray
Pray for me / And I think I do not pray / But - Yeah sure.
22
Nov 11, 2020
Endure
The nerves are gone. / It's a phrase familiar but never applied to me. / She's at her wits end.
25
Oct 11, 2020
The Blind Revival
Assume the burial of the you to me that I conceived / The soil's earth, the soul engorges my strives to reach the air / It renounces me to make way for the reborn root of you
22
Apr 13, 2020
Leather Shoes
Trailing in these shoes, my feet no longer hurt / Straight line and bearable now / In replace of the pain and dirt
6
Mar 4, 2015
Modernism
I am living in the 1920s / I am missing the shaking tassel dresses, the whispering red lips and the springing curls / I live through the deep emptiness of an uncurled smile from a boy who has a shine in his eye
12
Apr 20, 2014
The Night's Loudest Silences
When the light has fallen away / And our facades / of rush
11
Mar 10, 2014
Summer
I miss how the protective warmth forces my muscles to relax / the cool bitter beer tastes sweeter on my yearning red lips / As my eyes have become a minimal size, a forcing squint from the demanding shine
10
Feb 18, 2014
Hiding
A child cries as loud as she can so that you will hear. / Do you do the same?
2
Jan 16, 2014
Undoubted doubt
No matter how fulfilled my new love feels / There is still a little bit of the memories you created / Leaking through this creased smile
3
Jan 9, 2014
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