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BenHeart
BenHeart
20/Other/Netherlands He is old but not old / He's numb but not numb / He tries and he tries / But always succumbs / / https://www.instagram.com/arie_is_on_fire/
Buttnaked babies in the swimming pool With little wings, on their shoulders Don’t drown in your drool Make the water, a little colder Scream and wail A little louder Eat your kale A little prouder Float or sink Dip your head Below the drink As I said Shred the strings on which I dance Every tremble, something in my blood Makes me fall at every chance Ate the barrel, gave it a shot I wished to free my thoughts They’re now no longer mine There’s proof how I hard I fought In between the lines Buttnaked Babies and a Sawed Off Shotgun May it not have been in vain There are demons on the run Chasing Kurt Cobain
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Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 at 6:50 AM UTC
27 Club
Sights worthy of immortalisation A play of wonder A canvas of colors Clouds of cotton A woman’s elation Caught in thread She hides behind the storm Indigo waves washing over With them soar the starlings Clouds with a life of their own Soldiers of the sun behind the curtain A symphony of luminance In their final hoorah against the twilight Soon the dome will be covered By a blanket of black Interrupted by startling beauty of her own The migration of the great The truly unattainable So foreign and so far A universal similarity The unforgiving muse The twisted reality That beauty in a single moment Is so easily erased Should we not know how to paint
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Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 at 6:48 AM UTC
Indigo Veil
The dancefloor is yours How she rules the court She is no stage dancer In the theater of war
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Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 at 4:03 AM UTC
Lucy
You cannot **** a choir You cannot **** a flock You cannot **** a cause You cannot **** all of us
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Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 at 4:02 AM UTC
Undying
Cease your storm For all you found In all that snow Were empty hands Something blue on your finger And gears hanging from your ears With your neck held firm And your head slumped back Chase the smoke that dissipates Like sifting sand through your hands Those auburn eyes the shattered glass That kept stabbing at my breast An acoustic guitar that never sings She plays best on broken strings The girl who drank the fire In an attempt to thaw her throat There's no sense in running home Into arms that never cradled A house that stood unstable Only to escape on iron horses Gold embroiled in the fractured The scars that make the porcelain Come to die on sober nights To the cold touch of the pyre A pocketbook of memories Categorized by melody From happiness to melancholy Lyrics carved into her gravestone I am yours to wander Theirs to have their way with His goddess to impress My own to love An acoustic guitar that never sings Comes to life, trembling It may be overshadowed by violin But Experience is best played On broken strings
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Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 at 3:56 AM UTC
Life Is Sweet Almost
Held in arms of Hazel Struck with a whip of glass Rocking in my porcelain cradle Waiting for the storm to pass Care to crawl away March after the tabby cat Beneath the autumn glaze The mountainside falls flat It's best not to hold A child of the wild rarely rests To stay ahead of the cold Milk dribbling from mother's breast Knelt over my teacup cot Heavy head heft over Summer's kiss left to rot Chocking on four leaf clover Drowned in shallow streams That little hands couldn't cross Alive in distant dreams Tucked in tight blankets of moss
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Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 5:15 AM UTC
Blankets of Moss
Caught in the midnight streetlight glory The deprived lay bare, shivering in the streets Wrapped in blankets of steaming yellow snow Out of sight is far enough to remain out of mind Only the white right is entitled to authenticate their rage Lay your broken child to rest, in their welcome grave Paid for so generously, by the Imperial NRA Who knew schoolchildren and congressmen Bleed the same, to a disputed death So afraid of the wicked, social state It's okay if we make our prosperity pay On the backs of blacks, we made our beds But it's not up to us to pay them back Those we sent to fight for us, lay awake in torment Who could have known, that the greater curse was coming home We don't have the time or the mind to treat you If you had laid down your life for your country At least we’d call you a hero on your tombstone We have become oversaturated In who’s name disgraced To the point where we condone the genocide ‘abroad’, online and televised Where the blind have truly led the broke, to the ledge We'll always be okay, should the right price be paid
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Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 3:55 AM UTC
American Empire
An ill attempt to hide The stars are worthless When they're kept from sight Like a phoenix In a birdbath The seductive skylines Another ripple in the pond Lost in their own lives Am I insane to believe The gigabyte afterlife The conversational kindle Nurtured or Nuisance Shall we stay estranged Not entangled In some universal umbilical The neon fever dream Cacophony of screaming screens Drawn to the dystopian Premonitions from the past The Future is so Victorian
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Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 3:54 AM UTC
Phoenix Victoria
She collected whispers In jars on her desk And stuffs her pockets With mumbles She wears a necklace Of marbles Crazy Cats Eyes That see in the dark She cries crystals That she later places In a row On the windowsill She had a scrapbook Of flattened leaves, Butterflies And razor blades She played guitar But only ever acoustic It better captured Her emotions She would not sing Instead she opened a jar And let some lost soul Whisper along
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Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 3:49 AM UTC
Acoustic