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Spritesandshadows
13/F/UK
Wear you heart on a severed sleeve Never question but always believe Let the sharp grass pierce your skin and sleep on soft bricks People that don’t even realise they’re sick Cry to the rhythm don’t stray from the beat Of amillion souls as they shriek from the deep shut up sit down and go back to sleep Dream of a better world that you could keep Breath in fresh air from inside your cage Finish the last and dont start a new page Pledge your alligience to the iron bars That keep you trapped in this world of ours Wonder but don’t quite fly up to the stars Hold your head high and cover your scars Set the world on fire and let it explode Watch this crippled world as it turns to stone Is this somewhere that you once called home? And you go far and wide just because you’re free to roam And you sit atop a hill And you write a poem You see a sunrise so pretty you’re sad that its going The violins play night seeps into day Not with a happy tune But relief, it ends soon It’s refreshing to know That there’s nought you can do So you finish the story And it all ends with you.
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Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM UTC
Set the cage ablaze
I want to be part of a different world I want something beyond my reach I want it so badly But I cannot reach I want to be part of something bigger I want to make a difference I want people to know my name I want them to finally be satisfied
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Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM UTC
Too far beyond
Never broken a bone The pain is inside Worse and worse It will never subside Terror is inevitable Die Die
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM UTC
A voice
They are not real They are acting They are all pretending Nobody is looking But everybody’s watching You don’t know them You never will Your storyline is set Don’t go in for the **** Don’t try to find out It makes them angry Don’t try and meet the horizon It isn’t real Nothing is real It is for their entertainment That you were born It was all planned It was all staged I repeat. They are pretending. You’ll never be free.
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM UTC
Photo baby
The air wasn’t colder The people weren’t louder The ride didn’t seem to take longer The smell of the petrol wasn’t stronger Everything was normal Maybe you could say But I met death on the bus that day They told me to finish the sprite in my bag Said “take the enjoyment, it’s all that you’ll have” I unclipped my seatbelt and said “yea I’m fine” “I’m not thirsty for sprite, or for love or for life” They looked so suprised “you wanna leave?” “No- Ive got family, friends all the people I know” They then interrupted-“then why should you go? Then fight me and argue and try to say no! «  «  as time goes on, things go a bit slow - I’m bored of the way that I rock two and fro, i dont give one about school and life and the people that tell me to stop. I’ll roll down that hill or I’ll run in the road or I’ll play on the see saw or cry on my own. » Then I realised that the black cloaked figure was gone- and the people were loud and my stop was four gone.
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM UTC
Death on the school bus
What a waste Of a dream one night Of army boy just taking flight What a waste Of an innocent soul Of a life so unkind, so cruel and oh What a waste Of a broken baby in a trench Of an old crib sitting on a bench What a waste Of a million tears Tears ejected in bullets from some long unforgiving gun What a waste Of a weapon not meant for little boys Of a billion good lads and one bad man What a waste Of a body in the dirt Rotting on the ground in all the hurt What a waste Of a hopeful child Of a life that might have changed the world Of an army dreamer with a body of paper and a heart of diamonds Of a little boy with So much to give but even more to lose What a waste of a life
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM UTC
little boy in uniform