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The symphony of your skin suffocated my senses. Smothered my resistance against the sensations you sparked down my spine. I surrender to your siren call, my simpering protest met with sinful seduction.
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Oct 3, 2016
Oct 3, 2016 at 5:40 PM UTC
Seduction
There is nothing beautiful that came to be without effort. Even the flowers had to push through the dirt to show its face to the sun.
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Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM UTC
Excerpt From A Story Unwritten #7
Life is never a structured path that is well lit and fenced in. Life is not a road. Life is the wilderness that we are all crawling around in, blind, ignorant, and hopeful. You are not guaranteed to succeed, but if you are still alive you still get to be a part of something messy, strange, and beautiful. We all came from somewhere and took steps forward. The steps don't have to have shoes, don't have to be steady, and they don't have to miss all the puddles.
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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM UTC
Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #6
I am only a shell near your ocean, helpless to your pull, Wave after wave tumbling across my seeking heart.
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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 8:50 PM UTC
Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #5
Anticipation, a frozen breath upon the wind. Endings beginning where beginning's end. I am captured in waiting. Time marches on trading all of our nows for laters. Deliberate and debate, I delay. I am captured in waiting. Vacant visage I sleep away seeking morning’s light. The next day and still the next, always. I am captured in waiting. I am still in waiting. I am in waiting. I am waiting. I’m waiting. Waiting. Wait.
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Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016 at 8:38 PM UTC
Waiting Game
I am a person of almost and kind of. I am a shadow of what I was Hidden in the darkness of a past Cast down by the light of the future. This present of in-betweens The liminal space in which I exist. The here and there on the journey ahead. I am the line between the points The mystery before the solution I am the median, the average, the midway I am incomplete. Pieces of a whole unable to form the big picture. This limbo of emotions The neutral of positive and negative Inactive, inert, insufficient. This heart filled with grey Longing to see through rose colored lenses Paint my world with emotion. Trade the silence for music. To fit in the missing pieces. But almost doesn’t offer solutions And kind of doesn’t capture the horizon.
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Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016 at 4:18 PM UTC
Almost and Kind Of
I exhale my thoughts across the page. My pen bleeds them into being. The paper victim of open wounds to describe a hidden hurt. This vicious dance of pain. Breathing life to this war of love. A mosaic of broken hearts. Sharp edges of loneliness hidden in the mortar of hopefulness. Is it fair to make believe a whole out of pieces? To take these glass hearts and shatter them to make a masterpiece. Taking the ruins of a life, Puzzling them together. A cobbled set of emotions. Flashes of light against the surface of what once was. Reflections of color, seeing beauty in the aftermath. Perhaps hearts were never meant to remain whole. Collecting parts of others Quilting the fabric into a blanket Warm enough to forget I am made of parts Parts of everyone I’ve met. Surrendering shards of me for the art of others Taking pieces for myself to fill the gaps.
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Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016 at 1:16 PM UTC
Mosaic of Broken Hearts
We will weather The lightning of fists The thunder of words The rain of tears We will survive The war of love The wounds of him The blood of her We will withstand The sea of hate The tides of battle The wave of emotions We will become The voice of reason The song of safety The music of freedom
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Sep 4, 2016
Sep 4, 2016 at 11:12 PM UTC
We Will
The theory of our relationship A complex set of numbers Are we where we want to be? Are we who we want to be? What do we become when we're together? I hypothesize and fantasize the answers. My only conclusion? The       distance       between       us       is       too       cold       to       define.
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Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 9:44 PM UTC
Theory of Nothing
My breath is caught. There's a reason they call it a rib cage.
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Aug 28, 2016
Aug 28, 2016 at 10:22 PM UTC
Rib Cage