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benjamin-james
benjamin-james
Welsh
After we ended our love you suggested we remain friends I told you there was no point to that like the winter after Christmas day
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM UTC
Pointless Winter
There is a line the thinest hair of difference between heartbreak and euphoria Like the border that splits two countries that are constantly at war But they say, you can still respect those whom you are fighting There's admiration even in the face of its contradictions There are realms i feel i pass through often daily often a tender struggle between where I am and where I'm not A prophet once said that the thought of paradise is paradise itself Well I guess i don't possess a great imagination
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Dec 19, 2012
Dec 19, 2012 at 3:32 PM UTC
Heartbreak/euphoria
people talk about the past like its still living an annoying neighbor who insists on visiting we go to the graves of our own mortal history but instead of soil and stone we're confronted by Zombies Zombies of hurt, Zombies of pain the ever living conundrum of the past, as the walking dead People live in the past like they've split the atom a world within a world a freedom they can't fathom we go to the homes we left at sixteen but instead of new occupance we're alone with the Zombies - Zombies of failure, Zombies of death the ever living conundrum of the pasts rotting flesh People review the past and talk like its still news yet its just a flicker of the mind the remnants of a fuse we look over the lines like editors we read in the hindsight we searth for truth yet all we find are Zombies - Zombies of hate, Zombies of love the ever decaying conundrum to the pasts resemblance to now.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 4:23 PM UTC
Zombies
We have dignity, right? Since the 1600's we've thought with minds of reason Anselm of Canterbury created pragmatism Out of the most sacred and holy of things And since then our rationalism has worn suits. War is for the common, the petty. Let the east quarters bury themselves in poverty Leave them to their primitive ways I want my son's to return They'll be studying the Romantics in the Fall We have no need for war I want my daughters to come back to their homes Instead of manufacturing arms to fight These unreasonable beasts We have no need for war. Let the Calvary of America flex its powered machines We are civilized. Poster Childs for the post modern With the intention to overtake Our own philospohy, that indicates- (with the raise of a brow, a tip of the head) That - We have no need for war.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM UTC
There's Nothing Civil About A Spanish War
Give me history, give me castles walls Show me the remnants of the Roman empire And evidence of how one, falls Make me feel a insignificant, or maybe a little important Either a fat cat on bond street Or a filthy gutter rodent This town is a mouthful, but I'm hungry for kingdom Give me the British isles Give me, the city of London
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Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM UTC
London
I have always been envious of those who are content yet i have never wished for their lives - to find joy in routine a bliss in the knowledge of what is an assumed inevitability It never sounded like a good idea We're all animals who prefer the confines of a zoo, than the unpredicability of the wild We're all Lions with their teeth knocked out Take away our desires replace our instinct with a mild manner with what comes natural Take away our fight and we'll all be whimpering dogs you'll find us Content
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Dec 3, 2012
Dec 3, 2012 at 5:32 PM UTC
Lions with their teeth knocked out
On some of their faces There were traces Of acne The oily composition Of beings born, with fallen wings Lives birthed under shadows Outside of the gardens and cities Where the citadels of refuge hung We stood Waiting for our own set of keys I looked to my left and right With no idea who was besides me But there was a vagueness that I needed to explore Because In the emptiness of your eyes I found a connection, a glint of my father We were coming from the same place Travelers from the open graves of birth Hoping to find a resting place Under the cedar trees, made for temples and made for us A place to judge A place to rust
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM UTC
Congenital Love - Part 3 of 3
The Substance of grace, is glue Congenitally speaking We weren't born together We came together You introduced me to your Son And it was eternally mutual More than his swagger (Much) More than his charisma He sipped the wine from the glass at the party And i felt a new era coming through Like a warm gust of air Promising a summer to follow Or of the scent of a storm, brewing above Suddenly, I was nervous, a little self conscious But it only took a night over the threshold A blood stained bed Old curtains pulled off the walls And a day turned to night (if only for a few hours) And you and I were together A declaration of co-dependance You doused me in your grace Marred it with glue Mathematically speaking One and one makes us two.
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM UTC
Congenital Love - Part 2 of 3
I don't know how you found me But here we are Full of wind Your skin is glazed in a wreath of dust You are amazingly void of entry wounds You're the other side of me And as i lay on this hospital bed Sides split, raw wounds Thorns now replacing the opening I can count the railings of my cage And like we agreed There is one missing The king and I went out to survey the land Nothing but dumb, beautiful, animals They didn't use our tongue Making conversation bare, and minimal You were the answer Even though you laid, muted by the moist clay Still a gesture in a shallow grave of dirt I could visualize you Closer, like another side of me But maybe, with regret As you came about Your beauty shone Like the dark side of the moon A dark reflection you were, at best.
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 5:04 PM UTC
Congenital Love - part 1 of 3