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erica-boyd
erica-boyd
American “The many men, so beautiful! / And they all dead did lie: / And a thousand thousand slimy things / Lived on; and so did I.” / - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
She is the Sky. The Sky needs no one, no love She knows no limit, holds many secrets Beautiful, untouchable Let me bow before you Pour out my heart to you The Sky will always listen. Shed your skin Open your skull Remove the sins Remember the love Begin again. We are Two equal to One Day and Night, Moon and Sun Dark Clouds and Rain Blood Flow and Vein Where you go, I will follow Without you, there is no tomorrow. The room is cold, bland and boring When She appears, I feel my heat warming. We are Two who equal One She is me, flesh bone and blood She is the tree, roots branches and leaf My sister is the Sky, and I a tree. She is the Sky. She is the Sky, endless untouchable existence.
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Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 11:46 AM UTC
A Poem Written for Me.
There are things withered up inside of me. Dehydrated memories Sit like apples under a tree, And not even the wild things Would touch them. They dried up slowly, Not from the sun in the sky, But because of the season without rain. And then the maggots came. There are things withered up inside of me. And I am sitting Under the tree from which the apples fell. And I am drying up slowly. But not because of the sun in the sky, Or the season without rain, But because I refused to eat the apples. And ate the maggots instead.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM UTC
Feeding the Soul
Just wasting my time whilst traipsing around my imaginary mind.
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Feb 20, 2013
Feb 20, 2013 at 7:52 PM UTC
Bound (10w)
Do your scars ever insist That you touch them? Do they hover above your skin, Just so you'll scratch them? Like maggots Crawling over a carcass Wounds that will never close The burrowing mouths Leave permanent trails Because the flesh is dead. So contrasting, The pink of healing That was once an angry scab. But you scratched at that, too, Because it stuck to your body Like some parasitic tick. And I wonder now, If the circles of scars That trail down my forearm, Are like a line of dark ants That will follow me forever. Or if in their ugly hatching, I can see metamorphosis. But in the corner of my mind, I know They will always follow. And in the corner of my room, I hear the buzzing Of a fly.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 11:59 PM UTC
Cigarette Burns
Would be quite the age To live to But It is also The number of sleeping pills I took
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 7:48 PM UTC
95
A stupid boy who reminds of the eighties; He has gone away. Not stupid at all. But with him I felt something. And we weren't on drugs. He is beautiful, I felt his voice when he spoke And we didn't have *** I said, "I like you" then he said, "I like you, too". But it wasn't the same. I made him breakfast My heart was swollen tightly Then he went away.
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 5:40 PM UTC
Away
The hair that fell to my waist Heavy like a curtain And blonde And parted on the side That covered my bare ******* and got in the way of kissing And It got stares And It got petted Like some fine horse With some fine mane A rare prize And the drunk boy Sitting next to me That I didn't notice Who was twirling it around his ***** finger And that other man That I didn't notice Who became obsessed with It His ***** fetish And in the middle of the night He did Those Things So one day I just cut It off Above my shoulders And everyone was sad Why WHY why Did you cut your hair? But we still like It So I just cut it off Until it was above my ears And I can see the disappointment Of Everyone Else Who doesn't understand So sad about It And I smile.
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 1:40 PM UTC
I Just Cut It Off
Any reaching that is done Is a groping fumble far from sun Hours away in black hole memory What's for hostage when you're the enemy? Where are my clothes? So ugly with sin. How many hands, have been on this skin? Moaning like some sick animal Chained to a porch begins to cannibal All it is is ugly flesh Whining pitifully with every breath But the howling was always in its head Put your clothes on, You are far from dead.
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 1:13 PM UTC
Untitled