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hannah-franke
American
Where are the prisoners? Where are the guards? Watching. Ever watching. Light floods this cubicle, and Shadows entangle themselves in my sheets, while The omnipresent and intangible eye gazes. Devoid of visibility, only The gloom confides in me. The power of perfection entrapped in a hoop. Our ring encircles the guardian, who Is invariably stalking. Plagued Are the confined and deserted lepers. But what of the locks? Locks? The tower is our bolt. The eye will find the madman. Madness is also our disease, Guilt triumphs over futile attempts, the Belief is our ideology. Indisputable solidity becomes imaginary, while The goal is communal. We must, Survive in a personal Panopticon.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM UTC
Surveillance
Spears aviate above our gaze. Souls begin to depart Encompassing our moment, But it is slipping, as is my reality, As is your consciousness I had known the depths of ocean. Understood every numinous word. Prepared my death and planned my life. Each question accompanied by a definite answer. But in those speckles of green, Cryptic water flowed into my ocean, Spilling over the barriers, Rushing into the fields of grain, Carrying unknown parasites wanting to feed. Sliced. I knew this sound, this feeling, The blood that would spill, But your skin agitates my pulse. A tenderness that I had destroyed, That I can never experience. I will never known those hands, Or call them my own. I have created my own demise. Metal continuously clashed, Yet I lay watching your somber departure Envisioning a hopeless unison that could never arise, An act the devil had surely commissioned. Your raven hair fluttered, And I closed those eyes. Eyes that have become ingrained A permanent scar, stemmed from intolerance. A never-ending history repeats.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:16 PM UTC
The Paradox of Battle
How long did you lie there? Crumpled like discarded waste Slowly decaying into ash, so Putrid not even the vultures dare feast. Did you wait with your body? Slowly seeping from soft flesh, Not yet ready to relinquish your grip, Little fleshy slugs coiling up; Their heads peaking sideways. Hands clasp, molding tissue. Clay so susceptible to indentations, Yet you had never recognized, How faulty these compressions are. How did you realize? Symmetrical bone understands What she never will One palm embraces another, Knows what hers cannot. Are we made to intertwine? When she found you, we waited. Placing those worms amongst the dirt, But you found no comfort. Maggots deliver messages But the larva is poor with snail mail. So let go. Time to understand has long passed.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:15 PM UTC
Decay
My torturous fate solely seduces. Muse, but never mate. Dragged ashore, escaped from destiny, To love each wounded scar. Desire taunts curiosity, whilst love encumbers mine. Seven years kept prisoner on the isle of endless past, Each sensual diversion masks the drifting time, Each embrace marks my eternal days. Devotion flits from his somber eyes Spirituality melting by the hour Our interrupted unison ensnared in glances, Past this pleading stare. My hands built your vessel and fed your bones. My fingertips launched the ship. Yet I am left the sole prisoner, Entrapped in immortality. Poison eradicates flesh, though this hand is not of flesh. Fire purges bone, though this hand is not of bone. I remain the true prisoner. Muse, but never mate.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:12 PM UTC
Muse