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psychogoddess
psychogoddess
37/F/American "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." -Rumi
The games we play you and me and our rollercoaster ups and downs side to sides shifting gravity right-side up but now upside-down draw me in to you throw me out again so much fire flaming hot passions but the chaos some days I feel about to snap burst into bits spontaneously combust maybe borrow one of your blades and stab you while you sleep because the lies the mind-fucking savage trickery deceitful games but when you're good and you hold me snug against your chest your heart beating drum beats in my ear the way you come in for a kiss the warmth blooming inside my center desire and need and then you crack a joke I find myself giggling and between us a rather strange balancing exists a sense that if we were healed from traumas past living as the best version of ourselves, both that we would somehow be able to conquer anything an epic team and even now in the present mess we're resilient and have proven we can get through difficult, painful things so despite your violent behaviors and verbal abuse when your anger burns you up from the insides regardless of so many things I shouldn't tolerate all the reasons telling me I should walk away I can't bring myself to leave you can't fathom at all meaning it when I'm ****** off and tell you it's over always ******** when I shriek it's done and goodbye perhaps one day I'll run out of patience for it reach my limits split off from you go down a new road alone, find myself make my own way but that won't happen any time soon because there's something something inside you a unique force? unusual energy? impossible to know with any certainty but it bonds us me to you and I believe also you to me firmly holding us together, as if it's our fate to be and I wouldn't dare miss out on any chance we might have nor our lessons needing to be learned I see the good all that's beautiful truth of what you hold within you so I accept your darkness, will find forgiveness for the moments it runs the show hopeful you'll endure my shadows and toxicities that I can't always control I'd love to just love each other through all of it highs, lows and every direction imaginable if we just don't ever surrender if we never do give it all up delighting in the good times we have while finding purpose and learning ways we can be improved when things get bad it's not at all a lie when I say I believe you're absolutely worthy of it all so here's to another day we've made it through decided to keep on surviving despite our arguments and upsets I don't regret my choice to remain and I feel not a bit of remorse or shame for wanting to stay and be Mr. Moore's girl and it's with my whole heart and my inhuman soul I speak the words I'm about to say - I love you so very much, Sir love love love you beyond what mere language can convey and every day we make it through gives me more incentive to keep my grip on us held as tightly as I can so I hope you feel as inspired wanting for us to thrive with determination that you'll work for our relationship most diligently and maybe one day those games we play to hurt one another can and do subside I'm all in if you will be too it takes two to tango, ya know? and I really do think, feel, believe I could find joy in spending the remaining days I have in this particular life loving you
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Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM UTC
Mr. Moore & Me
The games we play you and me and our rollercoaster ups and downs side to sides shifting gravity right-side up but now upside-down draw me in to you throw me out again so much fire flaming hot passions but the chaos some days I feel about to snap burst into bits spontaneously combust maybe borrow one of your blades and stab you while you sleep because the lies the mind-fucking savage trickery deceitful games but when you're good and you hold me snug against your chest your heart beating drum beats in my ear the way you come in for a kiss the warmth blooming inside my center desire and need and then you crack a joke I find myself giggling and between us a rather strange balancing exists a sense that if we were healed from traumas past living as the best version of ourselves, both that we would somehow be able to conquer anything an epic team and even now in the present mess we're resilient and have proven we can get through difficult, painful things so despite your violent behaviors and verbal abuse when your anger burns you up from the insides regardless of so many things I shouldn't tolerate all the reasons telling me I should walk away I can't bring myself to leave you can't fathom at all meaning it when I'm ****** off and tell you it's over always ******** when I shriek it's done and goodbye perhaps one day I'll run out of patience for it reach my limits split off from you go down a new road alone, find myself make my own way but that won't happen any time soon because there's something something inside you a unique force? unusual energy? impossible to know with any certainty but it bonds us me to you and I believe also you to me firmly holding us together, as if it's our fate to be and I wouldn't dare miss out on any chance we might have nor our lessons needing to be learned I see the good all that's beautiful truth of what you hold within you so I accept your darkness, will find forgiveness for the moments it runs the show hopeful you'll endure my shadows and toxicities that I can't always control I'd love to just love each other through all of it highs, lows and every direction imaginable if we just don't ever surrender if we never do give it all up delighting in the good times we have while finding purpose and learning ways we can be improved when things get bad it's not at all a lie when I say I believe you're absolutely worthy of it all so here's to another day we've made it through decided to keep on surviving despite our arguments and upsets I don't regret my choice to remain and I feel not a bit of remorse or shame for wanting to stay and be Mr. Moore's girl and it's with my whole heart and my inhuman soul I speak the words I'm about to say - I love you so very much, Sir love love love you beyond what mere language can convey and every day we make it through gives me more incentive to keep my grip on us held as tightly as I can so I hope you feel as inspired wanting for us to thrive with determination that you'll work for our relationship most diligently and maybe one day those games we play to hurt one another can and do subside I'm all in if you will be too it takes two to tango, ya know? and I really do think, feel, believe I could find joy in spending the remaining days I have in this particular life loving you
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I wish it was just so easy and I could just cling to you keep you safe close to me and let you hold me with those strong tattooed arms and years from now find ourselves with countless stories detailing the moments our love could have - but did not collapse each of the trials we faced strengthening our bond so instead of faltering our love only grew wouldn't that be nice? wouldn't it be so precious? so beautiful and sweet? to have our passionate newness metamorphisize, and from that lustful fires intensive flames be forged a deep and real yet fairytale-esque bond every young girls daydreams the ideal model for their fantasy image of what "true love" ought to look like the projected sense they held after each Disney princess movie downloaded and set up a database of unrealistic expectations for their futures those days and years still thought of unjadedly hopeful imaginings filling their innocent heads I myself have lived too long too many years, weathered by not so pretty truths experienced life and the harshness of reality I've felt the sharp teeth of the world sink in and rip away obliterate and strip away my dreams and hopes and more than just a time or two Never could I now convince myself of such a lovely illusionary possibility I know better and I know also the damage such a belief in utter bull **** could potentially create but you do something you awoke that child naive and hopeful, passionately alive filled to the brim with joy elated by existence the girl I used to be inside my chest she's opened her eyes I thought she was dead but now I hear her whispering and bright so I'll ask you the same question she's presented to me What does it matter if we can't or don't Or whatever so what if we never succeed we have only this moment the one right here the one that's right now and there's no reason for us to not try to just jump in head first, over our heels a blind leap into the mysterious unknown like the Fool intent on his journey with nothing but his faith that the Universe knows the Universe will catch him if he were to fall why not just hold on You and me together and race to the deep end and when we hit air just savor every moment and maybe who knows Maybe we'll find out perhaps we really can fly with wings of --- and love on our hearts song wind What if we can? And what if we do After all?
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Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM UTC
Love & What If's?
I wish it was just so easy and I could just cling to you keep you safe close to me and let you hold me with those strong tattooed arms and years from now find ourselves with countless stories detailing the moments our love could have - but did not collapse each of the trials we faced strengthening our bond so instead of faltering our love only grew wouldn't that be nice? wouldn't it be so precious? so beautiful and sweet? to have our passionate newness metamorphisize, and from that lustful fires intensive flames be forged a deep and real yet fairytale-esque bond every young girls daydreams the ideal model for their fantasy image of what "true love" ought to look like the projected sense they held after each Disney princess movie downloaded and set up a database of unrealistic expectations for their futures those days and years still thought of unjadedly hopeful imaginings filling their innocent heads I myself have lived too long too many years, weathered by not so pretty truths experienced life and the harshness of reality I've felt the sharp teeth of the world sink in and rip away obliterate and strip away my dreams and hopes and more than just a time or two Never could I now convince myself of such a lovely illusionary possibility I know better and I know also the damage such a belief in utter bull **** could potentially create but you do something you awoke that child naive and hopeful, passionately alive filled to the brim with joy elated by existence the girl I used to be inside my chest she's opened her eyes I thought she was dead but now I hear her whispering and bright so I'll ask you the same question she's presented to me What does it matter if we can't or don't Or whatever so what if we never succeed we have only this moment the one right here the one that's right now and there's no reason for us to not try to just jump in head first, over our heels a blind leap into the mysterious unknown like the Fool intent on his journey with nothing but his faith that the Universe knows the Universe will catch him if he were to fall why not just hold on You and me together and race to the deep end and when we hit air just savor every moment and maybe who knows Maybe we'll find out perhaps we really can fly with wings of --- and love on our hearts song wind What if we can? And what if we do After all?
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My ridiculous heart leads me astray Deep dives, again and again and again I've found another lover with games to play I attract sociopaths; narcissistic broken men I'm quite aware they'll never change I know they're not my responsibility to fix This pattern is so ******* strange Why do I force myself to live in conflict? There must be something off inside me Something in my brain must've glitched I stay imprisoned, though I hold the keys My reason to madness indicators, switched I cannot heal their trauma bent hearts I'm incapable of providing what they need Broken darkness within isn't a form of art Foolishness enough to make me bleed They put on a show so presumptive to start It's so easy to overlook the tell-tale signs And my denial skills top the masters charts Sanity checks out, my common sense resigns I should know so much better by now Maybe it's not that I don't realize or know Perhaps it's something my mind allows There's a part of me that thrives on ****** Whatever the truth of my why may be I do believe it's time for this cycle to end I'm burned out by the utter absurdity I'm not happy and I'm done playing pretend Loving him doesn't mean I should stay Potential doesn't mean he'll choose to grow Lying to myself with promises of "someday" No. I've already spent enough years in limbo It's time to relinquish my attempts to control Sorrow and hurt, no matter, I need to let go Here I'm not helping, I'm suffocating my soul How would it feel to move into Universal flow? Certainly there's abundant joy to be found Power in relinquished attempts to gain power My world doesn't have to be a battleground I could exist as simply as a delicate wildflower Though aware, I still have a choice to make Knowledge and knowing alone won't save me Not from uncertainty or potential heartbreak I have to choose to behave, to live differently I don't honestly know if I'll ever get there Lacking the courage, I doubt my capabilities Too comfortable living in my familiar warfare Predictable chaos, I can live with hostilities I'm not admitting defeat just yet, however Too much of me desperately wants change So much importance within this endeavor Someday maybe it won't be beyond my range I'll keep on trudging through every day Holding on to my hope, my eyes opened wide Perhaps a door will appear, creating a way If I trust it to, the Universe will provide
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Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM UTC
Wildflowers in Warzones
My ridiculous heart leads me astray Deep dives, again and again and again I've found another lover with games to play I attract sociopaths; narcissistic broken men I'm quite aware they'll never change I know they're not my responsibility to fix This pattern is so ******* strange Why do I force myself to live in conflict? There must be something off inside me Something in my brain must've glitched I stay imprisoned, though I hold the keys My reason to madness indicators, switched I cannot heal their trauma bent hearts I'm incapable of providing what they need Broken darkness within isn't a form of art Foolishness enough to make me bleed They put on a show so presumptive to start It's so easy to overlook the tell-tale signs And my denial skills top the masters charts Sanity checks out, my common sense resigns I should know so much better by now Maybe it's not that I don't realize or know Perhaps it's something my mind allows There's a part of me that thrives on ****** Whatever the truth of my why may be I do believe it's time for this cycle to end I'm burned out by the utter absurdity I'm not happy and I'm done playing pretend Loving him doesn't mean I should stay Potential doesn't mean he'll choose to grow Lying to myself with promises of "someday" No. I've already spent enough years in limbo It's time to relinquish my attempts to control Sorrow and hurt, no matter, I need to let go Here I'm not helping, I'm suffocating my soul How would it feel to move into Universal flow? Certainly there's abundant joy to be found Power in relinquished attempts to gain power My world doesn't have to be a battleground I could exist as simply as a delicate wildflower Though aware, I still have a choice to make Knowledge and knowing alone won't save me Not from uncertainty or potential heartbreak I have to choose to behave, to live differently I don't honestly know if I'll ever get there Lacking the courage, I doubt my capabilities Too comfortable living in my familiar warfare Predictable chaos, I can live with hostilities I'm not admitting defeat just yet, however Too much of me desperately wants change So much importance within this endeavor Someday maybe it won't be beyond my range I'll keep on trudging through every day Holding on to my hope, my eyes opened wide Perhaps a door will appear, creating a way If I trust it to, the Universe will provide
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My beautiful ******* monster My delicate orchid of raging war Our time has not yet Run out, because - Beyond right and wrong Beyond out dated concepts of Good and evil I will find the space inside Deep in the middle, and Hidden betwixt infinite worlds A field of wildflower rainbows With ribbons of colors swaying Art forms dancing The song a peaceful wind Come, My love! Seek me out! We will be reunited there, after This moment, this then and gone Timeless blink has lifted its eyelids Mine, yours, ours and Everyone, just the Energy and passion The true  existence beneath The love of The Universe, Our igniting force; a lullaby Melody so perfect, created And our laughter following, when We realize the truth, see What is genuine existence; Remember our essence, our truth And are restored Because we are dualistic We have been split apart - Temporarily severed from Our eternal state of being Where we burn as Our own selves and yet We are also each other And when our souls collide We will once again be made whole In the infinite, My Love We are in fact already Reunited in our love there More beautiful than before
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Nov 17, 2022
Nov 17, 2022 at 2:57 AM UTC
Warren; My Beautiful Monster
It's been nearly seven years since we first met Memories a jumbled blur of discontent I've let the uglies swoop and swirl about Preserving my calm, my silence more days than not A toxic attempt for securing peace With only a mere handful of drunken outbursts; Alcohol the doorway to displeasure leaking To melancholy creeping, precursors to the eruption of my hidden turmoils Breaking free from their cage of suppression Pretending not to notice as pebbles - even boulders Of mephitic waste began to dimple our bond A connection already held by fragile, whispy strands For convenience, I denied and ignored - with such vehemence! The growing weight of the unacknowledged stones Unfortunate truths granted undisputed leave from my cognizance Moments to days to this verge of seven years This burden of ignorance has grown heavier than I can continue to bear And fewer of the rocks can be hidden away The truth of the sickness living amongst us; The severity of the cancerous tumor Spreading like wildfire, Turning all that I am into blackened smears of unsalvageable ash Now after years of slowly fading away, and Parts of who I was obliterated beyond repair I stand in shock, and bundled in shame Over how I've allowed you to treat me The complete control my negligence (allowed?) You to take And while I blame you for the bullets you used To shoot down my self worth and vibrancy I blame myself for the self loathing, Already quite enough in the very beginning To hand you every key you needed to Unlock and dismantle me I'm too tired to mine a shard of empathy from the darkened cave protecting my heart And the time to repair the fractures has passed Your words and accusations, throwing the blame on me, even as you beg me to stay I'm sorry but this time I cannot stay I have to salvage the remains of me before I'm entirely dust And admit to everyone, but myself most of all, That some things were just never meant to be saved.
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 at 4:26 AM UTC
Unsalvageable Ash
It's been nearly seven years since we first met Memories a jumbled blur of discontent I've let the uglies swoop and swirl about Preserving my calm, my silence more days than not A toxic attempt for securing peace With only a mere handful of drunken outbursts; Alcohol the doorway to displeasure leaking To melancholy creeping, precursors to the eruption of my hidden turmoils Breaking free from their cage of suppression Pretending not to notice as pebbles - even boulders Of mephitic waste began to dimple our bond A connection already held by fragile, whispy strands For convenience, I denied and ignored - with such vehemence! The growing weight of the unacknowledged stones Unfortunate truths granted undisputed leave from my cognizance Moments to days to this verge of seven years This burden of ignorance has grown heavier than I can continue to bear And fewer of the rocks can be hidden away The truth of the sickness living amongst us; The severity of the cancerous tumor Spreading like wildfire, Turning all that I am into blackened smears of unsalvageable ash Now after years of slowly fading away, and Parts of who I was obliterated beyond repair I stand in shock, and bundled in shame Over how I've allowed you to treat me The complete control my negligence (allowed?) You to take And while I blame you for the bullets you used To shoot down my self worth and vibrancy I blame myself for the self loathing, Already quite enough in the very beginning To hand you every key you needed to Unlock and dismantle me I'm too tired to mine a shard of empathy from the darkened cave protecting my heart And the time to repair the fractures has passed Your words and accusations, throwing the blame on me, even as you beg me to stay I'm sorry but this time I cannot stay I have to salvage the remains of me before I'm entirely dust And admit to everyone, but myself most of all, That some things were just never meant to be saved.
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**** this nonsense I used to be I was a human I had feeling Now I'm empty Without words My language fails me I settled for you And I closed up Like a cocoon But this butterfly is dying I don't think I don't That this butterfly is going to emerge You've pushed me so far down I've forgotten who I am You're murdering my soul Shredding my essence And I didn't notice I just forgot I forgot I was a living being But now I see And I will fight I will brawl Until my death To set myself free And be who I am How did I forget?
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Mar 9, 2020
Mar 9, 2020 at 6:35 AM UTC
Untitled
pushing, pulling stretching, contracting so back and forth almost as if our relationship is made of rubber bands so I am trying training myself to be more flexible but there's something I can't seem to accept; I can't just let go and not dwell on with such unproductive worry, worrying... how long do I possess? just how long until this rubber band grows brittle and snaps? how long until we're devoid of our elasticity and left with only scrap bits of ugly little pieces repulsive grey shreds scattered about randomly - mere garbage, serving as nothing more than so much ******* littering our floors? maybe I should just ask this - how much time are you capable of giving to me without your being within my presence a forced effort? and not a personally desired behavior of choice? because, you see although I will hold out until the last moment possible I want to have at the least, a meager pathetic hint warning me and giving me time to prepare my mind and my scar-riddled heart for another lashing so I won't be entirely broken and worthless when you go and break it break and shatter chip another chunk away from what little I have left that deformed glob of an ***** pumping my blood throughout my veins and keeping me a lost ****** I loathe this that I am already a weak, ugly prisoner of my own malicious and traitorous ****** beating heart
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Feb 2, 2014
Feb 2, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
rubber band
I'm writing you a note just because because I'm feeling like I have to feeling like I'm helpless here and without your rough forceful touch I'm angry and aching craving my bittersweet agonies wickedness creeping up from the black hole that hides behind my human skin please pathetic and weak though I likely seem I'm willing to beg down on my knees grated concrete scraping against my flesh scratched and bloodied and I'm pleading make your palms, your fingertips, piercing stings hold me down **** me and take any notions of my possessing power far away make me see how I'm nothing, just worthless and infuriating and you, so much like a god why yes, you're the god god of everything so break me down and rip me limb from limb and seam by seam for I am merely a servant girl and you've the part of the cruel king come to me now please come come and punish me I am nothing, lost perplexed thoroughly without you to bring me to life for I only become truly alive in moments of raw abuse so won't you come now please you strong, glorious man and help me live awhile inside the blood and bruises that'll be left by your pounding, ****** hands you're exactly the one I want to deliver deserved consequences for my countless sins a beating into submission my soul for a little while, at least alert and cleansed pleasure me by flooding me in an ocean of  hurt every wave some new sort of pain your lessons are the single part of my existence I long for so desperately most passionately crave I'm begging, come now please remember me, helpless here and share the beauty only your own source your inner darkness can so easily create
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Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 9:06 PM UTC
**** & Pleasure Me (Dave's Poem)
I'm writing you a note just because because I'm feeling like I have to feeling like I'm helpless here and without your rough forceful touch I'm angry and aching craving my bittersweet agonies wickedness creeping up from the black hole that hides behind my human skin please pathetic and weak though I likely seem I'm willing to beg down on my knees grated concrete scraping against my flesh scratched and bloodied and I'm pleading make your palms, your fingertips, piercing stings hold me down **** me and take any notions of my possessing power far away make me see how I'm nothing, just worthless and infuriating and you, so much like a god why yes, you're the god god of everything so break me down and rip me limb from limb and seam by seam for I am merely a servant girl and you've the part of the cruel king come to me now please come come and punish me I am nothing, lost perplexed thoroughly without you to bring me to life for I only become truly alive in moments of raw abuse so won't you come now please you strong, glorious man and help me live awhile inside the blood and bruises that'll be left by your pounding, ****** hands you're exactly the one I want to deliver deserved consequences for my countless sins a beating into submission my soul for a little while, at least alert and cleansed pleasure me by flooding me in an ocean of  hurt every wave some new sort of pain your lessons are the single part of my existence I long for so desperately most passionately crave I'm begging, come now please remember me, helpless here and share the beauty only your own source your inner darkness can so easily create
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It's cold and it's empty, this hollowed out feeling of pleasure... I focus on the rush of desire - desire for the sensations alone... The sweet friction in my center, the pounding force of what is you, merely a tool for my cravings' fulfillment; an object for nothing but my physical satisfaction; a satiating of my burning lust... You're worthless to me outside this externally needful task... Not my heart, neither my soul, have even the smallest holding pocket, cradling some sort of love or care for you... Tell me, please, why we do this to ourselves, over and over, again and again...? Are we honestly contented by the passionless movements of our graceless pieces and parts? Is this animalistic ritual the solution for what we so desperately search for; that for which we agonizingly struggle, crawling down confused, tangled paths, looking without knowing exactly what we seek, despairing, sickly, exhausted, and so pathetic; so pitifully weak?? Are we satisfied with ******* Just ******* could that be the answer to the question that, from existence becoming, the human being has been, from the depths of the soul, constantly, repetitively screaming? I cannot bring myself to believe such a notion could hold a sand grain's worth of truth, but you seem to have accepted this joyless, hope-crushing idea, and as for myself, I know I'll only continue ignoring that which my heart keeps urgently speaking with a driving, whispering voice, from my inner-most recesses, and continue on with the oblivious dance of this pretending; this charades game all the world eagerly strives to play... I will bottle the juices of my self-deceiving, self-depriving fruits, borne of my guilt, my denial birthed shame... Yes, of course! I'm absolutely satisfied with the act of mere ******* Feelings of wholeness sweep and flutter, butterflying the insides of my body's unseen puzzle pieces, and I'm simply overflowing with this ever so peaceful calm... Lies, fiction, deception, robed by willfully grasped ignorance, keeps us marching, two-by-two, silently miserable husks, just living until it's time to lay in another void-like place, this one our grave, lonely and cold... And now it doesn't seem like there's anything left, for any one of us, to say...
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 7:52 AM UTC
Satisfied with *******
It's cold and it's empty, this hollowed out feeling of pleasure... I focus on the rush of desire - desire for the sensations alone... The sweet friction in my center, the pounding force of what is you, merely a tool for my cravings' fulfillment; an object for nothing but my physical satisfaction; a satiating of my burning lust... You're worthless to me outside this externally needful task... Not my heart, neither my soul, have even the smallest holding pocket, cradling some sort of love or care for you... Tell me, please, why we do this to ourselves, over and over, again and again...? Are we honestly contented by the passionless movements of our graceless pieces and parts? Is this animalistic ritual the solution for what we so desperately search for; that for which we agonizingly struggle, crawling down confused, tangled paths, looking without knowing exactly what we seek, despairing, sickly, exhausted, and so pathetic; so pitifully weak?? Are we satisfied with ******* Just ******* could that be the answer to the question that, from existence becoming, the human being has been, from the depths of the soul, constantly, repetitively screaming? I cannot bring myself to believe such a notion could hold a sand grain's worth of truth, but you seem to have accepted this joyless, hope-crushing idea, and as for myself, I know I'll only continue ignoring that which my heart keeps urgently speaking with a driving, whispering voice, from my inner-most recesses, and continue on with the oblivious dance of this pretending; this charades game all the world eagerly strives to play... I will bottle the juices of my self-deceiving, self-depriving fruits, borne of my guilt, my denial birthed shame... Yes, of course! I'm absolutely satisfied with the act of mere ******* Feelings of wholeness sweep and flutter, butterflying the insides of my body's unseen puzzle pieces, and I'm simply overflowing with this ever so peaceful calm... Lies, fiction, deception, robed by willfully grasped ignorance, keeps us marching, two-by-two, silently miserable husks, just living until it's time to lay in another void-like place, this one our grave, lonely and cold... And now it doesn't seem like there's anything left, for any one of us, to say...
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I'm so cold without you possessing that piece of myself I was perfectly warm before you though; there weren't self requirements So there must be a way I might rediscover freedom now that you're gone And reawaken my inner freedoms, that've always lived, all on my own
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 11:32 PM UTC
Nameless Fragment of a Poem