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It seems so long ago When I think about it now Like watching an old VHS in my mind A tape constantly rewinding to the parts I don’t care to remember But tonight all I can see is your thumb tracing my lips Your hungry gaze upon me Seeking an answer almost An answer I can no longer give you Tonight all I can see is My hand holding onto your hand Feeling your warmth on that cold night Similar to tonight It seems that I am the only one Who has locked apart of you forever In the hidden depths of my mind It’s a habit of mine, I am sorry But over time, these memories Hurt less and less Feel less and less like they Were mine to keep It’s become an unfamiliar picture A distant hazy feeling I’ve learned to let go But tonight All I can see is this VHS A part of you I have kept On the darkest of nights To keep me company For to feel this momentary pain Is better Than to feel nothing at all
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Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017 at 2:12 AM UTC
VHS
You don’t seem to remember a lot That’s okay, I’ll hold onto the memories for now Like an old picture hanging on the corkboard in my room You’re there when I wake Illuminated by the morning sun’s gaze You don’t mind hanging there on my wall An unexpected visitor lingering in my mind Catching my eye when I least expect it But I’ll wait, as I always do As morning turns into night, and night into day As the sun shines through these windows Ultraviolet waves upon my memories I’ll wait for your colors to fade
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Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017 at 2:05 AM UTC
Photograph
On better days, I would remember dragging my finger tips against the walls feeling the smooth glossy painted surface of your skin against my nails. But it seems like these days, you are grabbing my hands deep into your walls pulling me forward until I become them their solid white flat hardness, and they become me, my blue water carbon body, and that is that, and melancholy transforms into routine and routine transforms into pretend and pretend transforms into joy. It seems like all the games we play are like this harsh compromise and accepting it the way it is, where walls become water and water becomes walls where I can find myself slipping away, solidifying into a block of cement, covered in white glossy paint. This is not love.
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Jul 9, 2015
Jul 9, 2015 at 11:14 PM UTC
Cruel Game
In our hormonal civil war I found myself a samurai warrior so I sharpened my sword -- there's nothing kinder than the blade of possession. lady killer, flipping off the switch. and in the darkness I am you. all of my organs and whatever else, becomes you, to bleed your blood to sing your verse to clip your ears for the music you haven't heard before. but with our glands exploding heads colliding we fall backwards onto our own swords defeated inept.
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 7:36 PM UTC
So Emotional
Some wander through their rose colored glasses bitterly nonchalant for their lives passionate about everything in their non-compliant ways and unforgiving aesthetics pleased to accept their parts I get tired after a few dances back home feet sore, the blistering skin a familiar commodity raggedly hanging irritated drifting drifting away onto the lonely tufts of ancient carpet rags my nose hits the floor bludgeoning the tip of that sensitive aquiline shape nerve jamming straight to the heart and so does the dream begin Soaking in the summer nights, baked in that warm smile isn't it so odd? being terrified of an echo blocking me on the head soon erased and tuned to an alien frequency then trapped in a cave crying into the abyss the man behind me his shadow encapsulating mine comforting monster I can feel rip through me and as I run from that i fear falling down the rocky terrain hat ripped from my hair blond glossy tips frosting the cross mountaintops, I left my hat in his hands the one with embroidered sunflowers-- with a scream left eroding in my mouth from inside to out, an ancient friend I'd forgotten
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 2:25 AM UTC
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So many boys. What to do. my head hurts, my wrist aches, and at the end of the dance, i'm walking backwards
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Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014 at 7:16 PM UTC
Untitled
Most of the time I just feel like wallowing away and dying into this murky fog and it's okay because even with a moment of clarity, still still still adrift is my head flushed with the peach blossoms from the trees, still tender washed upon the shore
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 4:23 AM UTC
Wallow Follow
and you'd come up again in our conversation, a bit flustered wandering through haystacks in June what else did you want from me? it's either this or that... words shared yet lost meaningless and obsolete a hazy afternoon for two i knew a child who built houses out of pebbles and twigs he glued them together with honeycombs and called it love. those inhibitions he tore up and sealed for another day then one day the wind thought to come around to tumble the bees harpooning above him hypnotizing stings, the cries within him undulated to the frequencies, of bright peonies in the spring. and I saw this, twist I did, to bend the story wayward like the rivers without moons peering inquisitively at me. But they were only fictions carved by ancestors and ancestors past, whichever way to get their point across to hold my head in their arms. it was folklore I'd forgotten to let go the impossible book held deep in my chest the anomaly I'd refused to relent the searching for paradise.
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Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014 at 3:27 AM UTC
Paradise
Secrets kept hidden in the box Curbing Snailing Appetites Never fulfilled Never redeemed Tuneful woes that float to heavens Their cries met with open minds To become the one and only That biblical scriptures have prescribed And to that day I toast to you my woeful cries still unheard I keep them hidden safe and well sounding pristine from within the hell to what I have been taught that all secrets that must be buried. For I chose to keep those secrets pure the chaste and virtuous without a doubt For when mercy opens up her palms Finally griping me to her ***** I unleash these truths still yet unwanted and ripped into shreds
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 7:46 PM UTC
Boys
Never will you know out of body, out of mind atomizing in thin air floating upon crystal castles dangling on wispy clouds I suppose I am to blame I've forgotten in the mold folded a thousand times struggling under pressure bulking exponentially until I desist at last filtering out memories I couldn't hold onto regrettably kisses so deep so lonesome the touch of lips still lingers flirting with my memory an ancient calling my rhapsody, to harmonize, baptize recognize the demon inside. and lost in it's cage the fallen angel sighs of relief perhaps or of unshakeable boredom knowing that he'll never be never be never be unbroken
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 9:57 PM UTC
Never