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 Jan 2014 BaileyBuckels
Josh Hall
Look at the strange child,
He hides in his hood.

Sunken like Kronos,
In a prison of blood.

Look now to the girl,
With the waiting rubber-band,

Aimed at the boy,
Who won't make a stand.

A snap is heard by a few in the room.
They know not what they witness,

They will to laugh to their doom.
As they sift through suspended stillness.

Then for the boy everything stops,
The projectile poised in front of his face.

He strengthens his mind while his mask then drops,
His fears are no more for his demons he'll chase.

Time is no more while he walks to the girl,
Staring at the place he once resided,

In his pale eyes hatred writhes and swirls,
Now for sure he is decided,

The flask in his pocket contains the essence of virtue,
The reality from a god of cruel taste,

Down her throat he pours it for he knew,
The purity of the righteous will watch the guilty waste.

Leaving the place he used to call hell,
Time returns to disgrace.

The girl then ignited and fell,
The boy goes to find new evils to face.

What a waste of a world,
What a waste.
The smoke
Carries me away
In a dream
To you.

But I want to live in reality.
 Dec 2013 BaileyBuckels
annmarie
Quite a few years from now,
my daughter will be twelve.
And all her friends will start
to think about things like
first kisses and winter dances,
and I know she will ask me
what my first love had been like.
And when that happens,
I'm going to smile
(though it may be bittersweetly)
as I remember
driving around aimlessly with you
singing along to bad radio stations
and exploring our town
to find the best local coffeeshops.
I'll remember nights
in our high school arts building
when nobody else was around
looking at the newest pictures
the photography class pinned up,
and how gentle you were
whenever our lips met.
I'll remember how no matter
how close you held me,
I always wanted it to be closer.
I'll remember exactly the way
that your favorite scarf smelled,
and the safety I felt
when you'd pull me into your arms.

I don't know what else will happen
between today and the day my daughter asks,
but whenever it is,
the answer to that question
will always be you—
so I want you to know
I can't thank you enough
for a story that makes me glad
I let myself fall in love with you.
I found this in a notebook from this summer and I might write a version two later but for now I like the original.
 Dec 2013 BaileyBuckels
Josh Hall
They crawl through the remnants of the ice-cascaded leaves,
They listen to the words and the exhalations that you seethe,

They burn into your mind with their dark and stinging presence,
Out of corners of your eyes flashes their consuming iridescence.

Divided we fall to the evil which careens,
But together on all sides there is nothing unseen.

Our covert chorus will never fall,
To the vine of scales that follows all,

The serpent's slick black viewed through the holes in the walls!

A hiss!
A strike!
Too weak!
Too much like,
The darkest *****.

To  what they are, a slithering mass of serpents crawling,
And brawling with the street rats in the night!
 Dec 2013 BaileyBuckels
Josh Hall
The slow trickle behind my bedroom wall,
alerts me to a subtle call.

"Help...help... save me from this cell."
But I cannot risk my sanity o'er my mind's concocted hell.
"Please... please... I miss life all too well."
Says I, "Do not stir me demon, my soul is not to sell."

I wrap the sheets around my ears and focus hard to sleep,
But a rest was not deserved for the demon craved to leap.

"I smell blood! I smell blood!
Like the sweetest rose-bud!"

Says I, "I smell nothing fiend!
You are only dreamed!
No reality in this is seen."

A chortle laugh is known just then while my walls begin to creak.
A drop of blood falls on my chest and grants a chilling shriek.

"Is it too late for reality to change its mind and let me die?"
The crimson stain upon my ceiling has deemed my end is nigh.

"Do you hear me? Do you hear me? Are you yet so vain?"  
Says I, "I am not! I am not! Do cause me no more pain!"

A sharp crack of thunderous tempered toil rips a chasm through my soul.
The trickle, trickle, trickle, to sleep will never lull.

"Do you hear it? Do you see it? Do you envy all the dead?"
"I smell blood! I smell blood! But out gushes YOUR blood instead!"

And then a scream of biting hatred breaks the silence through.
The stain pours blood upon my room while tempest's force ensues.

The dead retreat,
Unto their sleep,

Now my only friend is you.
 Dec 2013 BaileyBuckels
moonlit
i miss you more than you think.
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i haven't smiled in a while, but when i think about you i do.
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you left your sweater here. i wear it to bed sometimes. do you want it back? [it still smells like you.]
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i still remember how your favorite color was the sky right before sunset.
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you said you loved me, what happened?
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i'm still so sorry. i didn't mean to push you away.
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please just hear me out. let me explain.
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i left my beanie at your house. i know it was your favorite. can i come get it?
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i wish you knew how i still felt about you.
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i hope you haven't moved on, because i sure haven't.
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i listened to real friends today, i remember when you made me listen to them. all i could think of was you.
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do i still mean anything to you?
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god i wish you knew how often i think about your eyes. i still think they resemble forest trees.
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it's been two months. i'm still torn up.
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i have spent so many night cuddling up to my pillow wishing it was you.
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i can't think straight because i keep thinking about what you're doing right now.
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do you still think about me?
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i didn't know my heart could shatter over and over until i met you.
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we could've been in love. i'm so sorry.
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is this still affecting you as much as it is me?
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