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1.4k · Jul 2019
Broccoli and leeks
DC Hall Jul 2019
Cooking in silence
on the stove-top
of my tiny kitchen.
Mixing broccoli and leeks.

I can feel the heat
from her eyes
swollen with rage.
Ocularly assailing

My words have drowned
in an ocean of
youthful trauma.

Her heart lost in dissension
697 · Mar 2021
Wildflowers
DC Hall Mar 2021
The fear of a frost
Has fled our minds.
I sit in full sun
Pale, after a long winter.
Chinese forget-me-nots
Peek through the ground
Send word to the california bluebell
The time is now
531 · Jul 2019
Party in July
DC Hall Jul 2019
Wet bodies
electric
drugs and disease
disobedience accepted
the wild run free
don't wear the uniform of  9-5
come naked, impartial
Enjoy the ride
477 · Jul 2019
Spoiled Solitude
DC Hall Jul 2019
The joys of solitude
have been spoiled by the love I have for you.

Walking silently in places unknown
use to excite and awaken my traveling bone.

Anymore it just reminds me
that my love is alone.

So wherever I travel
be it land
be it sea
It be not my home
if it lacks you and me.
472 · Jul 2019
Light of love
DC Hall Jul 2019
I love you
like the sky loves the sea.
Your light shines forever
and it watches over me.

Your smile
is my savior,
from the place I tend to go.
When I think about you laughing,
my love for you does grow.
444 · Jul 2019
Machinery of life
DC Hall Jul 2019
Men have had their bodies
and souls destroyed by machinery.
Hollow cogs and cold-blooded gears
grind through the better part of the day.
Relentless and unapologetic
Feeding on the dreams of a far away beach
A cabin upstate
or the delusion of retirement.
Dreams that slowly slip away
as your body deconstructs.
This is not a life to envy
Why do we endure

Is this what a dollar costs?
419 · Jul 2019
love no more
DC Hall Jul 2019
If nothing ever turns out
quite as meaningful as before,
I'll remember all the things you said
and the love that we once wore
399 · Jun 2019
Longing
DC Hall Jun 2019
The sight of you is an enveloping substance
A supreme ****** stimulant
Eradicating all commitment and restraint
I try to fight but the tenacity of your figure
Is in complete control
You are a ventriloquist
I am a puppet
Suspended by strings
Manipulated by ***
397 · Jul 2019
vagabond
DC Hall Jul 2019
A window seat
A good book
Dylan's discography
This ought to get me there.
I'm headed out with my life in a bag.
The simplicity of it all on your back.
Profoundly liberating to societies hold.
394 · Jul 2019
Relax
DC Hall Jul 2019
Relaxation
nothing shy of a superpower.
In a world of distractions
it's hard to stay strong.
To find real stillness and
peace in the moments between
all the happening.

These are the moments that count,
That i'll remember in the end.
The times Thoreau sought after at walden,
Kerouac at Big Sur.
The times I seek now
that keep the fire in me burning.
Making me believe that life
really is the gift
I once thought
it was
381 · Jul 2019
American current
DC Hall Jul 2019
We work to spend
Do it all again
Masterful marketing
designed to **** you in

Caught in the riptide of desire
down the sea of consumerism,
If you happen to fall in
you better know how to swim.
329 · May 2020
Police brutality
DC Hall May 2020
There is another pandemic
Sweeping across the country
The more pigment you have
The more you're at risk
If you disobey
You die
There is no end in sight

I heard there are riots
downtown for George
Chauvin is going to fry
In more ways than one.
I don't think it will make things better.
But it's a start
283 · Sep 2019
Praying to God
DC Hall Sep 2019
The sky is a reflection of
a child that's lost
It is screaming and crying
Painting our world with it's pain.

Why did it have to rain
so hard in Kansas
As we laid there in our tents.

Praying to God
For the second time this week.
Wondering if this is something
We will soon regret.
283 · Jul 2019
Forgot my keys
DC Hall Jul 2019
It made me really happy
when I saw you drinking coffee,
  half a sandwich that I made,
   and the television on.

I wish I could stay
but I do have to go
  In the future, together
  Our hearts will grow
when
281 · Jul 2019
So far from home
DC Hall Jul 2019
Red sky falling
through the branches of an old oak tree,
The rain here is light and unending
emotionally abusive in nature.
Silence consumes this town
only being broken by the screams of a freight train
Reminding me of how stuck I am
In life
in my ways
and in this town
which I have grown to resent
210 · Sep 2019
Darkness
DC Hall Sep 2019
The darkness seems so very black
And strong amongst the crowd.
It watches me so patiently
I can feel when it's around.

I have no desire to work it out
To change things or to pray.
But I desire to be underground
Until this feeling goes away.

My words have often failed me
And conveyed what I do not.
While the seasons start to change here
I am missing you a lot.
200 · May 2020
Employment pending
DC Hall May 2020
It has been
a long time
  since I worked.
I don't miss
doing the work
  or waking up at 4 AM,
But I do
miss the taste
  of a well earned beer.
199 · Oct 2019
Unborn
DC Hall Oct 2019
I began floating
through the shattered turquoise
Our contract had been broken
Surely I'll return again
Your visions paint me with disapproval
Two lives have changed completely
For now get your rest
178 · Jul 2019
Prayer
DC Hall Jul 2019
The sun will shine on me again
A sense of freedom and calm within
The dark days someday will end
A new life I will begin
138 · Jun 2020
Spiritual rebirth
DC Hall Jun 2020
Our city is on fire
I believe we will die like the Phoenix
And be born anew
132 · Jun 2020
Growing pains
DC Hall Jun 2020
Light is shining
On the dark side
Of society,
Reform is a long and winding road
True healing comes at
the price of uncomfortable
recognition.
But there is pleasure
in the pain
It is a precursor to growth
As a country
As a city
As an individual
130 · Mar 2020
looking for hydra
DC Hall Mar 2020
I am looking for hydra
in a lot of places
I try to cultivate it
with mind games
but they never really work
Places like that do not last long
perfection fades
like contrails in the sky
I am looking for a place
with a foundation of love
A community of hearts
Together, floating
For a moment in time
124 · Jun 2020
Dissolved by love
DC Hall Jun 2020
I was consumed
by mental shackles
Years were spent in longing
spent in bitterness
spent in pain

I do not carry
That weight now
But I still fear
the metallic hold

Those shackles are
slowly being
dissolved by love
120 · Oct 2019
Wash. Sq.
DC Hall Oct 2019
last year in San Fran.
I saw you there
with a sign on your neck
advertising your gift
your heart was resilient
as you walked up that hill
getting rejected by many
and accepted by few
but your eyes told your secret
your song i could hear
you found out the reason
the reason you're here
117 · Oct 2019
O.H.O
DC Hall Oct 2019
O Holy One
Come forth to me from above
I be but a conduit for your genius
Employ these hands to a lifetime of labor
113 · Feb 2021
Two bodies as one
DC Hall Feb 2021
Be naked for me
Show me your full form
I want you on top,
resting the full weight of love upon me
112 · Apr 2020
shades of blue
DC Hall Apr 2020
I watched the blue sky fade
cycling through many shades
until it submits to darkness
The final destination
A feeling was cemented in me
of how we are alike
102 · Feb 2020
Her naked body
DC Hall Feb 2020
Lend your body to my hands
I want to know what its like to toil
I have been infected by your beauty
fantasies of you seep into my pillow
we now sleep together
99 · Feb 2020
people watching
DC Hall Feb 2020
In a coffee shop
on 118th & 10th
overlooking teachers college.
Enjoying my coffee
and a day off work
i melt into my seat
trying my best
to lock on to the rhythm
of people walking by.
97 · Apr 2020
The first is coming
DC Hall Apr 2020
Mr bronstein
I can't pay you your rent
The whole world is sick
Disease is rampant
There is no work to be done
Keep your overpriced studio
I don't like it anymore
The Sun shine's brighter on the street anyways
You can keep my belongings
Rent it out fully furnished
I have a new pair of boots
I'll be okay
90 · Apr 2020
self-inflicted
DC Hall Apr 2020
Most trauma in my life
has been self-inflicted.
What happened to my eyes
that made them betray me?
Self talk is power
thoughts can take hold
they corrupt your mind
break your spirit
and send you into
a vortex of depression
The longer you spin
the harder it is to be still.
Tether yourself to a glimmer of hope
Try your best to weather the storm
89 · Sep 2019
Sundown
DC Hall Sep 2019
The sun is so low
Casting it's last Rays of day
Just before he calls it a night
When we enter a kingdom
Of different rules entirely
A foggy translucent time
For the demons and the hounds
When trouble takes hold
In the changing of the guard
88 · Apr 2020
love sustains
DC Hall Apr 2020
In the middle of this pandemic
At least I have you
My beautiful girl by the river
sharing coffee as the day begins
Wondering together
If things will ever be
as they once were
88 · Apr 2020
Fin
DC Hall Apr 2020
Fin
Spontaneous death
rips through reality
like a crack in the earth,
reverberating
feelings of impermanence
85 · Apr 2020
Insomnia
DC Hall Apr 2020
My thoughts are sentimental
as I lay in bed,
thinking of my home
and the oak tree out back.

I'm sure there are still
rusted chains hanging
from that withering tree,
Left over from our swing

I'm thinking of my childhood
and what it felt like to be free
I'd like to return but
Time has aged me

So I am left with these memories
that keep sleep away
while I turn in the darkness
and await the next day

— The End —