Now or never
It is a new day
I need to embrace it
And say to God
Once more
Thanks for keeping me
Alive today
Know I am going to bow
My head
And I am going to pray
I have so much to be
Thankful for
I got a roof over my head
I got plenty of food to eat
Father you are never going to
See me starve
The rain is here again
Coming down from  the sky
Heavy

vines twisting
around limbs
gripping tight
the fear that you will never
l
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  m
  e
   g
   o
jaw clenched
tongue blister
- ing, hair pulled from the
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eyes burnt shut, praying
to a God you no longer believe in
to make it
S T O P

Once upon a time
In a place I did not know
There was a fire burning in the snow

I know

I know, I know
It's hard to believe
I was lost, never blind
I saw it with my own eyes


A falling tear crashed to the ground
Crystalized, it turned to ice
Glacial heart ignite
Burn in the pain of July

I gazed upon a field of
Frost flowers


Once upon a time
In a place I did not know
There was a fire burning in the snow

I know, I know
It's hard to believe
I was lost, never blind
I saw it with my own eyes


I saw that glacial heart ignite
Frost flowers wouldn't melt or vaporize
Not in these blazing flames of July

No, I don't
Know why


Would they be healed by an abyssal kiss?
Cured when fractal petals burn to ashes?
Or would these flames drive a glacial heart

To shatter these
Frost flowers


Once upon a time
In a place I did not know
There was a fire burning in the snow

I know, I know,
It's hard to believe
But I was lost, never blind
I saw it with my own eyes


And I would wager that
If I were to return
To that place I don't remember

I'm sure I would see
A fire melting
In the middle of
December

I met you yesterday
And gave my time to you
And what you did in return
Is leave a scar on me
And the sad part
I am used to it.

Love is a fickle thing
Not meant to last alone
A place that feels like home
Reminiscent til the last breath
A blooming flower til death

Caught in my mind
Chasing a love that's already gone
A piece of me still feels gone
The friends I left behind
And yet, here I am, lost in thought

Your gaze pulls me in
The warmth you bring
I wish I had the clarity
To undo what I’ve done
I long to fall
To follow where you lead
But I can’t help but turn back
To days I can't forget

- Bastian

For life;
We came on earth,
To try what would be.
Gloominess or mirth.
An overwhelming response
of nature.
Or wrath set forth
To be living and let live.

Every form of life,
Green, blue, white and brown.
We all know these pronouns—
They are
bound by stories intertwined,
strange and similar,
as outcomes align.

I am writing a free verse
Not because I am out of rhyme.
But for the cause of disruption
That you feel;
When you think about time.

Time - the unpreached
lord of everything.
A ghat road;
which aligns and declines
Your destiny.

Destiny which is only known to
your ticking wrist watch.
A metronome,
Teaching you beats
to dance.
To reach your purpose
still undefined.
Moving arms of this
Motionless time.