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I missed my train but there are more.
At least that’s what I thought.

I went away to get a drink.
I heard the next one drive away.

I didn't leave the platform then
but fell asleep right where I stood.

At this point
should I try again?

I missed my train
and I’m too late.
A digital mind
Full of data to be processed
Pictures to be saved
Memories to be replayed as a slideshow

What happens when it glitches?

Is there a way to troubleshoot?
Can we go in and fix the bug?

No

Not yet at least
We don’t know enough yet of its workings

We shall simply have to work our way around

Live with it

What else can we do?
It’s funny, isn’t it?
I guess, in a way, it is.

I, who always wished for it
even as a child
was the one who’d be without
anything to show for it.  

26 when writing this
and not even a kiss.

Pathetic

But it’s funny.
A burden

What else can I be?

nothing

Just

A burden

I try to be more
To be better
Or different
Or just good

But I’m just

A burden
Mom, please I beg of you, tell me that you see.
The pain of life, it tortures me.

I tried so long to show the world.
They never even cared.

Who else to turn to other than you, mother dear.
The safety I will always find.

My beacon in the void.

If no one ever knew me, does it matter who I am?
The world will go its merry way and pass me by again.

2.
The time has come.
The end of things.
His mind goes numb.
He cut the strings.

3.
From summer's eve to winter's night.
The Days have flown; the Time has died.

4.
My little time on nature's plain has come to pass in none but pain.

5.
When life goes on at record pace,
but he's too hurt to win the race,
would he be glad with second place?

6.
When just a kiss he couldn't get,
he yearned so for the kiss of death.

7.
In time of needless ever-wonder,
people don't take time to ponder,
who's that lonely man out yonder.

8.
The man does all for else's sake,
when greedy people only take.

When finally, his will does break,
his final thought sinks down the lake.

9.
A form of thought I couldn’t gleam;
it keeps the mind in state of dream.

For me however dreams of none;
the cold of truth my mind become.

10.
The silence screams my pain at night;
The lonely whisper speaks my plight.

11.
If I don't listen to myself, my words I speak for none.
For none are here to speak them back, and I must be alone.
My thoughts lie bare for you to read, Then I therefore am gone.

12.
The dark of life has taken me,
the light of death I wish to see.

13.
Forgive my sin I beg of you.
Take pride in what I couldn't do.

14.
A bird with none but wounded wings; a song of flight his heart still sings.
A bird whose wings are steeped in sorrow; Nature’s twilight as its burrow.
Will it shed its dark disease or feed the darkness; nature pleased.

15.
A floating heart in times of love comes crashing down when times are tough.

16.
A quiet whisper filled with grief,
it steals the heart, the pleasure’s thief.

17.
The enigmatic mind,
with thoughts of helpfulness in kind,
will realize soon is hard to find.

18.
The star of mourn will shine with glee,
for morning comes and I am free.

19.
What am I but slave of time?
My years on earth its biggest crime.

20.
My fragile heart unbroken yet,
for none have tried to take a hit.

So here it sits in flesh a cage,
to rot away in Life’s embrace.
The Spider, creepy worthless thing.
It moves weird and unnerving, so it’s feared.

People don’t think twice about killing
what’s not understood.
The Spider lives a life of turmoil.

Who cares?
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