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 May 2014 Alethea
Triiniity
Water
 May 2014 Alethea
Triiniity
I'm barely breathing
under all this water
I don't think you can keep me
alive for much longer

I can't drown myself
there isn't enough here
There isn't much else
that I can fear

besides dying without a goodbye
He loved me with the fierceness of a friday night
(Wine, smoke and moving hips)

You loved me with the tenderness of a tuesday morning
(Blinds, sunlight and fingertips)
What if I were a better friend to you?
Would you still talk to me today
Or would things remain the same?
What if I were a better lover to you?
Would you still be in my arms
Or would you still have fallen for his charms?
What if I were a better son to you?
Would you still care for me
Or would I be but a distant memory?
What if I weren't alive?
Would people miss my presence
Or would people not even notice my absence?
I just don't know...
 May 2014 Alethea
mark john junor
her silence had conquered me
she allowed that i should build a tower of sandstone
she allowed that she would grant me the sea and its grandeur
and that the sea should ever beat upon the door like hunger
calling me to take my place in her dark halls
for she had once said that it was natural
that a man should hunger and strive
she allowed that i could have these
things for she was kind in her way
so it was a craftsman's eye she set to
stitch this raggedy man

when at last i stole away in early hours
and paid truth's price in coins of otherworldly realms
she spoke to me with such stern regrets haunting her voice
she said that you must return to your birthright
now you must tear down this tower
and see and speak what lay at its base
so the sea cannot wash away
the world cannot grow gardens over it
you must uproot it and lay it in the sunlight
you must weep as innocence would
as innocence should

she lead me to that place in the gardens grove
and set to clearing the stones
revealing the artwork carved
and the stain embedded
set to revealing the flawed man
set to revealing the nature of his inner gears
for none can be free untill they have found freedom within
and this long hour i sit and pray
that night will end
at long last
at this healers hand
(the obligatory end of such beginnings...a fictional account)
faking a smile isnt working anymore
neither is wearing long sleeves to cover the scars.
I just want to be happy
and also not have to weigh myself everyday
not have to count the calories or refuse the food I love to eat
I want to be me
but society does not allow that
in a perfect world no one would feel like this
 May 2014 Alethea
Iris
Untitled
 May 2014 Alethea
Iris
You're falling and i'm hurting,
please tell me, is it because i care too much or just simply
act like i do;
because apart from compassionate detachment,
i don't have a clue.
Though, just maybe, perhaps, probably-
deep down i do,
and always will
love you.
(even when you don't)
And you're drowning when you're holding onto my foot
and you're pulling me down
just like before.
I'm suffocating, stuttering, i'm dying,
i'm kicking you off.
And i am so, so sorry
i could not(or would you tell me that i just would not)
keep your lips
from turning blue.
 May 2014 Alethea
cr
i called you at 4 am with mascara
tears and bloodied knuckles grasping
a quivering cell phone in the
rain; you drove three hours
in the middle of a storm to hold
me close and claimed you'd never
let me be alone again.

you
lied.
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