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1.1k · Apr 3
A bird's Song
Opal Black Apr 3
A song is sung
A song is felt
Constantly heard,
From the chirps of birds
Birds dance
Birds sing
Emotions are felt
Through the song they sing

If you listen it’s there
If you feel it, It’s felt
But do are you really feeling it?
Do you really listen to the bird’s song?

A dance, A song
You watch as it plays along
Colors flash as pitch change
A song is just a song
While the birds sing
316 · Apr 1
Tick, Tick, Tick
Opal Black Apr 1
Quick do you hear it?
Do you hear that ticking sound?
Open up your chest and reach beyond the pound
Can you feel it?
Can you feel that ticking now?
You are running out of time, will you die now?

Tick, Tick, Tick.
Does that change anything now?
Are you still there?
Even after the sound?
Don’t let it stop, you can’t
But it wants to stop,
Will you let it?
70 · Mar 30
Heart of Drums
Opal Black Mar 30
Can you feel for me?
I feel for you constantly
Can you tell me what to feel?
I’m lost, even when I follow your constant beats

You drum in my chest, a hollow beat
You bring life, even when it has left me
Why do you still try?
Why do you still beat just for me?

Do you want something?
I have nothing to give
Are you trying to tell me something?
I’ve already asked again and again

How do I feel?
Thump, Thump, Thump
A constant drum beat
Now you know how you feel
55 · Mar 26
The Wind
Opal Black Mar 26
The winds will say hello even when the wind doesn’t blow
You just need to listen, to know
Without the winds, no breath blows
You stay suffocating in the unknown
Until the wind blows

Will you say hello back?
Will you take what the wind gives?
Life? The air to breathe again?
What if you say no?
Will you dwindle in the stale air?
Suffocate on what you didn’t take?
What you didn’t know?
Why?

Because you were afraid the wind would stay?
But now it’s too late
As the wind already passed to blow in another place
54 · 5d
Vengeance
Drip, Drip, Drip. Pools on the floor
Drip, Drip, Drip. You should feel bad, but want more
Blood runs a river,
Eyes darken just so
Drip, Drip, Drip. Blood falls to the floor

Knife sharp, cuts deep.
There’s no remorse so it seems
Dig it deeper, twist it just so
It was vengeance, you see so nothing is wrong

Drip, Drip, Drip. Clean up now.
Drip, Drip, Drip. Wipe away all the bad
The sound echoes,
the splash paints a picture of your vengeance.
Drip, Drip, Drip. So who’s next? I want to know.
49 · Mar 25
The Night
Opal Black Mar 25
If only the night could hear
As it is my only solace to all I bare
No sound, No words spoken
But the night knows even if it doesn’t show it

I sit alone hoping for it to swallow me
To hide me in it’s cold embrace from eyes who see
And yet, here I wait for the night, even though it’s already here
The night doesn’t wait, nor does it feel
48 · Apr 2
Greed in Death
Opal Black Apr 2
How does one want death but not actually want it?
How does one crave something so violent but can’t go through with it?
Something so feared yet worshiped.
Something that lingers, following you in constant.

If you want it, it leaves, but when you feel free it comes creeping back in unwanted
Does that warrant concern? Does that make you a bad person?
To not want the unwanted now, but only when convenient to you?

Death doesn’t bargain, no, death doesn’t pull favors.
It will take and take until it’s satisfied. But when is something ever satisfied when it could have more.
46 · 6d
Life Vessel
Swallow me whole, I beg
Attach me to your bones
Weave me through your veins
If you leave, I go
If you die, I follow

I’m your vessel giving life
I’m at your disposal even after I die
Use all of me, Don’t let me go to waste
For I am at your disposal in every way

You didn’t ask, I didn’t say
It’s unspoken, intertwined in our brains
So keep me close, Keep me there
For I am your breath to breathe life into you again.
33 · 5d
Remembrance
Do you remember? Do you remember me?
The fog cleared, I’m waiting where you told me
I remember, I remember some of you
But I can’t recall anything about me too
What happened? Where am I?
I should remember. I came to this place for you

But why? I do not know
Why can’t I remember me and only half of you?
Is it wrong to leave? Even when you don’t remember anything?
All I know is you wanted me here.
All I remember is that it was something important, I fear.
Do you remember? Do I remember me?
It must not have been important if our remembrance is impaired.
27 · 3d
Fire's warmth
Heat creeps up
Light flickers
You seek the warmth the fire offers
It guides you home, through darkened shadows
It's warmth hugs you,
keeping death from you

But don't get too close
For one wrong move the fire will consume you
It's never fully safe, yet you chose it to protect you

It will burn.
It will swallow you whole,
leaving nothing left
Yet you dance in the fire like you're with an old friend

Don't get too comfortable.
Don't get too near
For the fire is not the friend you made it out to be, I fear.

— The End —