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You’re gone at last, so at last I can think.
Insulting! Humiliating, not to be able to fire back,
As you put me once more on a mental rack.
It’s no wonder that I want a drink.

But by now I want so much more than strife.
I want to scorch your villainy with shame,
To crush your “triumph” and ruin your name,
And make you watch how you poison life.

Yet I am stuck beneath your wealth,
Undone if I demur in the least.
You spring upon me, a mental carnivore’s feast.
While I resort to stealth.

My father watched your villainy from the beyond,
from the so-called “Heaven” in which you planned to meet him,
As if that will ever happen! As if he would want to see you!
Is enlightenment part of the afterlife?  You should hope so.

But since you finally let go of your empty  life,
I do not miss you, don't mourn you or feel that confusion
That people say I should, that I'd be torn with strife,
No, no! Not at all—I feel nothing at all.
 Nov 2019 Pagan Paul
Gidgette
I keep your flowers there,
in the back corner of my
Dark Heart
They wilted long ago
I water them with saline tears
and
an ever waiting heart
You crept up
from that secret place
Fake Bright
in my black space
~A
None
I don't need more negativity in life
I have enough in me already
I am cutting you off
Avoiding till cannot
 Nov 2019 Pagan Paul
JaxSpade
I was on the level
But you tilted the bubble

There was a lean
That accounted you crooked

And I couldn't straighten you up
 Nov 2019 Pagan Paul
Eleni
Gas Mask
 Nov 2019 Pagan Paul
Eleni
You are my single lifeline
The mask I wear to confine.

With a plastic shield- I am out of my senses.
Frivolous safety, with endless expenses.

Coughing green and blue ice
Why do I seek life on Neptune?
Far from warmth and invisble to naked eyes
Rings of glass dull the distant cries.
 Nov 2019 Pagan Paul
Eleni
I shy away
in clouds of self-reflection
that cast shadows over
human nature's clarity.

Reversing a cocoon
my fragile organs, exposed- hang
To display their veiny
functions and dysfunctions.

Transfixed on a cellular level
I am complicated. I am mechanical.
Repeat routines and manage my capital.
Resistance faces dreams that are radical.

Auto-immune to my own feelings
or thoughts- I reject myself.
And neglect the wonder of
just being alive.
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