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Shevek Appleyard Jul 2023
She watches the rain whilst I listen to it
The wink of a huntress
Swift, poised
The grim reaper of small beasts with wings
Their fate in her claws
But then shes snoozing
Cute and carnivorous
She heals my loneliness
I imitate her noises

She sleeps on my pillow
I stroke her with awe
She brings me dead things
I smile as she yawns
I am jealous of how much she is unconscious

I'll never know her thoughts
She is known to hear my own
I feed her daily
But she is free of time
Harmonising
We don't speak the same language
She trills at my window
I am happy to serve
I am hers
as much as she is mine
Shevek Appleyard May 2023
murmurs of the past that fill your spaces
till it spills smaller, we watch it disappear
another year lost to fear of paths and places
I dont know where to start
these witches have a bad name
and I aspire to see them, be them
Adapt
learn that kind of bold and brave
and not be swallowed up myself
the staircase to the sea
just swim
just move my body as we are baptised by music

scars vivid I spear your secrets
speak in lyrics of sin
spare the livid a smudge of living
spiritually employed
I laugh when I'm annoyed
at you every time I hear your voice
It reminds me heavens far away
and I never should of stayed
ladders can be lucky
and serpents can be pray
free to long
free not to belong
alone but not afraid
his anger as red as autumn
and I don't deserve any of it
  Mar 2023 Shevek Appleyard
Jamie Riley
Hammer attack surgeries,
Farmer controlled nurseries,
A Llama themed bakery
And a duck.
Our body was well worn,
Born, bled then ill informed.
Skin shed
Torn
Dust to adorn a once pristene floor.
Bred to provide countless lives, more.
Martyr to a form it shall never see.
The water flows but cannot know
The extent of its captivity.
Shevek Appleyard Jan 2023
Lying
wide asleep, fast awake
vivid explosure slows
and shows
full disclosure, there’s not many who know her
for who she really is
A face before its baptised by morning
bleeding gums rotting lungs bed crumbs search history
regrets hidden away in unread books kinks and mysteries
internal monologue pillow talk a disarray of leaked promises

a catastrophe awaits
can’t manage time or money
always in a hurry
not really busy but never free
she is consciousness
she summertime
she is vanity
And even when her mind is anarchy
she is an open wound with all her insanity
a sweet hyperbole
so don’t take her too literally
as bold as a secret told in a whisper
and exiled for her  audacity
as ferocious as they’ll let her be

Or maybe
She just needs a diagnosis for her ADHD
to feel accepted by this society
and in an instant it falls short
she rarely utilities silence
but asks   ‘do you talk to your thoughts?’
whether empty or optimistic
they’re ready, to present predicaments

lost to the night-time
she dreamt she was at crescent, longing to be full
its no coincidence she fains to the moons pull
A gatherer; fables of youth unstable to their intentions
solutions consumed by a draft that keeps
inherent phobias locked away
there’s a stray child with your voice in her head

you hush to comprehend her
a creator you made her
meander to your agenda
she’ll never be you
she’s wrapped up in
a plague of shame
a carousel of what makes her afraid
around and around again
deranged, insane and maniacally to blame
till theres a bittersweet beauty to every colour she can name

but colour exists within her
a short rush of boxed up souls stretching to the sky
a race of who can outlast the pace of august
and curtsy at the contrast
the mind infiltrates the gifts it gives
and she knows happiness is not a tap
her anxiety not a conviction to her minds confliction
Her insecurities who mimic and tease

Not more than a that
A mimic  a mindset
she can't unweave
A tangle of time she is blind to
Muddling the Ticking
the clichés they all say
Embrace the chaos
The frenzy she is lost to
The details she misses
Nature permitted
Sweet-toothed and sugar coated
The details she's tantalising  unsure
what to call herself
Clumsy moth
A drooping Helliboure
Scared of stability but that
Fear of falling through
just wanting to take off
And she's spilling her guts
No self worth no self trust
Impulses
calm for your crisis
So many messages
So many 'what ifs'
At her core she knows she is more
Than all these new beginnings
Thoughts of failure, of what could of been
She turns her head in awe to the next thing

Her Face chaces the looks you give when you're warmed by her
With all the Colour of summer
Come September will she Wilt and
Who will be around to see to see her wings faded
When she tilts her head down
retracting re-tracing retreating
Mind jaded and unwilling
But this time she hits the light just right
And becomes the sun
Spreading fractols of inspiration

But as always

a catastrophe awaits
wide asleep, fast awake
she will give all that she takes
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