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Dec 2018 · 211
Old wisdom
Skylar Kunaris Dec 2018
Different sores have different salves.
Mushrooms bloom in the fall.

The blind lead the deaf
and the deaf guide the blind.

Things create themselves.
Words are cheap.
Nov 2018 · 176
Arterial Detainment
Skylar Kunaris Nov 2018
My heart, it beats so quietly.
Irregular at times.
Sometimes it seems to skip beats.

A passion burns inside of me,
but I'm unsure what for.
I look for purpose in my heart.
I strain to hear it's muddied thumps
through thickened, blackened blood.

An engine drives me straight ahead,
but knows no way to stop.
For fuel it burns what it can find
it just leaves ash and smoke behind
but in pursuit of what?

I live, I take, I want, I need.
My heart is vanity and greed
but stopping it's pulse means death.
Nov 2018 · 518
Soliloquy of Sloth
Skylar Kunaris Nov 2018
I lie inside a purgatory of overpowering apathy, drawing the will from within me with each attempt to relocate my being, such that I cannot achieve the thing that I desire. To exhume from within myself this endlessly building and foul nectar. It would be a welcome release, but it seems as if this release is not my fate. For my body, and perhaps some dark, hidden part of my mind, have seen it fit to betray me in this hour. My limbs refuse to obey my will, and my anguish grows with each passing second, yet still I am left powerless against my own lack of will.

That is to say.

I have to ***, but I'm too lazy to get up.
Oct 2018 · 277
Greedy Quiet
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
Teeth encased in bone dry wood.
Mouth stuffed full of chalk.
My lips tremble, trying to speak.
A sharp absence of sound permeates.
The silence carries as if on a breeze
airborne and terrifying.

A moment lasts forever.
Stretching until it can't,
greedily devouring time like a
famished serpent.

The overpowering stillness,
soon to tear and release like a
thick skinned balloon.
Oct 2018 · 372
Bleached Black
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
Neon Bones 'twixt Electric Veins.
Surface Cracking
Steaks of Exhilaration in Darkness
Welling Tremors
Crackling Black Desert
Cold and Dry
Locked Away
Oct 2018 · 351
Fear of falling
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
I'm an arsonist in recovery.
When the rocks freeze over,
I slip and fall.
I burn bridges just to keep them warm.
Oct 2018 · 209
Agent of Change
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
She stands slouching, foreboding,
   A guide past the grave.
Death is wistful, a lady.
   An agent of change.
She's here watching, and waiting,
   A friend on dark days.
Oct 2018 · 128
Beauty
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
I have a song inside my heart
It beats ever so quietly
To hear it you'll need to get close

There's a theater in my eyes
Only it's ever so dark inside
To see it you'll need to get close
Oct 2018 · 252
Flood
Skylar Kunaris Oct 2018
The rain came down
The river rushed,
as was warranted for flooding.
Sep 2018 · 265
I will not do drugs
Skylar Kunaris Sep 2018
I will not do drugs
I will not do drugs
I keep hearing myself saying that.
But I look confident in the mirror,
the rancid smoke fuming from my nostrils.
Sep 2018 · 280
Yeah
Skylar Kunaris Sep 2018
Sure
   You. Do you

It's whatever.                   No worries
            Okay
                                       Good night
                                                       Cool
Sep 2018 · 433
I'm just tired.
Skylar Kunaris Sep 2018
I'm tired of being awake
I'm bored with all the entertainment
I'm exhausted with all of this
I just need some sleep is all
Mar 2018 · 337
Occasionally
Skylar Kunaris Mar 2018
Sometimes I'm invincible
Infrequently I can fly
Every so often I'm ecstatic
Rarely I'm charismatic
Once in a while I'm a mad genius
From time to time I have all the answers
Now and again I feel truly alive
Occasionally I'm happy.

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