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Batchelor Apr 2020
The fluttering of eyelids breathed new life into the moments caught like fresh Polaroid snaps, the afterburn of the camera flash persisting, like a memory that fought its way to remain, resisting time and wear til the end.

The flesh knows the aching, burning want. The mind knows the still, cold pools of fools, the soul rolling with the blows of said fools, who thought time as it was would never be everlasting : A shrieking defiance, with the Chariot being pulled along by hanged men ; an everlasting idiocy.

But dreams & memories do just that. Syphilis-like consistency, marauding us all with persistent innocent tendencies to drown us in nostalgia, regret and fury. Yet we still have them on repeat. To not have known, is far more terrifying than not knowing. After all, we fear what we don't know. What we don't understand.
Welcome to the corner of your mind.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
Extinguish the me

To find the you

Cremate the when

To nourish the now

Cherish the moments

Embrace the life you have.
Leash the self.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
She is my silent purpose

My unwritten desire

Until one day she realizes

I'm the little pretender

Never getting tired of her.
Come even closer and hush.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
distancing oneself from the tell-tale signs

of morbid fascination with you

like thy myth

the rousing rumour you sell

hapless I am

entwined, I'm still.
******* of affection.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
How much farther down the rabbit hole?

How far before the taste becomes bland?

How much more of myself do I have to give?

This is a prompt of peace.

This is a concession of cliches.

I have hungered beyond my ken.



I am killing every piece of me that's ever lived, so I might remain humble.

But this hunger will never be sated.
May the hunger finally be put to rest.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
What we claim we do for love
we do for ourselves

a proof of duty
a molting bone marrow

the silent rites
the subdued preaching

a subtle instinct
of making your mark

the basic instinct
of a flame going out.
Keel over, for love.

December 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
The lips of the woman I love, intoxicating.

The way she suckled on my lower lip,
Spellbinding.

Her body convulses with mine, in the sacred bond of the bedroom.


She is mine.
"Just the two of us."

December 2017.
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