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70 · Apr 2020
Feeding The Flames - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Sun blazes down on the back of morons

Wind tears posture off their feet

Fighting for a foothold on what will never be, will never appear.

We feel so bad. We're feeling so terribly out of    place

So we
          sink

               Deeper
                 Harder


There is a macabre beauty in not knowing :
Becoming apprehension machines.
Feed the flames of passion,
Feed the flames of fear.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
You think you know pain?

You think you know  Hell?

Take a good look around you.

You're just a tourist here, don't you forget that.

  - No Place Like Hell(ome) : НебоScrub

Shrugging off the dust,

Cracking open old scars to see the new skin grafts on the heart.

I was the one who took it all in stride, letting it all unfold.

I will never let anything go untold,
Cause the feelings go on and on.

But I have a choice, this time.

I swear I'll never be there, I refuse.
With tears that stream down my face.

November 2017.
70 · Apr 2020
The Fire Within - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The first flame slowly flickers out.


No other source of illumination burns.


You gather kindling, desperate to find some sense of security.


The security light brings.


Ash begins to gather on your face.


Forming your very visage, only frozen in place.

The mask of undeniable terror.
What seest thou else, on the dark backward and abysm of time?
June 2017.
69 · Apr 2020
The Hopeless - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Can you blame me if I need your fingers tracing down my spine again?

I've gone too long, fallen too hard to make sense where I end and you begin.

I pay more attention nowadays to the air escaping my teeth between each word I speak,


To the soft crackling, in the dark.
A hopeless grand transfixation and obsession over the old blending into the new.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
69 · Apr 2020
Opinions Of Sheep - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
It's always the eyes that get me.

For a walking black hole of emotion,

I sure keep swirling back to them.

When it's all said and done with,

I've become one of the unthinking majority.

The bones ache again.

Can't seem to dislodge this knife in between my spine, either.
And love will keep us buried, keep us grounded.

October 2017.
68 · Apr 2020
Dark Soul - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The king in black has returned

Consumed by the flame that once sustained him

Abandoned his station to buy the last few moments of respite


Now, is he even alive at all?


The king never calls for aid.

And he dies, consumed by the flames of pride.
In the heart's heat death, I consume myself whole.
June 2017
68 · Apr 2020
Impish Sheepish - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Fleeting, dragging me along like
Undertow, no one else knows, yet
Clearly, it's just wishful thinking.
Kings would be thankful for clarity.
*******.

July 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
The best thing you can do today is tell someone you love them.

We're stuck with words in our throats, never admitting how we feel.


Let it go before it's too late.
Fall harder and deeper into the quagmire of love.

December 2017.
67 · Apr 2020
Self Destruct - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
It was always about the next woman.
The next thrill, chase, fire.
No excuses no repentance
Like a wide mouth open devouring everything in the path

The hunger was different, difficult and demeaning.

I'm just a boy playing at being a man
For all the **** it did me.

What I mean what I want what I've been searching for
I found it, or rather it found me.
No one can run from it forever.
Nobody can.

My heart beats for the thrill of the hunt
The adrenaline rush
Palpitations of the skin sliding into the next one's collarbones.

Play with fire and you get burnt.
Become fire itself and watch yourself become an eternal witness to the world burning down around you.

I don't breathe the same anymore.

In peace, feel the rhythms cascade.
In war, fan the flames of passion.


We're not the same anymore
We're not young
We're sinners through and through
Why parley with the Line when you could **** up the Borders?

atrast nal tunsha
i will never find my way in the dark
Take me with you.
Without you, everything falls apart.
Hunger beyond relief.
April 2017.
67 · Apr 2020
Man On Fire - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
He wandered into her store,

Saunters past while being aloof,

She notices him, unsure but curious,

She fixated on him, as the music grew louder between them.

C'est la vie.
"Is that really him?"

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
66 · Apr 2020
Thanatophilia - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Deaden my nerves please.
Hold me so tight I cease to breathe.
Let the burn encompass my being.

Kiss me,
Kiss me again.

Love me,
Love me again.


Love me so hard
I cease to exist

He rises
And he takes control of one last joy spreading through my cooling corpse.
Give me one last kiss, and love me like an alcoholic.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
66 · Apr 2020
Lights Out - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Let us be whoever we want to be.

If only to extend this wick which we keep burning through.
Telling, that now there are cracks in our masks.

November 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
A continuous wave of motion into the gloominess of tomorrow.

The layers stripped away, nostalgia be ******.

When we reach the end of this road, in the knowledge we've done all we could.

And I'll know the love unspoken, the fair queen unabashed, naked truth spilling out.


Hoist my shield up high, as I soar to your side once more.

The hunger grows.

Patience stretches off into the horizon.

A king can rule alone, if needed.

He'll wait til the fair queen sits by his side once more.
And I will wait, for you.

October 2017.
66 · Apr 2020
The Pointless - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Now all the songs speak of your scratched out mosaic.

The crawling of memories bleeding out into the next pool of tears I create.


It feels like dying, just a hundred times more worse.


I have issues.

You issued my execution warrant by the end of our red strings.

Funny. I don't remember trafficking any drugs.

Unless the drug was the feeling of emasculation, disorientation, disrespect, sordid throwing of caution to the wind.

Then yes.

It's a marsh of filth you made me crawl in.

And you know I would do it all again in a heartbeat.


You're pointless.
You make me bleed
You make me cry
You make me forsake the things that made me, me.

And I have become the poet-king
The warrior-lord

And the Beast.

October 2017.
66 · Apr 2020
Oryctolagus - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Her fingers form a prong pushing away an invisible form, thrusting and gyrating in rhythm, the tune I recall now to be hers.
A mix between a cheer, a call to arms, so easy for the tongue to clasp it, yet the heart is made wanting even more.
Her legs sweeping in a semi-circle, lifting the day's burdens away in elegance, in effortless effort.
I stand there, a ******, marveling more than I could ogle.
I found myself treading water, driven to her flame as a moth.
Her joints twisted and fueling the air around her, like trails that seemed to go on forever.

It's wrong. Flowers weren't meant to be picked. Beautiful things wither around me. I'm no good stay away as the moon envelopes her whole.

I can't do this. I want to.
But how is decrepitation in fashion nowadays? Her precipitation filled me with hope, that somehow, I wasn't wrong for this.

you'll always be a better dancer than me.
Hop, little bunny.
Hop, wherever you may be.
May you find peace, and the right path for yourself, away from the black and gloom of yesteryear.
April 2017.
65 · Apr 2020
Fire To Water, Steam - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The intimacy of the memory leaves me shaking with its lack of mercy.

The intricacies of her theory leaves me hungering for delicacies she might have offered.

The original sin was that pride left me a long time before I realised I hungered for only one concept : constant change.

A heavy heart, but a constant weeping, until the day either of us turns back.

Will you?
Intricacy of our mutual intimacies ; come hither, tether yourself to me.

August 2017.
65 · Apr 2020
Johanna - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
His obsession with the pursuit of her

Enough to give one


Pause.


He had built concrete, rods made of rust,
A tower,


So he might be able to peer over the walls she had built.


kissed his scars opened new wounds


A maddening pursuit, he was told.
It couldn't be that the door was closed before it ever was opened.

Could it be?

you think too much.
Jo-hanna,
Harlot.
May you quell your hunger soon enough.
May 2017.
65 · Apr 2020
We Hungry Few - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
"You just wanted to hear me scream, didn't you?"

chuckle
Darling, it's been so long since I heard you moan.

I'll just settle for your screams.
Give in to me, surrender.

And

I


Will


Make


You



Mine.


October 2017.
65 · Apr 2020
The Profaned King - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The eighth in a long line of failures,

Luring all he could use to build his empire of rust.

Lusting after impossible trajectories,

Trachea wheezing in sorrow,

Rowing down the empire of rust.
It's a tragedy, played til kingdom come.
June 2017.
64 · Apr 2020
Exoskeletons - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Scent of weak oranges flows through the air

Coupled with bitter lavender

Out of use sour ashtongue as it tumbles


Orange flows through the glass


Posted with the lack of words


*hey, i miss you
Three maidens, three stories, three to get to the seventh.

July 2017.
64 · Apr 2020
Liar's Composure - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
And then she asked,

Since when did you become such a liar?


I threw my head back, sighing in relief.


Ever since I knew what I had in my hands.


Your heart.
I lament for the pain I will visit on you.
I rage at the agony you gift me.

And I love you, forever and a day, forever and the same.
June 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
Love doesn't work like how it does in the movies.


Imagine all the red wine spilt.


And all the sleeping pills taken.


Sepia turns to gray-scale.

Love, a most bitter pill.
Grab your most hated foe
Grab them by the throat

And force them to witness

The beast they created

August 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
You'd guessed right : we grew cold the longer we weren't in touch.

Our skin's set ablaze, childishly believing we were destined.


Who would've known, the difference between lust and love?


A gnawing ache either way.
Give in to me, give in to you.

November 2017.
63 · Apr 2020
I - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The one who observes, the one who rules.

The one who dominates, the one who conquers.

The one who pushes forward, the one who never lost.

The one who lingered, the one who planned.

The one who led revolutions, the one who extinguished strife.

The one who paused, the one who waited for his time.


And he lived.
Oh, above all he lived.
Still high on his horse.
Wait for him to fall like Napoleon did.
May 2017.
63 · Apr 2020
Dualities - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Something so much more simpler than anything else - void of thought, void of want - just the two of us
Kisses.

August 2017.
62 · Apr 2020
Firefall - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
This is what I get.

For holding onto an empty space, with my fingers outstretched to hold something I thought was there.

but it wasn't.


The hot asphalt searing, killing all of my nerves and screaming of how foolish I was.


Oh, that's what I get.


Loving so hard I forgot how it felt to hate myself.

Neurotic ******
Malevolent malice

Why it's come as a surprise?
To think that I was so naive,
Maybe it didn't mean that much,
But it meant everything to me.
Make it all, go away.
We just want something, something we can never have.
May 2017.
62 · Apr 2020
I Guess This Is It - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Onenitis struck me like the lightning bolt that blew up in my face, like thunder that followed.

You should know, by now.

Underneath the skin, well.
We were all made for some people.

And some of us, for only one in the end.
"Oneitis is the seduction community's play on “itis” as a disease to refer to when a guy falls hard for a girl, to the point of obsessing over her. It is often characterized by the guy making statements such as “she's the only one for me,” “she's not like that,” and “she's different from all the other girls.”

And for that, Rome fell.
June 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
Seer In White - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
He shuffled and wiped specks from his eyes, peering into the distance, observing the blue eyes hidden behind melanin.

Picking up scrolls of knowledge unbound, dust devils rolling in his wake.

Drew the curtains open, spilling golden cloth unto his being, as he wrapped himself in the fading of the light.


Lightly brushing fingertips onto cobwebs long frayed, rot and decay spread, accelerating time and tense til only dust remained.

Dust and memories of a time where he too, once sat as an equal to a young lord, his visions guiding the actions of a fledgling nation.


Now, all remained slipped through his fingers.


He took strides to the door, taking no time to rip open the door that held him in exile.


The Seer In White had returned.
Hail, King.

October 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
Robots - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
We're running out of skin to cover the brittle fingers, the metal clanging underneath the flesh.


he runs his fingers across her face one last time
she breathes out
it is the sweetest thing he has ever tasted


We're looking into the root cause of the dying emotions, our hearts speaking louder than questions and patterns.


the solid clanging echoing ever so empty in his head
she took what was hers
bring him along
please


We're holding up our hands in surrender, our tears streaming down our faces to get closer to the flame.


the empty space beside him
a quiet day within his mind
the disquiet like empty nights again
she left behind the rain
walking away with his last sunshine
The author falls in love again and again with the Lady In Red, to become his Red Queen, scant few months later.
June 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
Scapegoat - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
We're one with the flame
And we burn with the flame
Til we contract the blame.
"I burn, to make you understand."

October 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
Sunrise/Sunset - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Recognising the signs of attachment in him,

Jim bought out his handy dandy notebook.

Noting down the signs, taking inspiration from it but shaking on his feet, the feelings were too intense.

Pretense was, he wouldn't get involved at all. That he'd walk away unscathed, that he'd be able to laugh about it while bragging about the good times.


Time and again, he had been shown.
There was no laughing about this.
The hypocrite he was, to not step away from being bombarded with the emotions and torment. A saviour of none.
June 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
What Lies Beneath - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Now, do I have your attention or should I fuel your apprehension?

You should stop looking too much into what you dream.
They're more akin to a waking nightmare.

Their skin. Their waists. Their movements.

Intoxicating, aren't they?

Now that you've come up to breathe.

Now that you're on dry ground again.

You are not Icarus.

And they are not the Sun.

You know what you felt.

A great amount of suppression of lust.

But the fire, oh the fire.

Rouse yourself.

Douse the flames.

A soft silky smooth thread falls into your hands again.

Let it go.
The utter fixation and trepidation I felt, scant and gone.

August 2017.
61 · Apr 2020
The Moon And Stars - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Uncertainties cloud judgment
Eccentricities pierce better reasoning
By the time the colours fall

You will know why the thin line holds us so.

Both liberating and excruciating. The candle wick burns down til it's nothing ; it proceeds to extinguish itself.

Such is the natural order of things : the only constant is time.

what we feel for the time passed
how we think for the lives past
we loved. and that's all we can do.


This fresh coat of paint is cracking up faster than how I thought it would be.
Here is the beginning of an acknowledgement across years
An affirmation of the heart's stimulation
Never to reconcile if separation would ever occur
Justified by the tension between us
In the midst of a dance to never end
Even if it's at the expense of our souls

The beautiful enunciation of Her birth month.
61 · Apr 2020
Énouement - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
"The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self."


Swept the dusty floor with the steps you taught me, one and half step forward and back.


The sensations caress skin no longer there to feel it, having flaked off time and time ago again.


Where did the time go, if not here?

Where did the sand go, if the tears in your eye weren't caused by it?


We've always been alone.


You made living life a little better.


Goodnight, Lord Janus.

Your presence heralded new beginnings.

And we left the same way we met.
And the last thing I ever wrote of you.

October 2017.
60 · Apr 2020
Wish - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
I wish things could've been easier.
It seems I used up all my shooting star wishes, wishbones and eyelash wishes.


Wishful thinking, wishy washy hopes that somehow without saying a word or muttering a wish everyone would be alright.

I used my prayer for you.
If it wasn't my time to be in your life again, bells would chime and I'd walk away.


But enough talk.

Swish you go.
"Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you"

July 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
I watched his eyes flare up like the life of a dozen young children were reflected in them.

I watched his gait change, and cycling through emotions he started to dance.

His shoulders drooped as mouth began to sag, and eyes glistened over with tears bridled.


He is my friend.


And I write this for him.
Hello, Magic-User.

October 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
You walk into lives, clenched fists
You stray into lives, clenched fists

She tells him her story
He tells her his tale

We wander into souls, open-shut eyes.
We float into souls, closed-circuit minds.

A glass offered to ghosts
A dreamy interlude

They left us, with bleeding hands.
Left you, with broken bones that will never heal.

Her perfect circle.
His vicious cycle.
Lovely long nails

And a pucker for a sucker

Kiss me, kiss me.

Let's spell erotica with our bodies.

August 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
Here's to mourning the things we never lost
Here's to dying over a cause you don't believe in


Here's to beating yourself up for things that were already preordained


Here's to sorrow.


It's the unique taste on your tongue and mind,
It's the feeling you never had,
It's the tune you never heard.

For it doesn't exist.
Ashes and sorrow.

August 2017.
58 · Apr 2020
The Red Pill - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Bitter pill
Swallowed down
Like a cuckold
But an accidental one
**** dude
You were right
Men like me exist to be used
Heh
No wonder the disdain.
The gut never lies.

The same old lie.
Choking down with ice cold water
Like a game
But one with scalding oil
**** man
Should've listened to you
Heh
Bring it back down
Back into the eye of the hurricane.
Captain-Save-A-*** no longer.

July 2017.
57 · Apr 2020
Hollow Road - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
This high wears off
Heart is wrenching free
Even though I know it's wrong

Enter temptation, sweep into my door.
Never the same, always different forms.
Dragging my frail faith into the mud.

Oh, what ever shall I do now?
Forgive me. I am weak. Always.

Mind cracks, flesh submits, eyes weep.
Either I lose myself or this sensation..

Forever.
******, ****** to repeat ad nauseam.
Will I ever break free from this trance?
April 2017.
Batchelor Apr 2020
The only thing he's ever done,

Oh so tired of all the wrongs

A little more.

Every day.

Kept falling apart and.

Slipped away.
The ghost, the noose, the axe.

August 2017.
57 · Apr 2020
The Carnality - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Soft juicy tender lips slide apart for the racking of the meat slab in the cavern of the beast moist and juicy it slides into it and ends up giving up its life essence for majestic theatres that blare into the silent ticks between the clock.
*cackle* I do love myself some meat slurping done to me.

October 2017.
57 · Apr 2020
Yellow Daffodils - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Your expression is all the taste I need.

With the orange gumdew drops on my tongue

Crackling firecrackers on the sinew

All drugged up with euphoria

Expectation to shove you off after I'm done with you.

Caressing your cheek til the morrow

Til yellow corona peeks over the flat body of water


Watch you turn and leave

Feel the pit of my stomach churn but lips clamped shut with how I feel

like yellow dandelions bursting to soar away forever.
A departure, all the same.
May 2017.
56 · Apr 2020
Ketamine - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
It's six a.m and I find myself thinking,
What would I ever do without you now?

The bones ache without your breath billowing down spine.

The heart cracks, heartbreak reaching out for the last bibliographies you recited.

I'll sleep with the lights on tonight.

I dare not face the gloom without you.

Hit me up for another shot, and another.

You're the pusher on this *****.

And you control me.
And darling, my infernal majesty quakes at your divinity.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
55 · Apr 2020
Primal Seduction - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Rhythms crawl on my skin
Feelings unabashedly kiss my forehead
Sweat pours down the spine
Ah. Unrequited and flawed, a secret I'll take to church and leave there.
Getting closer yet so much more farther.
I'll never cash out on this.
Curvature of her spine calls to me, the
fingers clasping where she stood.
Never will I go through with how I feel.
She's no good for me.
And perhaps, she knows that.
Her tune starts up.
And for a moment, I only know her smile.
Unwritten and unspoken, the way I like it.
Breathe her in, and exhale.
A magnum opus all by itself,
Created in five minutes under extreme circumstances,
With the mind overtaking the body to enjoy heightened senses.
April 2017, for the succubus.
55 · Apr 2020
Not Your Autumn Wind - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Riddle me this.

I am every bad day you had.

I am every tear you never shed.

I am the bullet in the gun you never fired.

I am the light you sought, only to realise the brilliance within isn't too much brighter than the shadows without.

I am every bad thought you ever had.

I am the shaking of the wrist, the trembling of the fist.

I am the silence in the trees.


What am I?
"I am not your rolling wheels, I am the highway."

August 2017.















The answer is regret.
55 · Apr 2020
The Call Of Two - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
"Until you became the air in my lungs, the symphony between our steps,
The echoes of your voice in my ears,
The soft embrace of night over day.
You have become, second nature."

"Before, I was one. Now I am less than one, but so much more with you."
The mantle of the Lord Of The Moor is slowly shedding.
June 2017.
55 · Apr 2020
Slips Away - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
The girl who printed my heart out on paper, you have my heart.


Your eyes kept scouring for me, yet I remained deliberate aloof : I was tugging on your strings just as hard as your eyes bore holes in my back.


But hey, the black noise covering us was all we needed to look at each other.


That was the closest I've ever come feeling like me : feeling like the boy who once cherished moments like that.


And oh boy, she wants me dead.

Asked if we could become friends, but after the flurry that happened in front of her eyes, answer was no.

No.
No.


Chuckle


It's all a game to me.
Even though she slips away from my fingers, I live for the moment.
The hunter, the boy, the man, the blackguard.
June 2017.
54 · Apr 2020
The King In Black - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
Raven feathers litter the cobblestones
black dresses flutter
Dead doves line the sewers
white lies splutter
Treading on brittle ribcages
the centre of his mind
The consumed, mad king looking up
he's home, maybe
Softly broken sirens blare again
it's the end of the world
We're home, I think
Pre-coronation, pre-ascension to the Black Throne.

July 2017.
54 · Apr 2020
Recoil - Z
Batchelor Apr 2020
"It's like you're not letting me in."
Nonsense. You're projecting.

Perhaps you're right.
Of course I am.

But like a circle, these words come back to haunt me.
Yet like the ocean waves, my body came back to me.

You will forget.
I will forget.

When the time comes, our memories will fade, til spring blooms once more.
Take it back, take it back.

In the end, you couldn't fathom the fiery deep.

July 2017.
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