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The Boy Apr 2023
The thing about silence is that it lines the fences of solitude;
It's the porch light, the front door, the wallpaper, the overwhelmingly cold marble that spans the very floors of the soul.

The Goal?
To discover what lies behind the dreams and beneath the lies you've piled atop what you know will remain your Truth.
Uncover the seed you buried and foolishly expected not to grow, and dig deep until you know you know you've reached it -
and the moment you're convinced it's real, stop. Go back.
Start over. Over and over. Each time with a little less lie.
To whom this may be disconcerting:
Instead of turmoil, soul searching and self hurting,
I suggest you embrace the silences of the sole;
Let their immaculate resonances swallow you whole.

Me? I relish my silences! The delicate volumes they speak saturate my solitude,
and the truths they bring reverberate in my heart and soul.
I'm never lonely when I'm alone -
I'm going to need a front row seat in hell's hottest pit beside Lucy's bare feet
To watch the sky drop to its knees
And steal one last kiss as we all crumble and freeze;
Before I ever l let anyone make me feel lonely -

I'd rather be... Alone.
Finding solace in solitude; learning to listen to what speaks through the silence
The Boy Apr 2023
Don't open your eyes to the blinding tip of that sunrise;
Your pupils are still far too dilated and still so drunken by the darkness that is the night

Don't take a whiff of that morning breeze;
Your sinuses will surely get clogged by the lies pollinating amidst the morning fog

The pretences of your so-called destiny serve only as an agent of blindness through which the ancient scribes of your true being have been twisted and forged into a sad stew of highs unreachable, lows and unthinkable and pains unspeakable.
All you can do is raise your glass and rush to wash it all down with a taste of the hollow hate that remains in its place.

It is a beautiful day nonetheless; so take a seat at the table where the wildness of dreams and endlessness of possibilities have all come through to eat.
But this is what I have to say to you:

Don't fall in love, child of the night;
Love won't set you free!

Lover of stars that illuminate even the deepest most eternal pits of your own being,
Don't fall in love;
Love won't set you free!

You already are all you need and all you'll ever need to be, so this is a warning I'm begging you to heed:
Don't fall in love;
Love won't set you free!
'Love' is a placeholder for the many things we use to make us feel the warmth of love when love eludes us.
The Boy Apr 2023
And like a ton of bricks it hit me, and I realised my mistake:
I'd been holding on so tight to a you you'd never be again;

And the phantom hand I'd clutched and clung onto all this time
had long since abandoned it's grip on mine.
The Boy Mar 2021
Where many might seek understanding,
some - however far or few - crave also
to be understood
The Boy Jan 2019
If only you knew the heights to which I would let myself float.
Each time the thought of you crossed my mind, it quickly became a recurring daydream;
Supplying me with my fix of euphoric, fantastic escape from this otherwise insipid conscious loop.

You wouldn't blame me if you knew how I would reach those very heights before I had you;
The fierce clambering on my ice cold wings made of stone and lead,
and the almost instant plummet that always followed
clamoring on and inside my head.

Yet somehow you'd managed to get me up there all on your own;
almost as though your breath pumped novacaine into my every cell, while your smile melted down gravity's grip on each and every one of my bones.

... and there I go again, claiming you as my own.
I suppose I always did let you make me feel so much less alone.

If only you knew my excitement each time your name would flash up on my phone;
Now it just hurts.
Even more so because I know how and why,
and God knows the mere thought of you still gets me so high.

But... what if you knew?
It would be mighty presumptuous of me to even consider that you'd think of me as I do you.
Truth is, I really never let myself slip
as you can see how ridiculously hard I always seem to take that plunge.

So you see,
Since it seems I am fated to crash and burn either way,
still
I'd rather fall where I know I might find you

someday....
"and Karma said: you will fall in love with someone who does not love you, for not loving someone who did"
The Boy Dec 2018
Gone are the days where voices were for mere words and sentences.
I have no doubt you've heard countless voices, claiming countless things
So I won't.

Instead I'd rather show you my delicate destruction of these past life perceptions
Captured as clearly as on the canvases I left behind
When I crept inside your mind's eye and left it there for you to find

Where most are limited to just words
I can make you feel the chilled Autumn breeze I breathe
So, if for no other reasons than these
I dare you to pick... Me

— The End —