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Steve Parker Jul 15
The pain is absolutely unbearable
Never enough to smoke, the bowl will never be filled
I drink a lot more now
Hoping to wash myself
out of the bottom of the lowest canyon of my life
Afraid
Angry
So Angry
But at who?
Bear my soul in a futile yet desperate attempt to reach her humanity
I was unwise
She made me eat my own heart while she
and the man she loves took joy in toying with me
Pulling out the last strings of faith and self worth
I'm ashamed to admit that I can't stop crying
during the smallest hours of the night
She did this bereft of any anger or hate towards me
You have to be human to be able to feel those emotions
Steve Parker Jul 13
Tomorrow look east, towards the rising sun for I have already set. Brief is a man's life in this hurried digital world, buoyed only by those who knew him as proof that he ever existed at all in spite of himself and the grand shadow of his own perception.  They who will be, in due time, ultimately destined to join him even then knowing very little of themselves, much less another man they have never met from a place they have never been who's pain they have never felt.

Goodbye my friends.

and

Thank you
Steve Parker Apr 2024
For the time is not mine to keep
Impassable mortor keeps me at bay
The smell of fear like the waves of high tide
crashing upon the rocky shore that was my life
My judgment was passed before your words were spoken
Oh, my love- how I bleed for you
Is that your blood as well?  Do you shed for me as well?
I have left nothing
Proverbial dust in the wind
For it is not for everyone to leave their stain upon the play
Steve Parker Apr 2024
My body is the vessel in which your story shall be known
Pages of flesh, written into decay and eventually, the earth
My soul, laden with the stains of my own admonishment is where your sins will be laid to bear
When the hands approach thrice, vengeance will be so swift
When the arm reach up for the trinity, the viscous brutality of my vengeance will be unmatched if not only by it's own depravity and indifference
When the clock strikes three, and the darkness of your chambers begin to close in all around you and you hear the whispers of what you already knew
It will be in that moment, in the moment that is yours and yours alone that you will know
Steve Parker Sep 2023
What is a memory?
What is a thought?
Is it the fear of losing the trees to the sky?
Is it the darkness inside out?


The pain clouds my thoughts, closing in
I cannot bleed, cannot hemorrhage
Cruel irony runs through my veins now
And hate
My mind races with the corruption of fear
I am no longer me
I am no longer you
I am


If I were the sun and you were the ocean,
     we could meet at dusk and drink of each other
in bliss and warm familiar chaos
Will you die to me?
Steve Parker Apr 2021
I'd rather lead a life less social than a life of nepotism to the  empty masses.
A spiritually and existentially empty sail less vessel saying and doing wherever the political climate takes you.  
My love; you're now part of a proud yet lonely few.  
Don't despair my beautiful diamond-  
our time is coming.  

A Fake foundation
cannot hold the weight of a lost society.  
Common sense cannot be held at bay forever.
  Stay the course.
  Weather the storm.
I firmly believe this too shall pass
and the sun will shine brighter on you
than anyone else.
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