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 Oct 2013 Alastur Berit
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Words
 Oct 2013 Alastur Berit
S
Words
So many are said everyday
So many not spoken,
And kept inside.

You think calling me fat
Will make me thin?
You think calling me stupid
Will raise my IQ?
You think calling me short
Will make me grow?

You try to break me down,
Ill just stand back up.
You try to make me feel terrible,
Ill brush it off.
You try to make me cry,
Ill just laugh.

You tried,
And tried.
I laughed,
And laughed.
In answer to your question
(Which cut me to the core)
I cry because
I am not allowed to love
Who I want,
The way I want,
And this is an impossible demand.
I keep my heart in a cage
So that others don’t get hurt,
But I do,
Over and over again.
I take the punches,
As if I deserve them.
The world is an abusing spouse,
And I, the frightened little mouse,
Comply.
 Oct 2013 Alastur Berit
Mikaila
Both
 Oct 2013 Alastur Berit
Mikaila
Sometimes when I look at you
You are just a girl.
Just a girl, with flaws and dreams and...
Sometimes you're just you,
Nothing dire.
And when you touch me I feel only the comfort
Of another human being's fingertips.
But then sometimes
When I look at you
I love the muscles in your back that look like wings could unfold from them,
That tense like a panther's when you walk,
And the curve of your jaw, the way it's shadowed in the light,
And I get fascinated by the way your lips move when you speak.
And when you touch me you leave scorch marks
In the shape of your hands
And I am searingly cold inside
And I only want you to burn the sadness out of me
Inch by inch.
I don't understand how you can be both.
 Oct 2013 Alastur Berit
Christin
Soulful,

like your voice which winds and wraps itself about my heart, slowing its beat to preserve the moment we’re in.

Soulful,

like a troubled blues singer who beats out his feelings on his six string and expels his troubles through a tiny silver harmonica. he lets the audience glimpse the infinite road to his unattainable being.

Soulful,

like the feeling of music so loud it vibrates in your chest. music that shakes your very core and dares you to grasp inspiration.  

Soulful, further still,

like the beauty of humanity as we change and thus, grow upon each other like vines on a house.

Soulful,

like the strange reason we have transformed the idea of rain to be both wildly romantic and depressing.

Soulful,

like a river of my own thoughts that tumble over rocks of inhibition and doubt.

And soulful,

I dare say,

like my own pretentious soul.
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