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19 years reduced to
Meaninglessness
Nothing
The most tragic bystanders
Three innocent beautiful souls
Who never asked for this
Think about that, all you selfish despicable rapists. Babies deserve to come in to a world of truth and love .....
Once a field of lush green
laid out under sun and sky
roving in waves that carried
herbal joy whispering sigh
Now in this vortex of
cloud and dust
rusty blades lie
flat and crushed
The storm can't pass
anchored by unseen chains
choking to be revived
by the drowning rain
oh
most blessed silence
a gift of your departure

of course
it had to end


the mirror pool
now shattered
with the ripples of
your cacophonic dive

treasured respite
slips away

the horizon again
stained
with your shadow
ego controls you and suffocates the rest
What kind of creature

can

     rise

from these ashes?
My capacity to see reality has been disabled
and the exhaustion has set in
from the constant
reinterpretation
cognitive modification
active ignoring
emotional avoidance
catastrophizing
villifying
reading
writing
blinking
bar­king

Someone please reveal the map to find
truth
a haiku*


veiled covert *****
hiding behind the dashes
cower in your shame
I feel you lurking in the shadows
of my
     mind
and
     heart
and
     soul
A benign
reminder
sends me into orbit
out of space and time...

coppertone coated in salty perspiration...

a soundbite about weather on the other side of the country...

the crunch of pad thai.........

And there you are with
your nose pressed into the trap door
hidden deep inside me
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