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forced taste into sour mouth
no, sweet
fillers
static existence yet sun and moons
pretend the liars do speak great truths
masterfully woven
the tapestry
gypsy jewels and patterned art
mistaken for rewarding
left dull my watered part
nutritionally devoid
not punishment or repentance
the fast commences
acute
When I wanted to draw flames
Poetry came to me.
Now that my life is burning,
I have lost my muse.
― Maria I.
She was mad. A mad writer spitting up words, vomiting poems, and finding salvation in her rough scribblings. Her days and nights were normal for she wore a mask throughout. A facade for everyone.

"7 billion people, 14 billion faces", she wrote once.
"And you are the king of double-faced people. Most fake." he had replied.
"Oh no. I am a queen!" she had laughed...

She scribbles down everything in her diary, or her blog, or her mind. It is what helps her maintain her sanity. But at moments when you are far, like very very far, she just cannot hold it. I have seen her dying daily, and writing your name with her finger on her palm. I have seen her gasping for air on the most normal of occasions, as if her throat was choking with a word held in, her chest burning with a poem unsaid.

It was you she had ever wanted, always missed, blindly loved. It was you who made her a writer out of a normal, moderately-concerned human-being. You made her over-sensitive. You killed her!
- Maria I.
And tonight
with your tongue
doing a tango
with mine
and my nails
creating craters
of the moon
on your back,
I will know that
your mind only craves
to touch me
when I’m undressed
and you can care less
about the layers
I have stripped down
to let you in.
Because,
**** your feelings
and the thoughts that go through your head.
and the people that say "They care"
and the people that left
and the ones that said "i love you"
cause it's all so unrealistic
and we'll never know the true meaning of it all anyways.
Is anyone really who they say they are?
Is anyone really who they portray they are?
What exists in our realities?
There is an unspoken language that exists in all of us.
The thoughts humans think, but never say out loud.
The way we all interact with each other, but never showing our true selves.
The ones that do are considered in this society as "crazy".
What defines crazy?  
It was a word, made up by people.
A concept made up by people, to group the unfamiliar against our social norms.  
Were words created by actions?
Our actions, even in animal behavior are formed by "group think".
Are we no different from the animals we keep as entertainment?
The animals we lock into cages; thinking that in the end, it is better for them.
But is it really?
We as humans lock ourselves into hypothetical cages: relationships, marriage, careers, because we believe it is good for us.
Have we really seen what happens on the outside?
Have we really paid attention to what is beyond our caged existence.
Is living in a locked cage until the day you depart from our natural earth, really truly better for us.
Or are we trained to believe it is, and show spite towards those who choose different.
The real world is tough, just like the animal world is.  
The reason we are all here, is to explore.
To live, to take advantage of the wide opportunities that are laid out there in front of us.
We may get hurt, even resulting in death, but at least we lived.
Outside of our cages.
I was born human, but my soul is inhumane.
I study my own reflection, wondering just what lies behind my empty stare.
The frailty of a broken mirror, resembling fact and fiction.
When it comes down to it; the barest of the bone, I have no idea what I am trying to tell myself.
I sit within these concrete walls with posters of self-help and flyers for support groups.
It's my first day.
My legs have their own rhythm, my brain's run off course.
I look at every footstep, hoping its not one who knew me in my past life.

Within the daze I find myself in, I start to wander.
Maybe we're all of the same tale, just different characters.
Certain elements to the same story can turn a person back-wards.
We all want the same ending,
but finding our own paths to get there justifies the difference in all of us.
We all want spirits to grant us with light blessings,
a reason into living in this run down reality.
Suddenly, my name is called.

I follow, leaving behind my everlasting steps of freedom into an unknown world.
They tell me what I already know.
It's the good days to die for, the obscene ones are worth living,
but somehow I view opposite.
They tell me in such a cold, unforgiving way.
They tell me to take what they give me and I'll end up creating my own ending.
I start to wander again.
Am I a human or an animal that needs to be put down?
Am I a problem that needs to be controlled?
I want to shed my second skin and dream all the things I never got too.
I want to stop jumping from one side of my soul to the other.
I feel like (hip) hopping over the (know)ledge
and free(style) falling into a poets notebook
take me with you on that train (of thought)
going to the shore so i can surf the (brain) waves that flow like a tsunami..
i’ll write my name, followed by ‘was here’, on every single rock and roll them down hills
i’ll carve my name in the poet tree that is used to sun block parties
so you can rest in the shade,
sip your long island ice tea
listen to boogie down productions,
with your feet in the brook(lyn) as your queen got her man hat on
i will stand like a hitchhiker on the side of the road all day and night
until i pass out
pieces of my soul to at least one passer by
i want to reach the mind of that *** that talks so much jazz,
someone beat(box)s him black and blues
i want to tell him there is an alternative to living life without 'breaking' rules and searching for the next 'fix'
i want to tell mother nature to stop wasting food and feeding lies to her kids
i want to tell father time to stop with the ticks...
I haven't lived a day in my life
Just been existing
Trapped in this bubble
like these words I write
The ink nestled
between blue lines
wishing to be whispers
traveling free
through the air
like the breeze i feel on cold benches
Running out of options it seems
Need a get rich quick scheme
Flip 16s or sell drugs to rich teens
to sick fiends.
Need to get greens by any basic means
My head feels like a split screen
I can either work two jobs like a modern day sucker
Or rob and steal mother ******* for my supper.
Debating which route I should take
Go to work with a smile that's fake
Or on the streets grabbing all I can take
Careful not to make any mistakes
So I don't spend all my days running from jakes
I can't be locked in a place with no escape getting ***** by a biggie smalls look a like
I need to book a flight
Get out the hood tonight
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