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The smoke that holds a voice
Of small and lifeless sounds
Sketched beyond the edge
A heart of lost and found

Erase your hidden face
Blurred and out of focus
And let in the toxic sky
Embrace torn and lifeless lips

Shaken, held and open
Pale and scorched with hope
To breathe a single time
The art of how to ‘cope’
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Abbie Argo
won't you fall for me?
i'll gladly fall for you.
Watch me walk away
I get lost in the darkness
I like the way it covers me
I like the way it changes me
I search the night for
what was stolen from me
I roam the streets looking for
something to occupy my mind
I get lost in it
I get lost in it
We dance in our underwear
fall out of love
We wear last nights mascara
out to the club
We don't care
We don't care
Watch me dance anyway
I get lost in the crowd
I like the way we move to the beat
I like the way we forget the world
I search all the faces for
someone to captivate me
I have a lot of suitors but
No one takes me away
I'm so lost in it
I'm so lost in it
We drink to silence the voices
ghosts of lovers past
We live as if everyday
is our last
We don't care
We don't care
We don't care
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Josh Koepp
Isn't it coarse how those with brains
like paintings or poetry,
stay the most silent?

Their pen strokes and key strokes
and voices
evoke images that put reality
to shame
and yet they express
just less than is required
to distinguish body from cold stone;
being from statue.
They only have themselves to blame;

Perhaps the world too
as unforgiving as it is.

Though it remains that they
are silent:
Their being may be
boisterous
yet they themselves remain quiet.
Their soul and their bones
who creak with the very moans and beauty of this world
are muted and it...

It makes me terrified
And sad

I want to call out:

"We cannot hear your soul
when you try so hard to repress it!
We cannot become close
if we have nothing to connect with,
except this
hollow,
melancholic shell"

Where have you left your magic?
If you have left it, let us retrieve it.
If you have forgotten, let us remember together.
If it has been stolen,
I will quest with you to find it.
No one should be left silent.
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Josh Koepp
There's a gap in my brain
and it's terminal
even though i'm going to live till i'm ninety nine
this hole in my thinking
will bring me only the chronic whistling
of life billowing through it
at alarming speeds that i can neither perceive
or keep up with

just this whistling
through the gap in my brain
paining my waking thoughts
by always having a hole in my thinking
sinking in my own sand
before i realize what has happened.

if you've ever gazed into a black hole
you would know everything is both faster and slower
in all the most inconvenient ways

and it only grows!
till you're enveloped
and then life is over
and you have nothing to say for it

voila!
my persistent plague
my black hole
sapping the luster out of my words
and letting the thoughts spiral
confusingly
into dark oblivion
sigh

i dislike chasing my thoughts into the abyss

when you find them

you really can't remove them
or understand them
you just receive the perpetual annoyance of knowing something once occupied a space
and it repeats:
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Josh Koepp
In my travels i have met those
                                          Who tell me
                                                         They have lived their life without regret
******* and Lies

So i told them to take
                                    Their old cellphone
                                                    Their high school yearbook
                                                                                  And a family picture album
And sit at their colleges cafeteria dinner table from
                                                                             The beginning of dinner
                                                                             To the end
on the last day of finals
when everyone is teary eyed
                                       Saying their farewells

So they did and they came to me after
                                                         And said that they regret nothing
and i told told them
                               in the time that you sat there
within your arms reach
                              were the faces of thousands of people
that you could have gotten to know
                              
but never did
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Josh Koepp
Every tree here
grows buds that bloom into poison memories
at least during spring time
and i'd rather pick twigs
to replace my eyes
than see your new flowers

come December
i'll plant what i have removed
and spring may bring
buds that make you remember
why the blackbird can write
no poem
to describe how much this place
no longer feels like home
 Jun 2013 Chrys Pages
Josh Koepp
So bear with me because i'm trying to figure out what life was
     You know
     What it used to be
and what it is now
        and if i'm doing life correctly
like if the sweat on my brow
       is supposed to weigh me down this much

so i asked a couple on a walk
    what is life
and they sarcastically answered that life is a box of chocolates
  You never know what you're going to get
i believe that saying died out
when single flavor boxes of chocolates were invented
so we're left to wonder
and stumble
and realize what life means just before we die
because everyone always told us
    *you're too young to understand this just yet
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