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190 · Sep 2023

Mountain

Ciel Noir Sep 2023

Mountain

what happens when your
"good enough"
is just a rainbow you can walk toward
just a star that you can reach for
not a mountain you can climb

and though you reach out in longing
though you walk for miles and miles
the way still leads forever on
the same place in a different time

no matter how much you achieve
it never will be "good enough"
and so you walk away from love
far too afraid to even try

but if you could
forgive yourself
the same way you forgive another
I bet you could climb that mountain
all the way into the sky

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189 · Oct 2019

A Confession

Ciel Noir Oct 2019

A Confession

I always say
That I’m OK
It really isn’t true today
I am not coping very well
I wish I had someone to tell

It’s so hard being on my own
I feel so hopeless and alone
Who could I tell what I just said
So I said it to you instead

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189 · Jun 2020

Inhuman

Ciel Noir Jun 2020

Inhuman

we have done inhuman things
every single day
even as we sang our songs
even as we prayed

we have always put up walls
to keep them at bay
and built a system to take
their humanity away

we all know the stories so
why are we so surprised
to see all these inhuman deeds
happen before our eyes

but perhaps the part of this
that scares us most of all
that all of these inhuman things are
human after all

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189 · Mar 2021

A Shot in the Dark

Ciel Noir Mar 2021

A Shot in the Dark

help me

I pray

I don't know
if you're there

or how many you are

I don't know
if you care

but I ask anyway
just in case you can hear

I don't know what to say to you

help me

I pray

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189 · Jul 2018

Scroll

Ciel Noir Jul 2018

Scroll

scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
We do not read things anymore
We scroll and scroll and scroll
I wonder what was in those scrolls
And if we'll ever know
v
<>
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
I think I saw a diamond
Just a twinkle, just a flash
I do not know, I scrolled right past
Sometimes I think I scroll too fast
v
v
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
v
v
v
scroll
scroll
scroll
Now it's all been said and told
The scrolls have all been read and rolled
Lo and behold
I did not understand
A single word

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188 · Mar 14

Eighth Rank

Ciel Noir Mar 14

Eighth Rank

just a pawn
changed my fate with five small steps
I am something else

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188 · Feb 2019

Center

Ciel Noir Feb 2019

Center

One night
Long ago
I looked up into the sky

And for a moment I saw how

The electrons in the atoms
Orbit the nucleus

The Earth, the planets
Orbit the Sun

The stars and the nebulae
Orbit a black hole

All follow their way
Around the center
Even on the smallest scale
Even on the largest scale

Everything is drawn to the center

It was the closest I had ever felt
to God

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188 · Jul 2018

Turn

Ciel Noir Jul 2018

Turn

turns
wheel        and
the                   turns
you don't need to be afraid
wheel                for
the           we
are

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187 · May 2018

Magpie

Ciel Noir May 2018

Magpie

Magpie
Chattering
Mimicking
Other birds
Steal their
Shiny
Shiny
Words
Fly away home
Weave them in your own
Glittering and complicated
Nest
Until your
Shiny
Shiny
Nest
Covers the whole world
Make everybody learn
Your
Shiny
Shiny
Stolen
Woven
Words

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187 · Feb 2023

Yet Another Poem About Hope

Ciel Noir Feb 2023

Yet Another Poem About Hope

it hurts my soul
to be so alone
in the cold for so long
out here all on my own

set myself up for failure
chasing the Moon
that's how it feels
when I reach out to you

if I could let somebody
get close to me
how can I even know
just how good it could be?

I don't know how it feels
but I want that for me
I don't know if I can
but I want to believe

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187 · Aug 2018

Moon Over Water

Ciel Noir Aug 2018

Moon Over Water

what if the
Moon is alive and she
is listening to us on Earth
and is looking up at a blue
crescent that fills her sky
wondering about us
from afar

does she see our city lights
dark against her starry sky

cryptic hieroglyphs
neon constellations

does she know
who we are
who reach
out to
her

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186 · Oct 2023

Echo

Ciel Noir Oct 2023

Echo

subliminal reverberation
of some long-forgotten song
a melody that calls the soul
back to a place we once belonged

darker than night
stranger than time
deeper than tribe
older than words

inflecting language to reflect
an echo of what we have heard

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185 · Mar 2022

конец мира

Ciel Noir Mar 2022

конец мира

if you are quite still
you can almost hear
the sound of machines

of fear
of chaos
of hell

voices in his head
telling him to ****
and by force of will
to build
an empire of the dead

sacrifice it all
this time no one wins
even those left standing when
the dominoes fall

life is a candle
in the hand of a madman
and if you are still you can
feel the Earth tremble

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185 · May 2020

Burn

Ciel Noir May 2020

Burn

speak or write or walk or kneel
they will never learn
silence is not made of steel
silence can be burned

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185 · May 2019

Beyond

Ciel Noir May 2019

Beyond

who are you
do you wonder about us
there beyond the stars

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184 · May 2024

Ice

Ciel Noir May 2024

Ice

my soul was sealed in ice

was I
the ice?

FIRE

I broke
escaped

what am I?
who am I?

without the cage
that gave my soul its shape

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184 · Feb 2019

Spring

Ciel Noir Feb 2019

Spring

I walked out in the sunshine yesterday
On my way I passed by a cherry tree
Delicate flowers had begun to bloom
I felt such joy I laughed aloud with glee

Somewhere the winter is still long and cold
Somewhere there are no flowers on the trees
But I am in a place where it is warm
And at long last spring has begun for me

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184 · Nov 2021

Golden Days

Ciel Noir Nov 2021

Golden Days

we are young and we are strong
we can sing and we can run
we have so many different ways
to trade away these golden days

in line
in front of a PC
watching the clock
watching TV

playing pretend
hating our friends
just waiting for it all to end

and in the end what will we miss?
whose lips will we wish to have kissed?
reminisce on this listlessness
will we wish to remember this?

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183 · Aug 2021

You

Ciel Noir Aug 2021

You

this poem isn't about you
I don't know how I feel
I'd rather write about the Moon
or something else that's real

or how the rising tide can be
a metaphor for change
or something deep
beneath the sea
mysterious and strange

but will I turn away from you
in silence and control
or write the shining sky into
a mirror for your soul?

with every single word I write
the lie becomes less true
to shout into the night
"This poem isn't about you!"

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183 · Feb 2019

Kaleidoscope

Ciel Noir Feb 2019

Kaleidoscope

My soul
Is bright
Like a kaleidoscope
Shine a light inside
And find
A labyrinth
Of rainbows

My soul is dark
Like the midnight sky
Look deep inside
The darkness
Is shining
It is full of
Light

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183 · Jul 2018

< - - - - - - - - - - NO

Ciel Noir Jul 2018

< - - - - - - - - - - NO

no                          no
     no                no
          no      no
              NO
          no      no
     no                no
no                         no

WAY - - - - - - - - - - - - - >

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183 · Sep 2021

Tiger

Ciel Noir Sep 2021

Tiger

tiger
in a cage

I walk right up
to you

and look you in the eye
without fear

do you wonder why?
or do you understand

the courage is not in my heart

it is in the glass

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183 · Jul 2018

Ghosts

Ciel Noir Jul 2018

Ghosts

This day and age
Much emphasis is placed
On our words
On the things we choose to say
As word by word we edit and erase
As one by one we give our words away

No matter where you look there is an eye
No matter where you turn there is an ear
The Internet remembers what you say
It fills us all with so much hope and fear

It watches us, this thing without a face
A million faces, frightful chimaera
Divides us by our age, our ***, our race
As if that could make the picture clearer

Now that our ghosts are made of ones and aughts
Do we remember who we were before
We gave the aether all our half baked thoughts
The ghosts that we will be remembered for

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183 · May 2019

Knives

Ciel Noir May 2019

Knives

hypnotize
draw my eyes and dull my mind
I am full of knives

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183 · Mar 2023

Apostasy

Ciel Noir Mar 2023

Apostasy

I remember
when I found out

what
not who but what
god is

it hit me like a ton of bricks
when I felt it

not He
but it

and that was so surreal
to feel

to realize
that god is real

no name
no face
no soul
only control

god does not know

god is
.

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183 · Nov 2019

Faustian

Ciel Noir Nov 2019

Faustian

You chased me through the labyrinth
All wound up in my head
And I was lost for far too long
Untangling the threads

I learned something valuable from you
But at what cost?
I have a soul again
But it is not the one I lost

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182 · May 2020

sparrows and crows

Ciel Noir May 2020

sparrows and crows

sparrows and crows
what do they know?

the stars above
the world below

and through their eyes
what do they see

when they fly through the sky
like we do in our dreams?

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182 · May 2018

Columba

Ciel Noir May 2018

Columba

Bravery
Little dove who thinks she can
Fly across the sea

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182 · Jun 2019

Abyss

Ciel Noir Jun 2019

Abyss

A black and shining sea of endless suns
A sky swimming with warm and spinning stones
I know that I am not the only one
Who wonders if we really are alone

The starlight rides the waves and meets our eyes
A vision of infinity in black
How many gaze with me at the same sky
And wonder whether other eyes gaze back

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182 · Nov 2021

Continuity

Ciel Noir Nov 2021

Continuity

I look at my past
and I look away
that wasn't me
that's what I say

that wasn't me
but if that's so
then tomorrow
who will I be?

it is almost
as if to say
that I only exist
today

I want to stay
I want to be
that's why I must say
that was me

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181 · Jun 2021

The Man

Ciel Noir Jun 2021

The Man

If I had all the money in the world
I wonder if the gold would lose its shine
And like King Midas I would lose my touch
Much like a hungry ghost unsatisfied

This is our nature
Always wanting more

More money, time, achievement, power, love
And the man with the whole world in his hands
May find there is no such thing as enough

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181 · Mar 2019

Read

Ciel Noir Mar 2019

Read

I am lost in
book land again
I need to do things but
I just want to read

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181 · Jun 2019

Dark River

Ciel Noir Jun 2019

Dark River

the tree grows
deep within the dark river
the water rises

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181 · Mar 2019

3.14

Ciel Noir Mar 2019

3.14

you
can                  go

around                              it
but you  can  go  through it
about                        three

times                  as
fast

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180 · Aug 2019

Be the Sky

Ciel Noir Aug 2019

Be the Sky

only by imagining
that I am not the sky
may I step back and see it
through these bright and mortal eyes

and I will hold the knowledge
of this beauty to the end
when one day I will close my eyes
and be the sky again

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180 · Oct 2021

Afraid

Ciel Noir Oct 2021

Afraid

if I had a child
I would be afraid
of leaving them alone
with anyone
even me

something could go wrong
there are a thousand ways how

I can see it now

I would always be
afraid

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180 · Sep 2021

Game

Ciel Noir Sep 2021

Game

life and death
create destroy
different name
the same game

everything
real alive
all must play
to survive

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180 · Mar 2019

We Are

Ciel Noir Mar 2019

We Are

The darker the night
The brighter the dawn

The deeper the shadow
The brighter the Sun

The larger the cosmos
The smaller we are

The deeper the darkness
The brighter the stars

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180 · Mar 2019

Prison

Ciel Noir Mar 2019

Prison

I have built a prison of ideas for myself
caring                                                 about
the things other people think about me
letting                                               myself
be led into situations I do not agree with
worrying                                             about
things I do not have the power to change
and I                                                  wonder
when will I                                   set myself
free?

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179 · Jun 2018

Loom

Ciel Noir Jun 2018

Loom

Life does not create the threads
It weaves them like a loom
Lightning strikes the fertile Earth
And causes her to bloom
One raindrop falls into the sea
Swells into a monsoon
We rise and ride upon the tide
Still howling at the Moon

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179 · Dec 2023

The Same Sand

Ciel Noir Dec 2023

is there a land
that lies beyond the sea
are we
the gods that dream
the empty and the entropy
the smoke and mirrors in between

a sandstorm in the hourglass
a thousand tiny little stings
the wind whispers
this too shall pass
the same sand
falls through everything

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179 · Aug 2021

Real

Ciel Noir Aug 2021

Real

the real me:
am I what I cannot change?
who I choose to be?

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179 · Feb 2021

One Step

Ciel Noir Feb 2021

One Step

one step
toward the middle
and you will see

how your side
treats people
who disagree

how strange
to see
that we are them

a lot of change
for just
one step

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179 · Mar 2019

-

Ciel Noir Mar 2019

-

Words are nice but
There are other ways to speak

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179 · Dec 2019

Darkness

Ciel Noir Dec 2019

Darkness

we do not know darkness
our world is full of light
brighter than a candle flame
burning in the night

in this warm sanctuary
the eye of the storm
it is easy to forget
that darkness is the norm

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178 · Apr 2019

revenant

Ciel Noir Apr 2019

revenant

death is the shadow of life
the silent darkness
of the sky

falling
into emptiness
life is the revenant of death

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178 · Jan 2019

Judge

Ciel Noir Jan 2019

Judge

Why do we take the time to judge?
The real sociopaths won't budge
And anyone redeemable
Will look at us and hold a grudge

I'm not sure where we got the nerve
To tell them what they don't deserve
Does it make us think we are better
As if God grades on a curve?

Who says who deserves to live?
Who condemns and who forgives?
Who dares to judge on their behalf
If such a Judge even exists?

Why do we dish out scarlet letters?
Shame is such a cheap vendetta
Let's be honest, we do it
Because we don't know any better.

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178 · Aug 2018

...............................way

Ciel Noir Aug 2018

...............................way

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.....................................................way

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177 · Aug 2023

Somebody Else

Ciel Noir Aug 2023

He always wants the best
And thinks that he deserves the best
Even better than the best
You do your best
But then what's next?

You find somebody else
I guess

and in the end
it's for the best

To find a different man
To find someone who doesn't think like that

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177 · Dec 2024

In the Dark

Ciel Noir Dec 2024

In the Dark

I don't want to share myself with the world
myself is scary and weird

I don't want to wander too close to the light
I stay in the dark with my fear

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