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Christian Sep 2014
My mind is on fire
and filling with smoke
The world is a haze
with you on the horizon
You nameless and faceless
out of reach
are within my grasp

I can hear your laugh
I can smell your hair
I can taste you on me
but it is fleeting
and leaves me parched
The flame is rising
and will not be quenched
until you are altogether mine

Do not tempt me with showers
Or mock me with streams
I need a river
Save, an ocean
So I can feel you everywhere
So I can swim forever
and never touch the shores of your love
Christian Sep 2014
What is a thing but a thing
What is it worth
What will it bring?

What is a pen but a pen
What will it write
And to what end?

What do you do
When you hold in your hand
not what you thought
But a totem, a memory
A world you forgot?

Who are you if not a world
What is in a soul,
If not an existence undefinable
What if you forget to be a world?

What if growing is losing
What if changing is dying
What if when we are choosing
We're really just lying
Convincing ourselves that each day is new?

What is a pen
If it never writes its name
Where is it from
How is it here?

If you never give it a name
Has it been anywhere
If a thought, a feeling, a life
Was forgotten
Has it died
How many times have I died?

What is there to fear in death
If we do it every hour
On the hour
What is there to fear in ourselves?
We are monsters
Great cinema horrors
Walking Dead
Christian Sep 2014
Alone a man lies
In the grace of angels
Breath swells like tide
On alabaster beach

What possessed him  
To climb to heaven
What arrogance of man
To count among irreproach

A silver light shines
All around him
He touches
But does not hold

A tremble falls on him
A fire erupts in the blood
Man is not meant to hear
The melody of heaven's song

Faith guides not the wicked
His heart wants only love
Fore selfish sycophantic lust
Did bring him to this place

He climbed his way to heaven
Alone the man, he lies
In grace of sleeping angels
He fell a thousand times
Christian Sep 2014
Hide nor Hair
Nor stone unturned
No dirt unearthed
No slight or burn
Pure as a heart
Of well intentions
Of want and need
This place unmentioned

One moment more
To read a word
The possible
May yet be heard
Far be it from real
The thought absurd

Your eyes glimmer
Because you're blind
You bump around
And stub your toes
I built my tables
I like them low

Your shins are bruised
You do not know
You seem amused
Your breath is mine
You don't stay long
I bought the ice cream

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