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 Apr 2020
Batchelor
I don't need a Khadijah.

Neither do I want an Delilah.

A little bit of what Freud said,

And unhealthy doses of Darwinism.

I'm stuck in a perpetual state of being,

I'm stuck in a constant cycle of repetition.


You can't have your cake and eat it.

But for now, the tunes will simmer, strain and boil my feelings.


With the curling of fingers down your face.
Here I go, Love.

Survival of the fittest, only it's with love and nothing else.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Body marked by scars
Heart full of holes
Mind filled with cracks
Soul smeared with taint

But you were the best I ever had.
Are we just soulless automatons now without love?

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
The loudest of the bunch
With sleeves wrapped down

With multiple layers on
Twinkle in his eye


The meekest of the few
With shoulders hunched and huddled

With nary a word to describe her
Too much of a wallflower


By chance, or by fate.
Just the two of them,

Bound by a moment in time forever.

The boy with his scars,
And the girl with her demons.
"Never forget me, never forgive me."

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Our footsteps,
Not similar,
Yet familiar.
X meets Y in this rendition of love.
"When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me, make me sway."

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
"As I live and breathe!"
How goes your latest despair?
Does it say "silent volume"?*
"Or perhaps, a new addiction for every end of day?"

Never looking through glass panels again,
To see how have things changed.

There's no need for the flames to dance across the darkness, no more.
It's seductive, I know.

It's tempting, I.. know?
There's always a need to look back, to learn.
Tell tale signs of intrusion, prevent your mind from being unchained.
Now, prepare for the ambush.
Feed the paranoia.
Fear the abandonment.
Old scars will always haunt, but at least the new wounds just *******.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Relive.
Relief.

Two words that couldn't be farther apart.


Why does it sound so close, yet too far?

Relive : a small chime slowly drawing you in, to dream of a dream that was never a dream. A drowsy half state of a dead mind, and the best of your heart's desire.

Relief : the guitar strings thudding loudly as the drumming in your breast tolls a bell, that never ends til destinations been reached. The mind singing choirs of devastation averted, and the heart returning back to a slow rhythm.

Feel your/my/our exposed nerves.
Comprehension breaks down as submission draws nearer.
"Thank you Jack Daniels, oh number seven."

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
That old familiar feeling.
Flooding back, in tunes you never knew could exist in the space it took for a breath to begin and a sigh to end.

Lightning arcs across your brain, the scars lighting up, rearranging themselves in ****** gold runes.

It's a happy noise.
It's a good noise.

The background rises and falls, in perfect harmonic distortion.
I will always return to you.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Can you blame me if I need your fingers tracing down my spine again?

I've gone too long, fallen too hard to make sense where I end and you begin.

I pay more attention nowadays to the air escaping my teeth between each word I speak,


To the soft crackling, in the dark.
A hopeless grand transfixation and obsession over the old blending into the new.

Autumn Love, Spring Romance Of 2017.

September 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Uncertainties cloud judgment
Eccentricities pierce better reasoning
By the time the colours fall

You will know why the thin line holds us so.

Both liberating and excruciating. The candle wick burns down til it's nothing ; it proceeds to extinguish itself.

Such is the natural order of things : the only constant is time.

what we feel for the time passed
how we think for the lives past
we loved. and that's all we can do.


This fresh coat of paint is cracking up faster than how I thought it would be.
Here is the beginning of an acknowledgement across years
An affirmation of the heart's stimulation
Never to reconcile if separation would ever occur
Justified by the tension between us
In the midst of a dance to never end
Even if it's at the expense of our souls

The beautiful enunciation of Her birth month.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
At first you saw it was nothing.
And then you had to believe it was something.
And at long last, it became every little thing you didn't see coming.
Whether it's love, hate, loss, you decide what's the whisper in **your** dark.

August 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Here's to mourning the things we never lost
Here's to dying over a cause you don't believe in


Here's to beating yourself up for things that were already preordained


Here's to sorrow.


It's the unique taste on your tongue and mind,
It's the feeling you never had,
It's the tune you never heard.

For it doesn't exist.
Ashes and sorrow.

August 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
Now, do I have your attention or should I fuel your apprehension?

You should stop looking too much into what you dream.
They're more akin to a waking nightmare.

Their skin. Their waists. Their movements.

Intoxicating, aren't they?

Now that you've come up to breathe.

Now that you're on dry ground again.

You are not Icarus.

And they are not the Sun.

You know what you felt.

A great amount of suppression of lust.

But the fire, oh the fire.

Rouse yourself.

Douse the flames.

A soft silky smooth thread falls into your hands again.

Let it go.
The utter fixation and trepidation I felt, scant and gone.

August 2017.
 Apr 2020
Batchelor
The only thing he's ever done,

Oh so tired of all the wrongs

A little more.

Every day.

Kept falling apart and.

Slipped away.
The ghost, the noose, the axe.

August 2017.
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