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 Feb 2022
Katie
My life is one born of instinct;
I act, I do not think.
Your accusations are indistinct,
but rational.
How could I possibly argue your truth?
Still, I feel my heart sink.
Perhaps I'm too lost in my youth.
My intrinsic patterns proved fatal.

Calling me a prepubescent child felt unneeded though.
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 Feb 2022
Katie
In this moment it's here,
Yet the next, it seems not.
I question how you've built a career
On explaining why this problem we've got
Is not remotely your issue, it's on us,
Yet simultaneously we can't fix it ourselves;
If we even dare, you'll come to crush
any hope of living anywhere but your shelf
Of examples of those who've crossed you,
I've had enough, yet what am I to do?

You've a thousand pages of documentation
Stating that a kind act is an aberration.
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 Feb 2022
Katie
It is maddening
To see you suffer so much
Your fields dry, barren.

I wish I could help
But my desert is arid
I've no rains to share

Instead I must watch
See as your life empties out
History repeats
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 Feb 2022
Katie
A moment more akin to eternity,
Yet an option otherwise is something to fear.
I have days when I want her,
Yet more days when I don't.
I must live without the clarity
Of what I really want so dear;
Maybe it's simpler to just endure,
Even if I know I won't.

The loneliness hurts,
But it's all I know.
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My math isn't working out, I think I missed a day? *oops* I'll catch up whenever I have two ideas
 Feb 2022
Katie
101
Does it bring you sick joy?
Or do you even notice what you do?
You broke me like some toy,
And still my only purpose is to annoy...
Don't you get that?

I'm afraid of you.

See me cower away into the background
Any time you look my way;
I try to spread your words around,
But your presence clammed up what I needed to say.
But you like that.

You love to be feared.
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 Feb 2022
Katie
The rain soaks through my skin to bone,
Holding me here as I push forth alone;
To forgive of sins I've refused to atone.
But as my feet bare cold against hardened stone
The voices return to me, a ceaseless drone
Of hatred and misgivings too oft overblown,
And I lose myself again, refusing to condone
Every action I've taken, creating a throne

Of self-important misery.

But then I see your eyes afore me,
And I find my place again.
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 Feb 2022
Katie
A month has gone by
My skies sparkle afore me
Opportunity
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 Feb 2022
Katie
Fog rolls thick through pervading waves,
Obscuring the stars the heart of man craves,
My ship, lost in mist, must fade away,
Never again to see a new way
To escape from the sadness we all feel deep,
And to lose ourselves in the beauty of sleep,
But maybe that's not so bad.

We write our best art when we're sad.
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 Feb 2022
Katie
Again you offer
To bring me into your world
I deserve it not
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 Feb 2022
Katie
Her eyes are so pretty
Her fur is so fluffy
I tried to be witty
With a name so strange

Yet now I see her
A kitty like this
A name like that
Listening to her purr
Listening to her hiss
Perfect for a cat-pat

How did this happen
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 Jan 2022
Katie
Hope for purest white
Deep crimson scattered atop
Life within the snow
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 Jan 2022
Katie
Dark, yet comforting clouds set in above me,
Masking my vision from all that I fear.
My art flows from me, unrestricted and free
From the doubts and misgivings ever filling my ear.

There's a place here, somewhere forgotten,
Lying isolated betwixt awareness and sleep,
A place where I'm free from all my misbegotten
Deeds and mistakes, things that make me feel cheap.

To find myself in my mind's twilight,
It truly is the inarguable highlight,
Of a life befitting a parasite,
Dragging down ev'ryone in the fight,
Who all just want to see that light
That lies in my mind as I drift into night.
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 Jan 2022
Katie
How cruel fate must be,
To turn me against my kin.
My desperation is becoming too thick to see
Any kind of retribution from this sin;
This sin of the face I wear, this prison of a body,
I hate them for being closer to freedom.
This furious envy I have come to embody
Suffocates me as the sinners of *****.
I'm losing myself to the darkest pits
Of my hideous mind, gnarled and rotten,
And that stink of selfishness now befits
This monster who has all but forgotten
What it was ever like to live free;
The gods themselves will not forfend
This state of being I deserve to be.
This nightmare will not end.
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