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i love my pink eye shadow
when the rain comes...


سایه ی صورتی ام را دوست دارم
...وقتی باران می آید
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Inkveined
I don't want to go on

Without you in my life

Bitter tears fall from my eyes

I was never enough for you

But you were more than enough

For me...
Nagsimula ang lahat sa kanta
Sa kanta na nagsilbing tulay sa'ting dalawa
Na parang tubig at langis-
Sa wakas nagsama

'Di inakala na magkakaganito
Dahil wala naman talagang pagtingin sayo
Ni hindi nakitang magiging magkaibigan
Hanggang nagkaroon ng tiyansang baka pwede ng walang hanggan

Walang hanggan na paguusap
Walang hanggang pagtatawanan
Walang hanggang pagiintindi ng mga
Tingin na hindi alam kung ano ang sinasabi

Pero tila takot parin
Ang pusong napagod sa mga sakit
Na idinulot ng mundong mapait
Takot makaramdam, tumibok

Sumubok ng bagay na hindi sigurado kung saan patungo
Na baka isa na namang patibong
Na kukulong sa isip kong lunod na lunod na
Sa mga kathang isip at imahinasyon

Kaya hanggang dito na lang muna siguro
Pipigilan ang mga ilusyon at delusyon
Na sisimilan na namang gawin ng puso
Para kahit hindi matupad ang salitang "tayo"
Mananatili parin akong buo kahit papaano
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Atoosa
engulfed by the flames
the outer shell burns away
the true self remains
You cannot know who you really are until you have endured suffering and tested your true strength
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Kyle White
Ice and salt crunch 'neath my boots as I walk along an unmaintained sidewalk. In the distance, blue lights flash and snow removal vehicles make an otherwise quiet night, loud. I'm doing a little removal of my own. Surplus thoughts, excess; though, they go without sound into oblivions ever-expanding jaws, voiding me of resentment and regret. Leaving acres of empty field to fill

I circle the block, double back. I take in the cool night air and filter it through tired lungs, one deep calculated breath at a time. Tightening my grip, fingernails to palm. I let go, release. Upon inspection, there is no blood. There is no guilt in the belly of my mind. The darkness is inviting. The snow not nearly as blinding without the Suns reflection. The Moon, though modest in nature, and in comparison to that of it's sister, paints itself on the water top. Globes of light illuminate the path along the canal. The blue lights still flashing remotely in the distance. I can see clearer now.
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Tommy Allen
A Magic Treasure chest
  For each of you
Locked up tight
  With secrets all true
A magic treasure chest
  All polished & shined
Sprinkled with love
  As you now find
The treasure you have
  All locked inside
For mysteries of life
  Both far and wide
You wake up one day
  To find the key
That opens this box
  Of mystery
So you stand over the box
  And prepare to hold
Many secrets in life
  The truth unfolds
As the key unlocks
  The magic treasure chest
You now realize
  You’ve been given a test
To reach out to others
  And make them smile
Feeling so good
  All the while
The chest now opens
  So very slow
And lights up forever
  Letting you know
That you have a purpose
  So simple and free
To open your heart
  And let others see
How to feel so good
  As you learn to live
In this special way
  With all that you give
Accepting of others
  In a world so cruel
You’ve found this treasure
  This precious jewel
You can plainly see
  As you pass the test
That this precious jewel
  Was your vision quest
 Jan 2017 Doug Potter
Kush
I was beyond time, beyond space and, even then, I saw myself marginalized and confined by some unseen limit, an invisible force

It was the hand of reality snaking through the cosmos, eager to reclaim the wayward child that eluded its grasp

Despite this realization, I defied the so-called “natural order” for I, a being of flesh and blood, was not to be confused as organically pure

The opinions of a world around me had melded into my own inner monologues and construed a stardust born infant towards a less diluted path

I walk this path and, paradoxically, I propagate the path itself

Calling me pure would imbue myself with a divinatory regard, one which I had not earned and would not earn for millennia

Regardless, I was still a fragment of the universe as, no matter how minuscule a fragment may be, it is integral to constitute a whole

The smallest of fragments feel the touch and limitations imposed by Great Death

Impure as I was, I recognized that Death was inconsequential in the grand scheme

Death inspired either fear or reverence amongst mortals of every civilization but these were unnecessary reactions

Blackness or light, whichever consumes us, is simply a biological interpretation

We refer to Death as “the end” even when we haven’t had the opportunity to test this theory, to see past Death

Our skin rots, our organs and bones corrode into dust, but that is simply what we observe through our narrow scope of understanding

What logic is there in judging flesh by flesh?

Still, there is no present alternative

For now, I shall continue to soar through existence while searching for an answer

An answer to Death
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