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em Oct 2019
bite your lip or i'll have to
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numbed forever more
drown
in my blood
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an exponential growth in my throat
i guess i never learned
how to escape quicksand
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feeble again
does anything ever change
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forever afraid
of dreaming alone
silence overwhelms
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pulsations radiating throughout my being
the aching heat, unrelenting
answering the void's lonesome song
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blurred droplets on once-dead wood
valued by connoiseurs from what i gather
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too many walls around here
too many moats and battlements
guess mine were all for show
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eyes closed
forever
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always the same words
when will you stop
why must you always
and the images too
why won't you stop
underexplored ideas and lethargic days
em Oct 2019
ten
duskened eyelids when the light shifts

                  in the orchard
                  in the valley
                  through the jagged peak's ascent

                                 everchanging

                                              how many years since the last bead
an attempt was made        all bore the mark
                                              distant shores may save us yet
em Oct 2019
running away forward trampling
forget to cry again finally
worried about worries and yet
another attempt rightful need
i've always felt the urge to climb
em Oct 2019
wooden clockwork silent lands
the lash and leash, broken whip
millennia of tired screams
works left unfinished now undone
moss claims back its lost kingdom
em Oct 2019
splintered at the core, its bones scraping together
hoisting its dying frame, a final cry against the void
chanting and moaning, the screeching numbed, the hate forgot
then the painful halt, the silent fall
the soil forever branded by its corpse
em Oct 2019
six
running back to an unknown place
a newer home of marble and dust
power back in the broken lights
x
fiery iris, bones boiling
tears of ink
blood on those streets
but the stillness in the air has stood
and will
though the winds might blow
once more
em Oct 2019
to come undone at the first touch
to melt under your gaze
to die a more poetic death
to be alive at last
or so i hope
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