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 Nov 2014 Her
Adrienne McDermott
I will not be used.
Not by you, not by him, not by her.
I will not be used.

You try to mould me, form me,
pushing and pulling, this way and that.
"Do this," "Do that," "You can't do that."
Restrictions?
Restriction-less.
Yes, that sounds better.

Stories?
Stories told to take our minds off the hurt, anger and treachery.
Hope should not be a thing of the past.
People controlling people.
How is that so?
Are we not all equal? Are we not all free?
No.
Freedom is a figment of our imagination,
created to distract us from the reality of being in captivity.

The world is dying.
Society crumbles in the hands of it's enforcers.
Power hungry, selfish and heartless we are.
Broken we are, burnt from our sins - the consequences thereof.

But i know.
Therefore,
I will not be used.
Not by you, not by him, not by her.

I will not be used.
 Nov 2014 Her
Adrienne McDermott
It falls in torrents,
down, running, dripping, trembling from the glass windows.
Boom,
the sky explodes.
Around us the Heavens weep at their falsity.

Does truth still exist in this world?
Or is truth no longer truth?
Like politics, blackened society fibs.

No-one will know.
Hidden away files which remain dusty,
cob-webbed, untouched by truth seekers.
"Ahoy!" shouts the sailor who will carry us away to 'redemption'.
Heaven is not real.
Society is corrupt, much like politics.
The truths are hidden.
The sailor being Noah from the bible.
'redemption' - sarcasm.
 Nov 2014 Her
bones
I could do nothing
else but stop
and step inside
this blessed shop
to breathe again
the heady air
of knowledge that
is stacked in here
on quiet shelves
in dusty lines
of books that would
look nice on mine
but I have spent
my money so
I'll just choose one
and quietly go.

Shhhhh!
bibliomania
by any means necessary.
 Nov 2014 Her
Amitav Radiance
Home smells of love
Wafting aromas of feelings
Warm embrace of walls
Loved ones are here
To support each other
We give it a heart
Where love pulsates
Bonding forms the core
Smiles color the events
We dwell in it
And it, in us
 Oct 2014 Her
Lyn
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 Oct 2014 Her
Lyn
It started with a silly crush
Over someone who I can't even touch
Someone unreachable
So unreachable that it felt so surreal

I kept denying the butterflies
I tried to shooed them away
I kept telling myself
That it was nothing

And by the time I realized it
The supposed-to-be silly crush
Has turned into something bigger
Something that I can't no longer control

It was not just a slight admiration anymore
And it made me wonder
How did he manage to make me love him,
Without even looking at me?
 Oct 2014 Her
Steven Sanchez
I have sent a drop of rain that you will get some time tomorrow
Two inside a paper cup just to drown away your sorrow
Another drop upon the heart that I now seek to borrow
Three more frozen with the words we kept holding to the morrow
I'll send a drop of rain for each tear that you have wept
One at a time to ease the pain of promises made but never kept
So save the water inside jars, my garden ceiling is turning gray
Each blade of grass a glass-like shard since the day I went away.

In the absence of light, she sang to me a lyric
We had both been awake, but I could barely hear it
And although she was desperate, no sound was left heard
Through her quivering lips, never uttered a word
I listened for hours, as the sun scorched the earth
Until night fell upon us and the moon came to birth
Every dream that we shared, the *** and the violence
She now carries despair and that gut-wrenching silence
Memory of her faded as time grew less relevant
And years fled in the spires of light with no end
I will never know of the things she had said
But I felt them sink into where I lay with the dead.
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