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Movement, as if weighted in a quickly thickening mire
Pain so unrelenting, as if pierced with blades of fire
Snapping like a bass line in each gesture; in each breath
Whispering of days to come, more eminent than death
Tugging at the strings, further crippling the dance
Bleeding out chaotic rhythmic complication unromanced
Leaving me to wonder whether days like these will end
This lunacy of hope…is it real, or but pretend?
Wading through such torment, longing for the chance to smile
Hoping that each instance sweetly lingers yet a while
Adding laughter to the madness, leaching pleasure from the pain
In the knowledge that such sufferance was not survived in vain
Harvesting the sorrow of a thousand broken dreams
Will never drown the sorrow of but one tear shed in loss
Fearing moments passed as if they’re moments yet to come
Will only still the moments when we gain from what we’ve lost
Reliving the nightmares of the things that could have been
Only blinds us to the beauty of the dream that’s yet to come
Believing you’re not beautiful by words from blinded eyes
Only steals away the beauty of the one you have become
Beauty suppressed; locked away
Memories that dare to bleed
Words we long to hear and say
Held at bay by silent screams
Euphoria of my heart’s contentment
Drown out by a sea of tears
Grasping for a single moment
Buried by such tragic years
Losing hope, and losing self
Losing everything but time
Frozen in this silent hell
The victim of such selfish crimes
Waiting for the day to come
When light and love return once more
The webs of sorrow come undone
In the love I’ve long been dying for
A selfless act
A tender kiss
A gentle touch
A pure caress
A heartfelt word
A sigh of bliss
Emotion sheathed in tenderness
As words that cannot be contained
Echo through the waking dream
Euphoria of my hearts contentment
Bursting open at the seams
Consumed with emotion much against my consent
I am torn apart, and somehow, so content
Not sure of this potion…how it leaves me intent
Yet, I drink thereof, refusing to relent
Such beauty and wonder within but a smile
I hope that this pain will linger yet a while
My heart rent asunder, yet my feelings run wild
Even though my hope may be but denial
Alive to the torture of both pleasure and pain
I’ll never acknowledge this may all be in vain
I cannot step closer…I cannot turn away
Sweetly hellish, my *******, with love but the chain

This is no secret that I keep from myself
I am drowning, yet I will not cry for help
Forever, I’ll need you, and I may be fooling myself
But my desire cannot be dispelled
A slave to the notion…a slave to the chance
That one day, you’ll return my stolen glance
These thoughts set in motion still defy circumstance
But, even the thought of you leaves me entranced
My mind in disorder…my silence in vain
Sometimes the heart breaks when love won’t be contained
It will not be cornered…it won’t be kept at bay
It won’t be forsaken, and forever remains
Alive to the torture, be it pleasure or pain
Each moment I’m near you, I’m swept further away
I dare to step closer…I will not turn away
‘Til the day that you softly whisper my name
Our very existence is comprised of one moment replacing the next. After its role in the greatly debated, but as yet unknown grand scheme, each moment is replaced by yet another, just as it has from whatever beginning there may have been to whatever end may come.
        The earliest moments of eons ago are lost to us as if they never existed at all, and came to pass despite our knowledge of such, just as eons from now, every moment we experience will be lost, just as if it had never been at all, to whatever conscious entities may dwell in such impending recesses of time...just as the moments each one of us have not found to be significant enough to remember in our own personal conscious awareness have already been lost to us, both individually and as a collective whole, despite having been. The tragedy of this is that far more moments are forgotten than will ever be remembered, despite every single moment having an impact on the next, even if it appears that it does not.
        Why, then, do the moments remembered seem to have so much more of an impact upon us and the moments to come than the moments we have forgotten? Because they are the moments that create and destroy. They are the moments that bring sorrow and joy. They are the moments that matter most, for whatever significance they hold. They are the moments that make the greatly debated, but as yet unknown grand scheme so grand.
        This moment…this very moment…this is the moment for each of us to make every remaining moment in our conscious awareness a moment to remember, for all too soon, our moment will be gone, and the only thing that will ever matter is what we made of each moment in our own moment of existence.
The first line is supposed to be tabbed, but whether I tab or space, it posts it with no indention. I know that for some, paragraphs are not considered poetry, but for me, it is, because it is still my thoughts bleeding out just as if the layout were otherwise.
I see the fall of everything that I love
It slips slowly through my fingers as I struggle to hold on
As I lose touch with who I know myself to be
For I can only be happy with nothing for so long
Before I have to have something, anything, to feel alive
For the emptiness inside grows much like hope…
It feeds on what it is given, thriving on every crumb
As time and time again, hope bares only the bitter fruit of dismay
Withering a little more upon the vine at every instance
Fermenting under the constant process of loss
Becoming a creeping toxin unto the soul
Enticing doubts and fears, beckoning sorrow closer
The emptiness devours every sliver of my joy
As it cracks and it shatters beneath the weight of waiting…
Waiting on something, anything, to get better
So as to fill the emptiness with hope once more
Starving the darkness that now consumes me
Harken unto the voices crying out from the fathomless depths of your heart. Meditate on infinite truths long forgotten, held hostage by fear, loss, and denial. Pain will come to you in times both fair and foul. It is a given. But, let it not end your transition into everything you've ever wanted to be, for it is not the circumstances in life that hold us at bay, but letting our failures convince us to give up before we have taken our final breath.
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