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 Mar 2014 Icarus M
spysgrandson
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 Mar 2014 Icarus M
spysgrandson
trip flare  
and they are in a singing,
soprano sea of light
my heart thumping, baritone,  
my eyes digesting this metastasizing meal  
choking on it, until  
the guy beside me opens fire,  
emptying a magazine before I flip
from safety to rock ’n roll auto  
both of us now filling the killing
fields with tracers,
whizzing shouting shadows
in this sorrowful symphony…  
the light fades
in the newly darkened pit  
the crawling ebony clad shapes
stop,
the conductor, long gone  
to another stinking stage,  
while here, the blood dries black
and I have new mournful memoirs
of  the music of madness
Writers block it's kinda like your brain has deflated, speechless a thought comes to mind you try to restrain it. Got it, easy to catch, but it's hard to retain it. Swiftly moving by, it's like your mind is in a race. But on an empty tank, like a sentence where you fill in the blank. But at a steady pace, no chase, that thought just goes to waste. Difficult to face, trouble, you just break down and crumble. Now your at the bottom with nothing above you, nothing to look up too. Which would technically make you at the top, flip flop. You don't know what your saying, your brain is skipping waves and you need to be saved, but afraid to ask for help, cause anything you want to do you gotta do it for yourself.
My mind should be on better things.
Folding laundry, feeling as if
I were still watching
clothes
spin.

That dryer can hold anything,
memories, paranoia,
hope,
but it can never dry my clothes;

they're still wet.

I want to put them on,
feel their warmth.

Things aren’t like they used to be.
My clothes are damp,
While I fold them
I’m left to my memories.
Eyes closed in the dark,
like on a cold night,
I hear you breathing.
inspiration, anticipation,
each inhalation an invitation,
pulled close, held and
expelled, necessarily,
prolonging the moment
(A white noise stare,
like you left the t.v. on
and we don’t notice).
Lips agape,
a warm taste,
whispering sheets,
your mouth keeps pace,
breath unfolding.
Blind but for brushstrokes,
panting, paint drips,
clung to the canvas;
Breath is all there is.
 Jan 2014 Icarus M
Traveler
To and fro I travel
Yet I find no place to rest
The hardened heart
Grows colder
Bleeding less and less

Yet as I lay
Upon hard ground
There's a lack of comfort
To be found

Still my restless spirit
And my hungry heart
Beckons me to worlds afar...
Traveler Tim
2014
 Jan 2014 Icarus M
Yandisa mhlana
Better to have never loved, than to have loved and been left in the cold alone with a broken heart.

Better to have told me in the start that you weren't going to stay, than to let me build a mansion in which every night i will spend alone.

Better to have never said i love you, if you didn't mean forever.
 Jan 2014 Icarus M
Yandisa mhlana
I'm tired...

Everyday
I die by the minute

Every hour
I cry for relief

This world is built on pain

From the banishment of Eden
To this moment

This world knows no joy

To cry is meaningless
To complain is meaningless

To die...
This is a work in progress. Help and/correction is gladly welcomed
 Jan 2014 Icarus M
Yandisa mhlana
I sit in my room and try to imagine my future
I cant
Not for lack of imagination or lack of trying
But for the lack of purpose

I see no reason to walk on the path of others
And i see no reason to start my own

My family looks to me for the future
I smile and tell them it is bright

They do not see that i myself am in the dark

Pain
Sadness
Loneliness

But a few words to describe me
 Jan 2014 Icarus M
Yandisa mhlana
To Death be the glory
Great things it has done.

To Death be respect
For non can outrun

Oh reaper
Oh killer, slayer of men

Take me swiftly, take me gently
Take me now if you can
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