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An honesty I cant concede
I came to love, I left with scars
My emotions tattooed on my sleeve
A hole where once lived a heart

The hole is gaping
It cuts right through
Yet lights can’t get by it
Just darkness because of you

Blood soaks the cold floor
I can’t find my heart
My heavy head is reeling, unsure
If it was in my chest to start

If you find it somewhere beating
Just leave it there to stop
No oxygen, no breathing
I’m never waking up.
 Dec 2017 Ignatius Hosiana
Belle
has the pain ever been so bad,
you just do not know how to put it into words?
like a fire.
i can't extinguish it with any water, no matter the amount.
1 gallon, 12 gallons, 132 gallons, 1,089.
i should check if these cans are filled with gasoline.
or maybe it's like an abusive relationship
you know,
when your partner is so mean to you and it makes you go home at night and sob, and wail, and ferociously curse and wave your fist at the air.
yet somehow, you can't say "i don't want to be with you anymore"
and when your friend asks you where that bruise is from you'll probably just tell them you hit yourself on something.
is this because the pain is comforting?
is it because you've been here for so long?
is it because you don't know anything without the tears, the gut wrenching pulls and pushes at your psyche, the sinking stomach, the migraines from crying so much?
because when you have a moment of happiness you can't stay in that and then the pain has open arms and whispers to you, "welcome home."
pain is home.
pain has always been home.
a life without pain is not something you know of and no matter how awful, how miserable, how atrocious you feel, pain is when you belong.
"welcome home" whispers pain.
glad to be back.
no im not
Pity you didn’t stay away
Shame you came and didn’t stay
Pain, a boomerang, it goes both ways
You’re gonna have to learn today

I told you to run
Away from the sun

Pity you had to lose it all
Shame no one picked up your call
Painful desire to drop the ball
You’re gonna have to take the fall

I told you to run
I’m not the one

Pity you didn’t fear the flames
Shame you hadn’t learned my name
Paintings of every life I’ve claimed
You’re gonna have to lose this game

I told you to run
A girl is a gun

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A Girl Is A Gun by Ines Rose is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
There are no knights in armor
There is no castle by the shore
No three wishes in a bottle
No living happily evermore
There is no perfect ending
And much to my dismay
I may never see a "miracle"
No matter how hard or long I pray.
Good doesn't always beat evil
Most times it's the other way round
My tales are not much fun to hear
But I've both feet on the ground
I myself fell victim once
'Course t'was many years ago
Believing in that one true love
That I saw come and I saw go..
We all grow up...I'm older now
So much older and more wise
Little girl.. that's why I share the truth
So that you won't believe the lies.
Yesterday I let you go
but it's like you didn't know
We still talk like before
Thought we'll change, but no

Maybe tomorrow will be different
Or probably later this will fade
As our time passed and laid
You will be just a great friend

Let's just hope for the best
and let give ourselves a rest
Without grieving
Just forgiving.
In connection with "On Letting Go"
 Dec 2017 Ignatius Hosiana
Meadow
What is it, to be passionate?

It is to feel a love for something
So intense that love is no longer
A strong enough word

Now some may argue
That it doesn't get stronger
Than love

But love is a word
That has been thrown around so much
It has begun to lose its strength
And only is it regained
When the word passionate
Is put before it

Because passion comes before love
At times where we don't feel the love
We usually do
We stay because of passion
And that is what motivates

Whether it is felt for a person, place, or activity
We may fall in love
But for those brief moments we may fall out
Passion still remains
Below freezing to negative temperatures
Are bone chilling at times, being frozen
          Your smile warms my soul
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