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Inevitable Failure
It's a feeling that I can never
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put my finger on,
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to seize its power with a name.
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It's that sl
2m
Apr 28, 2025
Lamentation
Lying, exposed,
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I've made myself
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A sacrificial lamb
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On the altar of
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The unmade bed.
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Time a
1m
Jul 8, 2024
Internal monologue
I see two paths,
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two lives for myself -
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with him I am cast into
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an ocean of untamed feeling, /
1m
Apr 13, 2022
Desert womb
I lay my hands over the rot
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concealed within my belly
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and imagine instead
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I am ripe with a hus
1m
Apr 13, 2022
Strumming
The way your acoustic fingers
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drum over my skin;
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I'm slick with your rhythm.
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My heart beats a
1m
Jan 31, 2021
Listless
It's so easy to romanticize,
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slipping on that cloak
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of self-loathing;
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Reminiscing on those fai
1m
Nov 12, 2020
Ritual
How many people have I known;
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taking them into me,
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speaking that universal, ancient language
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o
1m
Nov 12, 2020
The Real Thing
There's no fire to be started
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with paper matches,
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but the real thing
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sets the whole house alig
1m
Apr 30, 2019
Dispossessed
I have to make myself empty;
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starve myself away.
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I have to exist less,
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I can't stand my existe
1m
Apr 16, 2019
Liquid State
I want to take apart my skin
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when the sun is too bright
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and the world is too full
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of people wh
1m
Apr 9, 2019
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