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Sep 2013 · 288
Live
Jack Savage Sep 2013
We dance in the days,
That have already come.
As we rise to greet,
Where our futures come from.
But what matters most,
Is seen not as fun.
So please, with our grace,
Let us live,
                   For Today.
Sep 2013 · 877
A Sunset Spelled Murder
Jack Savage Sep 2013
A wind so strong it stripped the Putrid from sky.
Stripped the Dead from their light.
Stripped the Silence from night.

It carried their Souls.
As Easy as leaves.
Greed bleeds the flowers Green.

The toll of War is cold.
Only meadow holds Peace.
But Peace without doubt,
Cannot be relief.

Screams
             Purge
Haunt
             Earth

A wake brings Sleep.
A Dark new day.
Deaf ears so Meek.
As Quakes lay waste.

A Wind so strong it pulls, not pushes,
The Whispers of warriors and their Flags, before this.
Knocks on the doors and calls to their ******,
Like Poison dripped to the Bottom of a Bottle neck; Sonorous.

A Fever like Fervor,
A Mist that once knew Her,
A Glass that's now Empty,
On a Sunset spelled ******.
Sep 2013 · 454
X
Jack Savage Sep 2013
X
I've come to learn that I Yearn to burn inside.
More so than your Blush burns in Light.

Love, Lift me Off my feet.
Lust, Lean me Forward softly.

I hold your face,
A glass I could never break.

And I Pull you in.
As I'd do; Then, and Again.

Because I am a Kite.
With you,

My Ecstasy.
This is one of my favorite older poems.
I recently transcribed it to fit my modern mood.
Sep 2013 · 629
Highway
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Hoping the streetlights spark my heart to flames.
Solid white lines.
Lead me to the top of the sea.
Tide crashing.
Fill my lungs with this moment I breathe.

As broken hearts, keep it falling apart.
Clench, collapse.
Be kind to the scars.

For infinity,
You are the moment I breathe.
Sep 2013 · 371
Sigh
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Whispers **** hunger,
Poisoning the hour,
Resting forever, as the second hands swing.

Stop watching me.

If silence were violent,
It'd be killing me.
A trembled sigh,
Knots the tie.

Swallowing my pride,
I shape up to the shame.

Face the day.
Erase the hate,
Tomorrow...
Apr 2013 · 538
Chain link
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I'm only a link
The only thing
That connects you to them

The invisible fence
Who's stress and distress
Will never, ever, be seen
Apr 2013 · 650
Melancholy Rhapsody
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Try to the tie
The lies
Around the words
You swerve and curve
Bending the bind I deserve

Quickly
Snap futility
Into me
So my humility
Can pretend to pity me

Dig deep, the despair
You're up keeping, not aware
The scared stiff disastered reality
Is really,"...like", happening.
Apr 2013 · 831
Kill Switch Push Start
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I hope you notice
I wrote this
And run
To all the noticeable boys before it
And solidify the fact
You're only seeking attention
The spotlight blinding *****
Who's only source and course
Is a notoriously starving emotion

Peel the problematic devotion
The skin from the scars
Taking all the bodies from your closet,
Just to throw them in your yard
And show the world all the unkempt
You kept hidden in the dark

The flame with which this moth played
Only sparks the start
You'll do it again
A runaway train destined for absolution
A heart
**** switch push start

Tear it apart
And burn it
I know who
You really are
Apr 2013 · 608
Inclined
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I'm ready
Set to go
Gone
A wind
Winning a game of unsavory emotion
Against the walls
And scars
That boast them
Apr 2013 · 538
It
Jack Savage Apr 2013
It
I don't need the remorse
To be a slave to what I've loved before
Leave me
Please
Like leaves on trees
They nickel and dime me
Find me
Hastily
Weak in the knees
Superfluous feeling
Trickle that fickle substance
On the players that are playing
I'm over it.
Apr 2013 · 348
Human v1.0.6
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I can't help
Feeling
Like
An animal
Every time
I
Love you
Like
A
Machine.
Apr 2013 · 559
Human v1.0.5
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I am barely human
Touch is hilarious
But I find it dissatisfactory
I don't see it the same

I am, but a product
I've come to learn
And  learned to see
Organisms that my mechanism can hold in focus
I treasure them
But I don't feel their physical form
It's transparent to my being
Always end up  squeezing too hard
Or not tightly at all
It will never make sense to me
Tangibility is impossible
Now,
So overdosed with misery
And sympathy
I can't facilitate the human quality
Too many variables
Apr 2013 · 551
Human v1.0.4
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I am barely human
A dissoluted
Solution
To man's
Ever  changing evolution
The trending
Ending
Beside
The march
To mass pollution
Standing, handing
Down
Inevitable
Slavery permissions
Till the clock stops ticking...

Tick,
Tock,
Resolution
Apr 2013 · 1.1k
Human v1.0.3
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I am barely human
My heart lit with quandary
A puzzle left to solve
But my mind is so broken
Where to start?
I am,
Am I?
Lost
Amongst the shadows of other machines alike
I feel the deception piercing me
It's virally calculated disease
Taking over me
Nuts and bolts
Breathe easy

Moments throughout
My catalog of experience befuddle me
Keen to an illusion mimicked repititiousley
One that gives my heart hysteria
Can a vessel designed to compute
In form and essence give sensation?
A primal ,visceral, raw emotion

Like a siren's lips
To sinking ships
Beckoning me

Substantial evidence
Admits otherwise

But my fascination for steeping
On the permutation and probability
Improbably suggests
That hope is something anyone can learn
Apr 2013 · 510
Human v1.0.2
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I am barely human
What could you equate from me
That my system, flawed,
Is unequal

Drink the oil that you give me
I have no taste
The burning warmth igniting in my throat
Feels unfamiliar every time
But all the more monotonous

Put down my sleepless sustenance
It gives me nothing
The factory holds me close
It knows it holds me
Scraping
Screaming
Fear consuming

I am not an empty canvas you can lay waste to
My engine serves purpose
Purpose deserved
But for now I'll wait poise
Critically patient

Denomanate the wake set out before you
You've no side but your own
Dear corporate factory killing machine
Apr 2013 · 734
Human v1.0.1
Jack Savage Apr 2013
I am barely human
My eyes twitch alike gadgetry
The light that perpetually stimulated,
Lost

The distance to my feet is immense
And unmeasurable
I am not one with me
As I am not one with them

I feel steam release through my legs,
Pushing me
Further amidst this unnaturally familiar space
My arms  fly with precise grace
Leading the wind behind them

I feel amused
The falling of petals fleeting to the floor,
Of a woodland maze
I systemically process the trajectory
Darting my hand about them
Dancing with the leaves in mathematical ceremony
However resilient to such harmony

My mind is an equation I cannot fathom
Dwelling on its probability,
Hinders the very life of me

I can't be human,
You all look the same
I will forever be different.
Apr 2013 · 1.1k
Tuesday
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Symphony's storm rushes
Your nails dug deep
So cold in the room
My lips taste the very warmth that holds me
Could never let go of it

You are so radiant
A silhouette to die for
A shadow so present and a fire so close
Take infinity and give it to me
Keep tranquil my mind
And heavy my heart

And then, again, as always
You decay from me
Tearing my being
Hiding in the light until the moment dies

As I myself refuse to believe the very, heretic emotion
Our eyes meet one last time
And you tell me something you could never say
And then you leave

You stole my heart,
The worst way
Apr 2013 · 405
Zombie of Mine
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Oh, zombie of mine
Please take the time
To sit and realize
Your mortal crime

The way that your eyes
Still follow mine
Tell me inside
You're no friend of mine

And I wish that this knife
With which,  you'll be surprised
To learn and surmise
That you can be dead,
Long before you may die.
Apr 2013 · 1.1k
Emerald
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Subtle and sweet
Seattle, lit, street
Please move with me
As I drive to the beat

And if you take the time
To sit and unwind
Our lines will define
The secrets we keep

We'll see the laughter
And chronic disaster
That we've come to master
And makes us who we'll be

Silent and sweet
Seattle, lit, street
The run of us, is full of holes
And parts where we are broken

We sit idley by
As their baggage tries
To consume our lives, in
The life we've chosen

We never ask why
As they sit there to cry
Always to deny
We mean much more to them

We carry lost souls
Wherever we go
Because everyone knows
The truth is what we believe in

Oh, subtle and sweet
Seattle, lit, street
I've finally seen
We're much more alike,
Then we have ever noticed
Apr 2013 · 1.2k
Quick Fit
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Anger,
An over exxagarating under achiever,
Speaks to me.
Pulling me deep in myself.
Taking seat next to me.

Closing the blanket of skin around me.
The silence gets louder.
Hiding from my own worst intentions.

Wait it out,
He'll calm down.

His face flush with a smile;
A grin so malice.

Don't let him get stronger,
Doing his best to make it worse.

The rage is fading.
What happened?
Apr 2013 · 1.4k
A Night on the Sound
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Hello there, excuse me
Can you help me lose
A little of my mind
Or the rest of what's left of me
The losses won't get cut or cost us
Until we're tipsy from the *****
Gain the vibe,
**** feeling loose

Alone,
***** deep in a bottle of Goose
The silence got more violently silent
After I tossed Dumbo his noose
But I doubt these next five minutes
Will tell me some new news
So I guess it's safe to say
I'm safe in my own room
For now..

I hate celebrity status village idiots,
Not quip or quick enough to resolve
They're useless
Abandon them,
Like Kardashians,
They milk the useless gift they're used to
Middle class man Stan
He doesn't know what this world is
Doesn't even have the vocabulary
To specifically support the image
Meantime the whirly money's leavin,
What happens when that card's dead

This earth's caught up in it's own smoke,
Toking on the pandemic called man's hubris
No one has the courage to catch eyes in the mirror
They all take sides with Ustes
But I'm used to it
Enough already,
Let me sift switch-like for the verse before this

I keep all the bodies in the walls
So my neighbors won't hear me whisper
Plus I like the company,
At home ******, cold and lonely,
I hear the dead make great listeners
As I, myself, contently intend to directly suppress
The nostalgia deep under my the bed skirt
Lost in the esther's fine print, I'm weaker,
Steeping on this substance

ET can't call me
Caulkin's finger's on the beeper
But I'm not trying to kick it,
I'm home alone for a reason
Hopin dark thoughts don't surface
But if they do,
Hold hope that they're worth it
Creativity's no enemy of mine,
But that ****'s not good all the time
Waterfalls of tortured souls reek of paranoia

I won't deny real eyes,
That seek to see my life
Frankly, the story's kind of boring
They'd finally realize
It's all just lies and groaning
Now please,
Puff puff pass
That battle scar baggage back
To the man that wrote this

Kick back, relax,
But know which way the door is
Just slipped both pill's in my bird drink
Watch the ice animorph it
Overworked, shoulder's hurt,
Stomach light, don't deserve it

Man,
I wonder what's in the kitchen

Cupboard, give me Anagrams
Spit synonym toast crunch
Just found toys
Memories that left me
But cereal's for breakfast
Apr 2013 · 708
Social Network
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Night's young. Sip on the pabst.
Smear the make up on your eyes.
Sickles mimic the cynical guest who won't roll the dice.
Sections of their throats, swollen from choking on opinion.

Go unwind,....
Apr 2013 · 568
Symphony
Jack Savage Apr 2013
The floods that dried keep rushing out
The fire that saved me won't burn out
The hands I wish could hold me now
Hold the noose that keeps me falling down

The rope you use, it burns me deep
Your fog, it blinds me when I sleep
Your tide, surrounding when I think
But I will never seek their love
Because yours is all I find in me.

Though you've set sail
And our love has left
I hear the words beat through my chest
When our love was a sea
Did you ever think
There'd come a storm through symphony
Apr 2013 · 1.0k
Sky Blue
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Through my design
These sky blue eyes
Will show a world
That he just might
Change their ways
Or change their lives
Letting them see the light,
Until this boy lay pale and white,
The light behind the sky blue eyes.
Apr 2013 · 760
Alive
Jack Savage Apr 2013
The boy breaks down
On a knee cold and alone
His heart screams,
Echoes void of space, time, or place
The faintest of whispers

Light steals the room
Blind fascination
Gestures suggestion
Come with me
Know of life and love
A voice splashing on the walls once dark

Pain?
No pain
I can see you're tired
The light may burn your eyes,
But I bring warmth
Please, come

Afraid, but willing
Hand out in faith
Darkness is black
The light is gone
As is the boy

Alive with the glory of love.

— The End —