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No more a man, no less a boy.
I came home today.
I am anchored here, a rusted chain i can't take off.
The further i walk, the tighter the heavy brown collar grips my throat.
It pains me to be away.
It hurts me to stay.

No more alive, no less deceased.
I stayed home today.
New scratches line my back as the rough metal of my leash grazes back and forth across my shoulders through the day.
It's cold inside.
The sun struggles to find me back behind these walls.

No more satisfied, no less disappointed.
I stayed in bed today.
Wrapped in a duvet ive never not had.
Familiar, comfortable, unpleasant.

No more honest, no less a liar.
I told myself id go out today,
But as i approached the door my neck got heavy, hard to breath, and the chain links cut my back.
It hurts to stay, too painful to leave.
I grovel at my own feet.
To a man ive know my whole life.
The man who lives at home.

No more at peace, no less disturbed.
Today i decided to stay a while.
If i left id only be back,
I always,
Come
Back.
I dropped the anchor, i linked the chain.
I know i secretly like it here.
It hurts to stay, too painful to leave.

Today i stayed at home.

Today i stayed at home.

Today i stayed at home.

Today i stayed at home.

Today i stayed at home.

Today i stayed at home.
Depression becomes Stockholm syndrome, imprisoned and in love with your sadness.
Perhaps just one or two,
I drink too much you see.
A quiet beer spirals into bottles of whisky far more often than not.
And tonight,
It certainly did.

Staggering home in the rain,
Unable to walk straight,
Alone in the dark damp streets of my grey city.
I take my phone from my pocket and scroll through my contacts,
A long list of choice,
Perhaps one hundred people.
Ex girlfriends and current pals and those who I got drunk with.

Head a mess and slightly sad,
I scroll through all their names.

Only to feel worse;
Because I don't want to talk to any of them at all.
The classic metal artist.
The man of sharpened tongue.
With each lick a picture,
He paints upon your canvas.

The rarely appreciated work of a little understood poet.
Painting poetry.
Though many would seek to emulate what one stroke of his brush may convey,
Only few possess the means to reproduce the sheer purity of emotion in every sweep, line and dot.
Many forgeries gain more applause,
Yet the painter allows them spotlight.
The man who paints in the shadows is rarely seen hanging in public halls.
Seeking not fame, fortune or acknowledgement.
He paints only for purpose.
Love the painter,  love the poet.
Though the man himself is flawed.
He will not cry for anyone, nor pray nor care nor wonder.
He does not put his brush away, after all.


Blood does paint the prettiest pictures.
They wrote his name in stone today.
Rock carved out by metal.

I walked through his garden,
Inside his temporary halls.
Flowers spoke as men fell silent.

I sat and heard his name today.
In tones of desperation.

I walked with friends, his family.
And all us were hollow.
Words can do no justice.

They wrote his name in stone today.
And I will truelly miss him.
Whatever it takes, to obscure and sedate.
To numb the mind and withdraw from the maze.
Poisoned with all we're taught,
Deep inside,
Our absent thoughts.
Our sober mind is masked by the stench of it.

Little blue,
Morphing you,
The morphine.
I was due.
The subtle numb that drags me away from it.

Anything to blur my gaze,
Paint new portraits of my tedious days.

Blurred and off, vision runs,
eyes are soft my heart is numb.
The touch of life has left me intolerant.

What does it take to obscure and sedate,
To leave behind,
Our mask's in the maze.


Send me to sleep.
Blood may be thicker than water,
But i'd rather drown at sea,
Than confined within these walls,
Amidst people forced to love me.
Drown at sea; not a literal preference for death but rather a desire to be immersed by water than blood.
Today I broke bread in the garden of the ******.
I sat and met the devil.
I drank his wine and ate his fruit.
It would do me no favour, to deny generosity of any host.

Today I broke bread in the garden of the blessed.
I sat and met almighty.
I drank no wine. I ate no fruit.
It would do me no favour, to expect the kindness of a stranger.

Today I broke bread in a garden of my own.
I sat alone and silent.
I drank my wine and ate my fruit.
It would do me no favour to dine with those who seek my soul.
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