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 Dec 2012 John
L Curley
Turn a corner from every moment of despair and you will find hope.  
Revisit every detail, relive every unrelinquishable moment or simply come to accept,
That everywhere there is a barrier that bridges a gap far greater than any language.

Accept that you will never truly know anyone, and no being will ever know yours.
Experience is the greatest barrier, and we each view the world through differing cages.
There is no organised chaos, not everyone acts with a reason that justifies or forgives, and you will never find someone as brave and good as your father.
Not in all the discarded t-shirts or misleading strokes of your hair or moments of security that slip through your hands like sand.

But accept this, know it, wear it across your forehead as a proud and cautious warning and you can begin it all again, looking through a different set of bars:
Listen to the blue-*** sing in the bleak metropolis and then go on home with the wind reminding your skin that it is alive and dance on your own in your room, never forgetting that you are the eternal opportunist and whilst you remain open to the hurting, you have hope.

Know this, and you remain more human than any of any of them put together;
Because through all the pain, you refuse to give up the hope that one day, someone might come close to understanding.
 Dec 2012 John
Marigold
I'll Wait
 Dec 2012 John
Marigold
Now,
It's been so long,
Arms branching out to you
Fossilise waiting to be filled.

The hair on the head has grown to the knee,
Changing its colours on the way down,
Bleached by the sun,
Stolen by the clock,
Left to grey.

Could the joints still move,
- if ever they wanted to?
So long frozen in commitment.

"I'll wait." - he said.

Aiming his arrow carefully,
So the two words would pierce though all barriers,
Exploding perfectly in the heart.

Shrapnel flies everywhere.
Duck and dodge the pieces of unworthy flesh!
She left. He waited.
Waiting for the time when she'd return from looking for something better.
 Dec 2012 John
Darbi Alise Howe
A girl in *******
Agony and rapture found
Through latex and blood
 Dec 2012 John
Darbi Alise Howe
I used to drive my nails into
Your skin, some type of ******
Crucifixion
They say pain before pleasure
But I know that aches
Are often felt months later
When paradise has become
Past tense
Like the scars on your back
Fading
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