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 Dec 2019 kevin hamilton
ross
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i am terrified to lose
a love so sacred
we hid it from the world
a love so mysterious
we hid it from ourselves


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You make me feel
Ashamed to breathe
You see me
In my denial
And my childlike freedom
I am still asleep
Breaking into
The pentagon’s cathedral
Sheet metal and rust
Fall from our farmhouses
Who can we trust
When all is abolished
In the dust and the turmoil
We hide in the saddest places
Because no one looks there,
Under the stones that have been left alone
Never to be unturned, I've learned
Its better to never open the bottle
They'd rather I wallow in waste
Because that makes me convenient, that's fair.
I'm the substitute even in the stories I write
So why would any other have any other sight?
Isnt that right, Claire?

Its easy to dance like no one is watching
When you know no one is watching.
Where's the auction I turn back on my body
The auctioneer is stuck, no one's wanting
The ghosts populate my cranium space,
The poltergeists are not done haunting
I want to taste real emotion instead of taunting,
I'm just a host for a past still walking.

They ask for real answers but my written tongue
Can spread darkness like cancer,
Can give hope to the hopeless
But some don't know what hope is
Can give hope to the hopeless
But maybe you noticed, now I'm the hopeless
 Dec 2019 kevin hamilton
Ally
through the bars of love
she longed, a caress in stars
sunrise, acquittal
 Dec 2019 kevin hamilton
nivek
voices for singing
storytelling

verbal traditions
banging the drum.

shouts and screams
the low hum

tribal woman and tribal man
the synchronised dance.
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