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Why
Why do you push people away?

"I want them to be happy."
 Jun 2022 Landon Keys
Aishu
She was absolutely in love
with life, self-contained and happy.

"What took her away from herself?"
she wondered.

The voice inside screamed,
"You're not you."

Without knowing the answers,
she curled herself up
with hatred and anger.
I'm
not
your
canvas;
you can't
paint over me.
My mistakes,
my life, it's whom
I want to be.
So go
_________
take your
_________
paintbrush
and your paint, too,
because I love my every
stain, and I'll keep every
color; red, green,
or blue.


By my every stain I mean my every mistake or misfortune, because I learn from each one of them.

I hope it looks somewhat like a paintbrush. I messed around with it, and the result is before your eyes.
you strayed into my heart
like a candle flame flickering
in a mirror
and there you'll stay

so i m gonna steal me some flowers
roses
red roses

i 'm gonna steal me those roses
so crimson in color,
and the rain,
i'm going to steal the rain
and the echoe of thunder
from that night

and a porcelain vase
too
white as snow
white as the ptarmigan
in winter
with blue tear drops
falling
forever falling

frozen in that moment
when you left

i'm going to steal the roses
that you love
from my neighbors garden

red as the sun
coming out of the sea
at dawn
and put them on your grave

crimson roses in a porcelain vase
for you
 May 2022 Landon Keys
SCHEDAR
spent
 May 2022 Landon Keys
SCHEDAR
Foolish
tap, tap
of the keys

he spends
away his
anxieties
The night is blacker
Than China ink
The air’s so heavy
That I can’t think
I was about to sink.
The full moon
Fills the sky
But refuses to shine.
We fell in love beneath it
Now it can’t comprehend
You’re no longer mine
Oh I need an empty cave
Faraway from being your slave.
I crawl into
A fortress of solitude
Where I know
I won’t run into you
For you’d only scrape
Away the scab
Where you wounded me
If only I could break
These slavery chains
To find a place where
I am free
But my cruel, cruel
Heart only wants
To pine
Refusing to accept
This blackened realm
Where you’re not mine
 May 2022 Landon Keys
SCHEDAR
game
 May 2022 Landon Keys
SCHEDAR
In the end, I lost the game

Playing
by his rules
I cheated myself
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