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ej Oct 2016
paranoid fear
shadows dark
hastened escape

I don't know who you are
I don't know what I want
ej Oct 2016
No matter how far I am
how built-in my ego has to be
how much of myself I've
surrendered

I will always let my guard down
and assume I'm unique, assume
that I matter

I'm only worth anything to myself and
life is better, safer, when I keep that in
mind because I'm not special
so ******* special
ej Oct 2016
I believe I am
meant to be alone
ej Sep 2016
Fancy wear.
Got guts like the rest of us,
perfect skin. If eyes are the windows
to the soul then yours must have
been gouged out ages ago

I feel I know when

Because bones remember
everything and you're not doing
much to hide it.
ej Sep 2016
Eyes like headlights over every rise of the road

You were a sound I'd never heard before;
loud where others stayed quiet

Now I'm remembering what I fell for, why
I let you crawl inside my heart, and who I
left buried beneath my skin

This isn't you. I wish it was.
ej Aug 2016
Tag my posts with LGBT
so you know I'm gay,
but if you knew me better you'd
know it anyway
feeling lowkey marginalized
ej Aug 2016
I love you like the trees love the sun,
like the whales love the sea,
like my heart drives me toward
thought and feeling before logic

Far away, you defy impulse,
and when you arrived in the dead
of night my heart was quick and
you were quicker to grin than I
when I saw your face

I remember the way your eyes stuck to the
walls because you were overcome by their
conversation, and the sound swelled up
and I knew what you were feeling

And I wanted nothing more than to walk
with you by the river so we could catch a bit
of quiet but I knew that was impossible

The world has a course and I'd best let it be,
roll with the punches, so maybe I'll see you again
before time steals you away
my taste in music
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