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heat from your skin while your heart fluttered
counting every beat and adding a memory to it
beautacious with every stroke of paint from the creator visible on you
never did I look upon you in lust
I looked upon you as life itself
Everyday I lay new slabs, stoops, and stairs

I see my brothers tagger and toil

hoping they'll sacrifice enough just to give their families what little they can

My youth withering at the sight of their decay

A man's home being destroyed while we build one anew

It is our foundation
morallygray Jun 22
you must ask if the fire of love should burn you

if a tiger should not pierce skin because a hand brushes his

all the blood you've shed
and the nights you've clothed yourself in

should they be sacrificed for a finite eternity

it is truly the apex of free will
you must choose
morallygray Jun 20
From dust ye came
To dust ye shall return
Many anew hearts remain blackened
Through firey cracks they weep
In search of past blood
Such blood they will never have
Again
morallygray Jun 15
A man's biggest dream
is give himself up completely
to be air in a woman's ear
for his internal void to be filled
so that his love may escape
rather than stay hidden
Where a kiss doesn't feel
Like half of what it should be
morallygray Jun 13
Salt Shaker Lady
shake it with me
your umbrella the color of daisies
head pointed down so sagely
felt your taste through tears as a baby

Adult now
realize your expression was hidden
because it was the deepest frown
In every cabinet yet no one knows how
a lady of mystery sitting in sweat on my brow

Salt Salt Salt
i need it with all
yet too much and my heart will stall

Salt Shaker Lady
I do see you
I wrote this about the Morton Salt lady
morallygray Jun 11
it shames me so
to dwell in front of the new
when I know I'd be happier
basking in mediocrity
with you
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