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 Apr 2014 Elijah Almond
axr
Surrounded by backstabbers in this big cold world.
Every time I watch it swirl and turn,
I see the people bound with a curse.
Memories of yesterday in my eyes are nothing but a blur.

Everyday I wear mask over my charred face.
Don't look me in the eye, I never belonged to this place.
I am tired of living in this fake heaven.
It's too loud here to hear the angel's bell.
When the darkness fell,
I screamed for someone to take me to my own sweet hell.

The devil has heard my scream
and consoled me when I was sad.
He has made me a ton of promises
and trust me, they aren't that bad.
He might have lured me into a trap,
but now there is no going back.
I remember when night fell,
I went back to the devil and begged him to take me back to my own sweet hell.

Look me in the eye and you will see nothing ignite.
The war has extinguished the fire which burned bright.
Even the devil screamed in fear when he saw the ghosts inside of me.
I told him not to worry as I am a victim of a sweet old melancholy.
I saw all of them come to me and rip me to shreds.
It sure does feel good in my own sweet hell.
There is a certain beauty
found in silence, terror too.
 Apr 2014 Elijah Almond
Emma
You
You and your words
Got in my head
Dug their way
into my heart
My pain is
what they were fed
They illegally
Snuck into
My cracks
And gently sewed them up
They crawled to my bruises
And gave them gentle kisses
All the while saying
It's okay
You're okay
You're with me
Now
Makes no sense what-so-ever. Written at 2:30 am. Only because I needed to get it out.
I'm sick of this.
The constant numb,
the want to devour every blazing sunrise just to feel.
The need to claw my way from my marrow
and escape this old cage of bones.
The rotting happiness and cracked heartstrings.
I'm sick of myself.
 Apr 2014 Elijah Almond
r
Wheat
 Apr 2014 Elijah Almond
r
Steady lads
You're the farmer
You're the scythe
Sharp like a knife
They're the wheat
Stalks in the wind
Steady boys
They come again
Time to reap.

r ~ 4/17/14
Gettysburg, The Wheat-field battle, July 2, 1863; one of the bloodiest battles of the war between the states.
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