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Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
Pick your high
Stake your life
Inject time
Through your spine
Tell your mind
What to bind
Ride the tide
Press rewind
When you find
What to hide
Place a sign
Right behind
Close your eyes
Step aside
Open wide
Finish line
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
time shrinks
she thinks
like ice in rinks
and overflows the sinks
she blinks
seeing shades of pinks
they're links
living on the brinks
a jinx
[she] turns into a minx
and drinks
unlinks
empties out the sinks
and shrinks
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
Can
we go back to
the way things were
b e f o r e ?
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
We made our way through the sunflower field
I watched you collect all the seeds you peeled  
Their shells like a light in my hands I sealed 
So I'd never unsee what we are

As you moved along down the dainty path
I stayed behind, found a wooden lath
Its walls became host to the brooding wrath
That had forced you to wander afar

See, somewhere amid our excursion here
Came a moment that dimmed what had been made clear
We polluted ourselves with the atmosphere 
Of the mimic that hid in the air

But even if odds are stacked to the sky 
And we find ourselves in a cloud just as high
I have held on to the specks of our shine 
You'd entrusted inside of my care


I'll wait, you will see what we are
In Russia, the color yellow is associated with every kind of goodbye; a temporary absence, the end of a relationship and even a death.
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
I filled my lungs with sun and rain and colored with my breath
I watched the world turn black and blue as I exhaled myself

The hues of bruise became my skin and blended with the air
And people walked through parts of me while strangely unaware

I felt this more than I could say - the presence of their flesh
A fitted suit upon the bones of something painted fresh

Like tempered glass and hard as stone, impossible to break
They bore a face of disarray and hid inside their ache

With open hands they welcomed in the fever of their ways
But failed to build upon the rock that was before their days

And this is how the place we see became what we call "home"
A sad excuse we sold ourselves when we trailed off alone
Title taken from opening line of a song (Black and Blue by Phillip Larue)
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
I
slept
inside
your
head
last
night -

and

you

knew
Olga Valerevna Sep 2012
I've seen a trail that leads to the sky
that if I said I walked I'd be telling a lie
Instead I just stand here and let out a sigh
while something inside me stirs up a cry
I'm barely coherent and wondering why
my body decays but I do not die
Upon whom or what can I wholly rely
when purpose to life I cannot apply
This mind is the center of all I deny
blooming with thoughts that keep running dry
Lassitude follows and I will comply
create here a knot that I can't untie
I'm soaking in tints of thick heavy dye
and letting the color drain from my eye
I feel so much lighter as if I could fly
so set me on fire and watch me go by
I'll burn off the fuel of what I defy
and be left alone in my blueprinted high
You may all think my plans went awry 
until you uncover my motive - the 'why'
     


         the 'what I've been hiding all of this time'
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