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the dark stormy seas within me crash heavily on the rocky shores of whiskey-filled tumbling tides, pooling under my tired, black-ringed eyes. i sit, singing phantom sailor songs soaked in a verbose, morose static, my disconnect stoked by the shamanic groans of a dying apartment fire. sipping sherry warms me after the last flames dissipate. sopping sobbing sounds slide off the hymn-sheet of a starless mind painted in the strokes of a tipsy lobotomy erupting from the hollowed-out sunken cathedral of my chest, there is no treasure inside that cavity. bobbing on walls of muddied water in a raft crafted from splintered words woven in white-lined wide-eyed chemical weariness... i seek the shores of salvaged solace in a hallucinatory paradise begging for a shipwrecked drunken deliverance. i am no longer the captain of my own destiny, trust sunk when an iceberg ripped holes in and through my identity. sadly, that ship sailed, none survived. .
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM UTC
wednesday (drunken draft on a sunken raft)
the dark stormy seas within me crash heavily on the rocky shores of whiskey-filled tumbling tides, pooling under my tired, black-ringed eyes. i sit, singing phantom sailor songs soaked in a verbose, morose static, my disconnect stoked by the shamanic groans of a dying apartment fire. sipping sherry warms me after the last flames dissipate. sopping sobbing sounds slide off the hymn-sheet of a starless mind painted in the strokes of a tipsy lobotomy erupting from the hollowed-out sunken cathedral of my chest, there is no treasure inside that cavity. bobbing on walls of muddied water in a raft crafted from splintered words woven in white-lined wide-eyed chemical weariness... i seek the shores of salvaged solace in a hallucinatory paradise begging for a shipwrecked drunken deliverance. i am no longer the captain of my own destiny, trust sunk when an iceberg ripped holes in and through my identity. sadly, that ship sailed, none survived. .
Rob_Bruwer
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Cape Town
Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM UTC
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