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Oh they flow, my failures As a river towards the valley The defining feature in an otherwise Sparse, pale Landscape Each sin like a raindrop burgeons on And my river grows Oh my river flows Steady as a sieve, leaking o’er my head In my eyes, soaking into my soil And I’m flooded, no I cannot breathe Under the weight of my stream But ****** if I’ll open my mouth and Let the water course down my throat In my lungs ****** if I’ll drown No I cannot let them find me Bloated Sodden Choked by the rush as it consumes me But how I want to How one scream to release me weighs On my mind heavier than the river I’ve made A pressure the ocean itself Could never hope to match And what a trick it is What a sick practical humour of the universe That my river grows And my river grows Only as I try to keep my mouth shut Once upon a time I could say I never understood why ‘they’ did what they did, what I do why did we let them dam break? oh god I know
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM UTC
River
Oh they flow, my failures As a river towards the valley The defining feature in an otherwise Sparse, pale Landscape Each sin like a raindrop burgeons on And my river grows Oh my river flows Steady as a sieve, leaking o’er my head In my eyes, soaking into my soil And I’m flooded, no I cannot breathe Under the weight of my stream But ****** if I’ll open my mouth and Let the water course down my throat In my lungs ****** if I’ll drown No I cannot let them find me Bloated Sodden Choked by the rush as it consumes me But how I want to How one scream to release me weighs On my mind heavier than the river I’ve made A pressure the ocean itself Could never hope to match And what a trick it is What a sick practical humour of the universe That my river grows And my river grows Only as I try to keep my mouth shut Once upon a time I could say I never understood why ‘they’ did what they did, what I do why did we let them dam break? oh god I know
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM UTC
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