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I have created false love.
But what is it?
Does it even exist?
No.
This emotion, chemical reaction.
A concept created to deceive,
The foolish all believe,
While fakers all deny.
Truth seekers see the transparency
Of fragile beings
All longing for a feeling they cannot touch.
In all honesty, I see nothing.
But am I blind?
I am not, but omniscient
And overwhelmed by false emotion.
What I have falsified is a prize
Awarded to some, accepted by none,
Disregarded by many as a lie
A lie of truth they cannot digest
And when the truth cannot set us free, we create.
Just as I have forged
More chemical romance to abide by.
Follow my creation to find the truth
Be liberated.
Create your own.
I need positivity like a sunflower needs the sun
So what do I do when I'm given none?
I'm fed poison and breathe out joy
Bringing life through photosynthesis
Using my outward appearance to make people smile
But I'm cut at the stem
To be given to some much more special than I
And slowly start to rot
I'm given as a gift
Once I wither away and my fresh scent is gone
They throw me away and keep moving on
No one thinks about the sunflowers

Until they're gone.
I ask for peace
and You hold my hand.
I ask for mercy
and next to me You stand.
I ask for truth
and I drink from Your cup.
I ask for love
and You show up.

You say You are faithful
though I do not believe
for I ask for all these things
but You say You're all I need.

But when I picture peace
is it not Your hand in mine?
And when mercy is my desire
is it not a craving for Your time?
When truth is in question
do I not yearn for Your Word?
And when Love become the answer
is that not found in You, Lord?

You tell me You are faithful
as I begin to see
that all these things I long for
are all that You would be.
 Sep 2016 PaperclipPoems
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Morning will be here
soon enough says the moon,

only the night knows the truth
that lies dark in your heart

where love sleeps forever,
deep, and never dreaming.
you sent me
more mixed signals
than i could count on my fingers
but i always went back for more
because the pain was worth it
We met at the junction of your misery,
both high-strung and molars grinding like toothache.

Maybe it was my fault
Or maybe it was your folly,
But neither you nor I were aware
that this was a swath that brought us to our disrepair.

I should've known better,
I should've handed you my resignation.
Even heaven knows you've always had a palisade mouth;
sharp edges with misspent words,
teeth kisses with minor incision.

But we were shipwrecks coalesced by force,
fate's own masterwork where devils meddled their crooked hands in the ***.

Like a time bomb awaiting to explode,
we were in for our imminent destruction.

But I had nowhere else to go.
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