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 Sep 2016 Phillip Knight
NV
i know only how to wear this body like an apology.
like i'm sorry i take up too much space.
like i'm sorry,
i don't feel small enough to fit into your hands.
i wear it like a sin.
like a prayer that never feels answered.
like confessions i keep trying to change.
i wear it like a broken commandment,
because i love thy neighbour,
but i hate myself.
Losing the right to
occupy space I became
unanchored to this

flesh prison of mine.
Even my words lost in the
wind, but not to you.

Silencing the sound
of voices here, in my head
and beyond let me

exist in your state
of stillness. And let me count
the remaining time

of mine only by
the warmful beating of your
trusted, word clock-heart.
Fall and call and hope to borrow,
The sun, the moon, the winds and sorrow,
With eyes like glass and cheeks pulled hollow,
Full of acid too strong to swallow.
 Sep 2016 Phillip Knight
Jo
Does it make you feel good to make me feel small? When you're pushing me down, does it make you feel tall?
     Pointing out my flaws cause you wanna erase them all.
    Does it make you feel good to make me feel small?
   Betcha didn't think I knew what I was made of. Thought I would lay down,  I wouldn't stand up
   Well listen up cause you got it all wrong. This is for you.
I'm not a paper doll. You can't make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down.
   Enough's enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down but I won't fall. I'm not a paper doll.
    Did somebody make you feel invisible? Is it true hurt people hurt people?
     The way you hate and break. It don't make any sense at all, but you're not gonna make me feel invisible.
   Betcha didn't think I knew what I was made of. Thought I would lay down, I wouldn't stand up.
   Well listen up cause you got it all wrong. This is for you.
   You'd love it if you crumble me up, in the palm of your hands. Well, I bet that *****, because now you know you can't.
  Does it make you feel good to make me feel small? When you're pushing me down, does it make you feel tall?
   I'm not a paper doll. You can't make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down.
   Enough's enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down, but I won't fall.

   I'm not a paper doll.
This is for my high school bullies. That was pretty some hard times.
i am all but confused
My shadowy thooughts dance under the rain while a part of basks in sunlight.
I am all but empty
I claim satifaction with an all rounded sense of hungered.
i am all but vain
I bath in my glory yet to be proven to mankind

Where does my motivation and depression come from?
i fear that i canot tell.. a pity
In love i am tenderly caressed but with fleeting values
In bitterness, i am a wounded lioness seeking revenge,
hurt but with a focus.

I am tempted to ask myself,
where does thy motivation come from?
From the posionous romance of shakespeare?
From words abouts the sullen hull?
From temptations of the daffodils?
From the pain thst lurks therein?
From the sweetness of nature's gift?

Sadly, as i reminisce my past inspirations
I who was oce dull, tentatively recall the forms in which they came
From the bitterness and Sweetness of my heart.
 Sep 2016 Phillip Knight
Aeerdna
All the full moons are buried
under the pavements ***** feet are walking on,
and all the stars above are crying
but you can't hear them, can you?

Your tears are louder than the noise of the clouds breaking above your head
and children with no mothers are smashing benches in the parks
at 11 o'clock in the night,
but we both know that at that hour it's only your loneliness you care about.

People in the streets are haunting virtual monsters using their phones
while the real ones are eating the skin off their spines.
We are talking about wars and guns and all the **** going around
We want change, but, really, how much have you changed in the last three months?

Is it just me, or the world is really ****** up?

The cigarette is burning your fingers
and your lungs can't breath
because the air around you doesn't smell like the one you love.
Drown again your brain in alcohol,
hide all the lies in your pockets
and leave your hopes under the same pillow
your head will sleep on
seeing all the nightmares eating you alive.

One more glass of wine and you'll be fine
one more tear to spill on the regrets
another day is awaiting
the sun will rise again
and in the red clouds smiling in the morning
you'll only see the moon crying from beneath your feet.

At least you're alive,
I guess that's the only thing to be happy about.

Or is it?
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