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Wasteland

Like valleys in a desolate wasteland bear the skeletons of water

and the tundra is envious of the desert that's regrettably hotter,

these scars show where blood used to flow

and remember the life in a cave leaking tears down below.

My veins are an ardent irrigation system

That try to forget that I ever missed him, kissed him, and dissed him

and wish that I  had thrown a fist at him and ****** him off.

The life from my blood is putrid and lucid and trying to rid

itself of hidden embarrassment sleeping amid a bed of emotions about to burst.

Let it dampen your thirst and immerse itself in this sobbing flood.

I need a well to siphon all of my blood back into my veins

and to feel less insane and less hopefully vain,

you're the bane of my tears and the bane of my main fears.

Humanity is persisting with an impossible dream

that seems to tease me, tearing my seams and threatening the steams of my inner hot springs to bring this kingdom down into the ground remembering nothing.

Embezzling these dreams from the hopeless lovers and the luckless lovers and foolish and moronic and simple-minded lovers.

So wait with me for the monsoon of dust because I must not wait in solitude waiting for my crowded heart to spontaneously combust.

The darkness for once is a beacon, meek and a freakin' immature fawn

exulting in our fictitious devotion, crying from it's eyes

bathing in the tears crying from the skies,

and mourning through our veins and dreaming in the morning in pain.

I'm hosting a caucus for flirtation but you're the only one invited.

We're a landscape of brutal simplicity.

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peyton-leigh-stille
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Apr 21, 2017
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