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The Quotient of a Hanging Tear

Stuck in this burning nightscape

knees replacing feet as

trees combine protection

and inevitable regression

to some beast's detection,

it's a call of mayday

to belay

the nights bereaved.

 

I missed the days

when fathers lay silent

in their posturing prose,

I missed the day

when fathers play, silent

in their organized rows.

I missed the day

when time took its lull

and silently stood still.

 

Now it's dropping me

in hallowed peace,

sacred work

left taming beasts.

And women need

their reason to seethe

last thought as

I'm lacking

air to breath.

 

Too bad I see

that vacuum piece,

or else I'd let

you ****** me.

But now they've named it

Suicide,

this fading high

on which I ride,

leaving this world

to ensure

I get

the girl,

leaving this life

tattooed with knives,

blades too dull for her taste,

to provide the tears she's cried.

 

And tears become oceans

growing from puddles

to seize hold of perception,

I'm stuck riding through motions,

salt water potions

growing devotion,

single drop notions

exposing the quotient

that U plus i equals,

but the answer's

chosen a different formulation,

and me and you

are dividing all we have

so we don't have to remove

our individuality any longer,

so we are an individual

duality no longer,

so I have to hold back

this duality no longer,

and my mental reins

no longer deal with the strain

of convincing you I'm another.

It seems as though the Sun's daughter

couldn't stand me any stronger.

 

The troubled nature of

how we'd come to be a

singularity was the very story

holding my prosperity,

from death to life,

I brought naught strife

but adventure, just matters

on what perspective you use.

And my third eye prism

made it seem as though

the Moon's daughter

found a life with

a demigod a bother.

 

Life had gotten boring riding the backs of these gluttons,

so she thought it about time to release the dogs

and left me hounded by a mind forgetting all the swine,

left The Year of the Rat with its hands tied firm 'gainst its back

 

Now she's singing in Spanish

of past lives' damages,

using dialects unfamiliar

and languages unheld,

words not understood

but meaning seeping through,

 

so I take away

to let her relapse,

releasing thought patterns

to comprehension of all but her

and the language which makes dreams.

Sleeping,

let her switch back

to those dreams which make the words we use,

the dreams which make the words we abuse,

dreams which make the worlds we peruse

to relearn languages.

 

We're screaming at each other again

birthing hatred from ideals left on skin,

and I let her draw with knife's edge,

still dull as memory serves its purpose,

from that swelling source named inspiration.

I left here to let her this hedge,

separating us through this break

I can't go back to giving in,

I can't relapse to my begin.

 

Too far gone

we're born in mangers

and to this day

gifted by strangers

gold borne of silver, china

topped by the latest craze.

But you are missing the noose

floating alongside sheepskin hangers

as we're falling from the rafters

they helped us hang from.

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