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Apostate Repent! (Part 1)

This was my life's work.

It's all I had going for me.

A head in a hand basket.

A knuckle-rust sandwich.

Stored neatly in a corner

Reserved for mice and maggots

Wrapped in used aluminum foil

Just as I left it

on that cold and only day

Far away from grey skies and blue turtle tails.

Most days I could barely concentrate.

Too much pressure.

Too many distractions

...and though I realized this was to be

The last stand of my memorys

I couldn't help but feel as if more than time was being wasted.

 

 

 

Apologize.

It's the way my brain works.

Nothing gets done.

I fall in love

with the thought of impermanence

until the cold realization

it's my own illusion

whispering away on the wind

no one else's...

...so I fail again.

 

This beginning leans

towards the end

No indication

an anti-climax of sorts

and if there's a God in heaven,

if I haven't wasted all this life struggling against the weight of damnation in vain...

I will be redeemed in it's eccentricity

 

 

I've courted eccentricity

a blind lover

eager for the afterglow.

Expectations I've hoarded are staggering

They turn me into an eager handyman of souls.

An eccentric nature I've absorbed

Yet loathsome to me.

Craving acceptance

but ****** the man who can figure me out.

It hurts so much to know I've missed you.

The signal resignation

I've been forced to grant normalcy.

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james-arthur-casey
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May 19, 2019
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