don't hope for diminishment
it will only make your thoughts grow
in vicious perseverance

those thoughts, they are liars
and your heart can hear
their whispers of blasphemy
erupting in the many vacant rooms of your mind
as they are claimed by occupants merely sent to destroy
the rooms you cleared out
just for a brief taste of freedom

those thoughts are thieves
stealing precious pieces of your ever shifting sanity
placing them sporadically into a puzzle of discontented nonsense
don't hope for their complacency
for it is a weight too heavy for your shoulders to bear
and a prize to easy for them to gain
by reaching for heart strings to rip rather than play
-c.m.
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