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The mind is a beast we are all tasked with taming But how? When mine ducks every lasso, throws me from the saddle, kicks dirt in my mouth Is an ocean of riling blood beneath the throbbing bruise of sky Colliding thunderheads thicker than smoke threatening a slaughter of rain And I: shipwrecked in its mess A splintered mast and torn sail swallowed by a wall of water black as my most poisoned thoughts Sinking like a pearl to the shifting, tectonic floor of my own body Drawing breath through a mouthful of sand, my pruning hands bound by the mangled leather of a pair of reins Yet reins cannot tame the sea. – mrg
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Oct 19, 2019
Oct 19, 2019 at 4:41 PM UTC
Maelstrom
The mind is a beast we are all tasked with taming But how? When mine ducks every lasso, throws me from the saddle, kicks dirt in my mouth Is an ocean of riling blood beneath the throbbing bruise of sky Colliding thunderheads thicker than smoke threatening a slaughter of rain And I: shipwrecked in its mess A splintered mast and torn sail swallowed by a wall of water black as my most poisoned thoughts Sinking like a pearl to the shifting, tectonic floor of my own body Drawing breath through a mouthful of sand, my pruning hands bound by the mangled leather of a pair of reins Yet reins cannot tame the sea. – mrg
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Oct 19, 2019
Oct 19, 2019 at 4:41 PM UTC
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