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Aug 2016 · 453
Deep, Deeper, Deepest
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
Body alone

She could have done so much better

Now they have a child together

Her laugh is broken as ever

Slit wrists don't make her shudder

Tomorrow they awake with fever

Another cigarette is the only endeavor

Let's creep silently

Quietly

In this instance, maniacally

For my love, in its entirety

Is nothing but a sobriety
Aug 2016 · 443
Fifty-One Percent
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
Walking through cities at ocean depths

[and] all of everything has [now]

been removed in a wisp [of doubt]

Cautious display

Forgetting what you've seen
Aug 2016 · 386
These Are Not Your Meds
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
And your neck throbs in syncopated sweat

Pleasing ascension

One final night drive

Listening to the lullaby from lost river
Aug 2016 · 3.7k
Being
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
Her words have failed

Feeling stained

Your mother unaware

Mistakes save but fade

All right

Loud existence and in a flash

Silence, ******

I no longer realize your power

And we're built to die with better choices

Burst

Closed

Torch the lonely

Float away
Rhet Toombs May 2016
I am searching for red blooms on this fragile ground
And awake every morning accepting the agony
Split
Ruined
Wound down for another agonizing transformation
You are the first
My love continues for you on this dying earth
Situations flooded with dispassion
I hope you will remember me
You said we lay naked
But only for me to study your crystalline arches
And to purge myself from the cruelty of this world
May 2016 · 877
Two Gates Of Sleep
Rhet Toombs May 2016
I've been searching for you
In an endless sea of white
Torrential
With a frail head
And split intentions
Searching memories
Currents of you
Bringing scars of past breaths
Half buried
A cruel reminder
Of how deep this can go
Magnetic
Sum of parts brush past
Impure space
Glowing total
You are so near
Falling with grace
I want you
And will wait once more
May 2016 · 473
Oh Fate
Rhet Toombs May 2016
Suffocation via ceilings
Roots growing in my marrow
Battery acid injections
Sweet warmth with glass bones
Waiting for a change we can stomach
Hope left days ago
Dying in a concrete world
But with this pain you will never show
And with my pain you will never know
It's insane but I'm meant to grow
May 2016 · 488
Steam Skin
Rhet Toombs May 2016
Beautiful death
Shiny handles on your sister's casket
Denial of a thousand doors
A shadow's noise
To examine a dull moon
Kinder notice with innocence grasping
Angel awake
A stomach full of ocean
Rapture saves, a pool fades
There are no second questions
And at last
Her weeping
Removed
May 2016 · 580
We Were (Not) Alone
Rhet Toombs May 2016
May
With all its emotional whereabouts to burden our thoughts once more
Your mother in an undercoat of turmoil
My father's winding eyes past ten o'clock
This life has not been easy for you
But I still collect the drippings from your eyes, time to time
When there's a satin moon
Never understanding the existence of eternity
And this note will never reach you
Because we are now both expired on this late day.
May 2016 · 507
Anti-Fragile
Rhet Toombs May 2016
I want everything to become how it once existed

The foolishness of youth
Long cars ride with empty promises on my lips
To dig my nails into the earth again and feel safe

This perished effort to move on leaves me tainted

Next year will not be better

My love for sleep continues with great pace
I sit and stare with smoky eyes

You remain as a still in my rusted memory
Mar 2016 · 582
Vorare
Rhet Toombs Mar 2016
A sickness
That seems forever this time
Lungs of concrete
Ninety degree indifference
My grandmother's hands on a crested portrait
I cannot live to see you leave
Charcoal morning
Grief made permanent
I'm constantly afraid of your mother's words
And how they remind me of the night
Jan 2016 · 640
A Girl Named Hunger
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
In a green room we struggle to sleep and breathe
She reflects liquid pride
We feel closer to weeping
Tight lines and clean silk mark our demise
And there's a tainted hell waiting beneath all men
In a journey of guilt that we're left holding
Eyes like coffins
Muscles crush underwater power lines
What a waste to be left at midnight in this bed
Agony unnoticed
Jan 2016 · 545
Number Twenty
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
It should've never had to be this way
Jan 2016 · 1.2k
Adoration Crucified
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
There is now a bridge between us
But we still accumulate warnings
A fortune is now wasted in Winter
Nature is dying
Inside my wrist, again
I am still wishing for payment in heart
It seems you will haunt us for another night
Sleep in walls
Timid lust
Jan 2016 · 1.1k
Cyanide Champagne
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
All of our memories now wasted away
Page break
My mother's voice downstairs
Stretched dawn
Tonight's drippings
Dreams of your torn mouth
Visions again of a failed birth
Glass and it's promised demise
Cancerous resonance
(slit)Flushed(slit)
(exit)Naked(exit)
(fail)This how I feel(fail)
Being driven away
White coats and tourniquets
Jan 2016 · 691
Twins
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
She blinks at you from across the room
Unsure, you move to a corner table
You ask about film
The most predictable subject of all
It's good
With a quiet rasp settled in the back of her throat
Darting eyes
Slivered retractions of fingertips
Hold
It's a command, almost
Bringing a stack of books, they're left in front of you
You're grateful and surprised
A turn of the shoulder and she's gone
Night falls and you're reminded you need rest
You're approached by her on the way to your car
Drunk, but concerned, you listen for now
Shuffled into a long drive is all you can remember
When your eyes glaze back to the scenery
You're in a gray slate parking garage
A table laid before you
It won't hurt that much she says
You see a syringe, a box, shreds of paper
An idle black electronic device sitting in front
You barely stand
Static from a TV is noticed
But across the street through smudged windows
There's nothing in it she says
A belt is tied around your right bicep
Your arm becomes a veined map
A piece of paper appears
You grasp and write 7-0-0-1 and 2-9-6-4
Smoke settles within your midst
Hums and tragedy fill your thoughts
You don't know if this is you
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
//Raeion speaks and so we felt alone again >tonight<,,,,,,
[she talks of midnight, stars, and you]
As her birth had it's price
So did her departure
.Eleven.years.old.with.a.laugh.unwilling.to.admit.depra­vity.
Raeion ends a souls term to live forever
(her brother bleeds out on a sidewalk)
-The ocean remained blue although she never saw it
_Collared to agony
Raeion is given nothing
burnIng chilDren tO a black frame
A perfect weight
###continue
'remains of a wish unfulfilled'
Nov 2015 · 789
Borrowed Jacket
Rhet Toombs Nov 2015
Pirouette through a graphite cocoon
Fixed clutch
Temporary disdain
Feeling undeserving of a lockdown
Car crash smile
Rhet Toombs Nov 2015
It's again open season
Yet there remains no vacancy
No rooms for rest
Salmon kite
Days of nostalgia
Free float
Pure trist
Illis quotes Amber
The fungus grows larger
A beast and a rifle to burden this momentum
Falling through a mother's pine
One thousand banes in the form of love
A mother's work is never done
Ninth dynamic
Four hours and this is forged again
Silver screams heard through golden temples
Dust settles, the bricks fall
A mile of bone penetrates the pyramid
Bringing new forms of energy
Satan's toothpick
And sharp fur for another
Ghost conductor entering messages
Down there, he eats in a fit of slothful rage
In fits of overdosed shrubbery
***** clocks
Each hollows and fades you
Advanced romance as strands won't return
Dirt searches for your face in the midnight hours
Artificial chains
Lead by burns
Idolatry commencement
Nov 2015 · 612
Salamandastor
Rhet Toombs Nov 2015
We can't remember our broken landscapes
A failure for another day
The portrait of how easy it is to sever chains
Now a picture lost
Handling these fortunes with damage
This is your disaster
A mansion's space filled with no stirs and burning timbers
Tonight thinking of torn moments
A weight with beautiful form
To focus on what is taken and what remains
To taint, that is our goal
Pink ***** running red
A green or blue fortune and its rust filled transfiguration
Cursed legacies
Not shameful but young
Slipping past collapse
For seasons of drownings
Hopeful and bare
Drown in the semi circles of her asymmetrical chest
Rest in a navel full of seed
Spilled in the vain context of a quickening fleeting love
Humanized anger lay naked
Core liquid
Lonely ground
Ecstasy burst
Infinite devour
Mother's sores heal
My own weep and lactate
A siren welcome
Sung and swayed
Reflections at a dark dawn
Oct 2015 · 447
Eyedropper
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
I feel duality in your breath
Blue spirals
A dying wave
We were nothing
Oct 2015 · 466
Rewind Empire
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Felt like coming home
A heavy wake slain
Calm with pearl floors
Siren melodies
Air replaced by gasoline
Realizing a colder patience
Simple hold
A torn waiting
You burn a stained memory
But know this
I saw the light
On the day he died
Eyes open wide
Oct 2015 · 769
The Three Of Us Are Dying
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
I still would not believe you
A smell of damage
Laughing as your nightmare flickers
Vague proclamation to destroy
Asleep on a girl's hips
Our insanity has fallen by the river
Why must it be like this
Oct 2015 · 460
Plague Dogs
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
We wish to know our own names
Sounds of thunder move you inside
Oct 2015 · 648
Nicodemus
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
These secrets bled long ago
A four-hundred year candle blown out
Now separated
Your bedroom window
A hidden floor
Static sheets
Finding me flushed and infectious
Raw
And with power unreal
Oct 2015 · 1.2k
Holographic Dove
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Grace moves in these structures
Virginities undersold
Saving familiar breaths
Tissue restraint
I head away and leave my name
A kinder morning than we've shared before
Finding Jesus in a Subaru
Unable to create from ashes
Stained glass
This glass is stained
Oct 2015 · 637
Una Noche
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Y el dolor sigue ahí
Ahora ido
Tuya eternos
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Just keep me alive
Sleep pendulation
Deluxe cell reincarnation
Mercy lays upon you adept and compatible
Subliminal narration
Your recurring shadow children
Unfiltered anguish
Disillusionment
Cruelly I recall
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Securing your perfection
A glossy light
Held by two strings from a dying star
Six million noises put in their place
Chrysalis agony
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Your breath held undying
Cloned eyes
Gazing a solitary entrance
Loneliness sequence
Capturing a scarab in synesthesia
Oct 2015 · 434
Glorywrench
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
Un nom de plume
It doesn't matter where
Tout enfin
Vous atteignez répit
Pas de lutte
Nous tenons cette mort
Comme un courant sous-jacent
Vos échecs vous ordonnez
Vicious
But not unnoticed
Oct 2015 · 635
All
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
All
Window storm
Refraction of opal hair
Gatherings of a salvaged flock
Incomprehensible
A series of melted bruises
Final lap of my somnolence
Short of my hands around your throat
You may promise nothing
Stop us
Sep 2015 · 933
Amalgam Alpha
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Impossibly transporting desperation
We skip to a deafening consumption
Complex sirens
Photo sterilization
Hysterics
Paranoia
Grief without repentance
More of your witnessed erosion
Sep 2015 · 466
Bedlamite
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
A chamber promise nothing less
Pre-screened destiny
This is how the night begins
We slip inside our seventh skins
One minute and thirty-nine seconds
On short circuit
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
The waiting
And the darkness therein
Bending of lights
As I stood in awe
Of the architecture of flames burnt
So lovely
The ghosts within those walls
Whole again with dream-like motion
At once
Sitting on a boat outside the city
Seemingly limitless
Staring into that great abyss
Always searching
Always waiting
For you to find me
Shaking in the misty morning sunrise
To return from the sun being dipped
Gone
And if I find you
Take my hand
Stroll the dimly lit corners of this city
Please know that fear cannot touch us
And walk into tomorrow
As the same day
Sep 2015 · 437
Number Nineteen
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
I still can't say you've recovered
I still can't say you've died
Sep 2015 · 630
Bodies In The Lake
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
The most unholy of nights
A hibernation from servitude
Ghostly
Grey
Illuminated
You send him to decrease the pain within
Sep 2015 · 1.2k
Glass Birth
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Still to be seen
Awakening a deceased compromise
Mirrored prey
Driven by enveloped creation
Fever consummation
Visions of your childhood home underwater
Sep 2015 · 1.6k
Rib
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Rib
Make my heart stir once more

Furthering a silicon sickness

Unreachable this time

Sworn from these graces so long ago

An immense melody scarring reflections

This too will haunt our past

Speaking with bruised wrists

All roads home are now erased

Mountains yielding permanence

Emerging with gorgeous anticipation

Shed their fallen attempts

For your eyes are not green

They were born from the most ancient of moss

Wrapped in a dripping globular of starlit jade
Sep 2015 · 913
Slit Removed // Vici
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Leave me here by the forest
Revealing measured suffering
Confusion of a knife
Denied importance
Swallowing common voids
Unspoken process
Hungering for faceless absolution
Lighthouse eyes
A funeral in full bloom
Sep 2015 · 1.2k
Thirty Year Distress Signal
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
And it will never go away
With blameless transcendence
Delicate machines choking
Slowing perpetuated logic
Failure in a green pool
Weaker to welcome
Power lines down in October
A spiders ninth leg
Phantom systems asleep
Backyard rapture
Circling hope as a drain opens
Sep 2015 · 1.4k
Abduction Forum
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
We will share this death
Unrest with subtle detection
Further collapse
A lighter consumption
Agony prone
Shutters open to relax veins
Focus with a decayed world
You're still learning to stand
Remembering the end
Passing twisted resonance
Bottled winter
Half-bruised with buried innocence
You want to be known
Sep 2015 · 998
Woman, Sobbing
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Because you prefer it
Winding down with a stranger in bed
Your prayers and future lost
Better fasting in mind
With a heart that jumps too freely
Just a window glow
As night comes for these shards
Your swiftly torn undercarriage
Vexed to the incalculable
Bleeding out under hot water faucets
Sep 2015 · 688
Canis Minor
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Branches of regret
Pillars of imagined perfection
Restored features
Optional decaying cells
Moments trickling into chaos
Waking from a black frame
Your melted singing voice
Sep 2015 · 1.4k
Airport Endings
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Sealed in space
Motionless love theme
Neglecting a soul saved
Precipitated malice
Unoriginal to a shameful crypt
Rearranged embrace
A slave within
You keep steady warmth in Denver
I wither continually in Memphis
Aug 2015 · 1.8k
Womb
Rhet Toombs Aug 2015
Shattered glass as the curtain drops
Noticeable yawns of immortality
Agreed now we breathe
A ***** of pain
I die twice on tile floors
However we will change
To a gradual descent
Your bloodline dead
Teeth keep you still
Everything left to God is quiet now
Simple dreams
Our mistakes lay downstairs
There's nothing more
Jul 2015 · 988
Hushed
Rhet Toombs Jul 2015
And you're still with me
In every rolling wave
Warranting unclean requests
For a reflection of freedom
Concealed below
It's the edge of cold perfection
As we surface for solutions
Doubting your grace exists
Feeling the gravity of an escape
Celestial restrain
Persistent devotion
Jul 2015 · 14.0k
Fatherless
Rhet Toombs Jul 2015
Translucent
A burned dream
Fingertips at trembling galaxies
Remembering stolen breaths
Dismantled from rusted logic
A steel garden flourishes
Sealed with infectious passion
A reflection of mirrored pain
Emerging bloodless depths
Rising to a caged silhouette
Shrouded in sacrifice
Jul 2015 · 952
Dog Shelter
Rhet Toombs Jul 2015
The ground quietly settles
In search for a final lover
Innocent strength forming freedom
Rendering gleaming muscles useless
Pricing a broken smile
Beholding a discarded identity
A prayer with cancelled meaning
Glimpse these trembling signs
When they awake to drown indifference
Commit this confusion
Losing my souls inheritance
Hollowed demands
With healing desperation
Consume my sworn efforts
As we fuel a reborn process
And collapse with tangible wounds
She wept with haunting surrender
I mourned a dangerous solace
Jul 2015 · 673
Transmute
Rhet Toombs Jul 2015
It's all over now
Lovely but forgotten
Showing less each time
Bathing unspoken insecurities
Envisioning whispered structures
Not bereft of your distant existence
Birthed features fading again
Useless rhythm keeping time
Trapped completely
Stripped of a promised exit
The start of your electric identity
Savage instruments underneath
I collapsed with convicted acceptance
An evening with dissolved delicacy
Dozing on your eternal shoulders
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