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The Flipped Word Oct 2016
Hair, head, neck, shoulders
Emerging out the window from the
Back seat of a car whizzing
Down a Mountain she fell in love with
Before knowing what love was
One arm overstretched and out as if she was
hugging the eroded Giants that towered over aged valleys
Just then a gust blows so strongly that
She sways a little, almost as if
The mountain winds were hugging her back
(She likes to think they were)
Hair billowing and whipping around;
A tumultuous halo
An unknown flutter in the Hollow
Of the centre of her chest expands
While she feels like she has shrunk
Or maybe has just realised How big the world is;
The feeling grows; Delighted, ecstatic and erratic
She shouts in her exploding happiness
Shouts the flutter from her belly
up her throat and out to the world
She makes love to the giant moss wearing rocks
Later, she sticks her head back in
(Like a touch-me-not flower shrinks back inside)
And leans back on the headrest, panting happily, eyes sparkling
And just looks in wonder as the mountains
keep on unfolding themselves to her
the car keeps going on and on and on.
The Flipped Word Oct 2016
They gave me wings called integrity
But I'm still learning how to fly
It is hard to flap these wings
In the fogs of malice and avarice
Newly sprouted respect
Left my shoulders sore
It's tiring to carry a weight
That only few people adore
But I can't let growing pains stop  me from fixing my moral compass north
The cloak of honour is hard to wear
But the only way to go is forth
So I try, again and again
For nobility is a stubborn trait
I watch these wings grow
With every sincere choice made
Engulfed in moral stoicism
Learning the lows and highs
One day these wings will be strong enough
To navigate the changing skies
The Flipped Word Sep 2016
One thought plagues me
It fills me with doubt
What if I'm always the one who writes
Never the one who gets written about

What if I'm just made to observe
Not graceful enough to be observed
It keeps echoing in my mind's corridors
What if I'm just not enough?

It is in these moments that I run
Into the arms of empty hope
It nurtures me with the fact
That the future is unknown

For all I know I could be plaguing
Someone's mind like these thoughts plague mine
And if I'm not, well then
I'll choose a better role in the next lifetime
The Flipped Word Sep 2016
Let me pour you with the love
You adoringly drench me in
Lau your head on my chest
And cry away your pain
I'll hold it, I'll hold it all
Cradle your pain too
It's okay for you to fall
I'm right here to catch you
You can hold me tight
Like a child holds his mother
I can be your support
Anything for my lover
Give me a chance to embrace
You like you hold me
As if I'm made from glass
And could break easily
My arms wait for you and so does my empty *****
Lay your head on me darling
You can close your eyes and drift on
The Flipped Word Aug 2016
A tempest rises and subsides within me
Building unfurling tumbling
It recedes to build itself up again
Hitting the walls within me
They are thinning, God knows how long they'll last.
Endless waves tossing and turning
I feel it all over myself prickling
Each breath shakes with this storm
And every ***** tickling
I finally exhale, the smoke (of my burnt insides), it seems
I exhale it all from within
And the smoke takes up another form
in front of my eyes, Writhing and slithering;
*It looks oddly like you.
The Flipped Word Aug 2016
People are better when you don't know them
They can be whoever you want them to be
It's not the same when you get to know them
Their reality limits them  
I think that's the problem,
I've put everyone that I find the teeniest bit interesting up on a pedestal
Why do I forget that they are humans. Just humans.
Guess you don't have to be religious to be into idolatry
Just some 2 am thoughts
The Flipped Word Aug 2016
It's times like these
When my usually tiny gaps
Tear into huge chasms
They are waiting to be filled
With what, I don't know
With who, I'm scared to know
But it's when I'm gaping wide like this
That the words start to trickle out
Like ****** mud stains under wet flowerpots
All I know is that I don't know
I am empty and hollow, devoid of
Something I'm not even aware of
Such a comic tragedy, wouldn't you say?
It's like Hepburn said
I can handle the murky blues
But I can't handle the Reds-
Those moments when I don't even know why I'm so uneasy
Maybe it's been too long since I have been challenged
Or maybe I'm just flaky,
fluttering from one inconsequential thing to another;

Ah, If only knowledge of my incompleteness could make me complete
...I'd be bloated by now
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