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 Nov 2014 Riley Lavender
Tashatha
Never a rose without thorns
You broke my heart
And left me scorned
First attempt..be kind
Some people can't live without it
It's an addiction
To be quite frank you are my drug and addiction**

Jathan
 Oct 2014 Riley Lavender
V Anna
Why are
you still
in my head!?
Please
Go away!

Please don't.
I wanna erase you but i can't
A monk sips morning tea,
it's quiet,
    the chrysanthemum's flowering.
 Oct 2014 Riley Lavender
Born
They say the truth will set you free

but sometimes the truth is the last thing we need
I can’t sleep,
I can’t drink,
got to see a man tonight,
shivers and shakes,
imaginary snakes,
walls closing in,
heads in a spin,
body in pain,
always the same,  
I've got a need,
a powerful need.
I wrote this about a difficult time in my life many years ago, thankfully I recovered but I know for many the struggle continues.
In the company of undiluted sadness
She vomits verses upon verses
Swathes emotion
In amassed bundles of metaphor
Chokes on truth
Squeezes out the blood
For the sake of creation
And
Perhaps a cure
For the feeling

Silent screaming
Traversing the precarious
Corridors of her mind
The ricochet of sound
Awakening the repressed
Opening the floodgates of
The repugnant murk
The face of her darkness
She knows not its name
Or how it found her.
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