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 Mar 2016 Sarah
Ryan Galloway
Suffocation
The walls of culture are closing in
Ready to stifle the flame of imagination
They can't control it so it scares them
In that flicker is the possibility for a bonfire
That could burn down their fragile empire
It could illuminate the darkness
they have tried so hard to create
By surrounding us with the weight
Of daily monotony
They've instilled in us
A desire to fit into the social norm
A fear of any tangible form
Of creativity
They have made it foreign to us
To question
The boundaries formed to bind us
This is my rebellion
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Ryan Galloway
I crave the silences that fill the air around me
Along with the solitude that usually accompanies it.
They are my friends.
They comfort me when the world starts to scream.
Sometimes I need them,
But too often solitude becomes loneliness
And the silences become deafening.
That is the true curse of an introvert.
Wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely.
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Ryan Galloway
It seems the stars are singing
Or perhaps their screaming
And I'm just hopeful
That though
The night sky is burning
It's light
May be serenading us to sleep
But I doubt it
I guess that's the foolishness of poetry
Or perhaps it's the beauty
I always get the two mixed up
Ascribing autonomy
To distant things
And applying them to my life
My weak narrative
My minuscule perspective
So I guess it may be beauty to believe
That such magnificent things may exist
To give me a vocabulary to describe you
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Scarlet Preysler
But how can you blame her?
She fell in love once.
With a boy who need saving himself.
She did everything
but there was no end to it.
She realized he need not
to be saved but to be loved.
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Torin
I Know A Girl
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Torin
I know a girl I've never met
I've known her all my life
We share the same thoughts
The same hopes
The same dreams
We share our biggest fears
I know a girl I've never met
I've known her in past lives
We are lovers reincarnated
We share the same heart
In different times
Different places
The same dreams

I know a girl I've never met before
And I can feel her sorrow
And it makes me lament
Such beautiful lachrymose eyes
The same eyes
I would do anything
To see smiling
Once in my life
I know a girl I've never met before
And I can feel her joy
From the otherside of the world
I can sense her hope
The same hope I have
To find love
Someone who understands
The same dreams
 Mar 2016 Sarah
Torin
I rode a white steed
Across the netherworlds only to reach
I rode a white steed
A knight in shining metallic armor

I fought wars for the queen
I stormed the castle walls and razed them to the ground
I fought wars for her honor
Hers is a cause that I call noble

I rode a white steed
I fought wars for the queen
I was a knight in shining armor
I fought wars for her honor

And as I'm dying
Bleeding out slowly
On a raging battlefield
Cut down by mighty king Arthur

My blood on Excalibur's blade

I die in peace
Knowing my last thoughts will be
I rode a white steed
I fought wars for the queen
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