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Sequoia C Mar 2013
Sweating like pigs
we avoid everyone's gaze
because in the world I grew up in
a second glance meant
giving them a chance;
blinged out heels
and tight shorts
leaves no one to guess at who we are
but we don't give a **** –

order our burritos
nothing special here
double large horchatas
and my hair seems too straight all of a sudden
but we're too high to be
overly self-conscious
or at all
so we laugh to each other
loudly
pretending
we're the only ones
there
Sequoia C Mar 2013
I've got dreams and they've led me to you
won't say much but they're pretty bad too
you don't have time but you know that I do...*

I am darkness
your old friend
here to let the sun shine in
I am the places you never look
the crooked window & the closed book
the cracks and the spaces in between
I am the one who forgot to wear green
I am the one who never leaves traces
the only one you see in a sea of faces
I am the one who is up all night
making noises by dim candlelight
I am the relief you never knew you wanted
the only monster left in a house called haunted
I am the rage in every crashing wave
all the lonely ones they couldn’t save
I am the one you’ve known your whole life
I am the one holding the knife
I am the one who watches you sleep
I am every secret you promised to keep
the fear that surfaces when you dive too deep
I am the blink of an eye, the double take
I am what hides beneath everything fake
I surround every crack that lets light in
I am the one lurking behind every sin
I am what you see when you close your eyes
I am the reason behind every disguise
I am the empty bottle you dumped outside
you may not want me but I’m along for the ride

I am darkness
Sequoia C Aug 2012
twice thrice now
the eyes they kick
and beat against
the lashes hiding light
and fragility of flesh
leaves bruises and lovebites
marks made with careless abandon
left later to list lost loves
again eyes blink
as lips kiss
Sequoia C Aug 2012
Mother always knows best*
the one thing you could do
better than anyone
was make me doubt myself.
love, that terrible curse;
is freedom really so important?
some people trap themselves;
i would know, i'm one.
you can never truly be free,
not in love.

love traps-
choices, you must choose,
choose me? i understand now
why you left - it wasn't me.
there is so much in the world, you said;
you left.

freedom is when there is no one.
freedom is when you stand
naked
in the woods
alone
and you SCREAM
and there are no obligations
just you and the bare ******* earth;
and you pick up some leaves -
damp, they stick to you like a second skin -
and you eat them,
one by one.
and they taste
exactly like freedom would;
if it existed.
Sequoia C Aug 2012
I.
brewing and brawling, bronzing
she cries
the mighty blue-tailed
golden hawk of the skies
she screeches and crones
for the souls in her bones
that she hides away
bides away, flies away, souls.
souls she collects,
to tinker and check
to see if their wailing is loud-
loud as it goes
proud as it goes
an ego as big as is tall:
a square of dementia
and a sprinkle of manic
lead you to think she is largely just panic
frantic and tied
the souls she must hide,
to tide away, bind away,
find a way free -
free from the earth,
its land and its girth,
free from the sea,
its waters and needs,
free from the fire,
burning desire,
loosed to the air,
its wings without care
fighting and lighting
the sky in her path
the soul-binding hawk
slowly wanders back

II.
one by one
faintly they come
daintily and faintly
quaintly, they come;
the souls, how they tremble,
quiver and weep
through the slightest of all tiniest cracks do they creep
whining, entwining, smiling they float
burning passion and love,
all on one music note:
dripping and dropping
they dangle and sway
floating, just floating, ever slightly away

III.
souls having *** and souls bemoaning love
wailing and flailing, as soft as a dove;
perfect, he says, are the shape of your *******,
lovely, she responds, i'm sick of taking tests -
no one will know, they like to pretend,
but obvious was their means to an end;
switching and curling, lipping they smack
the man over the head, whose head is on crack
and sad they all are, demented instead,
inside of their heads they are missing a *****
brightly, tightly, they hold on to their due
Sequoia C Aug 2012
blatantly, the rabbit nibbles
on bits of starlight caught, dwindles
in the teeth of time
its furry foe with eyes of lime
they care for none and none for it
it simply nibbles on starlight, sits
Sequoia C Aug 2012
green and filmy algea
whispers by the lone
sea cucumber,
caressing it as it struggles
to suction itself
lower
than the outgoing tide.
its movements, though minuscule,
move it towards the bottom of the tide pool
but not quite fast enough -
a rock could erode
faster than the sea cucumber
could crawl.
but still it moves
with the tenacity of something
that does not realize it is in danger.
and although it is fighting,
it knows not that it is fighting
but merely
goes on.
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