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Shannon Drue Feb 2021
There is a black hole in the core of me that has consumed happiness and joy from each hour.
It has an attractive force that draws others in and consumes them until they must flee it's orbit or suffer the death of joy.
It once shone like a beacon of light that even it's lantern believed itself an entranced moth.
The bright flames, I now see, are merely the final moments of dying dreams that turn to ash and vanish within the void.
Shannon Drue Oct 2020
Torn from twisted chaos mind emerges like an infant bourne upon a raft of minutia, adrift in a barren void of eternal emptiness.
It's darkness illuminated by the faintest belief in a systemic reality of falsehood.

Consciousness arises from within and beyond, the same.
It bubbles to the surface adrift again in memories before and after, the same.
Eddies escape the drift and envelope like a strobe lit cloak of eternal nothingness.

Irrational fear procreates and devours the bridge to transcendence as a voracious swarm of locusts to a field of ripening crop.

I am left without us.
We, a child, sat upon an alien rocky outcrop at the mouth of an ancient cave gazing into a star fired ink soaked icy abyss - ignorant of time.
Yet tick by tock it builds to a raucous crescendo of dissolution,  decay, and entropy.
Is it only here it should be?
Shannon Drue Feb 2019
Yes I've let many down,
It's the sadness I wear in my frown.
But now I remember,
why my fondness for people,
burns my soul like a raging ember.

It's the grandiose look in their eyes,
and the smug tone of their words,
when they realise,
I can never be part of their herd.

They look down on me,
from the bottom of their world,
without intelligent consideration,
That they're doing all they've heard.

I'd rather be alone,
than accept that lie,
or the unknowing inference,
deep in their blank eye.
Shannon Drue Jan 2019
Affection,rejection, some kind of connection?
Passion, compassion or just the fashion?
Is it all you want? Is it All you need?
Or just a dream that began a seed?
Shannon Drue Jan 2019
I sold my soul for a fool world's gold.
The devils in suits said I would grow bold,
instead, I just grew old.
The promise of success turned my heart to less.
So I took it back in silent attack.

Now here I sit, with an empty heart, and a soul once sold, and torn apart.

Time goes by, and the tears I cry,
turn salty warm as my soul reforms.
The fool inside never wears a suit,
and their promises become mute.
The golden shine has worn thin,
now is the time to settle in.
Shannon Drue Jan 2019
I want to tear these words from the page,
burn them up with rage,
but the ink flows from my pen and I am calm again.

Writing verse and prose,
that's how the story grows.
The moments in between are moments never seen.
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