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Oct 2012 · 461
Shades Of Me
Shawnna Cox Oct 2012
7/28

When I think of love,
I think of blue,
and I don't know what that means.

When I dream,
it's black and white,
but nothing is simple,
appreciate the irony.

In my waking world,
I'm in shades of gray,
don't want to offend,
don't want to pretend,

it's all a painting,

it is me.

Copyright S.L.C.
Oct 2012 · 494
Between The Lines
Shawnna Cox Oct 2012
8/2/05

The intricacies thrill me,
intentions true or hidden,
I thirst to know,
soaking up knowledge of another,
peering into a soul not my own,
seeing what you allow me to see,
and pondering the darkness,
between the lines.

Copyright S.L.C.
Oct 2012 · 1.9k
Decayed Elegance
Shawnna Cox Oct 2012
10/21/04

Patterned obsessions have ruled my life,
presented as shadows or dreams that never die.
But are never fulfilled.
The healing eludes me, I sit here,
my wounds still fresh, my heart still broken,
lost in this life,
bored to the brink of insanity.
Faith so fleeting, comes and goes,
what have I got to believe in anyway?
the promise of things I have not seen,
my life remains this hell,
despite my prayers, and I have
given up inside.
I am surrounded by people who love me,
but can't know my soul, my fear, my pain,
which everyday haunts me, encasing me with
doubt and distrust and despair.
It is a decayed elegance that I now embrace,
I hold my head up high, look you in the eye,
but my soul wilts more every day, what you see is
not what you get.
Mutilated and desecrated,
as my soul dies a little more every minute.


Copyright S.L.C.

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