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A man in a tailored suit
A man eating rotten fruit
One divorced three wives
Two contrasting lives

One is a lawyer
The other a beggar
I’m sure you think of the two of them,
One is a hundred times better

He’s in fine garments
The other’s worn and tattered
One’s dreams came true
The other one’s shattered

But none of that matters—why?
How ‘bout you ask us, the maggot and the fly
Because in the end —and we say this without shame
A vagrant and a lawyer in death both taste the same
Death is the great equalizer.
One* discovered love affair
Two  blue- black eyes
Three  antique vases crashing
Four  uncovered lies
Four  Children huddle, scared,
plus one*  trapped in the womb
Six  hours of shouting—will it end soon?
Seven  horrifying sleepless nights
Eight  hours worried at school about inevitable fights
Nine  attempts to pick the bedroom lock
Successful, she sees her mother bloodied and in shock
Ten the age when she learned not to trust men
Would you like to count again?
Children learn so quickly
We shine
of fires unseen
the soul of the moon
burns within
reflecting hope
bright enough
to eclipse all darkness

It is a hard road
to wisdom
experience
is a brutal teacher
but we live
and we learn
emerge stronger
than we ever thought
we could be
I write this poem and try to forget it,
Even though I enjoy this more than I would like to admit.
The Sun and Moon have faded and gone cold,
As I vanish with them into the darkness, my story will go untold.

I am not okay even on the best of days,
My negative thoughts are somehow set ablaze.
How can I admit I am broken without feeling needy?
I feel like I am lost in the middle of the Dead Sea.

Every single day I put up this masquerade,
As if me being happy is some kind of grade.
My scars are tales that scream to be told,
I have to look them in the face and tell them no as if I am bold.

I have difficulty deciphering the way I am supposed to feel,
But it doesn't matter anyways because my emotions are mine to ****.
My thoughts are not the eye in the hurricane,
They are the crashing waves in the storm with masses of rain.

I felt alone,
The darkness of the night has always been my home.
I always glance up and see the clouds looming,
With great sorrow, I look down and see the flowers are not blooming.

How does one explain loneliness when they have loads of friends and family?
You are floating about with nothing but your own solitude in your vast galaxy?
All of my ribs cracked when I fell into my own personal madness,
When I fell into rock bottom, my blood painted the canvas.
trapped behind this glass
shards of my heart,
piercing my fragile lungs
breathing in and out
gasping for air
I scream but no one can hear me
let me out
wishing my heart was bulletproof
but you shot my heart anyways
and you watched as I bled out
laughing, this was some game
this was all a game to you
you never loved me
Yesterday is a waste. Tomorrow is a haste.
Today is all there is, and it's the last of them
I am a lost girl, overlooking dimensionless depths
The sea sings it's subtle songs,
The sky bleeds blues into oranges, reds into purples
And the cirrus clouds streak the sky like scars
Evening embers tinge the edge of existence
Reality retreating into it's final resting place
Tainted flower of fragile fights well fought
A lost girl, staring at the shining sun of sorrow
Knowing full well there is no tomorrow
more news that ain't fit to print by yours truly
Mr.man in the moon
when i call for you can you hear me?
can you hear my words soaked in pain and heartbreak?
Do they reach you all the way up there?
Mr man in the moon can you see the scars i desperately try to hide? can you see the ones that are so deep, deep enough to reach my heart?  scares that have been made for all of my life?
Mr. man in the moon can you smell me? can you smell my liqueur stained clothes or my lips which hint at smoking and drinking?

you sit on your thrown and hear us calling fot you, calling at you for words of wisdom. we all want your attention. So answer us! answer me!
please
i dont know what to do...
Limitless mind with a limited body.
For everyone with a brain thinking is a hobby
I find myself lost in though in a hotel lobby.
My imagination forming nearly perfect artistry for me to see
But could never draw it out cause I'm not good with my hands.
I see myself flying in the sky without a plane.
But I can't do that either so I'm stuck here on land.
I see myself happy and having a life of excitement,
But I'm here loving normally because things don't go as planned.
Why is it that we can think of anything.
But we can barely do anything.
They tell me I could do whatever I put my mind to.
But I can't do even a fraction of what my mind wants to do.
I guess I'll have to face facts and have affairs with fiction.
Because I see no way getting past these restrictions.
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