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Tina M Feb 2020
Your shadow spits on our embrace
But in the face of repulsion
Your need for assurance
Wears a rainbow smile

While as the sun you boldly speak
It's surface deep, and emersion 
from the hidden psyche
Might just take a while.

A studied pupil shields a pain
And guards his vein so valiantly
That though I seek transparency
I help deny the dawn.

The scar of pride thickens the skin
Denies the kin access to light
Protects from bite of tenderness
and so we carry on.

But in this dance of flat and dark
Attention harkens beat and breath
And secrets stir, spontaneous
They ache to be made known

The depths of self find their relief
And our belief in rigid lines
Fade into warmth and common shape.
And light welcomes us home.
Anna-Marie Rose Nov 2018
This disarray in my head
is a unhinged reality.

Everything's unstable  
The plans become void
As always enabling each other, a destructive cyclone of dysfunctional
Life.
Homeless life
Denel Kessler Mar 2016
I recognize
this ground
laced with stones
and poisoned barbs
hike barefoot here
unafraid

a barren desert
feels like home
when there is nothing
to be lost or gained

I have been here
many times before
stripped down naked
in the noonday sun
watching vultures
wheel and dive

as I dangle
twist and spin
ever the enabler
enabling

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