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Amal Backer Apr 2020
Deep down in the tangled woods that grows in my mind I've built a home, away from home away from the walls of your comfort zone hidden away from your Queens and you pawns
invisible to your war crazy Lords and to the Gods of course.

In the dark and dangerous woods that grows in my mind I've built a home,
a home with no laws, a home for all the mad people I've ever known,
but I'm alone for so long
and I'll take you there
I can take you there,
will you sing me to death and freedom?
A Poet Apr 2020
Delusional Love

One ping is all it took,
Messages started to flow
He fell in love, in a one single day.
Some may say he was crazed.

“let me check”
Replied took longer and longer today
. . .1 minute, 3 minutes, 40 minutes, hours, days. . .
“does he no longer love me”
He went into a rage

“who is he talking to”
Screens flashed photos,
He searched his address,
Parked outside his home
“he loves only me”

“why did he block me”
BANG! Windows crash!
he enters the home
lays on the bed
touches himself
pleasure himself
finally feels his love as he smothers in his clothes

BANG! BANG!
Blood leaves his mouth
His eyes roll back
Darkness creeps
“Now I will always be a part of his life”
He thinks as breath leaves his radiant red lips
For his wish has come true.
#love #delusion #madness
Kellea Tibbs Apr 2020
They might as well have said
that March was canceled
Because that's what I heard
When they announced
There would be no basketball
No basketball
Those were the words that echoed through the college campuses, the dorm rooms, the high school gyms, living rooms, and sports bars
around the world.
So no sweet sixteen
No final four
no watch parties
Or wagers being placed on
Your favorite teams
March always comes in like a lion
But this time
It came in
Like a giant rhinoceros
With social distancing
And excess hand washing
This virus
This 100 year plague
Has turned our every day lives
Upside down
And forced us all
into a new world order
A new world
Where sports is
No longer king
No longer a priority
And no longer important
And I don't even
Like basketball
Really not many sports
To begin with
But I'm very much
A fan of tradition
And giving kids
A chance
At a last hurrah
A final dance
A final prom
If you will
But no basketball in March
Is like
Telling everyone
With a birthday in the month
That they were never born
Its as if all the scores,
All the stats, all the records broken
Never existed
When you tell us
There will be no
March Madness
I once
was a
tad yet
a little
smaller than
I was  
then a
man in
the madness
of the
heat I'd
foresee them
this tweet
or subsistence
was spite
that onsite
demagoguery triumph
Toby Raines Mar 2020
I sit down at my desk,
Staring blankly at the sheet in front of me.

Pure white,
a fresh start.

The pen in my hand twirls gracefully,

Not a word written on the paper.
My ideas were foolish, after all.

Until the pen moved on it’s own.

Long, flowing lines graced the page,
grazing the edges,
but not spilled at all.

The pen halted for only a minute,
as I admire the beautiful world it’s created.

But the pen does not stop, nor does it have mercy.

Dots and lines
Strokes of memory
Brushing it’s tortuous path

The ink held no mercy, and in mercy’s place came agony
the agony tying the strings of ink together until it became a messy puddle
even after all space was filled.
The pen swung
back
and forth
tearing at the paper
My  perfect  world  a   mess    of ink
    and   paper    
and             guilt
Toby Raines Mar 2020
Lies are beautiful,
With their assortment of colors,
Ranging from a crystalline white
To a dried blood brown-black.
From purity, for saving someone
from the pain of the truth,
to lies of pure fun,
that stains the ground we walk on.

And so I coat myself in black and blood red,
Making lies and creating fun,
Only for myself.
Or at least that’s what I’d like to think.
The pure black seems to almost
                   flow
              like a river
     out through my lips
and to everyone around me.
It’s toxic, bringing pain like flesh being
torn.
I love it.
I crave every agonizing minute
of lies that spew and grow and
writhe like a growing parasite.
A beautiful parasite of shining
black
and luxurious oily blue.

It can’t be helped to love such
mesmerizing
colors.
So here I spill
and paint the world in my ink.
The ink of lies,
And the paper the truth.
Of course, everyone wants
to fill said paper
with color.

So we spill inky lies to the ground
to create a world worth living in.
A wonderland of gorgeous, asymmetric chaos.
Lies are truly beautiful, if you see the creativity
behind the lie.
Mahogany Ree Mar 2020
you've created beautiful madness
deep down inside of me

explored my vacant doors
inciting flames that burn eternally

madness like torrential rains
drowning me from head to toe

however did you find the key of me
I want to ask but I don't need to know

just keep captivating my madness
invade and trust me with all of you

plant your love inside my heart
and I will eternally harvest you
Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.

Look into my eyes...

and they say
"I'm obsessed with you. Utterly, willingly, and wonderfully"
What if... I gave up...?
There's no point in getting up
Nothing make sense!
Time is a lie!
There's no time to say bye
Everything is just matter in the void
I AM GETTING ******* PARANOID
MAKE IT STOP!
I know that there is no "why"
But wile time passes by
I only wish to die...
I don't wanna be alone with my feelings
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