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polyratic Sep 2020
Caught within
the cot I built
to slaughter
all the goals that fit

A miasma, thick
with success and stress
in growth, the wisest
call duress

on my throne
sits the black honed axe
seething at my fauna,
as I contemplate their imminent trauma

I'd rather watch them grow
as steel plummets to their throats
augmenting my flock of ghosts
enclosing the lonesome cot and throne
Mental duress, old and new.
Bhill Sep 2020
fires raged as the winds fueled their fervor
taking on anything in their path with incredible force
moving across the ground and leaping up to reach higher fuel
doing only what fires do...
moving with the wind and leaving a path of blackened surface
is this our new reality...?

Brian Hill - 2020 # 247
Mark Wanless Sep 2020
i walk an empty
path,,,, and think it is true lie
so here i am now
Mystic Ink Plus Aug 2020
You want to fly
So far away

A fluttering bee
Pleaded
Take me too
Your
Own way
Genre: Minimalist
Theme: Be kind
Paul Idiaghe Aug 2020
The sun must have reached low to prepare
our paths, as we walked those grandeur
streets, how it simmered the wind mild
and warm, to embrace the moment as its child;

how it forged halos around your cheeks
as you smiled, painting heaven on those peaks
& august bloomed in the lake, where my hand
kissed your fluttering feet—I felt it expand

till it was too leaden for my palms, and it drained
away into a moment in time, but you remained,
steeped in memories & my deliquesced heart
whose tides would fail to let you sail apart.
Inspired by the song “August” by Taylor Swift
Haruharu Aug 2020
One lie can change a hundred truths,
and that lie leads to a hundred more.

A kingdom built with what appeared to be solid rocks, turned out to be just sand.

All blown away when the storm hit.

The storm you created, as an excuse to leave.

Sand running through my fingers, mixed with all the lies.

I'm staring at the big pile of sand that used to be our life.

I dug for weeks, for truth and reasons.

The truth hit harder than the lies.

With time I stopped digging, there's no point.

I already had the truth.

I said my farewells to you in that pile of toxic sand and I left.

To follow a new path, my path.

The one no one's ever walked before me.

I follow my truth on my unknown journey,
I know it'll lead me to my destiny.

I keep walking, to a bright future.

For me.
Ilonka Aug 2020
a fragile heart paints the stars
longing to light those nights
when thoughts run away from you,
they hide in colorful imagery
and then all together
form your portrait
with that fine smile
understood only by me,

your gaze is printed on me
like a tattoo
that I always feel after sunset,
sometimes it appears
all over my body,
sometimes just on my lips
and it burns,

I have received your kises from afar
I keep them for the empty days,
the immortality in us
makes me hope that
I will meet you in other lives,
love transcends the gates of time
the universe is a good friend
a guide to the path of fulfillment,

-------------------------------------------

you will meet me on a field of poppies chasing butterflies with a gentle soul,
maybe you'll wait for a flame
to burst out when you see me
to melt years of light gone by,
to melt the suffering of waiting,

you will only see a child
woven from flowers
every petal is yours now
to get drunk with their perfume.
UA Slam Aug 2020
You go your way and I’ll go mine. I’ll see you on the path, and we shall meet again.
I always move on, I try to stay strong, but I can’t. It hurts, it will always sting. But you probably don’t even feel a thing.
You always call when you need something, I’m always fast, I’ll always care. But you’ll never see me sad. I put it away to see you smile. I’ll do anything for you, you see.
That’s the sad thing, you’ll never get it. You're too caught up in everything else to see me hurt.
You go your way and I’ll go mine. I’ll see you on the path, and we shall meet again.
When I look back, at least I tried, how many can say that?
“We said no strings attached, and I still got ******* in that.”
Every moment I used to think about you, you were gone, but you still blessed me. A terrible blessing. Being without you was amazing, but utterly terrible for my heart.
You never changed when I was around, and that made you perfect. You being yourself was perfect.
And through the motions I realize that I miss you, but never want you in my life again.
So goodnight forever, I hope to never see you again, my beautiful jewel.
I hope he takes care of you, just like I did.
~ Gabriel Girault (Based on The Motion By Drake)
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