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Standing on the mountain, looking towards the sea Knowing they’ll both be here long after me How long have I been here, how long will I stay Is the time that’s left more than the time that’s passed away? When I was young, I felt that I’d been here before It all seems familiar, but I couldn’t say for sure I don’t know if I’m lost, or I’m just getting one more glance Or could it just be that God is giving me one more chance Why we’re here is an idea that nobody is meant to know The only fact we have is that one day we’ll have to go Tomorrow is something that one day I won’t get to see And my Yesterdays will be the only definition there is of me I’m an old soul, but my body still feels young My mind has heard the song, but the song I’ve never sung Time knows all of the things that are still meant to be Am sometimes I wonder, did Time forget about me?
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Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM UTC
Old Soul
There is nothing but darkness here And rot that fills the air, Every day I cross murals of my yesterday And memories I cannot bear, Dwindling and shattering asking To why I'm so fragile. Fragile I've lived inside a broken shell, Cracked and leaking spilling on those who come too close, I always run away But no matter how far I go I cannot escape my fate. Fate That binds me to this self-loath Where flies are my only friends, This stench that I cannot endure But now I know too well, A slave to my misery A king of this empty hell. Hell To offer up my life to the noose that hangs around my neck, never tight enough to end this But with every breath I clench Reminds me of my worthlessness. Worthlessness A burden to my own mind A wall to my questions of being Hollow yet overflowing I've seen enough to know This tunnel has no end in sight The light has failed to reach what’s inside.
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Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024 at 11:17 PM UTC
An end to offer
And I openly pledged my Heart to the grave and Suffering land, and often in the Consecrated night, I promised To love her faithfully until Death, unafaraid, with her Heavy burden of fatality, and Never to despise a single one Of her enigmas. Thus did I Join myself to her with a Mortal cord.
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Apr 13, 2019
Apr 13, 2019 at 6:23 AM UTC
The Death of Empedocles
Welcome to The theater stage,           Where we are           Made of dreams Just acting out The scenes of life,           With laughs, and cries,           And screams Until the final Curtain call,           When we will           Take our bow And wonder what ‘Twas all about,           With no one           In the crowd... .
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Apr 2, 2018
Apr 2, 2018 at 6:45 PM UTC
Welcome to the Theater
C'est la vie they said, but every moment they departed with the beautiful, delightful phrases that has mysteriously managed to distance itself from the that is you, you have failed again to realize the potential in you. You placed the burden in your mind, in the isolated chamber of yours, as if it's possible for you to fill in every inch of your sullen skeleton, you would. You have come to expect something that is living beyond the border of reality and in order for that to take into effect, the neglection of the genesis behind the seed of our life has to take place. Reality and truth, are the two things that have always been abandoned by greed and dishonesty that have been infesting our minds ever since we are doomed to feel the wrath of karma. We are the author of our own destiny and if we want to be happy, we should take control of the ship and for that to happen, I need a company to face the music and you are the reason that the ship is still afloat as it takes two to balance it. Everything is absurd but love.
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Jun 29, 2017
Jun 29, 2017 at 11:35 PM UTC
Everything is Absurd, But Love?
i'm wandering along a beach and i just killed the Arab i'm waking up one day sophomore year and i'm deciding that it will be the last day of my entire life as i tie my shoes to go to school i'm at my mother's wake and i'm trying to care but i just can't and i'm okay with it i'm walking down the hallway and no one is making eye contact with me because they are afraid or disgusted or don't care or all of the above i'm using some of my last breaths to yell at the priest and feeling no remorse i'm making conversation with my last period teacher and smiling for the first time all day i'm looking out at the crowd about to witness my death and feeling the gentle indifference of the world i'm relating more to a sociopathic man in an absurdist novel than anyone i've ever met and i'm not worried about it at all
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 9:26 PM UTC
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