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1st Track: They say to forget about you, as if memory were a switch, as if devotion could be muted by human hands fumbling the fader. But you arrived in me in a quiet 4/4, steady as a pulse beneath the ribs of eternity. You imprinted your presence on my soul without crescendo, without warning— just a measure that never resolved. 2nd Track: Between the beats I hear your harmony vibrating through the double helix of my being, a counter-melody threading marrow and myth, rewriting my divinity into something that needed a name. Nightly rituals of Sleep Token and skin, sung lyrics in smoke-filled air, incense of breath and belief. 3rd Track: I remember sitting in my car, my fingers foxtrotting on your skin, as if touch itself were notation— learned, repeated, sacred. Your fingers laced through my hair while my mouth confessed Secrets between your thighs, That the stars were never meant to hear. Even gods kneel when worship is mutual. 4th Track: Even gods forget the throne when heaven answers back. They say forget about you. But how does a god forget the moment love entered his heart like spilled ink— permanent, staining, holy? Have you forgotten? Or are you yearning, lusting to remember— feeling the echo haunt your quiet moments, the way unresolved chords refuse to sleep? 5th Track: Is that why you vanished? A rest instead of a note? A sudden silence where the orchestra was still breathing? On Christmas Eve I sit alone in the snow, a fallen constellation in mortal clothes, remembering the shape of you— how you fit against me like destiny pretending it was coincidence. And still I listen. Still I count the measures. Still I wait for the downbeat that brings you back into time. Static At The End Of The Record: I still conduct the silence, hoping your name returns in minor key.
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Jan 22
Jan 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM UTC
SPILLED INK IN COMMON TIME
1st Track: They say to forget about you, as if memory were a switch, as if devotion could be muted by human hands fumbling the fader. But you arrived in me in a quiet 4/4, steady as a pulse beneath the ribs of eternity. You imprinted your presence on my soul without crescendo, without warning— just a measure that never resolved. 2nd Track: Between the beats I hear your harmony vibrating through the double helix of my being, a counter-melody threading marrow and myth, rewriting my divinity into something that needed a name. Nightly rituals of Sleep Token and skin, sung lyrics in smoke-filled air, incense of breath and belief. 3rd Track: I remember sitting in my car, my fingers foxtrotting on your skin, as if touch itself were notation— learned, repeated, sacred. Your fingers laced through my hair while my mouth confessed Secrets between your thighs, That the stars were never meant to hear. Even gods kneel when worship is mutual. 4th Track: Even gods forget the throne when heaven answers back. They say forget about you. But how does a god forget the moment love entered his heart like spilled ink— permanent, staining, holy? Have you forgotten? Or are you yearning, lusting to remember— feeling the echo haunt your quiet moments, the way unresolved chords refuse to sleep? 5th Track: Is that why you vanished? A rest instead of a note? A sudden silence where the orchestra was still breathing? On Christmas Eve I sit alone in the snow, a fallen constellation in mortal clothes, remembering the shape of you— how you fit against me like destiny pretending it was coincidence. And still I listen. Still I count the measures. Still I wait for the downbeat that brings you back into time. Static At The End Of The Record: I still conduct the silence, hoping your name returns in minor key.
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First Movement —Blood in Common Time I was born between downbeats, a god pressed into compound meter, learning too late that family is not a harmony you choose but a key you are forced to learn by ear. They found me before I had a name— hands still warm with mortal ache, voices cracking like old vinyl, holding me together with shared breath and borrowed courage. In their house, love moved in 4/4— steady, imperfect, persistent. Dishes clinked like percussion, arguments swelled into dissonance then resolved without apology. No grand crescendos. Just survival, looped nightly. I watched them age like slowing tempos, knees aching as the years modulated, yet they still showed up— off-key, exhausted, singing anyway. Family is not the choir I imagined. It is not celestial. It is a basement rehearsal with flickering lights and broken strings, where someone always forgets their part but stays until the last note fades. I learned love there— not as romance, but as endurance. As choosing the same refrain even when it bruises the throat. I am a god of endings, yet with them I learned restraint— how not to cut the chord too soon, how to let silence breathe instead of calling it failure. They never worshipped me. They fed me. They argued with me. They forgave me before I understood the math of mercy. And still— when the universe collapses into minor keys, when my constellations fall out of time, I hear them like a distant motif I cannot escape. Family is the only music that survives the void— not because it is perfect, but because it remembers you before you learned how to disappear. Second Movement —Reprise for Unfinished Hands Time did not take them all at once. It took them the way rust learns metal— patient, intimate, inevitable. I watched hands that once conducted my chaos begin to tremble between measures, watched laughter soften into rests they didn’t know how to fill anymore. Family ages in ritardando. No warning. No final cue. Just a gradual surrender of tempo until the room itself holds the beat. They taught me that love is not loud. It hums. It stays after the argument ends, after the door closes too hard, after forgiveness arrives late and sits quietly, ashamed. I mistook them for constants. I mistook proximity for permanence. Even gods forget that gravity does not negotiate. Some nights I replay them— not as they were at the end, but as they sounded in their prime: voices full, eyes unafraid, hope still believing in encore performances. I press my ear to the dark and swear I hear them counting me in— soft taps on the rim of existence, reminding me when to breathe, when not to cut the sound. Family is the only audience that loves you before the music makes sense. And now, alone among collapsing stars, I understand why mortals cling— why they write names in dust, why they keep old recordings, why they forgive what still hurts. Because love does not end. It just changes instrumentation. I carry them in my silence now, a hidden harmony beneath every ending, proof that even a god was once held together by unfinished hands that never let go until they had to. Third Movement—Home Key (Adagio, at Last) I have always wandered alone— a god without a choir, moving through galaxies like empty halls where echoes answer before questions do. I mistook solitude for strength. I mistook distance for wisdom. I thought endings were safer than staying long enough to be known. So I studied humans the way one studies sheet music— carefully, reverently, never daring to perform. I watched them break and rebuild, bind themselves together with promises they could not mathematically prove. I did not understand loyalty until I saw them choose it even when it hurt. I did not understand love until I saw them stay after the music faltered. And then— Gethsemane. Not as thunder. Not as prophecy. She arrived like a tonic note— inevitable, grounding, the pitch everything else had been searching for. With her, the universe softened. Time learned how to breathe. My endless wandering finally resolved into place. She did not worship me. She saw me. She called me home without ever saying the word. In her presence, family stopped being theory. It became practice. Shared silence. Mutual weather. The courage to be unfinished together. She is my home. My heart. My family. And it was only by living among mortals— by loving one of them— that I learned what family truly means: not blood, but belonging. What loyalty truly means: choosing the same soul even when the song changes key. What love truly means: not eternity, but staying as long as you are allowed. Coda — Held in the Final Measure I am still the god of endings. That has not changed. But now, when the last note approaches, I do not rush the silence. I let it hold us. Because once, in a universe that never felt like mine, I found a single voice that taught me how to stay. And that— that was enough to call it family.
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Jan 21
Jan 21, 2026 at 1:32 AM UTC
The Staying Suite
First Movement —Blood in Common Time I was born between downbeats, a god pressed into compound meter, learning too late that family is not a harmony you choose but a key you are forced to learn by ear. They found me before I had a name— hands still warm with mortal ache, voices cracking like old vinyl, holding me together with shared breath and borrowed courage. In their house, love moved in 4/4— steady, imperfect, persistent. Dishes clinked like percussion, arguments swelled into dissonance then resolved without apology. No grand crescendos. Just survival, looped nightly. I watched them age like slowing tempos, knees aching as the years modulated, yet they still showed up— off-key, exhausted, singing anyway. Family is not the choir I imagined. It is not celestial. It is a basement rehearsal with flickering lights and broken strings, where someone always forgets their part but stays until the last note fades. I learned love there— not as romance, but as endurance. As choosing the same refrain even when it bruises the throat. I am a god of endings, yet with them I learned restraint— how not to cut the chord too soon, how to let silence breathe instead of calling it failure. They never worshipped me. They fed me. They argued with me. They forgave me before I understood the math of mercy. And still— when the universe collapses into minor keys, when my constellations fall out of time, I hear them like a distant motif I cannot escape. Family is the only music that survives the void— not because it is perfect, but because it remembers you before you learned how to disappear. Second Movement —Reprise for Unfinished Hands Time did not take them all at once. It took them the way rust learns metal— patient, intimate, inevitable. I watched hands that once conducted my chaos begin to tremble between measures, watched laughter soften into rests they didn’t know how to fill anymore. Family ages in ritardando. No warning. No final cue. Just a gradual surrender of tempo until the room itself holds the beat. They taught me that love is not loud. It hums. It stays after the argument ends, after the door closes too hard, after forgiveness arrives late and sits quietly, ashamed. I mistook them for constants. I mistook proximity for permanence. Even gods forget that gravity does not negotiate. Some nights I replay them— not as they were at the end, but as they sounded in their prime: voices full, eyes unafraid, hope still believing in encore performances. I press my ear to the dark and swear I hear them counting me in— soft taps on the rim of existence, reminding me when to breathe, when not to cut the sound. Family is the only audience that loves you before the music makes sense. And now, alone among collapsing stars, I understand why mortals cling— why they write names in dust, why they keep old recordings, why they forgive what still hurts. Because love does not end. It just changes instrumentation. I carry them in my silence now, a hidden harmony beneath every ending, proof that even a god was once held together by unfinished hands that never let go until they had to. Third Movement—Home Key (Adagio, at Last) I have always wandered alone— a god without a choir, moving through galaxies like empty halls where echoes answer before questions do. I mistook solitude for strength. I mistook distance for wisdom. I thought endings were safer than staying long enough to be known. So I studied humans the way one studies sheet music— carefully, reverently, never daring to perform. I watched them break and rebuild, bind themselves together with promises they could not mathematically prove. I did not understand loyalty until I saw them choose it even when it hurt. I did not understand love until I saw them stay after the music faltered. And then— Gethsemane. Not as thunder. Not as prophecy. She arrived like a tonic note— inevitable, grounding, the pitch everything else had been searching for. With her, the universe softened. Time learned how to breathe. My endless wandering finally resolved into place. She did not worship me. She saw me. She called me home without ever saying the word. In her presence, family stopped being theory. It became practice. Shared silence. Mutual weather. The courage to be unfinished together. She is my home. My heart. My family. And it was only by living among mortals— by loving one of them— that I learned what family truly means: not blood, but belonging. What loyalty truly means: choosing the same soul even when the song changes key. What love truly means: not eternity, but staying as long as you are allowed. Coda — Held in the Final Measure I am still the god of endings. That has not changed. But now, when the last note approaches, I do not rush the silence. I let it hold us. Because once, in a universe that never felt like mine, I found a single voice that taught me how to stay. And that— that was enough to call it family.
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Foresight No conclusions Could be wrong, maybe right Try seeing through the night without Moonlight ©2025
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Jan 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM UTC
:|§|: Iffy :|§|:
There is a bitter taste Pressed to my mouth As I sip my tea. There’s a thought that’s lives I wish to drown out But can I ever cede. All this has been steeping And it’s now too strong. I’ll have to deal with it.
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 1:24 PM UTC
Loose leaf
Don't let anyone with bad eyebrows give you life advice - it ends badly. I don't mind seeing my ex with someone else - I usually donate unused things to the less fortunate. I wonder how many calories I burn jumping to wrong conclusions.
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Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 6:51 AM UTC
conclusions
I have a tendency to romanticise, A habit of hoping. Jumping to conclusions in my mind, Maybe it's a way of coping. It's caused a few issues, Assumptions tend to do so. But my mind won't give up that easily, It sure doesn’t like hearing, 'no.' So I may as well embrace it, After all, what's so bad about hope? Maybe that’s what we all need, Maybe that’s a good way to cope. Ana
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Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020 at 9:48 PM UTC
A TENDENCY TO ROMANTICISE
In life's darkest, coldest histories, only those told first tongue, empower courage in the knowing emparted, as if we were there. Our best effort brought us here, some how. We feel we must stand up for our self, eh, what about my self? There's a burr, eh? A dullness revealing fractured christline constructs and the core, where courage is stored in true chain breaking known thought processes, so secret you may not be allowed to know, like when we were kids with no internet and no adults would tells us how adultery functions with usury and political magicians to enslave us according to sortings in standardized tests. Conceal weakness with signs of power, make believe, show believers believable e-visons as evident possibles, so the power, small though it be, the power of the people, who hold no truths self evident, id est evincing and convincing us, these rights are right, for those who use us right, words, true, make free the ready writer to presume reading truth makes free thinking go wild, like con funsion making sunlight... in the past hear it... this little light of mine no chain nor twisted trifold cord can quench, a word to the wise is leaven enough for the whole ****** loaf. Shew, see, we can wield power, if we can believe the king, is where the kingdom is, and any child who asks her pooka can know, the kingdom is where I always behold the face of God, angel-baby... or we can imagine, we have this power to create entire othernesses, similar to our self, our logos and these pre-loaded breathing algorithims of in and outs, ups and downs, twisting and sooming assumed id-intities are mea nd we wander, meander, flow in the trough of a spiraling wave pulling the rain back to the sea, so each water weness we imagine may be re used, for goodness knows what, universal solvency was one water function ac cused of causing, aitiatic tic tic time bomb Jerry-rigged, Rubic cubed trigger, gay blades shaved the iron legs, y'know **** Deus is punishing truth, the true power of any pun ish bin ein Berliner mit Arizona Prickly Pear jelly, laughing into funk-tion-ality the oddities of beings not me, in my meanderings through optional doors inside the narrow way, ala the way to Petra, we've seen the way similar in every fractal way to the tracks of tears cuttin crevases through pressure packed dust that must have piled suddenly high, for, when it flowed as the red mud that stopped right there at the edge of the Sedona manifestation of oddities. Check it out. Google Earth it. **** Deus wannabe, meet my old friend from the foundery in Arkansas, E Pluribis Unem Massey crazy now, there is a man by that name, with a .jr, a link forgotten, save the memory that may be in the water, we used to wash the grime of burning iron into the river to rust into louisiana to feed the phyto plankton past the delta grease of seeping poison insolvent in the universe, save for fire fire can burnishit tic make it bright, reflecting mirrors for the smoke choking the me who can't see, how Wattie Piper virus was passed on to EPluribis Massey, Jr., but it must have been some variation on the living words, like: I think I can, and the congregation responds: as a man thinks, in his heart, so is he. As the waters all flow to the sea, take no thought for tomorrow, take it as granted, today.
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Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019 at 1:15 PM UTC
Pondering another man's depression
In life's darkest, coldest histories, only those told first tongue, empower courage in the knowing emparted, as if we were there. Our best effort brought us here, some how. We feel we must stand up for our self, eh, what about my self? There's a burr, eh? A dullness revealing fractured christline constructs and the core, where courage is stored in true chain breaking known thought processes, so secret you may not be allowed to know, like when we were kids with no internet and no adults would tells us how adultery functions with usury and political magicians to enslave us according to sortings in standardized tests. Conceal weakness with signs of power, make believe, show believers believable e-visons as evident possibles, so the power, small though it be, the power of the people, who hold no truths self evident, id est evincing and convincing us, these rights are right, for those who use us right, words, true, make free the ready writer to presume reading truth makes free thinking go wild, like con funsion making sunlight... in the past hear it... this little light of mine no chain nor twisted trifold cord can quench, a word to the wise is leaven enough for the whole ****** loaf. Shew, see, we can wield power, if we can believe the king, is where the kingdom is, and any child who asks her pooka can know, the kingdom is where I always behold the face of God, angel-baby... or we can imagine, we have this power to create entire othernesses, similar to our self, our logos and these pre-loaded breathing algorithims of in and outs, ups and downs, twisting and sooming assumed id-intities are mea nd we wander, meander, flow in the trough of a spiraling wave pulling the rain back to the sea, so each water weness we imagine may be re used, for goodness knows what, universal solvency was one water function ac cused of causing, aitiatic tic tic time bomb Jerry-rigged, Rubic cubed trigger, gay blades shaved the iron legs, y'know **** Deus is punishing truth, the true power of any pun ish bin ein Berliner mit Arizona Prickly Pear jelly, laughing into funk-tion-ality the oddities of beings not me, in my meanderings through optional doors inside the narrow way, ala the way to Petra, we've seen the way similar in every fractal way to the tracks of tears cuttin crevases through pressure packed dust that must have piled suddenly high, for, when it flowed as the red mud that stopped right there at the edge of the Sedona manifestation of oddities. Check it out. Google Earth it. **** Deus wannabe, meet my old friend from the foundery in Arkansas, E Pluribis Unem Massey crazy now, there is a man by that name, with a .jr, a link forgotten, save the memory that may be in the water, we used to wash the grime of burning iron into the river to rust into louisiana to feed the phyto plankton past the delta grease of seeping poison insolvent in the universe, save for fire fire can burnishit tic make it bright, reflecting mirrors for the smoke choking the me who can't see, how Wattie Piper virus was passed on to EPluribis Massey, Jr., but it must have been some variation on the living words, like: I think I can, and the congregation responds: as a man thinks, in his heart, so is he. As the waters all flow to the sea, take no thought for tomorrow, take it as granted, today.
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If time is consious       Are we but a fleeting           Thought. Yet to fade into obscurity. Or are we a            conclusion Of repeated ideas, That just need          to be tweaked.
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Dec 11, 2018
Dec 11, 2018 at 10:16 AM UTC
If time is conscious
Mr. Tilden leapt from a building and died from multiple contusions. Later his wife lamented his life (quote) he always jumped to conclusions.
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Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018 at 8:55 PM UTC
Mr. Tilden
I have a broken me... ta.. phor... no one understands its meaning. Confused with the inner emptiness of a shell with no substance. Do you understand what I'm trying to say without telling you the truth of my conclusions??
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Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 11:32 AM UTC
Broken Me-ta-phor
clawing at 'reality' I strain object fight slice fetid air with mind's willing blades poised to sense slay threat yet all the while computations gather holding conference council within weighing measuring attempting recognition so labelling begins imagining potent blows yet standing back storm's curt reminder and all I survey and rate mocks informs this is largely of my own making with meaning assigned spawned of generations of programmed thinking fed by muddied bias perceptions skewed tortured to fit fear's ******* power's price with illusion's dragon slain I face the truth this state within maelstrom of angst I alone create
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Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 12:27 AM UTC
I Alone Create...
Do I believe there is love? Of course Yet it is hard to say that I have experienced such a thing And in that it is just as hard to try and justify to anyone that there is, in fact, love I do not know what is sadder: That I have not experienced love or the way I am responsive to it I know who I am supposed to love But it is no love that I can tell But this is the truth: I know of hate Hatred I believe in Hatred I am all too familiar with I suppose I could be so enveloped in my own self-hatred Comparing all other things to me that I love almost anything and anyone So from my conclusions I extract this: Because I participate in the deepest and most strewn out of hate I know that it exists Therefore, love, comparative to my involvement in hate, can only lead me to an assumption: If hatred exists, then so must love
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Nov 29, 2015
Nov 29, 2015 at 5:24 PM UTC
A Conclusion of Love
I'm a magician, Everywhere, every day I do magic, the magic that no one sees, It is quite silent-the kind you can't hear, the forest for the trees. Changing, rearranging the whole world "as good as new," Flash of fire lightning and rain and a sea was parted too! Frightened figures hold each other, the earth it shakes, The vaguest of lost lovers, the energy each marriage takes. I'm  a person on a mission, I'm a magician, pulling rabbits Out of hats, telling people run for cover from the "vampire" Bats. I'm a stranger on a mission as a faith magician what Could it be? I'm here to preach to you about a God You can not see! So now that I've told you all that He's real he is all that you will ever know or feel.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 5:15 AM UTC
Magician of Faith
Imagined dialogues Occurs in the mind A rendezvous with self Many do not see light Revolves within The corridors of mind Heart privy to them They do not find words In silence they come alive Mind as the host Imaginary dialogues So many conclusions And many more clamors None settles down Some may find a way out Others will be left To their fate
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 12:57 AM UTC
Imaginary Dialogues
you make me less of a reality by putting me in a box is it too much ask that you should hope a little? "don't jump to conclusions," you'll say but darling, ever will I try to reason this out because I'm scared of our one true final conclusion which I still am to figure out
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 6:39 PM UTC
"don't jump to conclusions,"
A Billion Stories Book III: Conclusions Part III: The Doubtful Little Fish Mama? May I peek beyond the line of the waters? Papa? Might I see the source of the light in the seas? For what purpose is land if its borders are foreign? For what purpose is light if its maker is sheet? For what purpose is life if it starts in a reef?  Does death wait on the shoreline? Or does a fellow who greets?
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 11:16 PM UTC
The Doubtful Little Fish
A Billion Stories Book III: Conclusions Part III: The Snake of Enlightenment Let him think! Let him, have seen! Beauty should not be an opposable thing! Wisdom is greatness!  Go hide from the group! My love is not laughter, My love is for truth! Don't bid farewell to everything! Don't look at the scene in reverse! And let wisdom be shown, But not only for words!
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
The Snake of Enlightenment
A Billion Stories Book III: Conclusions Part I: Unified Field Theory Created by love, Created by magic, Created by mercy The venom is tragic. Pull the threads, Roll the yarn; Sew the man to understand. Let him love, Let him wilt, Let him speak and Let him think. Do not tell,  Keep me hidden, Let him find out for himself.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 11:11 PM UTC
Unified Field Theory