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for what profit does a man make a poetry site? it is a puzzlement for me, for I would rather wrest away those viable hours writing poetry itself! this is not a trifling matter, for if anything, the poems are the trifles and the truffles! I thank God for fools such as these whose many thousand by them are pleased, and take and give my pleasures freely, but never forgetting the ones who are the facilitators ————————————-====== À quoi bon créer un site de poésie ? Cela me laisse perplexe, car je préférerais consacrer ces précieuses heures à écrire de la poésie ! Ce n'est pas une mince affaire, car, au contraire, les poèmes sont un véritable trésor ! Je remercie Dieu pour ces fous qui, par leurs versets, plaisent à des milliers de personnes et partagent généreusement mon plaisir, sans jamais oublier ceux qui rendent tout cela possible. nml. f i n i
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May 11
May 11, 2026 at 4:23 AM UTC
for what profit does a man make a poetry site?
I asked the dervish, “Why does the heart tremble at the curve beneath her robe?” He smiled and said, “Because man was made from dust, but longs always for warmth. And in the breast of a woman God hid a secret: mercy dressed as temptation.” So when her shirt strains against longing, do not think the lover seeks flesh alone. No… He wishes to return to the first shelter he ever knew. And every kiss upon her chest is merely a confused prayer from a soul trying to touch tenderness before it dies.
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May 10
May 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC
Why does the heart tremble
bulletcookie  writes: does anybody know where do the poets go? the answer, to my question/my poem ====== Good question: when poets go to pasture, their words form mist-a-morning dew, and hair grows long and grassy Their vision spr-ings like morning sun and every sinew bends to song heard, not by the ear, but in that soul of music; then fades into the evening star, syllable by syllable. /bc
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Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM UTC
bulletcookie’s answer : Does anybody know where do the poets go?
For God, everything is possible.  He will free us from every trouble.  You will conceive, an angel Gabriel tells Mary.  To be brave and not to worry  Hearing this, Mary will be humble. For humans It's impossible  For God, everything is unstoppable.  Faith and love are a lovely couple. God does wonders  God provides, for his plans are visible.  This verse is a source of hope that is credible.  The real God is with us; let's be merry.  In the cake, He is like a cherry.  With God, nothing is impossible.  God does wonders
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Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 at 3:59 AM UTC
God does wonders
dreaming someone does something i will defend myself hard hospital for all
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Jul 16, 2021
Jul 16, 2021 at 1:01 AM UTC
haiku 21/7/15c
Humpty Trumpty sat on his wall bleating and blathering, condemning us all. "I know the way, I'm better than you," Tweeted he every night over his golf course view. "I don't care for Mexicans, Muslims, and not so much Jews... Well, at least not the Dems and those on the 'news'. I prefer instead those painted orange, like me, in fine Italian shoes. I'm the President now, I decide if the sky stays blue... not the the artists or the scientists... and certainly not you. I'll make this Country great again! You'll see, I know what to do! Put your faith in me, a 'Billionaire'! I promise, I'll tell you true!" Hollered he up high, his chubby fingers crossed, as his great jowels blubbered, and his voice quaked with frost. "I wonder," thought I, reading his alternate 'facts' of the day, "Maybe he wouldn't be so grumpy if his daddy had loved him more, or at all, or maybe, just maybe, if his fat greedy hands weren't so ********* small."
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Nov 3, 2020
Nov 3, 2020 at 7:54 AM UTC
I Wonder...
I have no desire to eat, When the dollar keeps getting higher, Another night of fighting sleep, Father, my eyes are so tired, So much time I've wasted, I haven't done enough, enough to make my life count. Dear Jesus, I can feel your pain, Does this ink bleed in vain, I don't understand... why I can't let go, if it's all in your hands, I'm not complaining, Yet I can't explain it. Before I could careless, if tomorrow never came, Now it's different, I worry if I close my eyes, that they won't open to see another blue sky, Oh Jesus, does it even matter at all, since you already know who will & who won't fall. Will my soul still breathe, if my body, it should leave. I can't breathe in, My thoughts are spinning, I need a bite to eat, I need some sleep, But I'm afraid I'll miss a chance to fix what I broke in the past. Father, my eyes are too tired, too weak to weep, I won't risk losing a chance, by closing these eyes tonight, Don't let this ink bleed in vain, show me how to do it right, and I will this time. I don't know how to let go of things I don't own, of thing's I didn't know, I don't know how to let go of what thing's that I have, I don't know how to let go of the thing's I know. I know You are in control, Oh God, I'm in debt, Make me pay what I owe before from my body, it's time for my soul to go.
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Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020 at 1:21 AM UTC
Fighting Sleep
When did I learn somewhere, That Capitalism does not care, Should have realized when I was young, Economies flourish best with guns, Over here in Oz, you see, Iron ore and uranium, basically, These fund our economy, Is the human race naive? Depends on what you believe, Uncle Sam will want you and you, Take care, young chicks and dudes, Armed conflict soon everywhere, When the Covid antidote is here, Capitalism does not even care....
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May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020 at 8:04 PM UTC
Who doesn't care....
what does her true voice sound like? going on seven, maybe eight years, know the thumbprint of her stylish, at twenty paces, her tower recognizable, leaning in, she is the garden, can’t tell where the garden ends and she begins she opens the pages and lets slip out the exposed flora+fauna of of her heart’s eyes observatory, revelation unintended but wanted, she can’t be helped, for she, both a revealer, reveler, party girl, beat poet know her in the bursting:  of the spring welcoming festival in the bursting:                     of the season of loves busted unhappiness, I know her well enough but not at all in the sparse, frozen soil, and in the contra-blooming, in every season, she warps my judgement, with words unheard, unknown, the dictionary my accompanist, what she says is a language purportedly in common, maybe not, she takes me on a tour of her symphonic insights, as my foreign tour guide enwrapped, entrapped, I am, as she crooks her hair, in the curved shape of a question mark top, unknowing what does her voice sound like? try different versions, a tasting menu of mellifluous, and imagine myself to sleep, wondering and wandering, what does her voice sound like?** off to sleep, smiling, frowning upside downing 11:51pm Tue May 5
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May 6, 2020
May 6, 2020 at 12:10 AM UTC
what does her true voice sound like?
covid -19 a killer unseen, without uttering a threat it has the world pulling at every nerve, it has them down on their knees. It has people creating songs about going crazy in quarantine While Trump is really going crazy, he cant throw money at it for someone like him, this is unseen, now his true colours shows his fake, while the world bleeds he is still trying to save his stake. he has ample, yet he still pulls at every last cent. If you cant see this, he must have stolen your eyes he keeps it with all his supporters minds, it's in his refridgerator, he keeps it on ice. locked in a safe now they all mindless, so they play by his rules yet he control the outcome of dice. he dont care about the human race you can clearly see it on his unsympathetic face. Why dint he react in haste, maybe his just slow? He is worth 8 billoin dollers, i really dont think thats the case he cares more about the economy,and  losing face he knows if the US economy drops at the table in the whitehouse, he has to set china a plate. give them the morning paper run their bath and under his breath, he would have to quietly hate. He would rather let the world burn, They miscalculated this whole situation they thought they were unleashing an attack they forgot to disable the homing pigeon it did a 180, knocked at their door, politely disclaimed Hi , I'm back. Talking about money he has to track, that they paid to create this monster is it just me or has the whole world been smoking crack. we glossed over that, i get it   He can even in song confess, our hands will still be tied money is power, an intoxicating lust the jury has already been bought, the justice system unjust.
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 4:21 PM UTC
Woke
covid -19 a killer unseen, without uttering a threat it has the world pulling at every nerve, it has them down on their knees. It has people creating songs about going crazy in quarantine While Trump is really going crazy, he cant throw money at it for someone like him, this is unseen, now his true colours shows his fake, while the world bleeds he is still trying to save his stake. he has ample, yet he still pulls at every last cent. If you cant see this, he must have stolen your eyes he keeps it with all his supporters minds, it's in his refridgerator, he keeps it on ice. locked in a safe now they all mindless, so they play by his rules yet he control the outcome of dice. he dont care about the human race you can clearly see it on his unsympathetic face. Why dint he react in haste, maybe his just slow? He is worth 8 billoin dollers, i really dont think thats the case he cares more about the economy,and  losing face he knows if the US economy drops at the table in the whitehouse, he has to set china a plate. give them the morning paper run their bath and under his breath, he would have to quietly hate. He would rather let the world burn, They miscalculated this whole situation they thought they were unleashing an attack they forgot to disable the homing pigeon it did a 180, knocked at their door, politely disclaimed Hi , I'm back. Talking about money he has to track, that they paid to create this monster is it just me or has the whole world been smoking crack. we glossed over that, i get it   He can even in song confess, our hands will still be tied money is power, an intoxicating lust the jury has already been bought, the justice system unjust.
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When the universe gently pushes these songs into your life.... Child, you got to survive. Eat your lettuce with salt and pepper. Die die die inside! Swallow swallow swallow all of your pride! Spread your legs. And lay those eggs. No regrets cause you gotta make them proud and glad. Your little naked chubby body on the bed. Cute cute cuty. Rare crazy beauty. Pout your lips and touch your skin. You are so tender, just surrender. You will never really win! Spread your arms. Cling on to these charms. And no resting your head. You gotta find ways till you're dead. When the universe gently pushes these songs into your life. Child, you got to survive. Eat your bread with salt and pepper. Dead dead dead inside! Stare stare stare at your dissaster left behind! Ah ah ah. That does not feel right!
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Apr 2, 2020
Apr 2, 2020 at 7:53 AM UTC
That does not feel right!
what does the W stand for my 2:00am friend? left feet touching and yet I am clueless, unsure in what language I should compile the possibilities and reread my poem and shotgun taken aback you make my urgency feel so trifling and I read your are back but you are more gone for, love’s  misfortune has you, graced, like a hole in the barbed wire fence, had bled you dry and let the seeds for the next planting go astray; this is comprehended for my fences are so busted in so many places that all the animals escaped only to return at feeding time, their curiosity of the outside world limited and W has limited infinite answers for there are no names that begin with W for farmers in our native tongues suspect if you are reading this it must be after 2:00, indeed it’s 4:07am, and the puzzlement is face flushing, annoying and curiously intriguing... and i remain, “sincerely” yours L.F. Poet p.s. thanks for reading my stuff
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 4:24 AM UTC
what does the W stand for?
People do like mischief and chatter, Really, what does it all matter? It is only about chaff and stuff, In 100 years, we shall all be dust, This is what makes me meaner, As I empty more dust from the vacuum cleaner, We shall all be a little pile of dust, And our pets, a tiny heap of fluff!
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Sep 1, 2019
Sep 1, 2019 at 12:52 AM UTC
We Shall All be Dust.
In your mouth lies a graveyard of broken hearts. Your tounge has stolen words once spoken by other tortured lovers. Its wraps itself around them, sends them through your lips as if they themselves carry kisses. These words you never understood. They are empty when you speak, like the only love you know how to give. Selfish, superficial. A vacuum set to devour anyone who strays to close. And like the nights sky, I still see your soul is littered with stars. Ill sit in the cold and wait. Wait for the sun to rise again, to warm your heart or envolop my own.
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 8:48 AM UTC
Stars
Does your heart still flutter every time you think of me? Do you think of me every time you see a couple holding hands? Does your stomach drop at the thought of us never being in each other’s lives? Do you miss me? Does your mind still race like a track star when you think about how we ended up like this? Do you want me back?
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Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019 at 7:22 AM UTC
Does your? Do you?
“I love you.” “I know.” Between the highs, And the low, In the times When I’m alone, That’s what love does. It comforts, And hides In the corners Of your mind, Yet surprises Just in time. That’s what love does. It takes The chance The percentage Of circumstance, The sacrifice In glance, And does what love does. It conquers, And pays The cost, Without delays, As if it’s not much, To stay, Because that’s what love does. It hugs, It kisses, It sees you And misses, Yer true love, Rarely disses, Because that’s what love does.
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May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 3:05 AM UTC
That’s what love does...
can't imagine it ranks high up on any list of any deity, *** and God ****** probably don't make the cut, on a relative basis, but ya never know... looked around, couldn't be found any mention of who he roots for, or if it's ok to ask for intervention **but if you ****** if you behead... claiming with perfect human vanity his name as your own for justification in ignoring Thou Shall Not **** know this you're a commandment breaker, having taken god's name in vain, vain like vanity, the sin unique to only humans we cannot divine the divine, sure wish it was my NY Giants were today bowl-occupied, why he chooses me to suffer someday will surely be explained or not but you murderers, easy rest assured, taking his name in vain, you won't be forgotten, cause and effect spelled out clearly** “the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain”
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM UTC
Does God Care Who Wins the Super Bowl?
does the moon get tired? ***~for the children who never tire of moon gazing upon the dock, by the light of the fireflies, till the angels are dispatched by Nana, to sprinkle sleepy dust in their eyelashes so long and fine~*** <•> while walking the dog I no longer have, a happenstance glanceable up over the River East, there you were, mr. moon, in all your fulsomeness , surrounded by a potpourri of courtier clouds, all deferentially bowing, waving, passing past you at a demure royal speed on their way perhaps, to Rebecca's northern London, of was it south to grace of  v V v's Texas^, in any event, the cloudy ladies, all bustling and curvaceous,   all high stepping in recognition of your exalted place, Master of the Night Sky We, the word careless, poets excessive, sometimes called silly poppies, old men, left footed, still crazy after many years, most assuredly poets false all of us, without a proper prior organized thought train, outed, bludgeon blurted, an inquiry preposterous and strange, strait directed to the sombre face, to mister moon himself! tell me moon, do you ever tire? the obeisant clouds shocked as that face we all uniform know, unchanged anywhere you might go  to gaze, be looking upon it, watched the moon's face turn askew. He looking down at our rude puzzlement, with a Most Parisian askance, a look of French ahem moustacheoed disbelief, while we watched as the moon cherubic cheeks filled with airy atmosphere, then he sighed so windy winding, was it, so mountain high and river deep, that those chubby clouds were blown off course, from a starless NYC sky all the way past Victoria Station, only to stop at Pradip and Bala's mysterious land of bolly-dancing India, on their way to Sally's Bay of Manila, magic places all! Mr. Moon looked down at this one tremulous fool representative   (me) and in a voice basso beaming and starry sonorous, befitting its stellar positioning, squinting to get a closer look at the who in whom dare address him in such an emboldened manner! *Mmmmm, recognize you, you are among those who use my presence, steal my lighted beams, my silver aura, my supermoon powered light, borrow my eclipses, reveal my changeling shaped mystery without permission, only mine to give, you tiny borrowers who write that thing, p o e t r y* head and kneed, bowed and bent, I confessed (on y'alls behalf) we take your luminosity and don't spare you even a tuppence, a lonely rupee, no royalties paid to you-up-so-highness, and we hereby apologize for all the poets without exception, especially those moon besotted, only love poem writing, vraiment misbegotten scoundrels.... with another sigh equality powerful, mr moon pushed those clouds across the Pacifica, all the way to the  US's West Coast, up to Colorado, where moon-takings from the lake's reflecting light so perfect for rhyming, kayaking, and moonlight overthrowing, once more, the moon taken and begotten, nightly, as heaven- freely-granted *yes, I tire and though  here I am much beloved, usually admired though sometimes even blackened cursed, seen in every school child's drawing, in Nasa's calculations, of my influential gravitational pull, moving human hearts to love and giving Leonard a musical compositional hint, and while this admirable devotion is most delighting, would it upset some vast eternal plan, if but one of you once asked, you fiddler scribblers my prior permission, even by just, a lowly mesmerizing evening tide's tenderizing glance?* *yes, I tire, even though my cycles are variable, my shape shifting unique, my names so at variance in all your many musical sing-song dialectical languages, my sway, my tidal currents so powerful a deterrence, unlike my boring older sunny cousine  who just cannot get over how hot looking she is, I,  so more personally interesting, yet you use me as if I were a fixture, on and off with a tug of the chain string, never failing to appear, even when feeling pale yellow and orange wan, and worse, mocked as an amore pizza pie, do you ever ask how I am doing?* *yes, I tire, of my constant circuitous route that changes ever so slowly, but yet, too fast for me to make some nice human acquaintances, especially those young adoring children who give me their morn pleasurable squeals when they awake and my presence still there, a shining ghost of a guardianship protector still watching over them* *how oft in life do we presume, take for granted grants so extra-ordinary that we forget to remember the extra and see only the ordinary how oft in life do we assume, the every day is always every, until it is not, only an only a now and then, till then, is no longer a now* <> oh moon, oh moon, our richest apologies we hereby tender and surrender, our arrogance beyond belief, what can we offer in relief? silence heard loud and clear, mr. moon was gone, a satellite in motion, so our words burnt up in the atmosphere unheard we did not weep nor huff and puff, blow those clouds back to us, for we knew the extraordinary would return tomorrow, we will be ready, better another day, to prepare a lunar composition, a psalm of hallelujah praise, for mr. moon of which mr moon will never tire, for filled with the perma-warmth of our affection for the one we call mr.moon
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 12:43 PM UTC
does the moon get tired?
does the moon get tired? ***~for the children who never tire of moon gazing upon the dock, by the light of the fireflies, till the angels are dispatched by Nana, to sprinkle sleepy dust in their eyelashes so long and fine~*** <•> while walking the dog I no longer have, a happenstance glanceable up over the River East, there you were, mr. moon, in all your fulsomeness , surrounded by a potpourri of courtier clouds, all deferentially bowing, waving, passing past you at a demure royal speed on their way perhaps, to Rebecca's northern London, of was it south to grace of  v V v's Texas^, in any event, the cloudy ladies, all bustling and curvaceous,   all high stepping in recognition of your exalted place, Master of the Night Sky We, the word careless, poets excessive, sometimes called silly poppies, old men, left footed, still crazy after many years, most assuredly poets false all of us, without a proper prior organized thought train, outed, bludgeon blurted, an inquiry preposterous and strange, strait directed to the sombre face, to mister moon himself! tell me moon, do you ever tire? the obeisant clouds shocked as that face we all uniform know, unchanged anywhere you might go  to gaze, be looking upon it, watched the moon's face turn askew. He looking down at our rude puzzlement, with a Most Parisian askance, a look of French ahem moustacheoed disbelief, while we watched as the moon cherubic cheeks filled with airy atmosphere, then he sighed so windy winding, was it, so mountain high and river deep, that those chubby clouds were blown off course, from a starless NYC sky all the way past Victoria Station, only to stop at Pradip and Bala's mysterious land of bolly-dancing India, on their way to Sally's Bay of Manila, magic places all! Mr. Moon looked down at this one tremulous fool representative   (me) and in a voice basso beaming and starry sonorous, befitting its stellar positioning, squinting to get a closer look at the who in whom dare address him in such an emboldened manner! *Mmmmm, recognize you, you are among those who use my presence, steal my lighted beams, my silver aura, my supermoon powered light, borrow my eclipses, reveal my changeling shaped mystery without permission, only mine to give, you tiny borrowers who write that thing, p o e t r y* head and kneed, bowed and bent, I confessed (on y'alls behalf) we take your luminosity and don't spare you even a tuppence, a lonely rupee, no royalties paid to you-up-so-highness, and we hereby apologize for all the poets without exception, especially those moon besotted, only love poem writing, vraiment misbegotten scoundrels.... with another sigh equality powerful, mr moon pushed those clouds across the Pacifica, all the way to the  US's West Coast, up to Colorado, where moon-takings from the lake's reflecting light so perfect for rhyming, kayaking, and moonlight overthrowing, once more, the moon taken and begotten, nightly, as heaven- freely-granted *yes, I tire and though  here I am much beloved, usually admired though sometimes even blackened cursed, seen in every school child's drawing, in Nasa's calculations, of my influential gravitational pull, moving human hearts to love and giving Leonard a musical compositional hint, and while this admirable devotion is most delighting, would it upset some vast eternal plan, if but one of you once asked, you fiddler scribblers my prior permission, even by just, a lowly mesmerizing evening tide's tenderizing glance?* *yes, I tire, even though my cycles are variable, my shape shifting unique, my names so at variance in all your many musical sing-song dialectical languages, my sway, my tidal currents so powerful a deterrence, unlike my boring older sunny cousine  who just cannot get over how hot looking she is, I,  so more personally interesting, yet you use me as if I were a fixture, on and off with a tug of the chain string, never failing to appear, even when feeling pale yellow and orange wan, and worse, mocked as an amore pizza pie, do you ever ask how I am doing?* *yes, I tire, of my constant circuitous route that changes ever so slowly, but yet, too fast for me to make some nice human acquaintances, especially those young adoring children who give me their morn pleasurable squeals when they awake and my presence still there, a shining ghost of a guardianship protector still watching over them* *how oft in life do we presume, take for granted grants so extra-ordinary that we forget to remember the extra and see only the ordinary how oft in life do we assume, the every day is always every, until it is not, only an only a now and then, till then, is no longer a now* <> oh moon, oh moon, our richest apologies we hereby tender and surrender, our arrogance beyond belief, what can we offer in relief? silence heard loud and clear, mr. moon was gone, a satellite in motion, so our words burnt up in the atmosphere unheard we did not weep nor huff and puff, blow those clouds back to us, for we knew the extraordinary would return tomorrow, we will be ready, better another day, to prepare a lunar composition, a psalm of hallelujah praise, for mr. moon of which mr moon will never tire, for filled with the perma-warmth of our affection for the one we call mr.moon
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My hands across your chest. Down your stomach. Grazing your every inch. Listing off the things I love about you in my head: Your smile, Your laugh, Your words, Your ,                                                                                   [(stop)] But it’s okay. You've found another. And they will never stay, But my need for you will remain. Just maybe, one day, this will definitely go away.
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Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 11:28 AM UTC
I still taste your lips on mine.
Would now the grudge, ever smudge ? What kind of kohl has smeared the eyes ? Blindfolded now,who once was wise. Which of its version, Is wiser in person ? The world has you into dilution, Or has eradicated the illusions ? Why do you all look alike,pallor, all deficiet in any valour?
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Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 4:13 PM UTC
Title ?
Before the day when my mind flickers Before the night when fear grabs my wrist Before the moment of emancipation When I lose my sanity, To the courageous fear beneath the beds of my heart. When the flood comes in dark, And the moon ditches without leaving a mark. I sink and sink. The way I feel possessed, The way mad I am, The way I know not about my constancy. I know I shall stumble, I know I may fall, Amid this, This which is no revelry.
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Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019 at 8:07 AM UTC
Fearing Freedom