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I am a little older now, Neither grew taller nor became bigger, Just a little rusted cogs here and there, Joint with a dimmer shine of dreamy eyes. In many places I have been Novels and books I've read. Yet not much have I seen, Not far I could tread. And then the slower my marches became, No strength could I muster. My thoughts were sunk in a haze by then, No forward could I luster. So I'm just a little old now, Though sinking, my heart hasn't drowned now. But it's cold here and I'm scared. "Hope it won't be too late to ask for help I'm afraid"
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Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM UTC
Little Older, Little Late
It's an external fuse that's lit And ignites the internal hate and abuse I put up a respectable fight But at the end of the night I always wonder, "what's the use?" Now I have to come up with an excuse For being me, For being what you see But I've run out of preprogrammed lines Who I really am is already set in everyone's minds I stand in fresh sand The oceans tides has taken with it all of the lines Rendering me lost Is what I've paid anywhere near the actual cost? When is it okay to say Maybe this life is a loss... ©2025
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Jun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM UTC
~•§•~ I Stand in Fresh Sand ~•§•~
We all have inner and outer lives. They’re messy, hopelessly intertwined, and more than mere mannequins to hang our word-art upon. I’m supported, in my unwritten life, by a structure of moods, both affine and counter-expressive. I’m, in turns, a tightly wound vagabond, an over-busy, fretful, unhappy liar (for what I will not share) and a happy, truthful mess (for what I may overshare). My outer-life is largely academic, and turned with complete absorption to task, I plow thru the needed assignments, like a caffeine fueled machine, You might rightly call outer-me boring. I get it, for nothing much happens beyond study and life’s usual maintenances. But my inner-life is full of action, if desires, dreams, and internally ranting against the injustices of youthful separations can be rightly called actions. Of my boyfriend, the world contains not one parallel. He overshadows the few others I’ve ever known. His masculine elements turn me all the way up, He knows my petty vanities and most of my weaknesses. If he doesn’t know my every phase of feeling, or every desire of my love starved soul, it’s because our love is peripatetic. Most of the year, we’re a long distance, digital, practical nothingness, A near autofictional anticipation. We are separated by a sea and more. If I may simply put it, I have a fine young body that is going to waste. When I complained to my older sister, a surgeon who long delayed her own personal life for her career, she shruggingly and unsympathetically said, “You only have to suffer a few more years.”   “Oh, mon Dieu!” I replied. . . positions by Ariana Grande [E] 34+35 (Remix) by [feat. Doja Cat & Megan Thee Stallion] [E]
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Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM UTC
inner and outer
We all have inner and outer lives. They’re messy, hopelessly intertwined, and more than mere mannequins to hang our word-art upon. I’m supported, in my unwritten life, by a structure of moods, both affine and counter-expressive. I’m, in turns, a tightly wound vagabond, an over-busy, fretful, unhappy liar (for what I will not share) and a happy, truthful mess (for what I may overshare). My outer-life is largely academic, and turned with complete absorption to task, I plow thru the needed assignments, like a caffeine fueled machine, You might rightly call outer-me boring. I get it, for nothing much happens beyond study and life’s usual maintenances. But my inner-life is full of action, if desires, dreams, and internally ranting against the injustices of youthful separations can be rightly called actions. Of my boyfriend, the world contains not one parallel. He overshadows the few others I’ve ever known. His masculine elements turn me all the way up, He knows my petty vanities and most of my weaknesses. If he doesn’t know my every phase of feeling, or every desire of my love starved soul, it’s because our love is peripatetic. Most of the year, we’re a long distance, digital, practical nothingness, A near autofictional anticipation. We are separated by a sea and more. If I may simply put it, I have a fine young body that is going to waste. When I complained to my older sister, a surgeon who long delayed her own personal life for her career, she shruggingly and unsympathetically said, “You only have to suffer a few more years.”   “Oh, mon Dieu!” I replied. . . positions by Ariana Grande [E] 34+35 (Remix) by [feat. Doja Cat & Megan Thee Stallion] [E]
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The humane big heart defeats superficial fear love works inside out She won't grow rotten apples just look at mamma the earth
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Apr 25, 2022
Apr 25, 2022 at 2:12 PM UTC
Another toxic tale - Tanka
I stand, move, dance, cry, balance, love and celebrate inside INTERNAL world with purpose... to reflect outward thusly my EXTERNAL world changes to whisper IN grand song.
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Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019 at 9:36 AM UTC
Internal to External
Today I'm feeling oozy Sweet and slightly snoozy My heart feels jammy juicy My eyes still stale and scuzzy Today I'm feeling rotten Young and quite forgotten My heart is made of cotton My eyes play tricks and soften Today I'm feeling crispy Jeweled and fancy frisky My heart is feeling thrifty My eyes, regardless, misty.
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Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
The Show
I am in a box As I reach out Touch the walls This strange barrier that separates me From the other Anything external Different Other A hand from the box adjacent to mine appears Splayed against the wall I reach out mine The dark and light contrast Like the Chinese symbol Ying and yang Other clearly Other Even a child could tell the difference But, Who does it take to look past the differences?
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Jul 14, 2018
Jul 14, 2018 at 10:13 PM UTC
In a box
Let my enemies stand before me baring their fangs like wild dogs as they circle around minds racing finding a weakness Let them establish a plan to drench the earth before us with the stench of scarlet blood whomever’s it may be in the end For I will fight the good fight even if the last thing i swallow is the pain that encumbers my every fiber my last breathe will not be in vain but one less they will be able to take For my last giving moments will be tough earned and the last thing that will slip from my lips will be a promise of vengeance if that is the way the earth mote it be
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 1:50 AM UTC
Unpeaceful Warrior
Between information and entertainment While I practice my own divination From criticism and determination I find that I'm deteroatinng Before all my summer leaves turn red And fall to hit the ground so dead I practice every page I read Recitie it a million times in head Then deep in my globes core if woes Where more than the hottest magma flows My thoughts turn to plasma I cannot stop the phantoms bantar So if I super solider The serum imperium I shall shake the frustrate if the open hand you take Supported?
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Jan 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 at 3:39 PM UTC
Internal struggle external conflict
As I know her from the longest time, I know that under external influence, She did all the stuff she did not wish. As she is not interested in me anymore, I thank her for being my inspiration, She was indeed a truly youthful lover.. As with all good things so with her love, I could not monitor her for 24 hours, She listened to God knows whomsoever. All I infer from the relation's demise, Is that she listened to the negative people, So closely spread in her surroundings. All I can wish for her advising party, Is that they may suffer the same fate, So similar to mine their outcome be.
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Oct 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016 at 8:45 PM UTC
Not Blaming Her For Who She Is
Our dreams hunt us like we were their own threats The internal and external worlds blur together One's mind becomes slow and sensitive to every change For we became the betrayed ones for now and ever.
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 5:35 PM UTC
External worlds
Rage Followed by fear Blank expression Abandoned voice Traceless imprint Jaded enthusiasm Scream into the void Preach your poison gospel Fear fills your frame and flows through your veins Anxiety is your life blood You crippled, broken beast You pathetic excuse for a man This is not me You are not I I live, ready to drink the sweet nectar of life You forsake it, spitting in the face of altruism This is not me A crippled, broken beast A pathetic excuse for a man So many others crave the life you so readily condemn Anxiety is your life blood Two egos trapped in the same vessel I owe myself life Yet all you know is silence
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 11:42 PM UTC
(Ex(In(E)))ternal Struggle
I don't know how to explain this feeling If you can even call it that It's more like how to describe someone devoid of feeling I lack the capacity to demonstrate emotion But then does that mean that when I cry it is just for show? Or is it that my body reacts externally but not internally? I guess it's difficult to explain something you've never had.
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Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 6:34 PM UTC
Devoid of Emotion
Perhaps beauty is not the glitters and gold of perfection. But the scarred cracked frame of reality. And as we explore these trenches; we find the most rarest forms of honesty.
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 10:08 PM UTC
Perfection