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#lanterne
Les pensées ne sont que pensées, Des fantômes nés dans mon esprit, Silhouettes que je vois danser Et que je nourris malgré moi, sans répit. C’est une machine infernale, Qui tourne, invente, se déchaîne, Créant démons, visions fatales, Monstres gonflés de peur ancienne. Mais ces monstres, sous la lumière, Ne sont que pantomines fragiles. Quand j’écris, ils deviennent poussière ; Quand je cours, leur pouvoir vacille. Le soleil les fait fondre un moment, Sans les dissoudre entièrement : Ils reviennent, inlassablement, Dans un perpétuel mouvement. Je cherche la force pour enfin Éteindre la lanterne magique, Ancêtre des mirages sans fin Où ma tête se complique Pour laisser mon esprit reposer **** de ses visions insensées.
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM UTC
La Machine infernale
A Blackness Condenses, Digging into Emptiness - a scar Falling from the mountain. Grasp, grasp for hold with a stiff Hand, like a memory faded Into a second past, frantic search Juxtaposed with the slipperyness of Killed memories' blood, covers anything with Laquer, and if we don't find what we came here for, Madness will take us, pull us down, define us, but with No language, no sound, no form, only that fleeted scent that's Owned by that evil sand-monster of time. We got a taste of Produce discontinued, till maybe or maybe not it will rise Quietly from the ashes like an apparition. But when we try Reeling it in, we get back a hook empty of water, only filled with Space. Something stolen from us by its memory. Skin, flesh and bone, all of them Torn from us under anesthesia, too deep to feel, by now we've woken up and Understand there's something missing and oh if only we could just go back, go back to Valley, nameless and knownless, I just know it's a valley, a smudge between a horn and a Weeping river of frozen rips that pile like great heaps of sand, a desert of disaction. Point X lost as much as we, a part of our soul somewhere between and somewhere in these all, and unknown Y a junction and we go down both our arms that are chopped off at the wrist, there's nowhere else to go but Z, the very end of our journey, where we look at the red blooms of hands, and we move on, with our brief day.
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Sep 20, 2025
Sep 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM UTC
Dementia
If I could Go back to My childhood days I Wouldn't Do well on All of those tests I'd ***** up each one So no one would expect That I'd automatically Ace everything on the first try I Would not Be docile To all adults Because then I could Express my discontent With the adults in power With less hesitation now I Would not Quiet down Stop acting up Hide my discomfort So that maybe now I'd be less afraid to Show the bad parts of my mind To show those signs of mental pain I Instead Would make sure That I could live As free as I could Unafraid to fall Less afraid of power Maybe not entir'ly free But enough to want to live now
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM UTC
If I Could Go Back
wave throws spume lifted high painting pebbles white
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May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 at 2:23 PM UTC
frothy