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I am no longer the battlefield The rapture is in my hands I am the space between rain drops I am the air, the sea, and land I am the dragon that exhaled The smoke to make the clouds No longer do I dredge through sands Adorned in burial shroud I am time and I have created all that I see Right now is forever And with a blink I can erase history As though yesterday was never I am an illusion All that is you claim to see Is only there if you perceive it to be But it isn’t there and nor are you Becoming less aware Only my sight can make you whole You are not the flesh you wear I was conceived inside a dream I am the new creator Creating dreams you cannot see Because I am saving them for later The rapture is in my child’s tears Frozen in a broken heart The softest and most fragile things Can tear my inner worlds apart There is still life here in still-life When we wake, the sand turns into stone again The flame’s becoming cold again And you cannot breathe under water Only because you don’t believe you can I am eternal and I have found home Where each second lasts for hours And forever never counts past one Time ticks in the bloom of a flower Learn to measure life by moments Not by dollars or by minutes When life begins at every breath The past becomes irrelevant.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46 PM UTC
steven-sanchez
Rapture (From "The Acid Oasis")
I am no longer the battlefield The rapture is in my hands I am the space between rain drops I am the air, the sea, and land I am the dragon that exhaled The smoke to make the clouds No longer do I dredge through sands Adorned in burial shroud I am time and I have created all that I see Right now is forever And with a blink I can erase history As though yesterday was never I am an illusion All that is you claim to see Is only there if you perceive it to be But it isn’t there and nor are you Becoming less aware Only my sight can make you whole You are not the flesh you wear I was conceived inside a dream I am the new creator Creating dreams you cannot see Because I am saving them for later The rapture is in my child’s tears Frozen in a broken heart The softest and most fragile things Can tear my inner worlds apart There is still life here in still-life When we wake, the sand turns into stone again The flame’s becoming cold again And you cannot breathe under water Only because you don’t believe you can I am eternal and I have found home Where each second lasts for hours And forever never counts past one Time ticks in the bloom of a flower Learn to measure life by moments Not by dollars or by minutes When life begins at every breath The past becomes irrelevant.
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She’s a monstrosity A fire in my sky More now than she used to be All my rivers running dry Defying gravity although She claims to have created I am the earth and she… Is all I never knew I hated In my head, a crescendo “Shut up, shut down, take a seat, not a sound” Trying to make myself just Shut up, shut out, and take my place under the ground This summer started like a poison Seeping slowly as I let it take control A tiny pill and one small breath Is all it took to swallow me whole It started like a drum, A quiet pounding in my chest A steady tempo as I gasp To take each shallow breath It started like a storm and heavy throbbing in my brain Taste metal on my tongue With every drop of acid rain It crashed inside me like a virus, A nightmare under sedation And from me took my voice, Eyes in and out of focus Losing myself, I feel the change Her smile pulls me back, But still the pain remains Losing myself, learning how to hate Myself… letting go of my restraint Cut the noose that holds me up Freedom is just a fall away Keep cutting because now I know That I cannot make her stay This summer began in flames, A fire to light the dark It will all end in rain, A flood to drown my heart There is no escape; I’ve no place to run The fire now cowers behind dark clouds My life to come undone When did forever end? How was it that I missed the boat? The sky is falling fast and I cannot keep the sun afloat.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 1:09 AM UTC
steven-sanchez
Summer (From "The Acid Oasis: The Journal of Adrian Blackraven"
She’s a monstrosity A fire in my sky More now than she used to be All my rivers running dry Defying gravity although She claims to have created I am the earth and she… Is all I never knew I hated In my head, a crescendo “Shut up, shut down, take a seat, not a sound” Trying to make myself just Shut up, shut out, and take my place under the ground This summer started like a poison Seeping slowly as I let it take control A tiny pill and one small breath Is all it took to swallow me whole It started like a drum, A quiet pounding in my chest A steady tempo as I gasp To take each shallow breath It started like a storm and heavy throbbing in my brain Taste metal on my tongue With every drop of acid rain It crashed inside me like a virus, A nightmare under sedation And from me took my voice, Eyes in and out of focus Losing myself, I feel the change Her smile pulls me back, But still the pain remains Losing myself, learning how to hate Myself… letting go of my restraint Cut the noose that holds me up Freedom is just a fall away Keep cutting because now I know That I cannot make her stay This summer began in flames, A fire to light the dark It will all end in rain, A flood to drown my heart There is no escape; I’ve no place to run The fire now cowers behind dark clouds My life to come undone When did forever end? How was it that I missed the boat? The sky is falling fast and I cannot keep the sun afloat.
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