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Waiting inside,
I didn't see you.
I sat there quietly,
yet trying to attract attention.

Seven days have gone by
that I haven't seen your face
but as I exited the room
you caught my attention.

Oh, I can remember
how the light hit your face,
putting me to shame,
making me pale.

What do you want me to say?
That you are it for me, love?
That you are everything to me?
But oh, my darling!

My whole being does not give up for you!
If today was my last to experience the torments of this life I wouldn’t fret. This inevitable sadness that I’ve tried with all of me to resist has cloaked my being in fabrics too heavy for me to manage with bare bone.
My soul weighed with the garment as I felt my existence bleed as of flesh when kissed passionately with silver blades.
I know naught about the cause of this pain but I’ve accepted my role as her prey long ago. Back when time meant enough to me to find the strength to suffice a nightmare, that is, a life not worth living.
I dwell in the solitude of moons grace and mask my sorrow with a joyous façade at dawn.  
My resilience is routine, a skit that although rehearsed infinite times still hasn’t been perfected.  
It seems as though death has become fond of me. Deeming me her next victim I felt her racing through me like cancer.
A disconnect some would perceive as brutal I found solace. Swaddled what was left of my soul in her blanketed truth.
A sweet submission to the one thing I always knew about life...


danielle.a.watson
 Jul 2014 Tark Wain
Jules Wilson
I wish you’d let the sky shine bright for you.
It’s so blue outside, the good kind.
Move the curtains to the side, sneak a glimpse,
Sip the air
slowly
and whistle it out.
Step carefully so you can hear the porch steps creak
and feel the wood under your bare feet without
worrying about the splinters. There aren’t any.
Just come outside.

The fields will part when the time is right,
and the sky will illuminate the guiding side.
And when you find that the earth can hold your weight,
that the world won’t collapse when you confess your fate,
you’ll see how the clouds shield you just the right way
from the hard rays of the sun, but you can still see the glow.
And it may time some time, your feet may burn and sore,
Blister even, maybe, but time heals all wounds, I swear,
Even the worst of heartaches.
Even my heart is breathing again, slowly.
It is

pumping.
Just consider that if glass shards can be glued back together, mirrors hung
back on the wall for Snow White to get ready in, and the
veins in my wrist sealed back up with love and rain,
there is another day for you to see.
I am not porcelain. I am weak,
But every time I am broken to the ground,
I rise like the willow tree.
There’s a reason she’s my favorite—
For she haunts her pleasures and cries all day,
But seeps her sorrows into the ground till her spirit
Rises back up through her veins.
The rings of the tree reflect not just her age, but her strife.
This woman has been broken. She’s crumbled yet rised.

She never dies, only cries.
The willow tree will always survive.
for my sunshine <3
 Jul 2014 Tark Wain
Lily Atilt
If you made my portrait, you
would piece construction paper scraps,
brightly colored bird's wings, flat
like flowers because
how else do you capture
a colorful personality?

but even you could not escape the
sunlit-glare cracks, fluttering in
the hot blast of its vacant truths
and pregnant lies and crystal
unclarity, sparkling like jewels
on the neck of a thanksgiving turkey.

Paint the emptiness with a mirror-- that's all it takes
Questions can fall up for all I care
because when darkness lights up your face
reality slides into place
the lock clicks, now let's embrace
and you're in love with a meaningless picture.
 Jul 2014 Tark Wain
Mr X
Music
 Jul 2014 Tark Wain
Mr X
Your voice is all I need
Your soul is all I need
 Jul 2014 Tark Wain
DaRk IcE
As hours pass
You look up and glance
At the tower in the distance
Wondering of its Existence
A thought comes to mind
Gotta get back on my grind
Many bills to pay
So that I have a place to lay
Hard work pays off
Maybe one day i'll afford that loft
Hands of worn skin
Yet, I still manage to grin
There is much to look toward to
So don't feel blue
The treasure you find in the end
Will be the perfect blend
Achievement and happiness
Will end my sadness
Lounging on a calm shore
You can bet, it won't be a bore
Sipping colorful drinks from straws
Oh look! Over there, I see a brawl
Isn't life grand?
Worked out just as I planned
Now those weary hands
Can relax in the sands
As night silently creeps
For the world still sleeps
Relaxing for some other day
And nightmare comes this way
Installing fear within the mind
Dread is a rope used to bind

Only darkness makes it call
Fixing terror for one and all

Distilling horrors yet to unfold
A cold sweat will now take hold
Ready to open up the gates of Hell
Kindred demons released by a spell
Now cast by unearthly creatures
Every one with ghastly features
So dream on and you will never see
Strange beasts that are not meant to be
Copyright Chris Smith 2014
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