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Torin Oct 2016
I woke up to all the symbols losing meaning
The changing lights are changed
The moon can hang low enough to reach
What can be seen
Only when we close our eyes

I have to live
Even if the lines are changing
And the scene is not the same it used to be
I have to love
I give my blood without bleeding

Take in time
A particle
A memory
The way the waves
The way the sun

I woke up to a different dream
Where the kiss of heaven brought me blue
And my life spent staring at the stars
Was all in vain
When I was only becoming

I have to live
Find god through self discovery
As the stars that hang bright over me
Hang somberly
In a different place in the sky

If the world is changing
So can I
Torin Sep 2016
I could never write a poem as beautiful as you are to me
Nothing man-made
Nothing in nature
Nothing can ever be

And if the universe should have an end
Maybe I'll find you there
I'm too numb to feel this pain
I'm too young to feel this hopeless

So I sit with my back to the wall and my head in my hands
Knowing about nightfall
Thunderstorms
And black holes
I could never write a happy ending
Torin Sep 2016
There is no truth
As the numbers all add up
The sky is it's own reward
I cannot hear the voices telling me
And I never could believe

The air is bitter
But the breath is sweet
And the sun may rise for me to find
I cannot dream the way I want
I can never fall asleep

There is no truth
Only me
And you are

There is no truth
And there could never be
Torin Sep 2016
Looking at every end
The sky as a broken jewel
Hanging jaws open
That I don't know
I know so well
Stranger in a prison cell
Floating on a drill
My eyes become black
Looking at every end

Left

Looking at all directions
The streets as a battlefield
The soldiers soul
The losing fight
I know so well
Blood becomes a strength to men
Justice is our god
And our beating hearts
Looking at all directions

Left

We lose life
To find
Humanity
We see wrongs and fight against
We stand together
For what we know is right
Its really all that is

Left
Charlotte protest.  Keith Lamont Scott.  I have more to say, I just have to find a way
Torin Sep 2016
I remember
                         when
                                                              we      
                                                                      were friends
                                                  you      we                                                                                
                                                                        re my friend
Alpha
Meets
Beta

And I put myself in fire            you
As you hid yourself away                 re
I pit myself against the demons        
                                                                     present
                                                                                          ly

You can be
But I will be
PRESENT
to find any corner of darkness
With light
As hard as it is to understand, there is meaning
Torin Sep 2016
We act like it's our life
Everyday
We become less human everyday

We know what we're taught

We act like it's our life
And empty hands and empty ends
And empty goals
And emptiness

We hear what we're told

We act like it's our love
Everyday
We become less human everyday

We do as we must

We act like it's our life
And empty coffers and empty safes
And empty pockets
And emptiness

We act like it's our truth
Everyday
We become less human everyday

And if you could never die for it
You would never live
Torin Sep 2016
It's the coast of a sea from where she is
From where in her eyes I'm a sinking ship
Being held hostage by an ending ocean
The albatross flies lowly
In her eyelids
As witness of my stormy demise

It's the edge of the world where she is
Where she wonders at broken walls
As bitter boarders and lines on her palm
The blood that forms a nation
In her lonely mind
As empty cities and broken hearts

It's night and day from where she is
From where in her dreams the day ends slowly
The sun hangs lowly casting shadows
And the only moon in view
Whispers haunting reminders about when the day was new
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