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Torin Mar 2016
I
For one
Can't understand
How anyone could suffer from writers block

The world is way to much
To not always have something to say about it
From love
To politics
Its everything

And its everything in you
Torin Apr 2016
Ticking clocks
And marching ants
Alligator skin
Crocodile tears
And wings of angels
Different angles
Many alleys
All my allies
Lay down their arms
At my command

If only forever
Satin skin and living pleasure
These words you speak
Intonations said by me
If I find a way

Lost hours
My way in days
Turtle dove
Carrier pigeon
Battleship
And submarines
Submereged in color
Aquamarine
Sight unseen
Is my belief

And if only light will shine
Bright enough to make me blind
I'll find my way by feeling

I feel you
You are the language written on my soul
Torin Feb 2016
The flying cloud
Needs cold wind to produce rain
The masculine needs the feminine
To give birth
Everything in its way
Everything in its right place

Persistence bears the fruit
Torin Dec 2015
Wanting love,
His hands are holding on
His hands are not free
His fingers ache and strain
Looking for something
That is not there
He learns that letting go
Is the right thing to do

He's clothed in yellow

The sun
The golden mean
The sand he built his house on
Yellow
Torin Nov 2015
You want to know
What will make me happy
You want to know what will make me happy?

All or nothing
No more of this holding on
I can't take the indesicion
Are you my home?

Or should I move on?
Torin Feb 2016
Is there anything in the universe
That is completely absolute?
Or is everything changing all the time?

Yesterday you said you loved me
I feel it is profound
Torin Nov 2015
I couldn't see you
And not know who you are
Torin Feb 2016
Beautiful
Flowing
Elegant
Peaceful
Tranquil
Loving
Changing
Tepid­
Stagnant
Habitual
Apathetic
Indifferent
Changing
Turbulent
Unsta­ble
Tumultuous
Tempestuous
Chaotic
Changing
Raging
Angry
Hateful
Hurtful
Painful
Torin May 2016
You are a dream to me
My skin at times I feel so weak
Like any rubied barb from natures many wildly growing plants
Could cut me deep
Then I bleed
My heart
Still trapped inside my chest
My heartbeat loses its rhythm
Like every wasted palpitation could never make you dance
A heart attack
Then I die
My love
My love saves me now from darkness
Like any destructive demon has angels fighting against
These unseen hands
Guide me home
To you

To you the skin I give
What you've become to me alone
Like a reason to feel pleasure in a world completely numb
Sweet joyous dream
Hopeful home
My peace
Written in invented meter. Thought in action.

6
8
15
4
3
2

Each third line a simile, each first line playing of the end of the last stanza
Torin Jun 2016
I want to kiss your wind
The real you existing before the beginning
Before the body begins
And the beauty is your soul
Not your infinite eyes
Not your silken skin

I've seen your waterfall
I've heard you as a river flowing off an edge
Before any ocean
And no hands can hold such depth
Not the rising tides
Nor the raging waves

Your voice is a delicate breeze
On a newly formed planet
Your heart is a star being born
Your dreams are a star being formed
You were words before sound
You were love alive in tiny atoms
You are music
You are a major scale

I want to kiss your notes
The composition of a cosmic truth
Your stars are instruments
Playing melodious tunes
A glorious truth
A song from heaven
I wrote it while I sang it
Torin Mar 2016
I went back to the place
Where I can go back in time
To where you were before
But your not there anymore
My diving board
I found the deep end
I swam with you
And my demons

I replayed the words
Over again in my mind
For the millionth time
And found new meaning
My Sig Sauer
I found the bullet
It was my finger on the trigger
It was you who took the shot

You are my gun
To blow my brains out
These thoughts are bullets
And my babies loaded

I'm thinking about forever
As I'm staring down the barrel
Torin Nov 2015
You are my gun
To blow my brains out
And I've got the bullets
My babies loaded
And I'm thinking of forever
As I'm staring down the barrel

You are my drug
The only one I'm needing
And I've got the itch
For your love I'm feinding
And I'm thinking of the way I feel
Whenever I'm high on you
Torin Apr 2016
Why should the sea feel lonely
There is life beneath the waves
Life inside the waves
And music is the waves reaching the shore
Why should the sky feel lonely
When the clouds embrace
And the stars can always play
With the moon as it is hanging
Why should she feel lonely
When there is love in what she hears
Arms that long to hold
And I wait for her wherever she is
Torin May 2016
He posits a question
I sit
I postulate
Morning suns are sparks on cinder
In my eyes
Evening suns are dying embers
In my eyes
The sun that lives over me
And the hidden face of the moon
That lives in me
And all manner of day and night
That becomes me
A living ghost
A dying host
A warrior
A coward
An old soul
A young man
He asks a simple question
But there is no simple answer
Torin Jan 2016
you
have caused
me more grief
in this one life I live
than anyone else I have
ever known

That's how I know
I love you
And the pain let's me know
That I'm alive
And even if it hurts
I'm glad I knew you
Thanks Alexandra O'Brien
Torin May 2016
I'll save the world
To save you
I'll crusade
Fight a holy war
I'll fall in the name of God
Just so you can rise
I'll reach the world
To reach you
I'll touch every heart
And all the skin
My fingers growing numb
Just so you can feel

I'll shout louder than all other voices

I'll change the world
To show you
There can be demons
But they must battle angels
I'll die in this world
Just so you can live
I'll set fire to the world
To start a flame in your heart
I'll burn intensely
Hotter than the sun
I'll suffer the fires of hell
Just so you can know heaven
Torin Apr 2016
I don't want to judge you
Only love you
I want for you to feel comfortable
Divulging deepest fears
Darkest secrets
The pain filled past you still hold onto
            How can you let it go
            When it's a part of you?
            How can I love you
            If I can't accept you for your scars?

I don't want to hurt you
Just be a comfort
Because everything you're going through
Is **** I had to go through too

And I know
When your blind
Living in silence
Hoping the next step
Is the right one
Not a step right of a cliff
Free falling to a death
And I know

If you have a hand to hold
A loving soul to guide you
It's much easier to find
The place you really want to be

I don't want to judge you

Only love you
Torin Apr 2016
You dance
Without moving your feet
You move effortlessly
Through my mind
And I want nothing more
Than you dance with me

Its all it always was
We can never change
We can only become

You dance
While your body stays still
Moving gracefully
Through my mind
And I want nothing more
Than to dance with you

And it will always be
We can only change
We can only become

Its all your mind
Your deepening words
Your unending truth
Its all you
And me
Everything I want to be

And its always a dream
Torin May 2016
I watched the bandits come to steal my sky
Black mask and black eyes
Black shapes spreading night
They stole the silver lining of the clouds
They took the sun and took the moon
Absconded with the stars I wish on
Held in their cruel gloved hands
All of my dreams

I swam with sharks to save you from drowning
Hungry and hateful
Sharp teeth driven by instinct
They smelled my blood in the water
Could feel my hearts broken beating
Madly longing for meat
A feeding frenzy
My flesh a feast

I died in a war to live with you
Young and hopeful
Bullets smile as they cut me down
Bombs falling as rain I try to dance in
I feel explosions in my heart
tanks and armies marching
I see enemy lines
And battles lost
Torin Jun 2016
I feel alive in your eyes
I see a sun on the rise
Take me away but don't take it all
Bringing me now to a breaking point
I'll steal the thunder from the skies

I feel a drum I'm your heart
I see the light of a star
Burning me whole and giving me hope
Killing me slow and shining as skin
I see the beauty of your scars

I watch you fall so far
Fall now
Into my arms
Fall now
Into me

I feel the reach of your mind
A mountain I want to climb
I'm on top touching the heaven you hold
Giving my hands to every inch of this dream
My foot steps right on the line

I feel the floor of your pain
I cry angels to call your name
Oceans and skies are miles between
Constellations becoming our fate
And our love is golden wings

You could fly
You could tear apart a seraphs sigh
Confirm belief
Its only beautiful falling

I watch you fall so hard
Fall now
Into my arms
Fall now
Into me
Torin May 2016
I know what I say
Resonates
It bounces around the coffers of your mind
And confers a great peace upon your soul
I know what I say
You hear it
I just want to say something beautiful
I'll just say I don't want to let you down

Simple in the complicated
Reverberates
And dances as an image in your heart
Living in your veins a light in darkness
I know what I say
You hear it
I only want to say something beautiful
I'll just say that I love you

More today than I knew I could yesterday
More tomorrow than I can even imagine
You hear it
And that means everything
You feel it
And that means even more
Torin Apr 2016
You think someone had to find you
Wrapped tight in your fear and worry
You were waiting on someone to find you
When you found me
I wasn't looking
Only at ends and oblivion
But you came out from your pain
When you found me
And all the love you gave me
Was the only thing to save me
You feel like someone had to find you
When you found me

I'll be forever grateful
And I know you will be too
Because when you found me
I found you
Torin Nov 2015
You'll never see
If you don't look
You'll never know
Unless you learn
You'll never love
If you don't open up your heart
You'll never change
Unless you know you need too
Torin May 2016
How am I meant to be alive
In a world that's dying?
Even the colors of the clouds are a darker tinge of gray
And my soul only sees the end
How am I meant to be alive?
I see cataclysm and devastation
A world of art falling into the depths of disbelief
And my eyes that see the end
See you

The joy of a morning

Your beauty is all the proof I need to believe in god
The way you reach me as only angels can
And even if I die time and time again
Every time I see your mind
I live again

Even stronger than before
My poetry is meant to go above the heads of the unenlightened. I'm doing a well enough job I guess
Torin Feb 2016
May be young
But my minds set on
Where I want to be
Hard to know
As the day grows old
The way its going to be

Can you feel just like I do
Be something to help me through
Someone who is always true
And I'll give my all to you

May be young
But older in soul
And I know all that I should
Like the music
That came before
And is timeless when you hear
Torin Feb 2016
Imagery
Symbolism
Some of us have never heard of meter
Imagine this
A day and age
When poetical expression became base

I have feelings
And so do you
In a quick temperamental flame
Writing it down
Can never mean
That it is poetry

So avoid it
Or destroy it
Calculated words to fit the verse
Instead just say
Or just complain
Denying the works of great masters


I matter
Shouldn't you
Our voice becoming clouds to cover out the sun
Torin Dec 2015
Maybe you don't realize
That your killing me
All you've done
All your actions
Pollute the air
Poison the water

Maybe you simply can't understand
That your killing me
All your lies
That I believed
Pollute the air
Poison the water

And maybe you think its for the best
That your killing me
You want nothing more
And all you try for
Pollute the air
Poison the water

And I know the ultimate end
Is you killing me
Maybe your selfish
Maybe your greedy
Pollute the air
Poison the water
Torin Apr 2016
I aspire
To nothing higher
Than to bring light into your world
A fire
Out of control
That keeps you warm

I want to be your favorite song
Because you know that I was written for you

I become
Not a strum from some guitar
But chords in your mind I play with
Sweet music
I cannot help but create
To let you know that you are loved

I want you to be my biggest fan
Because it matters if you sing along
Torin May 2016
The stars scream your name in my eyes




Coming to me as constellations
A light in darkness I never knew
The night sky is empty without them
And my life is empty without you

I love the stars as a part of forever
Something greater than the life I know
The hungry night that eats all light
But still I can watch them glow

And when I don't want to hear
The stars scream your name in my eyes
So that all that I feel is confirmed
By points of light painting the skies

The stars whisper as daylight sets in
They speak your name on my tongue
And even on full moon nights
Its a new day that has begun

The stars scream your name in my eyes
And shine deeply into my soul
A more beautiful sight was never seen
There is nothing more I need to know

The stars......
Your name
Now very drunk. Saturday night biotchez!!!!

***
Torin Mar 2016
I wrote a poem
About a poem you wrote
And when you awoke
You were glad
Not only did someone else understand
But someone took the time
To make your thoughts
Be magical
Mystical
Special
Real
In the most ephemeral way
They made it last forever
In your heart

I like your poem
I hope you like mine
Torin Feb 2016
I only know
The things you said to me
And the way you acted
And if you have forgotten
Than I suppose I know your truth
Even better than you do

Well brace yourself
Because the truth I'm about to say
Will make you feel upset
And be angry with me

But your truth is
You know what is right
And your to afraid to admit it
Because that would mean you've been wrong
The truth is
You're making big mistakes
And your only going to see
When its too late
Torin May 2016
The world wasn't made for lovers
It was made for those
Who smile in your face
And then stab you in the back
I don't see the satisfaction you get
From watching me bleed
You smile in my face
As my blood drips from your knife
Do you live to watch me die?
Is your hand so wicked
That you offer it to me
with hateful intentions?

You smile in my face
While you're killing me
You look into my eyes
Just to make sure the life is leaving them
Torin May 2016
My feet may only move forward
I am a savage in the gardens of Babylon
Teaching love to all unbelievers
And castigated as a lunatic soul
I preach of dreams in living nightmare
Introduce color in a world that's only black and white
I eat your pain
As I paint rainbows on your soul
And if I save you
I save the world
And when you touch me
You touch my soul
Maybe its the only thing I've ever felt

You touch me
As I touch you
Torin May 2016
O! That you know me so well!
The story my shadows tell
A death knell
A dead one
In the light of the the your night-falling words
What manner corpend?
That you would portend
The growing clouds
The viscious wind
The vacuous void
The abysmal end

As you wish
         To draw my ire
My flames of burning desire
Engulfing as fire
I shall surely make you feel your bones as ash

Make me now an eater of soul!
My carefully concocted creations
Aiming squarely as arrow in bow
Being drawn as a portrait of your mechanations
Your confusion
Your naiveté
Your goals
All meaningless
             All your nothingness
                       All your dreams to be as I am
You have assaulted my art loving ears
With pure dribble
Tripe and dreck
Trite and dretch
A sketch by an amateur artist
Back-handed and drawing with the left

Make me now an eater of soul!
A hand touching darkness
Grabbing it neatly
And delivering it as it is
To you
On a silver platter
These jaws of a lover
Growing fangs
As you want
Becoming the jaws of hell
Eater of soul

O! That you know me so well!
Based on a series of private messages, from one who wishes to belittle my work. Claiming I write not from the soul. Just a glimpse of the vitriol

INDEED I CAN

Enough layers????  Or maybe too many???
Torin May 2016
You
Young man
With your hat pulled down
And your head spun around
Don't you hear the sirens in the night?
You
Young man
With your T-shirt on
And your heart beating strong
Can't you hear the sirens in your mind?
You
Young man
With your sneakers tied tight
Still they sock you alright
Do you know its only siren's song?

You
Young man
This world through which you walk
This hope for happiness
Dont let these sirens make you drown

Don't let the life you're forced to live
Bring you
Down

**These sirens don't sing louder than your soul
Notes:
Words per line
1
2
6
6
8

Sirens changing to siren's
Items young men wear

A little bit of rhyme.
Torin May 2016
This drum set is almost complete
This rhythm
This backbone
This beat
Where are you now Keith Moon?
Where are you when we need you?

These cymbals speak to me so deeply
This music
This note
This history
Come back Nick Mason
Play the drums for me
A warm up

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