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 Jun 2017 Vikshipta
欣快
let's write a song together, lyrics like, "you don't love me no more
see you walk out the door, wondering why it took you so long
your cuteass in tight jeans, a curse and a blessing to watch you leave"
got an upright piano in the corner that's sort of been neglected
and it plays every other C out of tune, but we can't afford a tuner
to come by and nor can we buy new strings for a guitar

we get up, we fall down, we find love, and we crash all the way
and heaven help us, now that we're separate and on our own
love the route it takes us to a melancholy mood that's so particular
and so comfortable to be wrapped up in an ocean of blankets
under a crepuscular night~ play that song all night and have it repeat
when you're at work and it'll burn itself in the background forever
 Jun 2017 Vikshipta
Poetic T
Indulging on the strands of
my reflection regurgitated
in the likeness of your
                                hollowness.

I slumber like the dead.

Awoken my petals rejuvenated,
then you pick them singularly
corroding my strength to a
                                              stem.

I slumber like the dead.

My wings open as you pluck
my flight of freedom, grounding
me to the realization I'm
                                           forsaken.

I slumber like the dead,
but I'm always reborn.

My demons try to pick
apart my inner beauty.

My demons try to suffocate
my outward reflection of self.

But as long as I slumber, I rise
like a new sunrise. I may set,
but each days anew, and I will
never slumber to my demons.
 Jun 2017 Vikshipta
Ryan Holden
I walk listening to music
Inside my own tranquility,
Searching these lonely
Yet full streets,
Like a ghost town
For the sociable,
Attention is directed
Toward phone screens,
So we talk about the unspeakable
Silence at an awkward occasion.

We try filling the gaps that we lost,
The cracks that had been opened,
We seclude our souls in this
Marvellous giving world,
We reach for arms but
Can never seem to grab them,
We beg for help but can't seem
To give our own emptiness.

For all could be filling our gaps
Like we need to be fixed,
The falling trees and lives
Match those of sticks and stone,
Sticks resemble our innocence
Whilst stone indicate our hard
Relentless ways to hurt one another.

But I continue to stay in my own
Tranquil world of loneliness,
Because I've grown accustomed
To the curtains I can draw
So easily shut,
I've grown accustomed
To accepting that we will never
Be caring souls anymore.
Modern society.
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