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360 · Jul 2017
Mellon!
Roxanne Jul 2017
Reality dims, dreams fade away,
A hungry nightmare howls,
As the heart turns gray.

On  a mournful sea of so many souls,
Yer tune rises up,
To sneak into my shadows.

And it dances, it jumps,
it twirls and it wiggles.
It makes a new path
Out of most of my niggles.

Looks like I can’t find
any more rhymes,
I just thank you, my friend,
For all of yer time.
"Mellon" is the word for "friend" in "The Lord of the Rings" saga by Tolkien. I just felt like quoting it.
Roxanne Mar 2022
And each day, each hour and each eternity
What’s all around me I learn to cherish.
My dreams and thoughts, my ever-present taciturnity,
They’re still with me – a curse promising perish?

I’ll judge the soul, I’ll ask the culprit,
through you I’ve known myself, so I’ll ask the poet.

And my loving hope, as high as a cloud-touching melody,  
And my wicked courage, as deep as the abyss it chains me to,
my duality doubting fibers of outer and inner world incessantly –
They’ve never left me – so I lost you.

As affections crystallize, a poet’s soul – no, it’s my soul I’ll judge,
From journeys I keep learning but ends come with such a price.

Restart.

— The End —