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When the trees jail the starlight in its silhouette
The spectral beings poisoned by fear
Relinquish their daggers
The moon lands a spell upon the spectators

They cry havoc
Stealing glances from the dark ravens
Casting a curse of their own on the souls
As the light peers in

They twist the trees till they tremble in fear
Soon the soothsayer will walk among us
Broken shards of armor across its body of ice
Through the depths of the dark

The war between night and day
It emerges and soon dies
I'm afraid
Why haven't you drowned me yet?
Sometimes, very rarely,
if you are lucky,
you might meet someone
out of nowhere—
who teaches you
to smile,
even when your heart
is heavy with pain
and your eyes
are filled with tears.
Far far away from you

in some corner of the universe

somewhere in the unknown —

is there any place

I can call home?

A place of peace and quiet,  

where happiness also lives.
delphinium migrant blue,
and into night
we follow,
toward the residue
of morning,
where there's no time
limit to grief.

you wake with
electric intervals,
something's wrong
with yesterday,
in your head are
galaxies like grains of salt,
and they fill up the sky.

these red metallic balloons,
that come to you
when you are ripped open,
whether it’s by pain
and heartache
or you’re falling in love,
these you can’t close
yourself off to.

but what you actually want
is to bypass them,
and try to reach that
dawn serenade,
which is floating
above them,
as if golden electric ribbons
which don’t
demand repayment.
 Aug 23 Chuck Kean
eliana
I always wonder
What it would feel like to be in your shoes.
To be just like you.

The way you tie up your hair, act like you don't have a care
in the world.

Oh to be just  like  you.

The way you light up everyones face, the moment you walk in the room.
Oh thank God, the day's not doomed.
No, not anymore.
All because
Of you.
theres a person in everyones lives that is thought to be so perfect, like a princess made out of a movie.
i haven't been myself
for quite some time -
different versions,
lingering as long
as appropriate
(or long overstaying
their welcome),
shuffling from one
skin to the next,
one pain
to the next -

we redress,
nurse the wounds
(we've gotten
good at this),
a facsimile
of a person
until i find the real one  

but being a person
at all
these days
is like repeating the same
song, the same wave,
the same splotch of starry sky
through the kaleidoscope
of every open eye
bleeding together
into hazy nothingness
and everythingness

it's been silent ever since
and i'm not sure
i'd recognize self
anymore than she'd
recognize me
one and the same

but only by name.
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