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"asylum" poems
You're watching, judging, and assuming You don't understand why I do what I do.  Why I obsess over little things. So stop trying to The world is my oyster But without the beautiful pearl Just a plain old shell, in a plain old world It's a shame you'll never know the brilliance All you're capable to understand is the madness. Insane, sane Heart, or brain Ferocious , tame Take two breaths and stop breathing all together. Turn your self to useless energy, forever. Welcome to mind of the mad. The queen of the asylum A dapper old castle in the brain of a girl. Who is tortured yet pampered in her own little world.
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Jul 24, 2012
Jul 24, 2012 at 2:00 AM UTC
Mind of the Mad
I saw the Maori Jesus Walking on Wellington Harbour. He wore blue dungarees, His beard and hair were long. His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. When he broke wind the little fishes trembled. When he frowned the ground shook. When he laughed everybody got drunk. The Maori Jesus came on shore And picked out his twelve disciples. One cleaned toilets in the railway station; His hands were scrubbed red to get the **** out of the pores. One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing. One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill And stuck her TV set in the ******* can. One was a little office clerk Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings. Yes, and there were several others; One was a sad old quean; One was an alcoholic priest Going slowly mad in a respectable parish. The Maori Jesus said, 'Man, From now on the sun will shine.' He did no miracles; He played the guitar sitting on the ground. The first day he was arrested For having no lawful means of support. The second day he was beaten up by the cops For telling a dee his house was not in order. The third day he was charged with being a Maori And given a month in Mt Crawford. The fourth day he was sent to Porirua For telling a ***** the sun would stop rising. The fifth day lasted seven years While he worked in the Asylum laundry Never out of the steam. The sixth day he told the head doctor, 'I am the Light in the Void; I am who I am.' The seventh day he was lobotomised; The brain of God was cut in half. On the eighth day the sun did not rise. It did not rise the day after. God was neither alive nor dead. The darkness of the Void, Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness Sat on the earth from then till now.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 7:53 AM UTC
The Maori Jesus - James K. Baxter
I saw the Maori Jesus Walking on Wellington Harbour. He wore blue dungarees, His beard and hair were long. His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. When he broke wind the little fishes trembled. When he frowned the ground shook. When he laughed everybody got drunk. The Maori Jesus came on shore And picked out his twelve disciples. One cleaned toilets in the railway station; His hands were scrubbed red to get the **** out of the pores. One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing. One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill And stuck her TV set in the ******* can. One was a little office clerk Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings. Yes, and there were several others; One was a sad old quean; One was an alcoholic priest Going slowly mad in a respectable parish. The Maori Jesus said, 'Man, From now on the sun will shine.' He did no miracles; He played the guitar sitting on the ground. The first day he was arrested For having no lawful means of support. The second day he was beaten up by the cops For telling a dee his house was not in order. The third day he was charged with being a Maori And given a month in Mt Crawford. The fourth day he was sent to Porirua For telling a ***** the sun would stop rising. The fifth day lasted seven years While he worked in the Asylum laundry Never out of the steam. The sixth day he told the head doctor, 'I am the Light in the Void; I am who I am.' The seventh day he was lobotomised; The brain of God was cut in half. On the eighth day the sun did not rise. It did not rise the day after. God was neither alive nor dead. The darkness of the Void, Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness Sat on the earth from then till now.
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The night sounds of fallen angels Building stairways back to home And the radio plays softly Like a crooner left alone As the night falls into the velvet shades And beats down the bedroom door Of all the visions that come to me It's of one I'm hoping for The postman closes up the station And the buses get cleaned with rain The asylum rests and barely breathes As the countryside goes insane Prophets speak of peace On the dim hue of TV screens Of all the moments that seem real I still wait to watch my dreams Imposed upon the westward wall Are the silhouettes of weeping oaks Swaying in the wind that talks But they only tell me jokes Swept beneath the silver stars Sleeping on blanket clouds Of all the space above me I feel as if I can't get out Headlights and passing trains Sound like time passing by Gone are the hearts inside Like the years beyond my eyes Sounds from the suburb city Blow like sirens in my mind Of all the thoughts within me Only one freezes time
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 1:20 AM UTC
Only One Of All
Doctor Larch peers out the window, Pulling aside brocaded curtains to hide The grief that he will not show, The rending emptiness he feels inside. As his son Homer rides past the sunset, Not knowing where he goes But aspiring to see the wide world, The ocean at Mount Desert, Seeing wonder in the expanse And worlds inside a circle of glass. He has taken with him his heart, A dark picture of frailty. He finds unexpected work in an orchard, Leisurely harvesting round, garnet jewels. The nomads, dark and wary, Ask him to read about death and stars. There are rules for the workers. And Homer finds that they apply To no one, neither nomads or Curious young men. He sees in the errant father The reflection of his own, The man who made him good. “You are my work of art” He wrote. Like an artist with his painting, Who resists giving it away, So Doctor Larch holds on to him Hoping his adolescence ends And he returns. Finding peace at the last. The lack of rules bring about a sea change, Allowing forbidden love and pain. He ventures out once more into the vacuum Of conscience set free, He devises his own rules about the womb And how to help those in agony But eventually… With all the rules now open, There is nothing left for him to do. So he boards the migrant truck Just as the pilot returns, broken. He watches the struggle with a wheelchair Sees his lover watch him with her yellow hair Knows her future, years of sacrifice. And he admits at last That he has a purpose, The train to St. Cloud huffs slowly away, With Homer standing in the wet snow. There is the old asylum, The orphanage and home on the hill, Almost black, with the sunset behind, Homer begins the long climb. He approaches slowly. But then, a burst of laughter And children from the door Flock around him, dancing, shrieking, Some holding him like an errant dog, Who must be told to stay. “Will you stay?” they ask. “I think so,” he smiles in irony. He is home at the last.
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 10:58 AM UTC
Leaving St. Cloud
Doctor Larch peers out the window, Pulling aside brocaded curtains to hide The grief that he will not show, The rending emptiness he feels inside. As his son Homer rides past the sunset, Not knowing where he goes But aspiring to see the wide world, The ocean at Mount Desert, Seeing wonder in the expanse And worlds inside a circle of glass. He has taken with him his heart, A dark picture of frailty. He finds unexpected work in an orchard, Leisurely harvesting round, garnet jewels. The nomads, dark and wary, Ask him to read about death and stars. There are rules for the workers. And Homer finds that they apply To no one, neither nomads or Curious young men. He sees in the errant father The reflection of his own, The man who made him good. “You are my work of art” He wrote. Like an artist with his painting, Who resists giving it away, So Doctor Larch holds on to him Hoping his adolescence ends And he returns. Finding peace at the last. The lack of rules bring about a sea change, Allowing forbidden love and pain. He ventures out once more into the vacuum Of conscience set free, He devises his own rules about the womb And how to help those in agony But eventually… With all the rules now open, There is nothing left for him to do. So he boards the migrant truck Just as the pilot returns, broken. He watches the struggle with a wheelchair Sees his lover watch him with her yellow hair Knows her future, years of sacrifice. And he admits at last That he has a purpose, The train to St. Cloud huffs slowly away, With Homer standing in the wet snow. There is the old asylum, The orphanage and home on the hill, Almost black, with the sunset behind, Homer begins the long climb. He approaches slowly. But then, a burst of laughter And children from the door Flock around him, dancing, shrieking, Some holding him like an errant dog, Who must be told to stay. “Will you stay?” they ask. “I think so,” he smiles in irony. He is home at the last.
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Darling, who ever told you that home is made out of bricks? Home is whenever your heart feel at ease and be at peace Home is whenever you go to places and in love with the streets Home is whenever you listen to the music and jam to its rhythm This two-story building made out of bricks, is a place that shouldn't be burden off your shoulders is a place that should you reminisce in joy instead of grief is a place that should be a sanctuary rather than asylum Darling, who ever told you that home is made out of bricks? Home is whose eyes were jet black with a heartbeat Home is whose smirks feel like summer in winter days Home is whose touch melts away even the toughest iceberg "Well", you said, "this two-story building made out of bricks, is a place where I hear more yelling than laughter is a place where my dreams died and buried deep is a place where I used to shamelessly call as home
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 1:22 PM UTC
House of Broken Dreams
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind, in the commonplaces of the asylum where the cracked mirror or my own selfish death outstared me . . . I tapped my own head; it was glass, an inverted bowl. It's small thing to rage inside your own bowl. At first it was private. Then it was more than myself.
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More Than Myself
similarly, only the minds of extreme curiosity would want to explore the abandoned rusty and insane heart
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 10:32 AM UTC
abandoned asylum
They follow me every where I go I wish they would stop It unnerving Like having a stalker One that you know will never leave You can't report it You would be sent to the Insane Asylum So I have a question Will you come with me?
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Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 9:31 PM UTC
Shadows
"So what's it like slick," she asks, "living your life in an asylum?" And I sthay, "I dunno Missusth." But sthill I wonder if the sthraightjackets fit tightly there, why I might like little white pillsth, electric-shock treatmentsth, & sthcrewdriver-lobotomiesth. So hey you Missusth, I know thisth ain't working out here any more & yet I, I continue to sthare at the ceiling, watch the fan sthpinning, listening to melancholy voicesth whisthpering from sthingle blades of grassth. They ask me thingsth about my crazinessth too, as if I sthupposed to know anything here on the insthide looking out with the door closthed. That means sthut lady, with an aposthrophe-s, 'sth.
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 10:05 PM UTC
I Speak With A Lithium Lisp Missusth
Extravagantly exorbitant mentality panacea Pretentious eidetic’s ubiquity mnemonics Extraversion embezzlement extortion mens rea Endergonic laconic cacophony phonics Preterite rendition enclitic equilibrist motion Mystic symbiosis dharma spiritual sky Brusque macabre abjections the gist of the potion Straight up forever ontology on high Obdurately abstruse vituperatively vociferous Juxtaposition apparition myriad avarice Orotund sonorous diction obliquitous Multifariously versatile nefarious nemesis Mirador bartizan phantasmagoria aesthetics Guidon gyration excursion integration Sorcerous alchemizing interstitial endemics   Chaos charisma objectified tribulation Conjurous apothegms clitoral apomixis Exude emote surrogate extrapolation Astral projection littoral hypotaxis Kinetic supremacy homogeneity gravitation Coercible coalescent cohesion dexterities Adjunct conjunction conjecture acuity Platonic pragmatic prosaic austerities Extemporaneous impromptu innuendo fortuity Propinquity habitation harbinger spectra Perplexing paradox tenacity rostra Intensely cogitational abstract mantra Penumbral exigency , umbrage per contra Theoretical incursion grandiloquent ne plus ultra Exogamy of homoplasy sic itur ad astra Quiescent serendipity surreal anestra
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 6:16 AM UTC
Asylum
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 7:44 AM UTC
PEARL 'TRINITY ERRANDS
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume. Strait in the mazed bed She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room, At large as the dead, Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards. She has come possessed Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall, Possessed by the skies She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust Yet raves at her will On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears. And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last I may without fail Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.
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Love In The Asylum
Sing me a berceuse, Sweet melody abound, In your astral glow of your effusive vignette, Play with your celesta sweet beguiling with evocative speak Turn with your astral glow abound with pungent, redolent snow and gaze at the symphony before you Sing in sweet felicity Joy you bring, Serendipity, Asylum you bring, None shall come, but the brave warriors who knock and question.
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Apr 29, 2011
Apr 29, 2011 at 2:11 AM UTC
Bravery
Baby did you know you're driving me wild? Lunatic style. Think insane asylum.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 12:47 AM UTC
Love-Induced Psychosis
Gemini, oh Gemini, Build your bridge of trust, Inlay the stones carefully And I'll tear it down in lust Gemini, sweet Gemini, Set your fence up straight, Smile at your progress, While I burn it down irate Gemini, dear Gemini, Paint your dreams with bliss, Beg me for asylum, Scratch out of my abyss Gemini, my Gemini, Let's not skid too far, Paradoxical dependence, I still am who you are
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Sep 8, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 at 9:18 PM UTC
Gemini
Standing on the tiptoe of my universe I found I had Nothing but love to offer While the nature of Anonymous cruel indifference Can seem unnameably cold I admired the ability of it To make us feel free Insolent as my fate had been Greener than the word May The mast of these afternoons Only beggared for moderation And that enraptured simplicity From which I came That was enough, and so were The rest of the years that I was given at the asylum of the eucalypti I would rest, and it would be Wondrous and christening Like a white sunset.
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 9:43 PM UTC
The White Sunset
Oh they pleaded, women, men young and old, 'let us pass through that sea' to a place where we could start all over', yet their voices fall into deaf ears of their brothers and sisters from another mother land, hopeless they remain drifted in the treacherous sea feeling unwanted, unloved forever rejected, by the policies of the modern migration... the unworthy sea-going boat, becomes their coffin and the sea and the seafloor become their graveyards, the common fate of boat people - the asylum seekers.
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 1:44 AM UTC
Boat People
The voices in my head are extremely loud. I feel so insane because I can hardly make a sound. Thoughts of being crazy, possibly headed to the asylum now. These voices won't shut up. I get stuck up. I go from 0 to 100, it gets ****** up. Not purposely. I may be bipolar but I could care less, you see. Its up to me to control my mind. But if you think it's that easy, you've been wasting time. Thinking you're perfect? Thinking psychology ain't worth it? I lucked out, timed out, and found out... We all need help!
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 6:31 PM UTC
Psychology
1. Spread claims you are the only one who can stop corrupt politicians and their dependence on the rich (even though you yourself belong to the rich) 2. Spread lies and insults about anyone who might look like a serious opponent 3. Once you are in power, continue 1. & 2. and put your rich friends into influential positions in state offices and courts, give tax breaks to the rich and claim that everyone benefits from them. Declare any information that runs counter to your lies „fake news“. 4. Invent threats to the security and well-being of the nation and then claim you are the one who can solve all the problems by strict measures, like building a 2,000 mile wall against those criminal immigrants that threaten your people – what the „fake news“ reports as a few thousand refugees from neighboring countries who flee from misery and persecution and crime and hope to get asylum in your country of 350 million. 5. Cut your aid programs for the home countries of those resfugees so that the situation there worsens even more and even more people will try to run for a better life, and you can rhetorically justify inhuman security measures at your borders. 6. On a different field, isolate your country internationally, be the elefant in the china shop, break or end international agreements, destabilize whole regions, and then threaten to send the military – all of which, you tell your voters, makes your country great again. 7. Start trade wars with old global partners, accusing them of taking advantage of your countrty, and when your own economy suffers from such idiocies, calm your afflicted followers with federal subsidies that jolt the nationl deficit to singular heights. 8. Fire (or mob into retirement) any critical person in your government until all your officials speak with your voice. 9. Look around for a worthy cause to be the focus of your consoldidated power. 10. Start a world war and lose it.
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Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019 at 5:21 PM UTC
power games101
1. Spread claims you are the only one who can stop corrupt politicians and their dependence on the rich (even though you yourself belong to the rich) 2. Spread lies and insults about anyone who might look like a serious opponent 3. Once you are in power, continue 1. & 2. and put your rich friends into influential positions in state offices and courts, give tax breaks to the rich and claim that everyone benefits from them. Declare any information that runs counter to your lies „fake news“. 4. Invent threats to the security and well-being of the nation and then claim you are the one who can solve all the problems by strict measures, like building a 2,000 mile wall against those criminal immigrants that threaten your people – what the „fake news“ reports as a few thousand refugees from neighboring countries who flee from misery and persecution and crime and hope to get asylum in your country of 350 million. 5. Cut your aid programs for the home countries of those resfugees so that the situation there worsens even more and even more people will try to run for a better life, and you can rhetorically justify inhuman security measures at your borders. 6. On a different field, isolate your country internationally, be the elefant in the china shop, break or end international agreements, destabilize whole regions, and then threaten to send the military – all of which, you tell your voters, makes your country great again. 7. Start trade wars with old global partners, accusing them of taking advantage of your countrty, and when your own economy suffers from such idiocies, calm your afflicted followers with federal subsidies that jolt the nationl deficit to singular heights. 8. Fire (or mob into retirement) any critical person in your government until all your officials speak with your voice. 9. Look around for a worthy cause to be the focus of your consoldidated power. 10. Start a world war and lose it.
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An errant search hath brought me here, To the rabble rousers feigning an ear, Complain, complain, yell, scream and jeer, Seems to me it's not your year? Label, bait, point your fingers and blame, Knowing your side has lost the game. No, America just won't be the same, Asylum no longer, -run by the insane.
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Dec 20, 2016
Dec 20, 2016 at 6:28 PM UTC
Media Hates Trump
Fall in love with a writer they say and you will never die (quoted) Fall in love with a writer they say and you will find yourself embodied in words Fall in love with a writer they say and you will find yourself stretched over lines and pages Now, What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their untamed mind becomes an asylum where words smash themselves on the walls of their brains summoning their hands just to let them out What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their addiction to falling in love is amplified and when they love OH THEY LOVE, they get a certain high that numbs their inhibitions to reality and shuns logic to a very far away land they reach a mental state that lifts you to high enough just to see a glimpse of their world just to taste a drop of their potion but not all of it What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their eye ***** birth and harness flames that burn the coldest of hearts and warm the strongest of selves What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their mind soaks up every bit, every breath every call, every cell every touch, every talk just to embroider it in the quilt of thought that's weaving endless stories about you in their mind What if a writer falls in love with you? God have mercy on their soul for their craving becomes dangerously intensified, wrapping itself to their muses, giving them the sole purpose of existing For the more they love the more stories they write and more they feel the longer they live
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 6:29 AM UTC
What if a Writer Falls in Love with You?
Fall in love with a writer they say and you will never die (quoted) Fall in love with a writer they say and you will find yourself embodied in words Fall in love with a writer they say and you will find yourself stretched over lines and pages Now, What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their untamed mind becomes an asylum where words smash themselves on the walls of their brains summoning their hands just to let them out What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their addiction to falling in love is amplified and when they love OH THEY LOVE, they get a certain high that numbs their inhibitions to reality and shuns logic to a very far away land they reach a mental state that lifts you to high enough just to see a glimpse of their world just to taste a drop of their potion but not all of it What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their eye ***** birth and harness flames that burn the coldest of hearts and warm the strongest of selves What if a writer falls in love with you? What happens is that their mind soaks up every bit, every breath every call, every cell every touch, every talk just to embroider it in the quilt of thought that's weaving endless stories about you in their mind What if a writer falls in love with you? God have mercy on their soul for their craving becomes dangerously intensified, wrapping itself to their muses, giving them the sole purpose of existing For the more they love the more stories they write and more they feel the longer they live
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