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Ottis Blades Nov 2012
Once upon a time in an alternate universe not too long ago
I met the cheekiest babe from the other side of the world.
She went by Smurfette, she loved to call me Papa Smurf
and Vanity wasn’t gay, the ******* just loved himself too much.

She always sat by the window, detoxicating herself of verses
cranking out a few lyrics, scoping the city in the trenches.
Of the love we waged never wavering and waving a white flag
“I’m gonna put you to bed” were all our wars went to die.

But I was more than alive, inside the land from down under
called her Daphne the Nymph, the voluptuous Greek Goddess.
Wanted to raise little Koalas together in our Kangaroo farm
in every kiss we traded souls, in every breath we lost our lives.

And we gained them again back when the Jitneys were blue
our sweat-drenched bodies overtaken by some strange voodoo.
Every ship we embarked on was lost in the Atlantic without return
James Bean captained our vessel, holding it together with crazy glue.

In New York City locked lips inside a phone booth, it was euphoria
she was already born a Queen since she hailed from Astoria.
Our Bohemian Rhapsody blended like Cheech & Chong on a ******
her pouty lips, ****** smile, five years later how can I forget her?

Her voice, beautiful sparrow, vocal chords stone carved like no other
and yet normally speaking she sounded like the Crocodile Hunter
Soaked the landscape of her essence, remembrance without a beat
the song she wrote about us, plays in my heart eternally on repeat.
Me Jun 2020
It's hard to expect
people to treat you
Kindly and act
peacefully if
they themselves want it
so much but never
knew how
in the first place

It's hard to see at first
that Your role
is not
to receive from them
but to
give-
if you choose-
'cause you can
Next time I 'll just say I feel disrespected and don't leave.
wanderlost Feb 2021
He was hurt. Shaking from the cold. He felt like there were knives  in his chest. Deep carved wounds. He stood beneath looking up at these crystal clear icicles, that caused him so much pain. He knew what they would do to him, but didn’t move. Breaking off the other end, they would fall down on him. Released in slow motion. Turning into sharp arrows shot off by a drawn bow.
But he stayed.
After a blink of an eye they would hit him. Right in his heart. Through his skin. Splitting muscles and arteries, making their way to the soul. They carried a poison that spread across his body. Aching so immensely that he couldn't move. He was just standing there shocked and yet not surprised. Paralised and yet not stunned. Making it quiet. So quiet that he could hear his heart screaming of pain. Crying at him to run away.
But he stayed.
Eventually the icicles in his chest would melt into the calming and comforting water on his wound. Healing what was cut open. Detoxicating the poison inside. Making him free. Only to get hit again. With every time he felt like it was burning more. The cold ice was like fire in his body. Destroying every bit of him.
But he stayed.
It was like he was daring them. Facing the Pain. Facing what he feared. They were just water. So soft and so wise. So calm and beautiful.  
Only the most beautiful things can hurt you like that.
He was on a journey looking for the answer. A relentless pioneer. And standing exactly there looking up was the only way. He was risking his heart for the sake of knowing what's Pure. Willing to sacrifice everything he is. He liked to believe that it would just make him stronger. That he would get more invisible. But he couldn’t see. He had to keep his eyes in the infinite depth of the ice. Seeing himself being washed away to the unknown. Still standing there seeing the knives falling down on him.
But he stayed...

— The End —