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Austyn Taylor Jan 2019
I'd liken you to an alien
Pulling out a new skin suit from the closet each day,

But that would mean you're extraterrestrial
And you are nothing but ordinary.

Tell me you and him are “just friends”
And we are “close friends”

As you sharpen the fangs you’ll leech me with,
Plastic over your teeth.

It’s not winning if you don’t become someone else.
I’d call you chameleon, but

I have too much respect for them
And your colors just aren’t that bright.

Your slithering tongue won’t be remembered in a year.
Your name gone the next.

Take solace in knowing that what you tried to break
Will forever be etched into his skin

Like the tattoo in mine;
Memorable, but not you.

You stood in my shadow
And tried to call it yours.

Blame the sun for spilling your secrets.
And blame me when you burn.

I warned you,
Sweetheart,

That I crawled up from hell.
You just crawled out of a casket.

I have flames; you have your fears,
And you cannot bury me with them.

You tried to warm your rotting soul
And take the flames as your own.

Smother your ugly in ice
And ask me why I was so cold.

Whirling wardrobe,
Break free.

Mystic?
*****, please.

A sunflower doesn’t succumb to weeds.
You’re just fertilizer for me.

This is my summer part three.
A piece of my book.
echo Jun 2013
DO you Ever
                      write
        HATE-MAIL with
             return to sender
                     and then
                Wonder
          *'WHO is sending me
                  All this Crap!?'
and then you promptly
         TEAR IT UP!
(and sit down to write again)
Seautahi Mar 2018
ring ring.

it's your average human being.
abiding by the law.
setting good examples.
and being a standout member of society.

it's your average adult. once was a child. built up of many beliefs.
screaming at the unknown man.

the average man who claims his God.

the only man.

with cruel torturous thoughts
protection of self perhaps of ego
to me a nobody.

show me your credentials not your excrement of how you claim to be the bigger man.

less is known but more is given why I told personal

thoughts

forgive me soldiers I take my soul back from the men who brainwashed me.

I doubt nothing of me..
i doubt nothing.

— The End —