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"hostage" poems
People often ask me what love is And I seriously don't know what it means All I can think about is you Your eyes, those brown eyes Those eyes which saw me naked You saw every scar on my body Yet the only thing you said was “You are beautiful” Love, I am not beautiful Scars, stretch marks, blood, wounds Doesn't mean beautiful I am not an art Yet your lips kissed me The way the sun kissed my skin every morning Without a fail, without any doubt You smiled. And the only words that came to my mind was **** this is trouble" My love, your words hold me like a hostage Trapped inside an empty box, finding a way out. A way I can never ever get a glimpse of. I knew that this love Our love would last a lifetime Or so I thought We were torn apart by hatreds, insecurities, confusions Maybe if it wasn't for distance We would be still together, we could have worked it out But maybe, no matter what decisions we'll make We will still come to an end Confused about the future Insecure about other people Hating each other You, giving up And me, craving for more Craving for something that can fill up the hole inside my chest I wanted you to stay forever, here beside me But every time I would ask about it You always said "You deserve so much more" You were once my everything My other half My partner in crime You were someone so freaking important to me You were the kind of mistake, I wouldn't mind repeating I fell so hard for you And guess what happened? Love, I am broken How many days, months, years For me, to forget That once upon a time You were here I was there Hands holding tighter Eyes locked to each other Hearts that beat in a synchronizing manner How much would it cost? For the pain to stop For the memories to abandon For the feelings to fade My love, I did not expect any of this I didn't know that love can be deadly A love that can force someone to commit suicide That loving someone means tearing every part of yourself Now, do you think I'm suicidal? Love, do not be afraid I'm not going to die Being suicidal doesn’t mean killing yourself Suicidal means I wouldn't mind dying I kept on dying anyway I kept on dying at the same place I thought was giving life to me Because the day, you decided to give up on me I already gave up on myself.
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 10:56 AM UTC
A suicide note from my love letter
People often ask me what love is And I seriously don't know what it means All I can think about is you Your eyes, those brown eyes Those eyes which saw me naked You saw every scar on my body Yet the only thing you said was “You are beautiful” Love, I am not beautiful Scars, stretch marks, blood, wounds Doesn't mean beautiful I am not an art Yet your lips kissed me The way the sun kissed my skin every morning Without a fail, without any doubt You smiled. And the only words that came to my mind was **** this is trouble" My love, your words hold me like a hostage Trapped inside an empty box, finding a way out. A way I can never ever get a glimpse of. I knew that this love Our love would last a lifetime Or so I thought We were torn apart by hatreds, insecurities, confusions Maybe if it wasn't for distance We would be still together, we could have worked it out But maybe, no matter what decisions we'll make We will still come to an end Confused about the future Insecure about other people Hating each other You, giving up And me, craving for more Craving for something that can fill up the hole inside my chest I wanted you to stay forever, here beside me But every time I would ask about it You always said "You deserve so much more" You were once my everything My other half My partner in crime You were someone so freaking important to me You were the kind of mistake, I wouldn't mind repeating I fell so hard for you And guess what happened? Love, I am broken How many days, months, years For me, to forget That once upon a time You were here I was there Hands holding tighter Eyes locked to each other Hearts that beat in a synchronizing manner How much would it cost? For the pain to stop For the memories to abandon For the feelings to fade My love, I did not expect any of this I didn't know that love can be deadly A love that can force someone to commit suicide That loving someone means tearing every part of yourself Now, do you think I'm suicidal? Love, do not be afraid I'm not going to die Being suicidal doesn’t mean killing yourself Suicidal means I wouldn't mind dying I kept on dying anyway I kept on dying at the same place I thought was giving life to me Because the day, you decided to give up on me I already gave up on myself.
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I have missed out on the thrills of being a soft place between a rock and a hard place which is a bad boy I was afraid of becoming a toy a welcome mat, stepped on repeatedly covered in dirt and worthlessness because of fear I found myself held hostage to boring love with good guys who in the end only proved to be ugly lies which led to my beautiful cries in the end, I should have taken my chances with the handsome devils who were at least good at dancing!
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
Ugly Angels & Handsome devils
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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Lovesong
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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The worst part about falling is not when you hit the bottom. Not getting back up after the fall. Not when you have to let go, Not when you have to move on. The worst part about falling is knowing that you are slipping. Knowing you are slipping, deep down into a pit of demons and despair. Knowing you are breaking. Knowing you will be held hostage by the devil inside you. Knowing you need help, but when you finally cry out, no one is there to save you. And you just have to allow yourself to fall.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 9:36 PM UTC
Bipolar.
The overripe mango that sits promptly on my desk stares at me through its one eye, indignantly asking to be eaten – before it goes bad. I consider, strongly, the mango’s proposition. Contemplating the level of hunger, or desire I have for this demanding piece of fruit. It may be that the latte I just finished burnt off any remaining taste buds I have, or it may be that I find something amusing about holding a mango hostage of its pride – but I just can’t eat it. A once firm, confident specimen edging ever closer to becoming a wrinkly, seeping, sack of rotten juice. Knowingly, I chain it to its fate by refusing to slice the skin back and swallow its sweetness. It demands to be mutilated rather than aged. As I sit here writing of my hostage, it continues to stare through its eye – spiting me. Cursing me with future putrid fruit, with worms in my apples, and with brown bananas. Oh, how I hate brown bananas. This mango has learnt well in the time it’s spent in my room, it knows my weaknesses. I always knew that fruit had character, but this mango – I tell you, it’s something else.
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Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010 at 9:10 PM UTC
The overripe Mango
He doesn't deserve this. As the cuts on my wrists turn to scars, his hands itch for the nearest blade; as I lie in my bed, my pillow dry for the first time, his pillow absorbs his tears and reminds him of his nightmares; as I get 6 hours of sleep, he lies awake afraid of the silence        6:00 am, he no longer needs an alarm clock.                                                                                                  ***As I get better                                                                                                  he gets worse.*** My demon ****** the life out of me and moved on to him. I wish to rid my demon off his back; everyday I see my demon drain him; like a hostage forced to watch it's torment,   hands bound,       gagged mouth,            mascara stained cheeks. He doesn't deserve this.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 8:27 AM UTC
My demon - your demon
hey handsome with african features that brought me home i used you for what its worth. hearts that never twined togather kissing you was a pleasure of mine. growing weak with every moment loving you never experienced. *** with you was me comparing hey handsome with african features that brought me home confused wanting to trust, love. as i try to let go only pushed you further we held each other hostage that night your hands touched my soul hey handsome with african features that brought me home its good bye for now until the stars line up and you are found
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM UTC
hey handsome
any wrong you want done right the long way... unforgettable things you write down just in case ? then you know everything about me. not a thing. not a clue. what i'd do for a glimpse of a page. that's what you like that's your kick won't you be mine all mine by page six ? It's Elementary My Dear, Hostage. It is What It Is. any wrong you want done right all day won't you bring me 'The List' like a bad little girl ? and won't you insist ? my good little angel ? won't you fall ? Again ? but This time only inches ? And your answer same as before "Elementary my Dear, Hostage"
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM UTC
Elementary my Dear, Hostage
There’s a gun upon my bed Not the kind made of metal A vivid tattoo color Above my lover’s Secret devil And that gun is like a demon Aimed toward her pleasure zone Urging hunters to take a shot And take the trophy Home I see blood upon the doorstep I smell ****** in her fold I fear ghosts will haunt her body In the bullets I have sown I hear hungry infants crying The ones she gave away And the ******** she is hiding Are my regrets from yesterday I feel the gun blazing As she ***** my breath away I’m a hostage to her body In the mayhem She purveys In the middle of the night I’ll make my escape Run, run, run Run away I’ve got to run In the middle of the night When her back is turned Run, run, run Run away I’ve got to run There’s a gun upon my bed It belongs to my baby Burned deep inside her On a night she went Crazy And every time I think I’ll flee Her dangerous painted gun She draws it against me And I feel myself succumb I see blood upon the doorstep I smell ****** in her fold I fear ghosts will haunt her body In the bullets I have sown I hear hungry infants crying The ones she gave away And the ******** she is hiding Are my regrets from yesterday Save me from her gun She’ll never let me go Save me from drowning In her young and wanton soul I’ve got to run But there’s a gun My baby won’t let me go.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 6:03 AM UTC
Hostage in the Bedroom
I can't sleep The horrible news is bothering me My fellow Filipinos in Marawi Are being attacked by Maute Group/ISIS They are burning down the place The houses, the hospitals, the churches And if you can't prove that you are a Muslim They'll take you as a hostage Those who don't wear hijabs "are taken care of" Horrible, really horrible My fellow filipinos there are suffering Muslims and non-muslims It's not supposed to be about religion It's supose to be being people, human It's suppose to be "humanity" *"Save me from people of the world" Psalm 17:14 It's horrible, really horrible. How can these people be so cruel?? It's really scary, really scary*
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May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 12:19 PM UTC
Pray for Marawi
I'm so tired of scammers! There are so many around! For every situation, A scammer is to be found. There's the email message From a "friend" stuck overseas Whose money has been stolen-- Who needs your help, please. Have you received the phone call Saying that you're in big trouble With the I.R.S. and insisting That you must pay on the double? Computer hackers will take Your PC hostage and say That you'll lose ALL your computer Data unless you pay. What about being a winner Of a contest? All you must do Is forward them some money And they'll send the "winnings" to you. If you by chance get a call From "Microsoft" or "Dell" Saying your account's in danger, Tell them to go to hell. Scamming probably reaches Far back into history. The demise of the Neanderthals Might not have been a mystery. Did early **** sapiens With carefully planned persistence Scam neanderthalensis Out of its earthly existence? If scammers had put their know-how In a positive direction, We could say, "Three cheers For natural selection!" But, no, we're stuck with scammers-- A problem that clearly shows That if we want to survive, We've got to be on our toes! - by Bob B
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Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 8:16 AM UTC
Scammers
I'm starting to think it's me. Maybe I ask to much, though, admittedly, maybe's it's because I don't know what I am asking for? I am starting to think, it's me. Maybe I am the problem. Or maybe that's just the voice in my head, like a vice, crushing any minor thing, like an atom, until it splits with the force of a thousand suns. Or maybe it's everything else, me included. Maybe I just say it's me, because I am my biggest bully, and easiest target. I thought I was asking for simple things, but nothing seems simple anymore. I just want these ropes untied from my hands. Trapped in my own mind like a hostage, who doesn't care if they make it out. There is no greener grass on the other side, I just wish this grass wasn't wet. Sticking to me like feathers and tar. I'm starting to think that I am just coasting along, waiting for someone to help me fix my boat for me, before it sinks.
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Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 9:40 AM UTC
Maybe it's...
The hopelessness hold so many worthy people hostage. The key to rescue is in truth, Faith and healing,  love of Christ. Like you I too was at one time, held a prisoner by its grasp. But it took Christ to rescue me from its slimy clutches. I needed to know I am loved, and worthy of complete joy. I may not always be happy but I do have joy in my life. To know whom you are in Christ is the key to rescue. But so many end up ending their life because of this. But once you realize just how special that you are. This is where the healing will take place  in your life.
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Mar 21, 2014
Mar 21, 2014 at 10:48 AM UTC
HOPELESSNESS
Diminutive in frame and stature defines him not, but instead enhances the brilliance of his smile’s shine. The golden flakes of honesty in his warm brown eyes covey one vice that is captivation. They hold hostage your most destructive thoughts to instantaneously replace them with the best; of joy, contentment, and love-the best of him. His high cheek bones define a mouth so perfectly constructed. They rise and fall like oceans’ waves with every gentle gesture. He thinks of love as a pool of chances and illogically he dives into the hurt he’s found himself in once twice, no wait, three times. But still, he never falters to give “chance” just one more chance to prove he’s done what’s right. Secondary comes his needs, in light of someone else’s. The thoughts, “too tired” or “too busy” does nothing for him because if someone needs help, you help them undoubtedly. I  have seen the coat that once cascaded on his back give warmth to one who had no coat or smile or joy or light. And for that one he lowered his head to ask God for a favor. I met this guy, this “perfect” guy when innocence consumed me and since that day we’ve been each other’s confidant and comforter. My love towards him supersedes that of a friend or the best of that. The truest thing I know is that when everyone one else disappears to the mundane norms of life, he will be there with me to cut through the silence with rolls of laughter. At what? It does not matter. Because when I’m with him and he’s with me there is a “we” that is formed and that “we” is captivates me An infinite truth is that I will never stop loving this young man. He keeps my heartbeat steady so I must exclaim the best of joy, contentment, and love-the best of him.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 4:25 AM UTC
If Only He Knew...
Diminutive in frame and stature defines him not, but instead enhances the brilliance of his smile’s shine. The golden flakes of honesty in his warm brown eyes covey one vice that is captivation. They hold hostage your most destructive thoughts to instantaneously replace them with the best; of joy, contentment, and love-the best of him. His high cheek bones define a mouth so perfectly constructed. They rise and fall like oceans’ waves with every gentle gesture. He thinks of love as a pool of chances and illogically he dives into the hurt he’s found himself in once twice, no wait, three times. But still, he never falters to give “chance” just one more chance to prove he’s done what’s right. Secondary comes his needs, in light of someone else’s. The thoughts, “too tired” or “too busy” does nothing for him because if someone needs help, you help them undoubtedly. I  have seen the coat that once cascaded on his back give warmth to one who had no coat or smile or joy or light. And for that one he lowered his head to ask God for a favor. I met this guy, this “perfect” guy when innocence consumed me and since that day we’ve been each other’s confidant and comforter. My love towards him supersedes that of a friend or the best of that. The truest thing I know is that when everyone one else disappears to the mundane norms of life, he will be there with me to cut through the silence with rolls of laughter. At what? It does not matter. Because when I’m with him and he’s with me there is a “we” that is formed and that “we” is captivates me An infinite truth is that I will never stop loving this young man. He keeps my heartbeat steady so I must exclaim the best of joy, contentment, and love-the best of him.
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there is a darkness that the silver song of soft illusion lights in symbolic equivalents of images real it is a light brutally interrogative magnifying with dazzling rays the breakage at the jagged edges of the world and lays hostage to impersonation that resembles fragments of smashed oval shaped mirrors reflecting pieces of broken brown terracotta soldiers and causes the eyes to hurt with a watched inner holocaust of disturbing coloured detonations, implosively autonomous given to a deceived departure a departure from reality given by the advocacy of ideological rationalism that sees three kings with blood on their crowns in amplified convulsions call mustre for disturbance, disorder, destruction and death as blood stains the Balkan streets and all emotional impulse is volatilized and a sinister, stuporous, stagnancy stalks the land where sustaining minds are subject to a brutal insensitivity that dazzles on the edge of a spiral vertigo it is a light brutally interrogative magnifying with dazzling rays a vocabulary of incoherence like the rancid stains of ***** that inhabit the jagged edges of the world
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 1:25 PM UTC
Crimean War???
there once was this guy named oedipus of whom it was prophesied that his mother he'd marry, his father he'd **** at a place where three roads were tied. his mother and father discovered their fate and tried to dispose of their son but he ended up in corinthian lands and their efforts were all undone. then a drunk guy ruined his happy facade and to an oracle oedipus went who repeated to him the dank prophesy; he fled corinth, not taking a cent. while on his sojourn away from his home he encountered a party royale which rudely pushed him off of the road, and angered he slaughtered them all. then from that blood soaked three-way path he nonchalantly flew not knowing that his father was the man that he just slew. he continued his journey until he reached thebes where a sphinx held the city hostage so oedipus solved the bird-cat's lame rhyme and released thebes from its ******* as a reward, the people of thebes gave oedipus their widowed queen, unknowingly joining mother and son in a marriage that was unclean. after they ruled for twenty good years, during which four children came, a plague was induced by the sheltering of the man by whom was slain in searching him out, oedipus found that the murderer was really he, so long ago. the man he had killed at the place where were joined roads of three. but by finding this out, he also discovered that his wife and his mother were one. he gouged out his eyes after her suicide; in her own bedroom she was hung. as it turned out, oeddy exiled himself but the seeds of his misery were sewn. so he went to colonus and wandered around and this is the end.
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Jul 30, 2010
Jul 30, 2010 at 5:14 AM UTC
ballad to oedipus
there once was this guy named oedipus of whom it was prophesied that his mother he'd marry, his father he'd **** at a place where three roads were tied. his mother and father discovered their fate and tried to dispose of their son but he ended up in corinthian lands and their efforts were all undone. then a drunk guy ruined his happy facade and to an oracle oedipus went who repeated to him the dank prophesy; he fled corinth, not taking a cent. while on his sojourn away from his home he encountered a party royale which rudely pushed him off of the road, and angered he slaughtered them all. then from that blood soaked three-way path he nonchalantly flew not knowing that his father was the man that he just slew. he continued his journey until he reached thebes where a sphinx held the city hostage so oedipus solved the bird-cat's lame rhyme and released thebes from its ******* as a reward, the people of thebes gave oedipus their widowed queen, unknowingly joining mother and son in a marriage that was unclean. after they ruled for twenty good years, during which four children came, a plague was induced by the sheltering of the man by whom was slain in searching him out, oedipus found that the murderer was really he, so long ago. the man he had killed at the place where were joined roads of three. but by finding this out, he also discovered that his wife and his mother were one. he gouged out his eyes after her suicide; in her own bedroom she was hung. as it turned out, oeddy exiled himself but the seeds of his misery were sewn. so he went to colonus and wandered around and this is the end.
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All is NOT well in the grasslands. The animals are fit to be tied. The actions of the crafty wolves Have left the rest of them horrified. "How will we EVER be able To keep democracy afloat," The antelope asked, "if the wolves Don't allow us all to vote? "In many sections of these grasslands, Shameless wolves are doing their best To hold voter registration Hostage, keeping voters suppressed." "They aim to control voter turnout," The deer added. "That's their hope. Their sneaky ways to manipulate Elections push the envelope! “They stall and seek petty reasons To take names off voting lists. Fair and honest elections are In jeopardy if this persists.” "It's so close to election day, Our courts are reluctant to raise objections," The buffalo said. "Some of the wolves Are even running in the elections! "Humph! They stole a Supreme Court justice. Then they rammed another one through. Now they're still suppressing voters. What more damage will they do?" "Winnowing down voter rolls! Their strategies should be illegal!" The fox chimed in. Looking around, He asked, "Where is our dear friend Eagle?" The absent eagle wanted no Responsibility tied to her name. She couldn't stop the out-of-control Wolves, and hid her head in shame. -by Bob B (10-19-18)
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 10:50 AM UTC
Democracy in Crisis
I don’t really like to play the victim, But I'm being failed by this system 7 hours, a hostage to cinder block rooms With nothing to do but let myself be groomed Into someone's labor source If I don’t have money, I cannot live But nobody seems to have a thought to give To my Life being turned into a commodity Something to be owned, taxed, a luxury   That sometimes I’m not able to afford. So much stock is put into democracy But we don’t matter to bureaucracy Unless we use the paychecks earned From the Liberties we burned To fill their empty promises They call us ungrateful and lazy For recognizing that this life is crazy And resenting all the thought and time Spent in the Pursuit of a rich man’s dime Instead of our own Happiness
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 6:53 PM UTC
Unalienable
Lungs burning with affliction, no prayer can help you realize that you are on fire. Help me, open my ribcage and read the encryption that is my heart. This is where my ideas form; this is where the magic happens. This is where trees become homes when I turn to prose. This is where love becomes tangible. Take the helm from my chest cavity and steer me home. Sew me back up and pretend you didn’t figure out how my mind works from studying my heartbeat. You can keep my memories there, keep my stanzas there. But you cannot lock up an idea. Do you realize that every single time you open your mouth I’m wishing I could have a lobotomy? I don’t want my brain to miss you when you leave. I don’t want my heart to miss you when it realizes that it no longer beats in sync with yours. You can take yourself away from me. You can make me cry so the salt water stings my face like it’s a burning map. You can take my poems from my veins and scatter them in the river. But you cannot lock up an idea. Oh Captain my captain, I think we are going down. But everyone is just an arm’s length from drowning. When life preservers are anchors and every single thing is whispering for you to sink. The Bermuda triangle is just another place where sailors go to pray and what kind of god ***** you in and tests you with a tempest? You and I are so much more than child’s play. Tell me to stay. Tell me my ideas do not belong on the ocean floor. Because you cannot lock up an idea. If the sun shines through your blinds, think of me. Think of the morning. But without all your leaving. Don’t think of the bags packed, of the plane tickets bought. Of the ferry setting off its horn for you in the middle of the night. Think of the morning. Without all your leaving. With the coffee, with the metaphors that were leaking through the walls as you blinked. You wanted to keep them for yourself, hold them hostage in your bones. But you cannot lock up an idea. So next time you think of leaving, think of taking the ferry across the ocean. Next time you think of whispering my secrets into the waves that kiss the rocks like they are not hurting anyone, think of me first. Without the poems. Before I even started writing. Remember how I chased butterflies and the sunset. How I begged you to let me climb up on the roof to watch the sun rise again. Remember that my ideas are my prayers to a god I have not yet found in the curve of your spine. Remember that I want nothing more than to not have to miss you. Remember that every time you dismiss my words, my art, my need to chase the sunset; you are diminishing my creativity. Remember that you cannot lock up an idea.
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Nov 7, 2013
Nov 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
You Cannot Lock Up An Idea
Lungs burning with affliction, no prayer can help you realize that you are on fire. Help me, open my ribcage and read the encryption that is my heart. This is where my ideas form; this is where the magic happens. This is where trees become homes when I turn to prose. This is where love becomes tangible. Take the helm from my chest cavity and steer me home. Sew me back up and pretend you didn’t figure out how my mind works from studying my heartbeat. You can keep my memories there, keep my stanzas there. But you cannot lock up an idea. Do you realize that every single time you open your mouth I’m wishing I could have a lobotomy? I don’t want my brain to miss you when you leave. I don’t want my heart to miss you when it realizes that it no longer beats in sync with yours. You can take yourself away from me. You can make me cry so the salt water stings my face like it’s a burning map. You can take my poems from my veins and scatter them in the river. But you cannot lock up an idea. Oh Captain my captain, I think we are going down. But everyone is just an arm’s length from drowning. When life preservers are anchors and every single thing is whispering for you to sink. The Bermuda triangle is just another place where sailors go to pray and what kind of god ***** you in and tests you with a tempest? You and I are so much more than child’s play. Tell me to stay. Tell me my ideas do not belong on the ocean floor. Because you cannot lock up an idea. If the sun shines through your blinds, think of me. Think of the morning. But without all your leaving. Don’t think of the bags packed, of the plane tickets bought. Of the ferry setting off its horn for you in the middle of the night. Think of the morning. Without all your leaving. With the coffee, with the metaphors that were leaking through the walls as you blinked. You wanted to keep them for yourself, hold them hostage in your bones. But you cannot lock up an idea. So next time you think of leaving, think of taking the ferry across the ocean. Next time you think of whispering my secrets into the waves that kiss the rocks like they are not hurting anyone, think of me first. Without the poems. Before I even started writing. Remember how I chased butterflies and the sunset. How I begged you to let me climb up on the roof to watch the sun rise again. Remember that my ideas are my prayers to a god I have not yet found in the curve of your spine. Remember that I want nothing more than to not have to miss you. Remember that every time you dismiss my words, my art, my need to chase the sunset; you are diminishing my creativity. Remember that you cannot lock up an idea.
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I've had **** Not *** Not ********** Not consensually. I've been ****** ***** abused. taken advantage of. whatever it is you want to call it I've had it done. I've been kissed Fingered choked hit spit on spit in I've been held, hostage with knives against my throat guns to my head, in my mouth drugs down my throat barely conscious I've been ****** I've been in love I've been heartbroken I've been touched consensually, let me tell you about the consensually. I've been kissed in the bathroom, lifting her up against the wall laughing when our teeth brushed against one another's hands fumbling up a skirt around a throat fingers tangled in wavy hair. I've been touched sitting in her lap outside on a hot day wearing her hoodie around children freshmen year. I've been touched multiple times by him in band rooms, away from prying eyes secrets to be kept and wooed over laying in a dress during a concert event head in the lap of my best friend underwear brushed to the side fingers thrusting in and yes, this was consentually. I've been touched in the school hallways every day after school or in between classes tasted and tasted he tasted me I tasted myself. And in the living room of our best friend's house even though I told him no I told him the safe word he continued. I say it was consensual because in the end, I said I loved it. Don't argue about it. I wanted it. and I've been touched in her pool heated ever so lovingly LED lights danced us into the temptation as did the alcohol on my part with her lips against my chest desperate to mark, yet not to show i mean, hey, my step-dad's homophobic though I'd love nothing more than to show who I belong to. We switched a lot, but ultimately I landed in her lap water licking up my sides, sending chills to ******* goosebumps and her fingers hesitating not daring to touch. "i'm going to need a yes." finally. Finally asked. I nodded eagerly and she treated me like a piano perfect notes though brief I know that I was drenched in all ways the chlorine water yes and of course the obvious. you see, we were going to do something that night we had the chance to I wanted to she wanted to In the end, she took something for her headache though it was a sort of similar thing to Nyquil We were going to. But we laid in bed and we molded against each other and sailed asleep. I've slept with one person. Her Sydney My Muse. But Still, A ****** am I
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Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021 at 5:31 AM UTC
But Still, A ******
I've had **** Not *** Not ********** Not consensually. I've been ****** ***** abused. taken advantage of. whatever it is you want to call it I've had it done. I've been kissed Fingered choked hit spit on spit in I've been held, hostage with knives against my throat guns to my head, in my mouth drugs down my throat barely conscious I've been ****** I've been in love I've been heartbroken I've been touched consensually, let me tell you about the consensually. I've been kissed in the bathroom, lifting her up against the wall laughing when our teeth brushed against one another's hands fumbling up a skirt around a throat fingers tangled in wavy hair. I've been touched sitting in her lap outside on a hot day wearing her hoodie around children freshmen year. I've been touched multiple times by him in band rooms, away from prying eyes secrets to be kept and wooed over laying in a dress during a concert event head in the lap of my best friend underwear brushed to the side fingers thrusting in and yes, this was consentually. I've been touched in the school hallways every day after school or in between classes tasted and tasted he tasted me I tasted myself. And in the living room of our best friend's house even though I told him no I told him the safe word he continued. I say it was consensual because in the end, I said I loved it. Don't argue about it. I wanted it. and I've been touched in her pool heated ever so lovingly LED lights danced us into the temptation as did the alcohol on my part with her lips against my chest desperate to mark, yet not to show i mean, hey, my step-dad's homophobic though I'd love nothing more than to show who I belong to. We switched a lot, but ultimately I landed in her lap water licking up my sides, sending chills to ******* goosebumps and her fingers hesitating not daring to touch. "i'm going to need a yes." finally. Finally asked. I nodded eagerly and she treated me like a piano perfect notes though brief I know that I was drenched in all ways the chlorine water yes and of course the obvious. you see, we were going to do something that night we had the chance to I wanted to she wanted to In the end, she took something for her headache though it was a sort of similar thing to Nyquil We were going to. But we laid in bed and we molded against each other and sailed asleep. I've slept with one person. Her Sydney My Muse. But Still, A ****** am I
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Stereotypes manifesting always, (Always) Trying to form themselves from something once seen, But not really believing in oneself, I see ignorance, I see arrogance, I see the lack of hunger, Observing such savage pride of life, I run from it all into a previous state, (Anonymity) I've reached the heights of total in-completion, I build walls of isolation upon myself, I am the collateral default of widespread degradation, I stand in the gap between teeth and consumption, I am the breed conceived by prey and predator, Widespread suspended animation: that is our future, We've tried to replicate the human makeup with mechanical frames, And the translation of electronic gates, Yet this is a folly, For staring at the mirrors of selected life in an artificial environment, Numbs our lives with emulation and self delusion, The days of nobility dismantle into fragments and sink to the bottom of the glass, Never to be turned over again, Scattered, Living among remnants of a life once lived with some sort of intensity, Now smoldered in a quite ferocity of anger beneath the surface, (Quiet tremors coming in flames) Because we don't live our dreams, We stand in the shadows of ruins, We are afraid of the future, We are afraid of the past, Where does that leave us? Leave me? I stand on the edge of The Void I'm holding myself hostage in the self sabotage entourage of the usual suspects, Our friends, our families, Disconnected with all intentions of coming together, Because they die in front of their screens, Not really living, Right? Light pollution massacre... We'll fall like stars
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 11:58 PM UTC
The Dystopian Part VII: Urban Selection And The Eve Prototype
Stereotypes manifesting always, (Always) Trying to form themselves from something once seen, But not really believing in oneself, I see ignorance, I see arrogance, I see the lack of hunger, Observing such savage pride of life, I run from it all into a previous state, (Anonymity) I've reached the heights of total in-completion, I build walls of isolation upon myself, I am the collateral default of widespread degradation, I stand in the gap between teeth and consumption, I am the breed conceived by prey and predator, Widespread suspended animation: that is our future, We've tried to replicate the human makeup with mechanical frames, And the translation of electronic gates, Yet this is a folly, For staring at the mirrors of selected life in an artificial environment, Numbs our lives with emulation and self delusion, The days of nobility dismantle into fragments and sink to the bottom of the glass, Never to be turned over again, Scattered, Living among remnants of a life once lived with some sort of intensity, Now smoldered in a quite ferocity of anger beneath the surface, (Quiet tremors coming in flames) Because we don't live our dreams, We stand in the shadows of ruins, We are afraid of the future, We are afraid of the past, Where does that leave us? Leave me? I stand on the edge of The Void I'm holding myself hostage in the self sabotage entourage of the usual suspects, Our friends, our families, Disconnected with all intentions of coming together, Because they die in front of their screens, Not really living, Right? Light pollution massacre... We'll fall like stars
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Staring With Lustful Gaze Seductive Darkness Eludes Light To Dark Black To White Gradients Of Trouble Capture This Weary Mind Lie Still You Hopeful Hostage Thirsting For Sleep’s Tranquil Sanctuary Assuredly Salvation Is Just Moments Away
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Sep 23, 2018
Sep 23, 2018 at 5:34 AM UTC
Insomnia
You are a tornado. You spin anyone too close to you, leaving them in a dizzy fit. You break them before they break you. No wonder I thought I loved you. A tornado like me. Promising trouble at every turn. You whispered, "I love you". Presenting it with secrecy. Holding me hostage with twisted logic. I am a tornado, I admit it. And two tornados only bring more chaos. I'm self-destructive but, you're too much for me. Your lips were drowned in chloroform. And I kissed you for the burn. The same way I smoke cigarettes to pollute my lungs. We drag each other to hell. Shoot each other's hearts. Naming it love, so we don't have to call it "just *** You were always too much for me. Too much chaos. In return, I was presented with such little love. We wrapped up each other's hearts. Hid them in the shelves. And danced away our summer days in my sheets.
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Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 12:21 AM UTC
Beautiful Trouble
Match, match forward and go, you heroic sons of America Reconnoiter into the strongholds of boko haram, And restore our captive girls from the foul custody, Lawlessly held hostage by the connoisseurs of terror, Go on and recover poor souls from ribald of religion Impishly created by Moslem from the satanic verses, Regulating foray of terror on the poor of the poor ****** mahyeming, looting and executing massacres, Match on and on yee angels of democracy, Don’t stop in any haste or in any wonder, To help in the sham flabbergastations, About the Igbos who fought the Biafra, And the Yorubas who federally defended, Under the aegis of Obasanjo the Sandhurst General, where are they all to save the girls Of Nigeria from the Islamist terror Excuted by boko haram the handmaid of evil.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 10:59 AM UTC
IN PRAISE OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN NIGERIA FIGHTING BOKO HARAM
*standing on the threshold of change, I await a fresh-line but the universe may be unready if not, I may take to choppy-waters all by myself* 1. if we are all stuck in the jam of time perhaps, if we spread it out real thin some of us could actually lift off and catch a ride.. out free some hostage from the twisting temporal-joints and the wool-gatherers mind their business and footsore beggars dine on exotic-things deep in the heart of the jungle where Nebuchadnezzar parked his dreams of old by saving your surprise for a weekday jaunt we limp on in the vacant-dust of paradox yet get unavoidably detained by the present undo the ribbons and the package may unfold its.. things espy the tick-tock riding the margin of fright common sense of morn lies delightfully unfinished and the wrong side of a bold idea gets squashed the brain-weary ingest their lot and plough on through thickets of tricky-fate while tiptoeing silent on the farthest-blades of brimstone holding subtly aloft.. the frankness of aiding-spectres 2. balloon of green, balloon of blue hold out your hand and pray you get no inequalities of flame easy catch of the sound of science scoffing in the parlour when we try to do something different; take a chance uncivilised-humour will argue the rings off your punctured-lobes any germ of new plan must needs be nurtured let any frenemy go; intolerant-ilk do better by their vacuous selves remarkably convenient there's almost enough water in the well to soak up the ivory-rays and let them fly and there's a breeze lifting the needle off the ancient-groove spinning reels on the bay *no, you will never convince me that the time-keeper holds all keys 'cos I snuck out furtive.. late one night and sawed through.. for a whole decade and well, guess what I have here..* :) S T - 24 Jan 2014
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 8:24 AM UTC
stuck
*standing on the threshold of change, I await a fresh-line but the universe may be unready if not, I may take to choppy-waters all by myself* 1. if we are all stuck in the jam of time perhaps, if we spread it out real thin some of us could actually lift off and catch a ride.. out free some hostage from the twisting temporal-joints and the wool-gatherers mind their business and footsore beggars dine on exotic-things deep in the heart of the jungle where Nebuchadnezzar parked his dreams of old by saving your surprise for a weekday jaunt we limp on in the vacant-dust of paradox yet get unavoidably detained by the present undo the ribbons and the package may unfold its.. things espy the tick-tock riding the margin of fright common sense of morn lies delightfully unfinished and the wrong side of a bold idea gets squashed the brain-weary ingest their lot and plough on through thickets of tricky-fate while tiptoeing silent on the farthest-blades of brimstone holding subtly aloft.. the frankness of aiding-spectres 2. balloon of green, balloon of blue hold out your hand and pray you get no inequalities of flame easy catch of the sound of science scoffing in the parlour when we try to do something different; take a chance uncivilised-humour will argue the rings off your punctured-lobes any germ of new plan must needs be nurtured let any frenemy go; intolerant-ilk do better by their vacuous selves remarkably convenient there's almost enough water in the well to soak up the ivory-rays and let them fly and there's a breeze lifting the needle off the ancient-groove spinning reels on the bay *no, you will never convince me that the time-keeper holds all keys 'cos I snuck out furtive.. late one night and sawed through.. for a whole decade and well, guess what I have here..* :) S T - 24 Jan 2014
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