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Norbert Tasev Jan 2021
An intrusive suspicion lurks from within, watch no adventure! My handcuffing Being still tied to the detainee, escaping nothingness, the loss will unfold in a conscious euphoria, because I really wanted to believe in true promises that were proved again only in their lies! The unstoppable threat is already ubiquitous; red knife shards dazzled in the face of a scorching sunset!
Even the working Cosmos seems to revolve around itself merely for deliberately forgetting Man! The pedal of my line should be turned into turbo speed, and six while I have the strength and holy Will!
 
Something could have grabbed me and now I am missing it; voluntarily, I fall faster into the cavity-bottom of undermining pits, for I cannot know who can still hold my hesitant hand to pass through the fierce congregation of great, success-besieging great fish? And if there is even a Career Opportunity at all, the mercenaries of Blind Luck are immediately sawed apart by self-bribing five-minute famous s chopsticks! Most of the villains today are like a rubbed businessman, for whom the World is still a usable toy!
 
The running shadow of Silence would crash, and trembling centipede rat leeches would **** each other's blood, if it could be obtained eagerly! "A stern-hard hand waves at Executioner's bean," What the hell are you scribbling for? No use! My mother's redemptive voice, the hustle and bustle of horror, sways space after hard-judging words; many times every equation seems unsolvable!
How can I learn the recipe for survival, which I myself doubt many times?
 
Brain-softened gorilla brains, chirping-smiling, kissing little kittens, lift yourself up to the pillars of universal knowledge — and don’t be as dark-foolish as the midnight forest!
 
An intrusive suspicion lurks from within, watch no adventure! My handcuffing Being still tied to the detainee, escaping nothingness, the loss will unfold in a conscious euphoria, because I really wanted to believe in true promises that were proved again only in their lies! The unstoppable threat is already ubiquitous; red knife shards dazzled in the face of a scorching sunset!
Even the working Cosmos seems to revolve around itself merely for deliberately forgetting Man! The pedal of my line should be turned into turbo speed, and six while I have the strength and holy Will!
 
Something could have grabbed me and now I am missing it; voluntarily, I fall faster into the cavity-bottom of undermining pits, for I cannot know who can still hold my hesitant hand to pass through the fierce congregation of great, success-besieging great fish? And if there is even a Career Opportunity at all, the mercenaries of Blind Luck are immediately sawed apart by self-bribing five-minute famous s chopsticks! Most of the villains today are like a rubbed businessman, for whom the World is still a usable toy!
 
The running shadow of Silence would crash, and trembling centipede rat leeches would **** each other's blood, if it could be obtained eagerly! "A stern-hard hand waves at Executioner's
Jade Apr 2021
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⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicide and self-harm⚠️
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I am the prodigal daughter
of Hestia,
Goddess of the hearth.

But this time,
I will not be returning
home.

Don't you get it?

I've burned it down
already.

Perhaps there shall exist no
redemption
for my incendiarism.

Perhaps there is no saving
a pyromaniac

from

her pyromantic sins

from getting drunk
off molotov cocktails

to baptizing her
melancholic fingers
in candle wax

to thrusting her head
in the oven,
where carbon monoxide
steals away her remaining
strands of breath.

Tell me is it still arson
if it is yourself you are
setting on fire?--

I wear lighter fluid
atop my collar bone
like it is fragrance

rouge my lips
with gunpowder,
every word an angry bullet
ricocheting off my teeth
and back down my throat.

I am circus act of a girl,
swallowing my own fire
just to survive

Ironic, isn't it?

Because for me,
survival entails
burning myself alive.

Soon,
I will have no teeth left
to bite these bullets:

This sadness.

This anger

rises from the
chasms of my soul
like bile.

Strange--

I always thought
myself to be the
epitome
of darkness.

Perhaps I simply
lured
the darkness towards me
like an eclipse of moths--

and you know
what everyone says about
moths & flames,
don't you?

It's funny now
that I think about it:

how the stars also
inhabit darkness,

how when I wish upon them,
I am really only wishing on
fire.

And where there is fire,
destruction is sure to
follow.

It is no wonder
all of my dreams--

those of

love.

magic.

verse.

have shuddered to
ash.

I make snow angels
in these ashes,
stretching my tongue out,
the remnants of
desire
scorching my tastebuds.

Here I lie,
like an extinguished
cigarette,
my use fulfilled and discarded.

But the stars
aren't too fond of
nicotine

even though
the very atoms
that comprise my essence
contain the stuff of galaxies.

But, oh , how these galaxies have
evaded
my brooding grasp.

When my fire
begins to dwindle,
I do whatever it takes
to re-ignite what has been
lost--

lap at the iridescent
gasoline puddles
that wade along
lonely
street corners;

sear campfire stories
across my palm lines
(I try to read
my future,
but the smoke
hangs too heavy);

strike matches across
my petrified wrists

just to feel something.

After all,
what am I without
my hellfire--

they could not
save me from it;

they could not
save me
from burning.

But perhaps the
true peril
was never in burning,
but in

burning out.
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mw Sep 2015
the last time we spoke, he called me “shrapnel” and the way his tongue curled around the word made me glad to be explosive. he told me once that the way she moaned implosion on his neck made him feel like an atom bomb. looking back on this past summer, all i see is red. honestly, i never asked for him, and he never asked for me, but circumstance and fate had a heated argument and we were the resolution. i had never fallen in love before, and while he walked around with “trouble” tattooed on his wrists and an arsonist’s grin, i found something calm within him. no one warned me that summer will simultaneously kiss your cheeks and break your heart. by then, i had already spent years and years cutting the thorns off of roses before he came along and asked me why i wasn’t planting sunflowers to begin with. i still don't have an adequate answer. on our first date, he told me that aspiration is a characteristic of the flames that burn down thousand year old cathedrals and ambition is a trait of the inferno. i asked if him the hollowed out stone bodies of these houses of god still flinch at the strike of a match. he didn’t know, but he kissed me and i think i figured it out. together, we were mushroom clouds, firecrackers on the fourth of july, smoldering camp fires. we were blazing and bright, flaming and fervent. but now summer has ended, and the flames have died. like a smothered candle, there was no fight. no fire. luminescent absolution was where i found myself when sticky, sweet summers and screened in doors hiding broken intimacy came to meet. i was ready for guns blazing and violence: darling, arson was always my specialty. i’d rather him set fire to my lungs and watch the rest of me ignite than calmly say goodbye and walk away.  these sparks escaping from my chest are from the wildfires within me and also my lust for incendiarism. i know it’s over but i’m still lit up like a cigarette, wishing to be crushed by his lips again, to be on the tip of his tongue again. we were a fiery bed, and i found comfort in the ashes and embers. the last time we spoke, he called me “shrapnel” and the way his tongue curled around the word made me glad to be explosive. but shrapnel is just another result of the fire, a repercussion of getting too close to something volatile. shrapnel is for survivors. shrapnel is for those who walk away. i am many things, combusted and burnt out, but i am not shrapnel.

— The End —