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"inescapably" poems
You really can do whatever you want, you know. People who say that aren't just naive optimists. However, they do leave out a very important caveat: You really can do whatever in the world that you want... So long as you want it MORE than anything else in the world. Like... say you want to leave town. Maybe you don't do it. Maybe you sit in your office and dream about getting on a plane but you never do. Responsibilities, money, family, friends, fear... Excuses. Honestly, Excuses. The truth that people don't like to face because it makes them uncomfortable is that if you REALLY wanted to leave town, If you wanted that and only that, If you wanted it more than anything else in your entire life, You would do it. That is the simple truth about... most impossible things. You want it? You've got it. But you've got to be willing to give up every other thing in your entire life in pursuit of it. You've got to know yourself well enough to know, absolutely KNOW, that this thing is what you want, what your soul craves, what your dreams revolve around. You have got to be 100% dead SURE that what you want is what you WANT. And if you are, if you can know that and face it and understand how selfish it might be to abandon everything else in your life for it, and if somehow it still pulls you towards it like a magnet even with all the rationality and doubt and practical thinking you can throw at it... Then that is your purpose. Your dream. And you will have it. That said, anyone who thinks I'm unreasonable, or silly, or naive, or wasteful for going after love... Quite simply, I know what I want. I know who I want. I know what makes me happy. And since I know it so clearly, so utterly, so inescapably, I couldn't possibly live with myself if I didn't do everything I could to have it. And it's not an easy path, knowing what you want. Because when the answer is no, it's no to your deepest dreams, to your heart's most aching desire. When you have to wait, you have to wait for air to fill your lungs, you have to wait to be born. When you lose it, you lose the sun, you lose the earth under your feet, you lose the courage to look in the mirror. But when you have it... when you have it, you have a home. I know what I want. I want love. I want to be happy. I want to do what I love doing, and I want to be with who I adore. And if I know that, and I admit that, and I put everything I can into that... Well then, It's not over until I breathe my last breath. I haven't failed until I've fallen. And I think I can live with that.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 11:37 PM UTC
Whatever You Want
You really can do whatever you want, you know. People who say that aren't just naive optimists. However, they do leave out a very important caveat: You really can do whatever in the world that you want... So long as you want it MORE than anything else in the world. Like... say you want to leave town. Maybe you don't do it. Maybe you sit in your office and dream about getting on a plane but you never do. Responsibilities, money, family, friends, fear... Excuses. Honestly, Excuses. The truth that people don't like to face because it makes them uncomfortable is that if you REALLY wanted to leave town, If you wanted that and only that, If you wanted it more than anything else in your entire life, You would do it. That is the simple truth about... most impossible things. You want it? You've got it. But you've got to be willing to give up every other thing in your entire life in pursuit of it. You've got to know yourself well enough to know, absolutely KNOW, that this thing is what you want, what your soul craves, what your dreams revolve around. You have got to be 100% dead SURE that what you want is what you WANT. And if you are, if you can know that and face it and understand how selfish it might be to abandon everything else in your life for it, and if somehow it still pulls you towards it like a magnet even with all the rationality and doubt and practical thinking you can throw at it... Then that is your purpose. Your dream. And you will have it. That said, anyone who thinks I'm unreasonable, or silly, or naive, or wasteful for going after love... Quite simply, I know what I want. I know who I want. I know what makes me happy. And since I know it so clearly, so utterly, so inescapably, I couldn't possibly live with myself if I didn't do everything I could to have it. And it's not an easy path, knowing what you want. Because when the answer is no, it's no to your deepest dreams, to your heart's most aching desire. When you have to wait, you have to wait for air to fill your lungs, you have to wait to be born. When you lose it, you lose the sun, you lose the earth under your feet, you lose the courage to look in the mirror. But when you have it... when you have it, you have a home. I know what I want. I want love. I want to be happy. I want to do what I love doing, and I want to be with who I adore. And if I know that, and I admit that, and I put everything I can into that... Well then, It's not over until I breathe my last breath. I haven't failed until I've fallen. And I think I can live with that.
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We can remember it for you wholesale once we clear the stage of initial erase Sure I might lisp on a drunk night, exasperated and claiming in collapse, I'd rather pack rat the memories in one place and consign my pain away to tall tales. I'm drowned, running down wi-fi 6th street. Printing my soles to follow my heels as inescapably I lose track of me.
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 2:20 AM UTC
Rule of Rows: "Rat Tribal"
Her folly lies in her capacity to love dangerously, For she loves in many faces, in many words and in many tongues. She lives inside her love, mutating her heart ever so. Relishing, perilously, in the daze of its endangerment. And for the fragments of her heart she is so terribly loved in return. But only for a moment. For she holds too much insanity in her sorrowful bones. It infests her blue veins and plays with her hair. It kisses her in the darkness of hidden longing, And traces her skin with wistful desire. Her insanity holds her to the wall and caresses her neck. Her insanity gives her a cigarette and watches her blue smoke dance with a smile in the early morning. Her insanity laughs with her in a melancholy haze of youthful poverty. Her insanity holds her in his arms. Her insanity is inescapably wistful. It finds her in the night, In the secret carousels of woeful nostalgia. Her insanity has destroyed her so, and has so wickedly masked it as bliss. She is irrevocably doomed, for she will spend her days submerged in an ocean of faces; Hoping, so beautifully desperately, That she will find a piece of him inside them. - *"Can I stay here a little longer? I'm so happy here."*
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 10:01 AM UTC
Her Insanity
You are a diamond Shiny and bright So appealing and desirable So easy to adore. You are a diamond Superficial and cruel So awful and wicked So easy to loathe. You are a diamond Unfeeling and vain So hard and slicing So easy to die for. You are a diamond Sharp and poison So black widow So easy to fall for. You are diamond Colder than purest ice You are a diamond So evil and so nice. You are a diamond So many faces Always working your angles Acting transparent. You are a diamond So many colors Always talking cuts Acting strong. You are a diamond So many victims Always roaming round Acting perfect. You are a diamond So indifferent Always in a bubble Acting obnoxious. You are a diamond Enemy allied You are a diamond Always on the mind. You are a diamond Inescapably bound and tied You are a diamond Forever yet never just mine. You are a diamond- My diamond now.
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Jul 28, 2017
Jul 28, 2017 at 4:41 PM UTC
Diamond
I like it here. Damp air clinging to my skin, clinging to my clothes, Grey skies laughing at pewter water, Wind tossed seagulls reeling passed Individual calls demanding attention; their joint voice hushing into the soundtrack of this place. Buildings cluttered together for protection from blasting winter gales, Yet all jostling for a glimpse of the harbour. Guess in their own sleepy ways they like the thrill of danger. Their red tiles roofs so reminiscent of Mediterranean towns, But inescapably speak of home. People traipse past, creating the shifting landscape of this place. Their own lives and concerns mingling to create a vast sea of humanity, Mirrored by the roiling sea... Just beyond the safety of This harbour. This bench. This packet of vinegar soaked chips. I'm glad it's you here with me Glad I can feel your soul soar with mine at the salty air and eroded stone. Beside me Hunched into your coat Gazing out. We don't touch But I feel you there With me.
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Mar 28, 2013
Mar 28, 2013 at 10:49 PM UTC
Belonging
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
We Make Our Own
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Plush beads of summer rain gently kiss the windows, pitter pattering steadily in contrast to the low hums and stutters of the red coffee *** that saves many souls lost in a daze of former slumber; a lengthy stretch, she leans back against the cream, or maybe more ivory, sofa couch, wiggling it up and down her frame and in its last push released with a crack through the tips of her toes. scrumptious smells of eggs and breakfast meats, brunch is always her favorite hour, balancing the crisp texture of toast against the delightful spritz of OJ, sometimes blended with a splash of something sparkling. the chords and rhythms that thrummed and purred, the puttering, the humming, the stuttering, a baritone chuckle escaping his smirking mouth, the moment so inescapably charming, how satisfying their ritual felt.
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM UTC
Brunch
Reaching out for what delivers its existence The thirsty tree extends its limbs further to the sun An encounter craved, but still valuing its bestowment Forever longing anxiously for that connection The summer winds carrying this hopeful firefly         Emitting the lonely light that calls out for another Releasing these signals in hopes of discovering you Again a flicker and finally the mate is matched Sprinting to the sea, the relentless river runs Passionately carving its way through the slighted landscape Obviously enraptured by its desirous charge Awaiting the second its frenzied rush reaches home Like the sun now churning our eager energy Overthrowing senses with this rampantly raging need Overwhelming magnetism lures us toward temptation Inescapably mesmerized by this sensation Profound in nature, driven by this timeless dance Sophisticatedly conjoining into fulfillment A base for these unbridled electrical impulses The quintessence of our fusion now realized We are the union of two wandering forces Ignition progresses affectionate meditations Quietly absorbing the synthesizing of segments Once unrelated, now entangled eternally
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM UTC
The Natural Progression
I wanted to see you where the years were kind, inescapably etched and displayed like smooth stones spread out on velvet; but I wouldn't ask. I rummaged through zippers and heavy things. On a cool summer night we heard a hiss of broken stars across the desert sky and looked up in time to see one pass over head like a science fiction rocket ship. It was a moment with you I will never forget. It's funny how things are settled or settling and divided by extremes, jealousy   -   anger   -   hurt   -  houses  -   etched stones  -  broken stars, stuff  you  can't  find  words  for,   stuff  you  wish  you'd  written  down, words  that  end  up  on  gravestones. So leave me  with my imagination and your beauty, maybe some nostalgia as my muse, add one more thing for sure, make my children our children not   half - me - half - devil - children and maybe I wouldn't have to run, wouldn't have to start a war. Maybe I could be happy without your etched stones. Maybe all I really need is a broken star.
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Jan 31, 2012
Jan 31, 2012 at 12:47 AM UTC
I Didn't See it Until I Saw It
i. you will miss him in drizzles and monsoons, in swells and tsunamis. you will listen to his favorite song for hours; it will hit you every unexpected moment. it will hurt, stab, ache, and you will suppress constant screams with strained lips. ii. you will collect everything he gave to you and wonder if it is dimensionally real. you will sleep in his shirts, retaste saltwater kisses, and reread conversations as if there's something you missed the previous thirty times. absence does not make the heart grow fonder; it rips it apart and you cannot stitch the ragged halves with no thread. iii. you will feel his touch presently in everything you do. it will be soft and cruelly comforting. it will constantly and inescapably linger. it will haunt you in early rainy mornings and dark lonely evenings. iv. you will read endless musings on love and philosophy. you will entirely understand foucault's prison. you will live in steinbeck's tide pools and stars, and relate to simon bolivar trapped in his labyrinth. you will wonder why everything is like this, ugly and broken (and also if you are becoming delusional). v. you will drink tea that scalds your tongue and stand outside on freezing nights, numb and overfeeling at the same time. you will ask the silent moon a thousand questions. you will see him and blink, head swimming, heart pounding in surges. the stars will wink and the wind will mock you. vi. you will have blissful afternoons you forget and sorrowful nights you remember. it will still consume you in bouts, devour you in spells. nighttime will become both your enemy and remedy: it will wickedly remind you, yet help you heal. vii. you will try and fail to make sense of him (and the universe in general). you will grapple with reality and yourself. perhaps you will never know why he stopped loving you: you will keep wondering how some things can just be left broken. iix. slowly, slowly, you will sprout on your own; you will be tender and nearly whole. most importantly, you will realize his love brought you an entirely different kind of happiness. ix. you will stop worrying and trying to piece together an empty puzzle. even the deepest scars find their way of fading. your mom was right: stop picking at the scab and your wound will heal. x. you will learn to love yourself in ways he never could have loved you.
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 2:35 AM UTC
things a broken heart taught me
i. you will miss him in drizzles and monsoons, in swells and tsunamis. you will listen to his favorite song for hours; it will hit you every unexpected moment. it will hurt, stab, ache, and you will suppress constant screams with strained lips. ii. you will collect everything he gave to you and wonder if it is dimensionally real. you will sleep in his shirts, retaste saltwater kisses, and reread conversations as if there's something you missed the previous thirty times. absence does not make the heart grow fonder; it rips it apart and you cannot stitch the ragged halves with no thread. iii. you will feel his touch presently in everything you do. it will be soft and cruelly comforting. it will constantly and inescapably linger. it will haunt you in early rainy mornings and dark lonely evenings. iv. you will read endless musings on love and philosophy. you will entirely understand foucault's prison. you will live in steinbeck's tide pools and stars, and relate to simon bolivar trapped in his labyrinth. you will wonder why everything is like this, ugly and broken (and also if you are becoming delusional). v. you will drink tea that scalds your tongue and stand outside on freezing nights, numb and overfeeling at the same time. you will ask the silent moon a thousand questions. you will see him and blink, head swimming, heart pounding in surges. the stars will wink and the wind will mock you. vi. you will have blissful afternoons you forget and sorrowful nights you remember. it will still consume you in bouts, devour you in spells. nighttime will become both your enemy and remedy: it will wickedly remind you, yet help you heal. vii. you will try and fail to make sense of him (and the universe in general). you will grapple with reality and yourself. perhaps you will never know why he stopped loving you: you will keep wondering how some things can just be left broken. iix. slowly, slowly, you will sprout on your own; you will be tender and nearly whole. most importantly, you will realize his love brought you an entirely different kind of happiness. ix. you will stop worrying and trying to piece together an empty puzzle. even the deepest scars find their way of fading. your mom was right: stop picking at the scab and your wound will heal. x. you will learn to love yourself in ways he never could have loved you.
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because love when cut, lets loose an empire of blood: i have in my lips, a treaty of oblivion— releasing an embittered lemon. in the throne of the sea, waves repeat the crash of perfidy. by the mountains they ride, the thick air of strobe. rocks receive the genital fire of lighthouses exposing intones of shadow one by one. the beast maimed behind the zither of trees makes no sound like an aleph. i herald the collusion of night and children and weep at the solicitude of mothers, because pines swoon in the dark and with its hand, the gentlest war threshes the flesh and blood, raining on us forever. hostile eyes bypass the silence of things and lovers closing doors repeatedly, disrupting the vale from its slumber. it is because when love is let loose, it releases both of us — weary, inescapably ripe with the wind, looking for each other as doves do in flight, separate and obscured, opening gates; nightfall: the savage aroma of wood on the leaves that sway fervently tippling away from boughs.
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Dec 15, 2015
Dec 15, 2015 at 4:32 AM UTC
Gates Opened: Nightfall
It was Winter and I was lost Though I refused to acknowledge it Somewhere deep down inside of me I so desperately wanted to unleash myself and bloom into something beautiful But I didn't know which way was up So I waited in the cold and bitter ground for my time to come Long and patiently Then came the Spring and I smiled and started to grow and flourish I was finding my way again Still, not knowing what would blossom Only hoping it would be something lovely I was still the only flower in the garden bed Lonely and desiccated Waiting for the rain to build me up The Spring continued on and I grew stronger and stronger Gaining warmth and wisdom until I unmistakably blossomed into something so pure and whole and beautiful that I could hardly recognize myself Summer came and I grew tall and strong and loud My petals became unruly and grew uncontrollably But the air was heavy and strange I couldn't tell if I liked the heat I missed the rain I was inescapably embedded into the dry and hot earth below me My roots reached out and grew in deep and strong But when the birds and the bees would come to visit me Kissing my face and whispering small and sweet melodies into my ears I longed for them to take me away with a heavy hold and a strong grip The Summer was a long one Too long I grew wild and my structure became bent and my petals started to wilt How strange it is to me that now that Autumn has come I feel so new and pure Because in reality, I am slowly dying in Autumn's crisp caress But in my heart I am lovely and delicate and prosperous I am my strongest and most beautiful at what should be my most fearful time to come For my death is awaiting me It is certain that I will continue to wilt as Winter slowly arrives and the Fall gently retreats But when Winter's frozen and lonesome grip swallows me whole, what will become of me?
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 2:51 PM UTC
Seasons Are Guaranteed When Nothing Else Seems To Be, Seasons Consistently Change Just Like You And Me
It was Winter and I was lost Though I refused to acknowledge it Somewhere deep down inside of me I so desperately wanted to unleash myself and bloom into something beautiful But I didn't know which way was up So I waited in the cold and bitter ground for my time to come Long and patiently Then came the Spring and I smiled and started to grow and flourish I was finding my way again Still, not knowing what would blossom Only hoping it would be something lovely I was still the only flower in the garden bed Lonely and desiccated Waiting for the rain to build me up The Spring continued on and I grew stronger and stronger Gaining warmth and wisdom until I unmistakably blossomed into something so pure and whole and beautiful that I could hardly recognize myself Summer came and I grew tall and strong and loud My petals became unruly and grew uncontrollably But the air was heavy and strange I couldn't tell if I liked the heat I missed the rain I was inescapably embedded into the dry and hot earth below me My roots reached out and grew in deep and strong But when the birds and the bees would come to visit me Kissing my face and whispering small and sweet melodies into my ears I longed for them to take me away with a heavy hold and a strong grip The Summer was a long one Too long I grew wild and my structure became bent and my petals started to wilt How strange it is to me that now that Autumn has come I feel so new and pure Because in reality, I am slowly dying in Autumn's crisp caress But in my heart I am lovely and delicate and prosperous I am my strongest and most beautiful at what should be my most fearful time to come For my death is awaiting me It is certain that I will continue to wilt as Winter slowly arrives and the Fall gently retreats But when Winter's frozen and lonesome grip swallows me whole, what will become of me?
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recipes and bookmarks in strawberry are falling, stains upon my fingertips grasp colourblind for reds and yellows and pinks and all they find is dust, people, just falling away, crumbling inescapably, coming apart in my hands, just cracking, like mirrors, and all they do is stare, stare straight at me as they dissolve like sugar. they don't stay together, no matter how much I want them to. people cannot stay together. it seems that we're all breaking at different speeds, and I might be broken tomorrow, and he could be next week, and her, just dust in the cracks, human skin in the still air, floating aimlessly until we're ****** up by the hoover and quietly disposed of.
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May 20, 2022
May 20, 2022 at 8:08 PM UTC
skin
Because regardless if you ever loved me we both know you still feel my mouth on the very edges of your skin, and is it not news that she can taste my name on the pieces of your exposed flesh you haphazardly place so heavily beneath her. I am burned so inescapably apparent like silver scars that beg for invisibility. I have kissed you deep with these malicious lips, and left your blood tinged with toxic venoms that you are so desperate to water-down, to erase, to pretend as if they never seared the guarded walls of your insecurity; but don't let me brandish my own wounds as though they somehow belong to you. And I might not have ever meant I loved you, but I can still feel the exact moment it could have possibly been conceived and the way the currents kept back the aching light of truth that lay so calmly over you and I, you and I, you and I were never meant to be; we just happened.
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Dec 12, 2013
Dec 12, 2013 at 11:00 PM UTC
DEEP KISSES
.                         I was born with a defect. It has a great impact. One testacle, one less Than everyone else. I can't tell my partner. She'll think less of me then. Aren't they supposed to be a symbol Of manliness? One less thimble Of mass, results in a loss Of ounces of courage, And a weight of tonnes On my shoulders. I've been led into Believing manhood is paramount. Without it, I'm less of a person, Less of a reason To be whom I should; to be desired. It's hard to stop thinking it When it's you yourself telling it. External influences become internal doctrine. Inescapably real, incessantly there. Loss of masculinity, Yet retaining functionality. It seems people never notice something's wrong As long as you appear to act 'normally'.
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC
One Less
step one: you must realize that villains are the protagonists of their own stories; ergo, everything does revolve around you. you really are not worthless. why should you care what the people trying to overthrow you think? step two: use your anger to create. step three: or use it to destroy. step four: allow yourself to feel. allow yourself to hide. you are not wrong for shining in the light or for shying from it. step five: you must realize that this too shall pass. in one thousand years louisiana will be underwater and new landmasses will rise from the sea like individual venuses. geologic time will march on, inescapably slowly, on clocks you cannot read, regardless of you. we are still only in the holocene era. the universe doesn't care how many times you try; the universe doesn't care if you try; but someone has to, and i believe it should be you. on the word-a-day desk calendar of existence, humans only arrived on earth on the last minute of december thirty-first: whatever pain you're feeling is temporary.
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 10:17 PM UTC
how to deal with your debilitating feelings of adolescent worthlessness
For a year I had a folder in my computer called "hey dad". I used to take photos of myself when I had been crying really badly. I wanted to see if the sadness would show up in my face. I wanted someone to see it.  I didn't know why I did it. But I think it's because you were never there to see me cry. I think it's because if it reached a breaking point where I wanted to bombard you with how much I'd suffered and struggled and you'd hit back with telling me it wasn't true I'd send you those photos. Their dates extending across a whole year. Me wearing different clothes, different hair, but each one a picture of anguish, I wanted you to be confronted with it inescapably. But then I felt like you wouldn't want that, so I deleted it.
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 6:08 AM UTC
A folder called ‘hey dad’
The Muslim woman is perhaps the most enticing female on the planet with her hijab (head covering) her burqa (outer garment enveloping most of her body) her niqa (total veil) Such strict apparel floods our mind with curiosity and fantasies about what is so hidden Hence the covered Muslim woman is a reenactment of every woman's beauty, power and numinosity a veiled vision that inscribes itself across our mind and inescapably through our libido
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Mar 11, 2017
Mar 11, 2017 at 4:49 PM UTC
One Man's Point of View on Muslim Women
earbuds buzz, indic of incoming friendly fire, another love song, hardly differing, what’s the big deal? uh oh, oh no, only transformered into an ****** boy soon to be out loud squealing for that’s not the way a poet’s brain operates, a surgical insertion of a poetic inquiry brings a repetitive inquisition's painful honesty and a new commitment commission now inescapably upfront~facing even for the low priestly devotee of only love poetry! Has anyone ever said to you I want to hold you forever? Have you ever told anyone I want to hold you forever? oh my god! *the brain is racked, a fav torture of the self- inquisitors, more awful than version physical, my balance disturbed, my soul perturbed, which the greater, my enabled loss or my failure?* *for a detailed search of history personnelle (of course! it is a feminine noun) registers no results, given or received, the hurt of the how, can it be, OLP never uttered this most greatest declaration of love?* and then/there, by the River East, a most public place, old man is seen uncontrollably weeping, a non-gendered English verb, reported the New York Post tabloid newspaper small thanks, photo had my back bent, my face remained hidden, but revealed agony of the twisted prostrate figure leaning over the railing as he rails like an exile or a hostage *and there’s no answer forthcoming, no coverup, just an existential howling in recognition that the opportunity has likely disappeared, and the sky answers not when begged* ***why me, why me, for the silence is answer enough, never was I willing to raise the gate protective, high enough to stand before another, unclothed and impurities revealed surrender myself to accept or give out or give in to that most wonderful risk*** and the weeping doesn’t cease, it is doesn’t soothe or ease, for the division’s remainder remains less than a whole integer how can I call myself, only a love poet? and I answer my self with a teary silence of an unanswered curse
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Oct 11, 2024
Oct 11, 2024 at 7:28 AM UTC
“hold you forever” (wonderful risk)
earbuds buzz, indic of incoming friendly fire, another love song, hardly differing, what’s the big deal? uh oh, oh no, only transformered into an ****** boy soon to be out loud squealing for that’s not the way a poet’s brain operates, a surgical insertion of a poetic inquiry brings a repetitive inquisition's painful honesty and a new commitment commission now inescapably upfront~facing even for the low priestly devotee of only love poetry! Has anyone ever said to you I want to hold you forever? Have you ever told anyone I want to hold you forever? oh my god! *the brain is racked, a fav torture of the self- inquisitors, more awful than version physical, my balance disturbed, my soul perturbed, which the greater, my enabled loss or my failure?* *for a detailed search of history personnelle (of course! it is a feminine noun) registers no results, given or received, the hurt of the how, can it be, OLP never uttered this most greatest declaration of love?* and then/there, by the River East, a most public place, old man is seen uncontrollably weeping, a non-gendered English verb, reported the New York Post tabloid newspaper small thanks, photo had my back bent, my face remained hidden, but revealed agony of the twisted prostrate figure leaning over the railing as he rails like an exile or a hostage *and there’s no answer forthcoming, no coverup, just an existential howling in recognition that the opportunity has likely disappeared, and the sky answers not when begged* ***why me, why me, for the silence is answer enough, never was I willing to raise the gate protective, high enough to stand before another, unclothed and impurities revealed surrender myself to accept or give out or give in to that most wonderful risk*** and the weeping doesn’t cease, it is doesn’t soothe or ease, for the division’s remainder remains less than a whole integer how can I call myself, only a love poet? and I answer my self with a teary silence of an unanswered curse
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Your love is sweeter. It falls as dew drops Blanketing the earth, Covered with jewels Glimmering in the sun, Crowned by your diadems, Made greater by your love, We lay in this sun-splashed meadow as one. The wind kisses my face, Caresses my skin. You meet my gaze and I look into the sea-green depths, Holding mysteries contained and unrevealed. Hesitant, you reach out to me, Breaching the distance Your hand rests on my cheek. By one touch, these seas spill forth in unrelenting passion, Blissfully lost to you I am. Your every movement selfless, beautiful. The sun, eclipsed by your presence, shines no more Giving way to the night. The stars awake and I look to the once blue sky, Still cloudless, these stars shine bright. Here alone with you, your love consumes me. I am lost in you, to you, inescapably. Anything, everything outside of you dissipates, evaporates. In this meadow our hands entwined, unbreakable This union sacred, divine, irreplaceable. Nights, days, weeks, months, years, I pass with you; Never was there a love more true.
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Aug 13, 2010
Aug 13, 2010 at 6:40 PM UTC
Timeless
There’s something about the harmonica that gets me every time. Maybe, it’s the simplicity. Maybe, it’s the rhythm and blurred notes that form a hazy melody. Maybe, it’s the whistling of inherent sadness. But for me, it touches something deeper. Some intrinsic instinct that connects music to our souls. To me, the harmonica is a promise. A promise that anybody can learn something new and can make a little dent of a sound in this big universe. A promise that there is a whole world out there to see. Small hands, big hands, blue or wrinkled hands can play the harmonica. No matter where you are in your journey, the harmonica will always sound inescapably like a harmonica. Maybe that shiny, metal box is just the kind of pocket-sized assurance I need.
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM UTC
The Harmonica
Poems 1706 published / 43 drafts / 14 hidden no matter how much spillage of inspired words are perspired into poetic existence, new ideas push themselves to the top of the line, with every eyelash flutter to falling, so there seems always a restless but consistent cohort of 43 draftees in my lipstadt persona (one among so many) inescapably demanding, like a dentist happiest when commencing to drill you in to submission but smiling since the novocaine hasn’t fully… that when a poem, even a  new tooth is c r e a t ed in the gum of you, seed~ed but not fully form~ed, somehow a new title is auto~entitled, whisked into a never cold cup of “what’s next.” a laundry line of the great washed but needy for drying out, not yet ready for prime time thus this never endingness is one more perpetual eternal, a cousin to gravity a direct order to be born/resolved/loved/ only to be sent away with a firm loving push with no word of farewell (and not forgetting to mention the thousand of half breeds, started, left writ incomplete, in my official cemetery a/ka my actual draft file)
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Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM UTC
43 Drafts (in the gum of you)
every fight every intention collaps inevitably you as flush in my mind no relief from you not the evening my free thoughts to wander in the dark run to you not the night in flights of my unconscious I drown in your arms not the morning light my eyes closed my heart awake every single weak heartbeat is consumed in you inescapably you tangled to me your thick scent gelatinous shell of every atom of me obsession passion pain persistent hum every fight every intention drown surely you sweet poison poignant languor eager anticipation of an instant of authentic essential abandonment
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Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 at 7:48 AM UTC
inevitably you
I often wonder as the night closes in and so do the walls around my mind I wonder when it happened in human evolution that we would become inescapably immobilised by the hands of a clock
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Aug 7, 2014
Aug 7, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
Immobilised
Who am I but what I am? Not quite just a simple inquiry. So please reply distinctly specific while abandoning logic Yet please most definitely clearly. When am I but where I am? A notorious questioning query. Quietly sneering, laughing, awaiting the one obvious reasonable answer. Why am I? Put surely, not simply. Only to be? A rhyming riddle playing a crescendo cadence of rebellious Rock 'n Jazz and Reggae rhythms? Yes and still no but much, doubtlessly, even much more. A man is to live! Truly, inescapably, always, yet certainly, only nothing but far beyond day to day. -R. (06) -TX
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Sep 12, 2017
Sep 12, 2017 at 3:18 PM UTC
-I Am I