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"sedated" poems
im tired of supporting this economy with my wealth and greed i've barely had a chance to consume this world i've barely had a chance to breathe yet im stuck under this rock somehow i've become so sedated numb to real life numb to the very touch raging with fire spewing out of every hole in my body i pick up with slack for everyone get nothing, get nothing get not a god ****** thing in return my thoughts are mice; quiet, nimble, and unwanted i take care of this store like a child, wellfed and nurtured but its a ton to cary when no one aknoledges what they do take care of the front, take care of the back take care of the front, take care of the back i dont want to be here and of course im picking up the slack i dont want to be here and of course im picking up the slack, no questions asked too young in mind too old in spirit im living off of pure fumes of instinct now
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM UTC
hard work works hardly
Can you feel it Shh, allow the galaxy to pamper your body, blanket the essence of your mind, bit-by-bit Travel on a higher awareness to understand the galaxy’s gentle gift Close your eyes and allow your mind to softly drift Soft Moonlight Dust Illuminating the night skies, given warmth of its inner trust Centered in the sky, a star abates for its enlighten ****** Kindred minds to enrapture, as souls physically adjust So gentle, as a touch to the skin An inner space to conquer, there an exploring craving begins Awareness of self stirring into the constellation Bodies attuned beyond the stretch of imagination Savoring on the flavor of the alignment sweeten taste Desires igniting an inferno, the heat of its flames refusing to wait Overheated friction surrendering without debates Runaway yearning weakening in the presence of fate The ecstasy of the moonlight’s dust felt, abiding to the crack of dawn Emotions of the elixir slowly withdrawn A Cheshire moonrise Always a sacred communion given in surprise Masked feelings hidden behind the stars in our eyes Sprinkles of pixie dust as the moon becomes full Paired upon, as lace meets wool Interwoven and tenderly spun on a galactic spool Stars In Exile Twinkling for eyes to glimpse beyond the earth’s smile Canopus to Antares, oh how you make me shine Closing my eyes, coveting your point as I’m making you mine Settled and glittering as small diamonds binding in the sky A wondrous elopement to experience in the blink of an eye Soft whispers to the ones that shoot right before they fall Such a beautiful and breathlessly cadence to wish under them all The Gift Of The Sun’s Stroke Umm, shooting stars kept me awoke Relentless bodies bathing under the moon Caresses, touches, entwined souls echoing the note of its weakening tunes Sweeter and sweeter, deeper and deeper Bodies fueled, hot as a heater, bodies climbing steeper and steeper Heat consumes the interior of the temple Sweat of life, as movements come together and then disassemble Elated, sedated, dipping in a cool blue lagoon Kisses under the sun on a beautiful afternoon Temperatures rising not a moment too soon June slamming into summer’s heat A merriment of a sun stroke basking in the glorious feast The galaxy and its spicy passion A gift to the world to enjoy in any unbridled fashion
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 1:17 PM UTC
A Kiss Among The Milky Way
Can you feel it Shh, allow the galaxy to pamper your body, blanket the essence of your mind, bit-by-bit Travel on a higher awareness to understand the galaxy’s gentle gift Close your eyes and allow your mind to softly drift Soft Moonlight Dust Illuminating the night skies, given warmth of its inner trust Centered in the sky, a star abates for its enlighten ****** Kindred minds to enrapture, as souls physically adjust So gentle, as a touch to the skin An inner space to conquer, there an exploring craving begins Awareness of self stirring into the constellation Bodies attuned beyond the stretch of imagination Savoring on the flavor of the alignment sweeten taste Desires igniting an inferno, the heat of its flames refusing to wait Overheated friction surrendering without debates Runaway yearning weakening in the presence of fate The ecstasy of the moonlight’s dust felt, abiding to the crack of dawn Emotions of the elixir slowly withdrawn A Cheshire moonrise Always a sacred communion given in surprise Masked feelings hidden behind the stars in our eyes Sprinkles of pixie dust as the moon becomes full Paired upon, as lace meets wool Interwoven and tenderly spun on a galactic spool Stars In Exile Twinkling for eyes to glimpse beyond the earth’s smile Canopus to Antares, oh how you make me shine Closing my eyes, coveting your point as I’m making you mine Settled and glittering as small diamonds binding in the sky A wondrous elopement to experience in the blink of an eye Soft whispers to the ones that shoot right before they fall Such a beautiful and breathlessly cadence to wish under them all The Gift Of The Sun’s Stroke Umm, shooting stars kept me awoke Relentless bodies bathing under the moon Caresses, touches, entwined souls echoing the note of its weakening tunes Sweeter and sweeter, deeper and deeper Bodies fueled, hot as a heater, bodies climbing steeper and steeper Heat consumes the interior of the temple Sweat of life, as movements come together and then disassemble Elated, sedated, dipping in a cool blue lagoon Kisses under the sun on a beautiful afternoon Temperatures rising not a moment too soon June slamming into summer’s heat A merriment of a sun stroke basking in the glorious feast The galaxy and its spicy passion A gift to the world to enjoy in any unbridled fashion
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Shriveled & shrunken. Intoxicated & drunken. Hung over & agitated. Mild to moderate brain activity. Common sense & basic reason lacks mental ability. Bad with money & squanders financial stability. Passing a psychological mental health evaluation not quite. Kept in a straight jacket & sedated in isolation they do spit & bite. They go through everyone's trash day & night. They panhandle at the street lights. They have tempers & pick fights. Nothing they do is legal or right. Slobs with no jobs. They lack work ethics. The sight & stench of them is sick. They're sad story is lies & tricks. Not a truth that sticks. They cuss & their pocked face oozes **** Their frontal lobe is filled with dust. About telling your teacher the truth they get homicidal & make a fuss. They drive a piece of **** car consisting of smog & rust. Getting arrested for 365 × 3 + 2 counts of child **** is never a bust. Keep your children away from drunks. Some drunks get violent, beat you & lock you on a trunk. Most pedofiles & rapists are drinkers. Not religious or moral thinkers. With shingles, hpv virus, ****** & boyles. Zero morals as hideous as an ugly *** gargoyle. Enjoy arguing,  screams & shouts. Daily drunk driving & behind the wheel blackouts.
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 10:51 PM UTC
Innocence Unattended
Fabricated. Fictitious. A fake floating feeling Falls short Of my fleeting fantasy. This insidious infirmity Isn't what I intended. I've been inflicted With internal indisposition. In need of an ideal identity. Who am I without This ****** to make me whole? How do I heave my heart Away from this hole? Have you seen how hard this is? But it's been short of a year, Of believing I can simply be. And before I break Bleed me of my bane. And for me, bear no malice. Tightly take me Away from my terible tempest. Time tells me it's time to stop. Too long I've tortured my tenemet. Tame the tantrum tearing through me. Sober seems strong, But it's systematic survival. Stopping the surrender To something stimulating. Learning to stand sedated. No I'm no longer numb. No longer neglecting my need For new novcane. Knowing I'll never need This vaccine again. You are all my ambition. Dispelling my ailments And afflictions. I am hard to adore, I know. You are my new addiction. You have me dreaming, Praying we are real. Made me feel. Don't decieve my brittle belief. Keep me, don't leave. I'm not the kind to fly. For you i'd try to dive. Unafraid I might die. I don't hide from the night. This is what I've been trying to find.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM UTC
Tip of the tongue the teeth and the lips
I miss awaking With you by my side Faking Not wanting to let you inside With your body pressed against mine Begging For me to say fine And me finally letting Myself give into your delicious temptation Good morning *** Before goodbye at the train station Forgetting what wrecks We had created Losing our minds We were sedated Ignoring the signs Destined for failure My teenage romance You were too much my senior To be happy with a careless dance And the lights went out You were gone And with that came pouring doubt At dawn Simple love may not exist To act unconsciously Is  not permissed And certainly love is no democracy I miss awaking with you by my side
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC
Good morning ***
Peer pressure, peer pressure My name is peer pressure, My father is doubt, My mother is duress, My sister is bad choices, My brother is nervous energy I was born in a cyclone of negativity Whipping through an ocean of people They're the tribe of the unrest I know im extremely unwanted But im here anyways at all times Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name No one is immune from me Neither the young, the teen nor the old I'm evil I wreak havoc and strife To the human race I ruin people's lives First, I offer illusions of enjoyment And pleasure to them Till when I take their greatest Treasure Till when I see them departing From all that is correct Till when No more goodness nor kindness Is detected from them Till when Their morals and goodness Have gone into decay Till when I see their senses sedated And all their energy depleted Till when I see them F   A     L       T        E          R           I          N        G Till when I see tears of regrets Turn into cries of despair Till when I see there is nobody They can turn unto Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name Those who grant me to their lives, I make sure i become A silhouette of lies to their lives Till when They're always M-i-n-e Frozen in time Hopeless forever Till when I see them Completely gone astray Furthermore, Pile on the agony For that is pleasing To my father Satan B     E       N         E        A      T H Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name "Alas!" Beware when making me your friend Because i might end up D      R        A        G      G        I           N                G You to self destruction.
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 6:13 AM UTC
Peer pressure, Peer pressure
Peer pressure, peer pressure My name is peer pressure, My father is doubt, My mother is duress, My sister is bad choices, My brother is nervous energy I was born in a cyclone of negativity Whipping through an ocean of people They're the tribe of the unrest I know im extremely unwanted But im here anyways at all times Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name No one is immune from me Neither the young, the teen nor the old I'm evil I wreak havoc and strife To the human race I ruin people's lives First, I offer illusions of enjoyment And pleasure to them Till when I take their greatest Treasure Till when I see them departing From all that is correct Till when No more goodness nor kindness Is detected from them Till when Their morals and goodness Have gone into decay Till when I see their senses sedated And all their energy depleted Till when I see them F   A     L       T        E          R           I          N        G Till when I see tears of regrets Turn into cries of despair Till when I see there is nobody They can turn unto Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name Those who grant me to their lives, I make sure i become A silhouette of lies to their lives Till when They're always M-i-n-e Frozen in time Hopeless forever Till when I see them Completely gone astray Furthermore, Pile on the agony For that is pleasing To my father Satan B     E       N         E        A      T H Peer pressure, peer pressure Is my name "Alas!" Beware when making me your friend Because i might end up D      R        A        G      G        I           N                G You to self destruction.
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Maybe I’ll never make a good father, the world has shown me it’s ugly face. I see things too logically, too realistically. The things I’ve done and seen, my dark sense of humour, twisted sources of entertainment and sexuality. My sedated emotions and even my choice of forensics profession all these things probably makes me a pretty bad father, bad husband, bad boyfriend… And probably a bad person. N.H.
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 1:02 AM UTC
Forensic
I'm so frustrated These words won't come, Won't help me feel sedated
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 8:30 PM UTC
Frustrated
eye lids move slowly over the eyeballs in an effort to garner sleep to a worn out body to restore the metabolism to normality yet sleep eludes the slight movement of the eyelids never felt before is sensed as the brine tear a lubricant between the interface where surface tension dominates all other forces of physics what force dominates my heart? I know not and sleep eludes me Unconstrained emotions flow around like unsettled dust particles glowing in the sunlight that escapes in through a ventilator hole sedatives themselves are sedated and sleep eludes me I still have five more days I foresee before hallucinations and delusions take over me before that oh sleep like gandalf arriving at helms deep please come back to me but not at the breaking of the dawn not when light is bright but in silence of the mysterious night
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
Sleeplessness
The pharmacist is not your friend He may put you up in a high hotel With slip streams of ****** pills Paxil and Wellbutrin Designed to defeat depression To facilitate a fog like Fugues of perfected moods With drugs made to create The perfect drone state So you can pay your bills So you can **** and sleep well So you can keep your health But it is poison Kidney killing swill And while you are under the influence Perfectly sedated so you forget how to feel One hand is in your pocket Thinning your wallet draining dollar bills While the other hand holds your heart Crushing what is left of your already weakened will
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM UTC
Untitled
Eat then to toss it up, Appetite sedated for the time being then to just loose it all In the fight of the stomach acids and the food This will **** you, but you still puke Bulge on burgers and Shakes then to loose it to the bowl I used eat then loose it I bulged on burgers and shakes I used to be anorexic
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 4:39 PM UTC
Anorexia
When I look into the moon I see the only dependent part of me that still exists. Its as if the silence in her vocal cords spoke words of solitude. I gave her the only bio mechanical part of me that mattered. The gears in my chest keep turning like clock work. I count seconds into minutes and minutes into hours and hours into days. I keep thinking time is standing still while im still standing still. I'm waiting, waiting on patience and as unjustified as it sounds I'm impatient. Dreams are just your natural thoughts heavily sedated, a sub-conscious reality based off the feelings we cant display them. I don't consider myself a writer, I see the constant flow of words and as a kid it left me inspired. I'm more of the sub concious reality type. I drink coffee and outside of that I really don't have a life. For me writing is self exspression without being judged by others. I opinionate my feelings and organize them in ink. The papper is my empty canvas, my thoughts are my judgment, and the pen is the deliverer. Sometimes writing is the only thing that can stitch my wounds, like the words curved inside my brain penetrating like the needlesof a tattoo. I wonder what will become me, in what paradox will I redeem the sum of me? I just hope this bio mechanical heart ticks away. I hope people continue to be people with different mindsets and open steeples. I want love to be found and dreams to be created. Kalvin Moon
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Apr 3, 2017
Apr 3, 2017 at 2:20 AM UTC
Rambling.
She had a perfume that smelled like jasmine when she woke me up in the morning and like roses when she tucked me in at night It was the same perfume sprayed from the same bottle, but it smelled different every time I visited her Her perfume translated her feelings into delicate smells … smells I will never be able to forget The same perfume is still sprayed from the same bottle … but now … it smells like fear She no longer wears that perfume … “it makes me sad” she says … It makes us all sad! … Its drizzling droplets brushes against our senses awakening sedated memories … Memories of … Of grandpa’s happy eyes, warm embracing voice and tender sheltering hug … he was the kind of person whose presence can be felt from a distance. He would smile every time your eyes meet his as if he was noticing you for the very first time … Of mother’s childhood dreams tucked carefully in her braided hair … Of baby brother’s golden straight hair and wide curious brown eyes Of our tiny apartment whose windows allowed light to enter only from her room … the burgundy colored velvet salon chairs neatly covered by off white sheets … the noisy fridge who made sure everyone noticed me steeling ice-cream at midnight … Grandma’s perfume harbors our memories … Its droplets carry away our happiness leaving us stinking of fear!
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Dec 25, 2018
Dec 25, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC
Grandma’s perfume
Is it just I who gets that anxious, squirming Sensational feeling? Like creativity suppressed— But by what? My faults? The fates? My own self For I cannot convey how positively debilitating, Paralyzing, transfixing— I don’t want to live in subdued twilight, Sedated by my own ideas of inabilities, But who or what, or what in me Can prevent even the faintest of hindrances From annihilating the depth of my inspirational understanding… I’m yet to discern any of the undetectable barriers Or is it that—metaphysics? So engrossed, preoccupied, wearied by what The idea that there’s something Anything at all, preventing the finesse As here I cogitate Dimensions past me...
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 3:19 PM UTC
Anxious Creativity
I've been sedated and sold bought by gypsy ways my inhibitions have been stolen by mundane sober days I've been troubled and wandering trying to find a place to lay but the sleeping don't bring rest so I found a place to play shisha smoke fills my mouth MDMA rolls hard in the back of my eyes and there's no feeling lonely no hours to own me no imperfections to hold me in knowing no place as home in my eyes child fires bright with delight and hunger for more my memory written down quickly in thin white asp bite lines crimes of the right mind the creative souls borderlines sweat rolls over my body my arms find the sky I can't see the ugliness spying through childs eyes with my hands razor blade shakes my poetry's written one line at a time and there's no feeling helpless no reminders of distress wandering free and careless in knowing no place as home in my eyes child fires bright with delight and hunger for more I hear music even in the hush MDMA lusch, I crave life with a violent crush with two wide lines and the life of one white pill my life is filled with more beauty than I can stand until I can't even stand
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Apr 26, 2012
Apr 26, 2012 at 4:36 PM UTC
ORION
on the night train to Vienna I dreamt as the soft tangerine light bled into the windows, tumbling down infinities of Italian countryside absorbing into my retinas in summer shades of dusk-colored haze entranced I was-- a nervous girl of sixteen years, uncharted valleys sprawling ceaselessly at the beds of my fingers, love languages my tongue could not yet stretch its fibers around freedom forming its hunched silhouette just outside of thin glass windows cooled by the night’s apprehensive breeze endless, it seemed the rumbling blur of possibilities-- my hands sedated for the first time in years. quietly existing in the jolt of a moving cab, the subtle ricochet through the faint lamppost glow of fragile Austrian dreams. home-- four thousand and forever miles away and yet here was fine, just fine a girl with stringy hair and a steaming cup of midnight European tea as her mother sighed to herself in the peak of her American afternoon, wondering whether her baby had found sleep in someone else’s morning.
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Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 9:22 PM UTC
ON THE NIGHT TRAIN TO VIENNA
Eat then to toss it up, Appetite sedated for the time being then to just loose it all In the fight of the stomach acids and the food This will **** you, but you still puke Bulge on burgers and Shakes then to loose it to the bowl I used eat then loose it I bulged on burgers and shakes I used to be anorexic
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 4:39 PM UTC
Anorexia
On the floor of the river styx, frogs burrowing peer over muck duvets to watch me press like a violet between the cookbook pages of the water and the land. I went overboard- I am addicted to the darkness between worlds. Somewhere above me, I see the moon. She doesn’t try to warn me, she doesn’t bother reminding me that I can’t breathe. Heavy currents like snakes blur her face into fractured crystal tears that wash me over with sweet exasperation. Sedated by the salt toward the other side, where the ferryman flips my coin and hums a tune without words about all rivers rushing toward the sea. He doesn’t ask me why I chose this route, just grins a toothless grin And winks And tosses my coin into the water without So much As a wish.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM UTC
The Ferryman
When the wars of men Shall finally end Will the lands still be green Bejeweled with floral adornment And the mighty seas spirited In their azure echo of the skies Or will it reek like the woeful demise Of a fateful unfading resolve By the mortal greed of folks Sedated in devilish hoax
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Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023 at 12:59 PM UTC
Wars of Men
You sit daintily on her lap And everything’s a frenzy Not a sunset fiesta But an angry cataclysm of molecules Ricocheting into hysterical radioactivity And I sit quietly Warily I watch mine become hers During brief moments Of searing mania and the pit Of my core is unraveling And my heart is two patters too quick In the most sedated of ways On days when the wrinkles of your hands Match another’s And when you are no longer my own.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 6:09 PM UTC
radioactive
I felt the world at a finger tip, It tingled And radiated, Radius. Sedated, I am medicated on absence And excess. You are the mirror to me, My existential mess, Superiority and minority thought. Superficial and fictitiously bought, Buyer from the sold, Silver to the raindrop, Water to your gold. It drips Fingertips, Touched the world at a lark, Till light fled, Leaving the dark. I bid farewell to new, And hello to you.
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Aug 12, 2010
Aug 12, 2010 at 1:31 AM UTC
Existential Mess
An endless waterfall of emptiness leave her, love her, hurt her, she does not care she longs to care but she is covered and bundled in a thick quilt that poisons her everything with “nothing” something is missing, the tears are missing she knew she would be okay because of the streams that would flow furiously down her cotton felt rosy cheeks she knew she would be okay because of the tender most voluntary light tears dancing gracefully across the marbled floor that was her face but now, she does not know if she will be okay because of the dessert like dryness of her eyes, and the solitude her cheeks and lips have felt for quite some time now something is missing, she is missing she has been looking for what seems like a million years all over her now pitch black universe for herself she had colors she had stars, moons, millions of suns and planets within her now the color black is the mere most perfect description of everything she has become the battle between deciding what to feel out of all that she felt is over she feels as an invisible soul that has passed from our physical world feels; anger, rage because he is truly incapable of touching those who he stands infront of all day, he cannot do anything about the fact that he is invisible and non existent to all those he wishes to be noticed by she feels anger, rage because she finds herself incapable of touching her emotions frustration because tears no longer dance across her face she feels invisible to her reflection in the mirror because she remembers the image of a person an actually person who is able to cry when sad and smile when happy she is no longer able to show any physical emotion so she sees no reflection a thick black fog invades her physical body and soul crawling through her eye sockets, her mouth, ears ,nostrils, and pours it invades her psyche with all its blackness and abducts all the stars, moons many suns, and planets converting her inner universe into endless caves made of millions of tunnels that make love with emptiness and darkness she has become a maze beautifully numb, impatiently lost, sedated by absence she is me, and i, have been kissed by apathy. paralyzing me and incapacitating me from myself is what this beautiful demon has done to me she touched my lips and altered my thoughts persuaded me into the belief that she would protect me she told me that if i did not feel i would not hurt at the time that i fell in love with her i was in a state where i would of taken my life just to end all feelings and confusion within me she offered her anesthetic kiss, i took it as she relentlessly took over me i started to realize… now i fear it be to late i know the end to this maze will be the gate to my stars, my moons, my many suns, and planets and i will run for what now seems an eternity but i will not give up on my universe j.e
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM UTC
Apathy
An endless waterfall of emptiness leave her, love her, hurt her, she does not care she longs to care but she is covered and bundled in a thick quilt that poisons her everything with “nothing” something is missing, the tears are missing she knew she would be okay because of the streams that would flow furiously down her cotton felt rosy cheeks she knew she would be okay because of the tender most voluntary light tears dancing gracefully across the marbled floor that was her face but now, she does not know if she will be okay because of the dessert like dryness of her eyes, and the solitude her cheeks and lips have felt for quite some time now something is missing, she is missing she has been looking for what seems like a million years all over her now pitch black universe for herself she had colors she had stars, moons, millions of suns and planets within her now the color black is the mere most perfect description of everything she has become the battle between deciding what to feel out of all that she felt is over she feels as an invisible soul that has passed from our physical world feels; anger, rage because he is truly incapable of touching those who he stands infront of all day, he cannot do anything about the fact that he is invisible and non existent to all those he wishes to be noticed by she feels anger, rage because she finds herself incapable of touching her emotions frustration because tears no longer dance across her face she feels invisible to her reflection in the mirror because she remembers the image of a person an actually person who is able to cry when sad and smile when happy she is no longer able to show any physical emotion so she sees no reflection a thick black fog invades her physical body and soul crawling through her eye sockets, her mouth, ears ,nostrils, and pours it invades her psyche with all its blackness and abducts all the stars, moons many suns, and planets converting her inner universe into endless caves made of millions of tunnels that make love with emptiness and darkness she has become a maze beautifully numb, impatiently lost, sedated by absence she is me, and i, have been kissed by apathy. paralyzing me and incapacitating me from myself is what this beautiful demon has done to me she touched my lips and altered my thoughts persuaded me into the belief that she would protect me she told me that if i did not feel i would not hurt at the time that i fell in love with her i was in a state where i would of taken my life just to end all feelings and confusion within me she offered her anesthetic kiss, i took it as she relentlessly took over me i started to realize… now i fear it be to late i know the end to this maze will be the gate to my stars, my moons, my many suns, and planets and i will run for what now seems an eternity but i will not give up on my universe j.e
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I think Grandpa Stewart developed a stutter from years of being interrupted. I've never heard him get out a whole sentence on his own, without Grandma cutting him off before tonight. He hobbles over to the kitchen where I'm doing dishes after dinner. Expectantly, I look up into the ***** windowpanes of his old, gray eyes, his hands are shaking and lips quivering. When he talks, it's like a secret, and he tells me, struggling over sequence and syllables, stories of being a volunteer firefighter. Days he was the strongest man anyone knew. He stopped a flaming tractor trailer, once, from running away all ablaze when its brakeline blew up. Set his jaw, leaned into the smoke, another time, and pushed onward in steady strides, putting out a fire in a nickel and dime store, even when the hose pressure was pushing his line of sweaty men backward into the street. Where the hell is that fighting man? I look at the hunched, wrinkled one before me and remember the panic that crippled him when his second son killed himself 12 years ago. Knelt down as if in prayer, begging for forgiveness maybe, put a shotgun under his chin, and blew his brains out, a different type of fire, with carbon and sulfur exploding just as deadly. They said the bullet came out his eye socket. I don't know how they could tell. It was a stranger in the casket they pieced together from chunks of skull found across the basement floor. Haunted by fires, Grandpa doesn't sleep now, answers the phone on the first ring, paralyzed in perpetual anxiety, yelling,                                                              "Y-Y-YES?! He-Hello?!" His stutters are a endless seziure convulsing on his tongue. He's slower, he's somewhere else, he 's interrupted and doesn't try. He's medicated and sedated and smothered into this empty shell of a man, sleeping, existing on a living room recliner, ****** with colorless eyes, desensitized to fear and family, broken in the wake of fire's senseless destruction; all the charred ashes left in its place.
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Nov 3, 2011
Nov 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM UTC
Stutter
I think Grandpa Stewart developed a stutter from years of being interrupted. I've never heard him get out a whole sentence on his own, without Grandma cutting him off before tonight. He hobbles over to the kitchen where I'm doing dishes after dinner. Expectantly, I look up into the ***** windowpanes of his old, gray eyes, his hands are shaking and lips quivering. When he talks, it's like a secret, and he tells me, struggling over sequence and syllables, stories of being a volunteer firefighter. Days he was the strongest man anyone knew. He stopped a flaming tractor trailer, once, from running away all ablaze when its brakeline blew up. Set his jaw, leaned into the smoke, another time, and pushed onward in steady strides, putting out a fire in a nickel and dime store, even when the hose pressure was pushing his line of sweaty men backward into the street. Where the hell is that fighting man? I look at the hunched, wrinkled one before me and remember the panic that crippled him when his second son killed himself 12 years ago. Knelt down as if in prayer, begging for forgiveness maybe, put a shotgun under his chin, and blew his brains out, a different type of fire, with carbon and sulfur exploding just as deadly. They said the bullet came out his eye socket. I don't know how they could tell. It was a stranger in the casket they pieced together from chunks of skull found across the basement floor. Haunted by fires, Grandpa doesn't sleep now, answers the phone on the first ring, paralyzed in perpetual anxiety, yelling,                                                              "Y-Y-YES?! He-Hello?!" His stutters are a endless seziure convulsing on his tongue. He's slower, he's somewhere else, he 's interrupted and doesn't try. He's medicated and sedated and smothered into this empty shell of a man, sleeping, existing on a living room recliner, ****** with colorless eyes, desensitized to fear and family, broken in the wake of fire's senseless destruction; all the charred ashes left in its place.
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i am sitting here at 3 am confronting the empty side of my bed my thoughts hold me hostage to create a cage that i will not be able to escape i try to play dead until they leave me alone i try to shift shapes for a hope they might leave i try lighting a candle for flicks of light to cast the darkness away but i soon begin to realize that im not afraid of the dark i cant get out of bed my thoughts are holding me hostage im at a place i dont want to be at and can not leave the sound of loneliness slowly begins to deafen me the silver ray of moon is almost blinding me all that i see through the reflection of my glass are the bones of a hollow body, just like silver, starting to rust and here i speak to my thoughts that i have surrendered to their thoughtless plots they ring my ears, with demands to give up my soul to their filthy hands i stumble as i try to stand up i am as weak as a sedated body ready to be cut my knees tremble like magnets attached to no other but my bed they repel any movement to stand up straight panic fills my fearful cup my gaze shifts to my reflection and i see the ghost of forgotten remains of someone who has lost i do not want to die i deserve more than being ended by no other than my filthy thoughts i force my eyes open and smash the reflection with both my fists adrenaline painfully waking my body up with every ounce i have left i try to detach myself from my bed i am peeling layers off and have never been in more pain but it is all worth the pain for i wont fail myself again to become forgotten ruins of a life-time faded into a blank sheet there is more to my story than just an empty bed for i will not be manipulated by my own self again even if it shall be 3 a.m again
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Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 8:27 AM UTC
3 a.m
i am sitting here at 3 am confronting the empty side of my bed my thoughts hold me hostage to create a cage that i will not be able to escape i try to play dead until they leave me alone i try to shift shapes for a hope they might leave i try lighting a candle for flicks of light to cast the darkness away but i soon begin to realize that im not afraid of the dark i cant get out of bed my thoughts are holding me hostage im at a place i dont want to be at and can not leave the sound of loneliness slowly begins to deafen me the silver ray of moon is almost blinding me all that i see through the reflection of my glass are the bones of a hollow body, just like silver, starting to rust and here i speak to my thoughts that i have surrendered to their thoughtless plots they ring my ears, with demands to give up my soul to their filthy hands i stumble as i try to stand up i am as weak as a sedated body ready to be cut my knees tremble like magnets attached to no other but my bed they repel any movement to stand up straight panic fills my fearful cup my gaze shifts to my reflection and i see the ghost of forgotten remains of someone who has lost i do not want to die i deserve more than being ended by no other than my filthy thoughts i force my eyes open and smash the reflection with both my fists adrenaline painfully waking my body up with every ounce i have left i try to detach myself from my bed i am peeling layers off and have never been in more pain but it is all worth the pain for i wont fail myself again to become forgotten ruins of a life-time faded into a blank sheet there is more to my story than just an empty bed for i will not be manipulated by my own self again even if it shall be 3 a.m again
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