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Josephine Lnd May 2013
An empty ******* tank, but with full throttle
been running on idle on top gear,
now the engine has seized up and I
am forced to surrender every morning
to the fact
that I have to eat pills not to go into myself,
go into a corner and go under

and even though I’m on the maximum dose
there are still days when I can’t
get outside the door
just laying down, sinking through the couch, back down
to a state I don’t want to allow
but I have no other choice but to keep breathing
as if I were on ten thousand meters altitude

and I have no other choice but to surrender to
the fact that I can’t handle myself,
that I wouldn’t get up without
these forty milligrams a day
yet still I stand there with my sword drawn behind my back
can’t let the guard down unto the enemy that is reality

and now they say I have a bipolarity they
want to medicate, stabilize
my moods
I have a flawed brain, I have a flawed history
been making too many bad choices, involved myself
in too many ****** up people and got stuck
as if I didn’t have any other choice
when really I just could have opened my eyes
and see my own part of the story
  that I’ve always been looking for someone more broken than
what I’ve been,
to take care of, in stupid attempts
to drown out my own weakness

it’s as if I’ve always wanted to find excuses
for feeling the way I do, being the way I am,
that I don’t function at all
  never wanted to realize that it was in me
the fault lied
  always on the hunt for someone who could destroy me anew
so I didn’t have to see that I was already annihilated
by myself,
so I didn’t have to see that there were no hangman,
that I stood there with the axe in my own hands
and blood on my shoes

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en tom jävla tank, men med gasen i botten
har kört på tomgång på högsta växeln,
nu har motorn skurit och jag
är tvungen att kapitulera varenda morgon
inför det faktum
att jag måste knapra piller för att inte gå in i mig själv,
gå in i ett hörn och gå under

och trots att jag ligger på maxdos
så finns det fortfarande dagar då jag inte klarar av
att ta mig utanför dörren
bara ligger, sjunker igenom soffan, ner tillbaka
till ett tillstånd jag inte vill tillåta,
men jag har inget annat val än att fortsätta andas
som om jag befann mig på tiotusenmeters höjd

jag har inget annat val än att kapitulera inför
det faktum att jag inte klarar av mig själv,
att jag inte skulle idas resa mig upp utan
dessa fyrti milligram om dagen
  ändå står jag där med svärdet draget bakom ryggen
kan inte släppa ner garden inför den fiende som är verkligheten

och nu säger de att jag har en bipolaritet
som de vill medicinera, stabilisera
mina stämningar
jag har fel på hjärnan, det är fel på min historia
har gjort för många dåliga val, har involverat mig
i för många fuckade människor och fastnat där
som om jag inte hade något annat val
när jag egentligen bara kunnat öppna ögonen
och se min egen roll i det hela
  att jag ständigt sökt någon trasigare än
vad jag själv varit,
att ta hand om, i korkade försök
att överrösta min egen svaghet

det är som att jag alltid velat hitta ursäkter
för att jag mår som jag mår, är som jag är,
att jag inte fungerar alls
har aldrig velat inse att det var hos mig
felet låg,
ständigt på jakt efter nån som kunnat förgöra mig på nytt
så jag slapp se att jag redan var tillintetgjord
av mig själv,
så jag slapp se att det inte fanns någon bödel,
att jag stod med yxan i min egen hand
och blod på mina skor
Nigel Morgan Feb 2013
Love’s Lexicon
 
I must make a new vocabulary.
My dear, the words I’ve used in those
Over and over descriptions, signifying all you are,
Are well and past their sell-by-date, should
End their shelf-life here and now. No longer can I
Form their letters truly without knowing well
I test love’s patience . . . and your own.
 
So in desperation’s way
I adopt a different lexicon
Offer you, my love,
a fresh taxonomy.
 
concave the slapp
pressure inbuilt
evenly glassed
held held holdingnow
but ambulatory
moons at full stretch
figuration tempering
notonce twicemore
pressure wieghedupon
beyond breath’s exhale
membraneous goldening
frecklation the hands’ fastness
eyerich sightedkeen here
gone awaygone away
bodystretched senticle
smoooth

  
A Proper Poem
 
Poised to conjure music
from the nothing air, and
with only some frivolous
verse to guide me,
I rest momentarily
to watch the screen of my mind
show your dear self to me:
the sweet flow of your body
uncovered in the shower;
that dance of choosing clothes
and dressing. I have sometimes
watched and wondered,
wondered that you could be
quite as you are.
So precious in my sight,
so very precious.

Water’s Kiss**
 
I shall only write you
very short poems of love
so you can taste them
in one gulp as you might
from a Highland stream
unpolluted, soft,
peat -filtered, cold,
and bubbled with air
from falling across stones
into your cupped hand.
My love, bring now
this water’s kiss
to your waiting lips.
First things first I'm tryna put emcees in a hearse
Suckas in thirst cuz they game dry in need of a thirst
But I got guns that'll clench ya for hydration
Steppin' into a gangsta nation I be black and I'm makin'
Funky grooves that sooth ya mind moods
Though I been told Im crude pardon my rude'
Ness my lyrics just love to manifest and bless like a **** of cannibus
Check the heat I bust thatll turn a hata into dust
No ashes gettin' passes even when I skipped classes
Rather slap girls ***** leavin' gashes
On the back of their minds I stocky fella with mad rhymes
Blowin' my pines so sound one time
Cuz it's about to be a major crime
The emcee raider makin' massacres
Oh you thought you could fade tha
Freshest dopest emcee since the twenty first century
Naw ***** I'm bringin back that real ****
Til ya either dead or a crip so take a trip
With me into another Galaxy some call me.
Dr strange cuz my minds travels faster than bullet trains spittin' the flames
From the top of my grain my pineal gland enlighten
Mad hypin' while you ******* still typing
**** up in ya weak *** magazine I load up my rhymes and let em bust like thirty round magazine til they heads guillotine
Switchin' up teams can none touch my cream
I'm an all star livin' the dream catch my beam
I'm aiming the tech at ya cap soon to get **** slapped
Now check the stats we cheat more than the Pats makin' facts not fictions
Stay out of bounds ya pass jurisdiction
Nailed to a crime like a pension mentally in a cruxificion ain't none hittin'
My flows cuz I pitch heat faster than Randy Johnson
In the strike zone I'm on my own give a dog a bone
Retainin' my throne with my Queen Redbone
Flossin' the big herringbone addin' chapters to my tome
Like Jackson they won't leave me alone
So I gotta flex the chrome cannon a hulk like Bannon
I be last real ***** standing beat downs I'm handing
On some brand Nubian **** my flows is lit
Your is **** so shut the **** up n sit back while a real ***** spit before I leave ya clothes wetter than a ***** **** *****!!!!
Joe Quaale Apr 2021
One day I ran into the wind, and felt the breeze from Within. Felt the rain slapp my face, as It tasted the salt on my skin. The last storm I was in, I closed my eyes, and stuck out my Tongue And Felt the rain turn to  snow. When I opened them there was the sun, stretching out it's Fingers with it's Warmth Touching my face.  a butterfly lands on my nose, as I take natures hand, and Followed it home!😆😆😆
Love Nature Mother

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