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"unscathed" poems
I want To fall in love with someones smile To swoon under their gaze To become dizzy with their touch I want To crave someone like an addiction To nestle up to their warmth To get an adrenaline rush from their scent I want To hold them and never let go To tell them how much I love them everyday To keep discovering them like it's my personal quest I want To give them my heart To love them for all that they are To keep them from the tainted world I want But what can I do with these contaminated hands? How dare I try to hold them close with these hands of mine flowing thick with lies? To tell them sweet nothings with my corrupted tongue? My love Is like a wildfire Sudden, quick, and innocent Without my permission my little spark turned into a flame And consumed everything that contained a letter in your name My love Is like a wildfire Untamed, ephemeral, and dangerous It destroys all it touches, Breaking barriers, burning bridges It envelopes everyone in its warmth leaving no option but to run or turn to ash Beware of my wildfire love You cannot leave unscathed I leave a scar Beware of my wildfire, love Because I'll burn enough for us both I'll keep you warm on cold nights and dry on rainy days I will set your heart ablaze and love you with all the force of my wildfire Beware of my love, It can't be forgotten nor replaced
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Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 1:08 AM UTC
Wildfire
she had flaked away her memories and stepped up with a ponderous heart, held by two gentle hands; and saying goodbye, did she, as she slipped off her skin, for the moment blood stains the kumari's tender soul, bereaved, will she become, for a goddess never bleeds. her feet shall never touch the tattered, naked ground, for it engulfs and devours and burns off the kumari's flesh. holding her pure spirit, and   accepting a cruel death sentence, her quivering soul cupped but a glimmer of hope, as the fire would flicker and lash and whip as her skin flakes again, and the kumari vanishes. but, if she remains unscathed, blood shall be drawn, and the gods will tremble and her body will collapse. the world will consume her once again. a kumari's blood, drawn, now at death, trembling and alone, had she sobbed tears of joy, for no longer the weight must she bear in her heart, of being a kumari; but a kumari is she, and the world has not chose her, but she has chosen to be. she had withered away, heart no longer ponderous, she stepped up. and her wishes from within passed on to the fearful others, held by two gentle hands, and with a gentle flutter of her eyes, next to her charcoal stained skin, had her heart stopped; for her bejeweled crown had been stained with blood, and the kumari realized that she had died long ago.
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 6:41 PM UTC
a kumari's blood
I climbed slowly, slowly on the mount of aspirations, On        succint        savoury        dreams, As i see the success peaking from thousand miles above. I grip the cold stone tighter, harder, My passion, my hardwork, As i swiftly float from    the   ground. Snowy zephyrs of laze and evil, Reign against me, trying to break my hold. Yet the fire of my determination, Still burns within. My thick woolen coat hugs me tight, My faith, my values, Protecting me from the blizzards of jealousy, vile, As i wind my way upwards. A glance backwards, And the horrid past knocks on the veins of my sullen heart, Yet this soul will give up no more. The weary body, driven by heraculous force, through the steep slopes of time, Against enormous storms and stints, With an armour of patience, Finds itself on dome of success. Ah! fleeting moments of unscathed bliss, Enamour for success, And it's sweet sweet honey. That slowly melts in my heart, On top of the mountain, Where everything is freezing. From the top, the hardwork, the giant path looks small, As the heart prepares to climb, Another                              mountain.
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May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 2:09 PM UTC
The Journey to Success
Soft  yellow sunrise my first morning waking up looking into your eyes Lying still in the moment to soak it all in a calm beating heart & an unscathed grin Wrinkled sheets and messy hair sipping fresh coffee in a chipped-paint chair A new beginning & the feeling of home making sense of the past and my journey alone It lead me to your smile, which lead me to your kiss and being wrapped in your angel wings in a night of heavenly bliss This morning I found my purpose and I hope to see 1000 more soft yellow sunrises streaming in behind your door
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 5:49 AM UTC
Soft Yellow Sunrise
# The room in starlight bathed My body unscathed Swimming indoors sheets are shores Wash over me like the tide for I don't sleep at night Swimming indoors where it always pours Moon reflection on my cushion Swimming indoors following ancient lores Diving deep to find an Atlantis on my mind Swimming indoors til reaching the dream's source #
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 9:18 PM UTC
Nightswimming
I'm in love with a fisherman who fears sailing onward to outstretched sea instead he casts his nets over ponds and shallow streams I’m in love with a fisherman whose hands are ignorant of forceful currents and giant swells each graze from his unscathed hands reminds me of his vanity his boasting never halting -- the fish are endless in his shallow stream My fisherman is too cowardly to inhale the briny air so when we make love the smell of fresh water lingers on my sheets and my salty skin needs a drink but this estuary is not a haven for ill-fated love while I yearn for my fisherman, my heart will always yield to the sea
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Mar 29, 2013
Mar 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
fisherman
* * - My silver Knight, shining with angelic splendour has sailed towards the outer regions of my Kingdom to lay waste to all my enemies. My heart in hands, my hands are clasped, brought alive with love, with light, with prayer. Please, come back to me. As I think of arrows piercing his breast, or swords, or warhammers or even axes I cannot, will not ever dance to the songs of war. A fire that claims souls, the earth that drinks blood, a sight that makes my stomach turn To see men fighting for a cause or no cause at all. For war rapes all of happiness and loved ones. Oh! Begone tortuous thoughts! Revolting facts! He will return. He will return! For my nation prays with fervour, but all have bleary-eyes, no more than me. He's gone to brave the dragon's dawn - of men branded, fuelled by the flames of war, riding into the fields on their snow kissed mounts, roaring and clashing under a broken sky; the kiss of steel, blades that dance between life and death and give any and many the kiss of Eternal Sleep. The harp of his silver tongue plays soft, gentle and true. Hand in hand, we walk through fields, of my dreams divine! The ambition, the care, the charm glowing in your eyes to be something more. To you, I was a muse to climb and soar though the heights, and you spoke so highly of my golden sapient quill. My heart, heavy, full of woe As sleep has not come smoothly to my face, my body, my heart, my soul. You promised me, 'I will return to you.'   'I will return to you,' how your voice hung so sweet in my ear, ripe with love, vibrant with hope, certain as the rising light Please do not fade away, I could not bear it! Please don't fade away! Bring unto me that gold and joyous hour! Fair the storms and roars; overcome the shores, slay and return to me from the dragon's dawn, unscathed and with a smile on your handsome face. - * *
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 5:17 PM UTC
Dragon's Dawn
* * - My silver Knight, shining with angelic splendour has sailed towards the outer regions of my Kingdom to lay waste to all my enemies. My heart in hands, my hands are clasped, brought alive with love, with light, with prayer. Please, come back to me. As I think of arrows piercing his breast, or swords, or warhammers or even axes I cannot, will not ever dance to the songs of war. A fire that claims souls, the earth that drinks blood, a sight that makes my stomach turn To see men fighting for a cause or no cause at all. For war rapes all of happiness and loved ones. Oh! Begone tortuous thoughts! Revolting facts! He will return. He will return! For my nation prays with fervour, but all have bleary-eyes, no more than me. He's gone to brave the dragon's dawn - of men branded, fuelled by the flames of war, riding into the fields on their snow kissed mounts, roaring and clashing under a broken sky; the kiss of steel, blades that dance between life and death and give any and many the kiss of Eternal Sleep. The harp of his silver tongue plays soft, gentle and true. Hand in hand, we walk through fields, of my dreams divine! The ambition, the care, the charm glowing in your eyes to be something more. To you, I was a muse to climb and soar though the heights, and you spoke so highly of my golden sapient quill. My heart, heavy, full of woe As sleep has not come smoothly to my face, my body, my heart, my soul. You promised me, 'I will return to you.'   'I will return to you,' how your voice hung so sweet in my ear, ripe with love, vibrant with hope, certain as the rising light Please do not fade away, I could not bear it! Please don't fade away! Bring unto me that gold and joyous hour! Fair the storms and roars; overcome the shores, slay and return to me from the dragon's dawn, unscathed and with a smile on your handsome face. - * *
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There's something scary and beautiful about doing something wrong There's something scary about almost getting caught, someone nearly finding out There's something beautiful about getting away with it unscathed and feigning innocence There's something nasty about knowing its bad Something terrible about not giving a **** either way There's something scary and beautiful about doing something you know is wrong We'll call it exhilaration
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 4:26 AM UTC
Scary and Beautiful
**** masterminds steer clear of this man He's relentless a pitbull Lumping up Pinkman for no logical reason He's a madman Massacres Mexican kingpins and button men Knocks out Keith Jardine in a barfight initiated as a ptsd relief valve Maddog brothers Axe murdering elite eliminated with a bullet a fender and a little help from Gustavo Fring The only man to walk away unscathed from the exploding head of Danny Trejo debacle Houndog Hank the sherman tank is hot on Heisenbergs trail. Its almost guaranteed One of them will die Heisenbergs Bad But Schrader is badass.
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Jun 21, 2012
Jun 21, 2012 at 6:09 AM UTC
Schrader (Breaking Bad)
O rescue help the boys in dreadful cave. Those adventurers could meet their demise Unless in hour of crisis comes the brave; But one by one emerge and none yet dies, Unscathed though bruised from historic ordeals, Escaped the jaws of death. Those left behind, Our prayers they overcome their perils. The tears flowing freely cruel minutes grind. A strange surging water locking them in, The force push them up to higher chambers. Upon a mount waited; with anxious kin, With families, monks believe still embers. We salute rescuers' courage to save, And one to God his precious life he gave.
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 3:39 PM UTC
Save The Boys; Sonnet #8
The first love was fearfulness, Draped in a deceiving cloak. Leaving nothing but a mess, Every time he spoke. Always urging towards the choice, That left him unscathed and alone. Trapped by his wound soul's voice, Telling him "Your heart can't be shown!" One day he awoke With the sun in his eyes And he took off that cloak To remove his disguise He never again tried to justify Neither his words nor his actions. He just opened his heart deep inside, And filled the air with compassion.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM UTC
The First Love
and when fireworks stop cracking on the night sky and when the stars refrain from blinking down at streetlights guiding the path to our future and when you kiss me goodbye with burning lips and my own are unscathed whilst my neck is blooming third-degree burns, flesh melting on the site and when the sun turns to moonlight because its own flames have known no heat and when i will stop finding metaphors about firefirefirefirefirefire and when every winter you'd put us through ceases its frozen barricade and when i stop discovering myself hovering over the edge of a lake donning memories that refuse to drown and when i stop wishing there was some possibility of drowning myself in the bathtub - i will finally have the guts to say i don't love you
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Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014 at 12:56 AM UTC
falling out of love
The forest of legs swayed in the moving shadows beneath the chatter over head, each threatening to block our path and crush our attempt to get to the first fallen crisps of the party season, which as yet laid undisturbed. We weaved and advanced as fast as their legs allowed, eager to scavenge the waiting bounty before they were trampled underfoot by the oblivious adults who were intent on a seasonal ritual of their own that went on high over our heads. We emerged unscathed at the edge of the forest and raced across the open parquet to the cover of the drapped, white topped trestle tables catching our breaths and crunching our snatched crisps planning our next move toward the plateau above. Our scout had reported rich pickings, but when we looked around, seeking signs of our brave advance party, we could find no trace beyond a half eaten volovant and what might have been regurgitated mushroom. We shook our heads in despair at their folly. Every kid knows to stick to crisps and to processed meats, avoiding anything that might contain vegetables. We saw an open French window just beyond the trestles and heard plaintive heaves that had a distinct 6 year old strain. We checked each other's resolve and saw on each other's faces that we believed our mission was more important than any one stomach. With a maturity that would have surprised our parents, we pushed the plight of our friend to the back of our minds and focused on the task at hand. We each reached up with practiced stealth, taking only a second to check the food on offer and with a speed bred into us by the curse of older siblings, we each grabbed our prize. Acknowledging the hazards of the return journey we devoured the meat at hand and with hyena grins savoured our just rewards. While our fallen friend heaved once more, we saluted one another: the season had started better than any of us could have hoped.
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 5:25 PM UTC
First hunt of the season
The forest of legs swayed in the moving shadows beneath the chatter over head, each threatening to block our path and crush our attempt to get to the first fallen crisps of the party season, which as yet laid undisturbed. We weaved and advanced as fast as their legs allowed, eager to scavenge the waiting bounty before they were trampled underfoot by the oblivious adults who were intent on a seasonal ritual of their own that went on high over our heads. We emerged unscathed at the edge of the forest and raced across the open parquet to the cover of the drapped, white topped trestle tables catching our breaths and crunching our snatched crisps planning our next move toward the plateau above. Our scout had reported rich pickings, but when we looked around, seeking signs of our brave advance party, we could find no trace beyond a half eaten volovant and what might have been regurgitated mushroom. We shook our heads in despair at their folly. Every kid knows to stick to crisps and to processed meats, avoiding anything that might contain vegetables. We saw an open French window just beyond the trestles and heard plaintive heaves that had a distinct 6 year old strain. We checked each other's resolve and saw on each other's faces that we believed our mission was more important than any one stomach. With a maturity that would have surprised our parents, we pushed the plight of our friend to the back of our minds and focused on the task at hand. We each reached up with practiced stealth, taking only a second to check the food on offer and with a speed bred into us by the curse of older siblings, we each grabbed our prize. Acknowledging the hazards of the return journey we devoured the meat at hand and with hyena grins savoured our just rewards. While our fallen friend heaved once more, we saluted one another: the season had started better than any of us could have hoped.
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You choked on chariots raw. Red egg yolk suppers, churned of the milk oceans this morning you kept. The lintel of stone turned toward dusk. Some great dynasty of submissive spirits catering your morning Out on a cart of muse, forms of heaven cannot even hear you. You are a soporific knot in the tale of your Old womanhood. In this infinite Tuesday morning your small black eyes, like an oil tanker toppling over The intense azure sea- shipwrecked, and lost. Departing from your childhood you slurp Coca-Cola from a silver straw. From the corner store and inside Winter yawns. There is no face, only strikingly beautiful black hair. The body under you is at home in all My hand's fingers have to fill. All the clothes that you could carry for the two-way adventure. There are Never enough bubbles between your lips and the glass bottle you have. Only the score of the whistleblower. And the poor symphony you had prayed for into the dial-tone phone, the deep Wilderness, that stiff forever-ago budding from your coffee cup. Neurogenesis lifted from your Fingerprints and emblazoned into this lump of human ingenuity. The hopeless octave that cut us all short. Every short story that was left untold. There are the brief deaths recoiling in your spiritual architecture. The ****** of morphia has bourn me awake. Inside you are often unscathed, vanishing as some of Tonight's parts assemble you, on you blue is a beautiful color. The sweet retreat that gave you life or the bountiful deaths that counted you too cutely by your side. You are the sun in my black coat. Here is my sea, your sea, you'll see.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 5:34 AM UTC
Coca-Cola at 2:00AM
You choked on chariots raw. Red egg yolk suppers, churned of the milk oceans this morning you kept. The lintel of stone turned toward dusk. Some great dynasty of submissive spirits catering your morning Out on a cart of muse, forms of heaven cannot even hear you. You are a soporific knot in the tale of your Old womanhood. In this infinite Tuesday morning your small black eyes, like an oil tanker toppling over The intense azure sea- shipwrecked, and lost. Departing from your childhood you slurp Coca-Cola from a silver straw. From the corner store and inside Winter yawns. There is no face, only strikingly beautiful black hair. The body under you is at home in all My hand's fingers have to fill. All the clothes that you could carry for the two-way adventure. There are Never enough bubbles between your lips and the glass bottle you have. Only the score of the whistleblower. And the poor symphony you had prayed for into the dial-tone phone, the deep Wilderness, that stiff forever-ago budding from your coffee cup. Neurogenesis lifted from your Fingerprints and emblazoned into this lump of human ingenuity. The hopeless octave that cut us all short. Every short story that was left untold. There are the brief deaths recoiling in your spiritual architecture. The ****** of morphia has bourn me awake. Inside you are often unscathed, vanishing as some of Tonight's parts assemble you, on you blue is a beautiful color. The sweet retreat that gave you life or the bountiful deaths that counted you too cutely by your side. You are the sun in my black coat. Here is my sea, your sea, you'll see.
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I try, I try To detach, to distance To disconnect my existence To be unbothered by you I try, I try To look within, seek happiness To stay unaffected, show resistance To overcome your persistence in hurting me. But one after the other, your arrows strike Avoiding the pain, I continue to fight Even winning the war, I stay alive But my skin doesn't let me forget all the scars in sight.
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Nov 17, 2022
Nov 17, 2022 at 11:27 AM UTC
Unscathed
In school I never understood No, I never could what the point of it was. What is the point? I learned about math and science; Good God, why am I so defiant? So call me lazy. Tell me my IQ is below average. Well here's an image: I'm actually smart I just hate being a slave to the system. I almost missed 'em. But they caught me and now they got me and all that I intended to defend is left on the side of the street. I'm rebelling while they're trying to compel me to stay put in my seat like a ******* robot. Well, I will not. I gotta break outta this prison but where's my bailsman? This is my decision and I've chosen not to be broken. My mind will escape unscathed while yours will continue to be lathed by those mechanical words that they feed to you like birds. And what's worse: Is that you eat it. You accept them. You swallow down that indiscretion. What a burden but I don't feel sorry for you tainted mind because you chose it when I warned you that they'd change you. And now you've become a slave to their holocaust and you're so lost. You can't even think your own thoughts. It's despicable. And it's not permissible. You're stuck in their Utopia and you're praising their allah. Well God knows, it's not right. So you gotta ignite all your original thoughts and morals cause honey they aren't your idols. They are so pretentious and utterly blinded. Stuck under their bibles but they aren't angels. Break free from the system come join my anthem. Let's start a rally and get more allies. Join me in my plea to be all that we can be. To stand for what we choose. I promise we will not loose.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM UTC
Standing Up
In school I never understood No, I never could what the point of it was. What is the point? I learned about math and science; Good God, why am I so defiant? So call me lazy. Tell me my IQ is below average. Well here's an image: I'm actually smart I just hate being a slave to the system. I almost missed 'em. But they caught me and now they got me and all that I intended to defend is left on the side of the street. I'm rebelling while they're trying to compel me to stay put in my seat like a ******* robot. Well, I will not. I gotta break outta this prison but where's my bailsman? This is my decision and I've chosen not to be broken. My mind will escape unscathed while yours will continue to be lathed by those mechanical words that they feed to you like birds. And what's worse: Is that you eat it. You accept them. You swallow down that indiscretion. What a burden but I don't feel sorry for you tainted mind because you chose it when I warned you that they'd change you. And now you've become a slave to their holocaust and you're so lost. You can't even think your own thoughts. It's despicable. And it's not permissible. You're stuck in their Utopia and you're praising their allah. Well God knows, it's not right. So you gotta ignite all your original thoughts and morals cause honey they aren't your idols. They are so pretentious and utterly blinded. Stuck under their bibles but they aren't angels. Break free from the system come join my anthem. Let's start a rally and get more allies. Join me in my plea to be all that we can be. To stand for what we choose. I promise we will not loose.
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To some she is a shining light A flash of hope amongst the dark An optimistic helping hand To pull you from the dark And cheer your sorrow To some she is a black hole Pulling the world down with sadness Reliving the past that broke her And stabbing others with the shards To some she is simple words plastered on a white canvas painting a picture. never more but never less To most she is unnoticeable A tiny footnote scribbled in the corner of a forgotten notebook A wall flower whose thorns push away all but those with the key to her locked heart. When you ask me what she is The answer is impossible Because I don't know But I can tell you what she's not She is not a beautiful face, to stop you in a crowd She is not a chatting girl to talk you into a date She is not a innocent flower Welcoming with open arms She is not a genius to create the next invention She is not a musician, an author, a designer, a star, a doctor, or a hero She is not a loving companion for you to hold, and remember your every need She is not a great friend, always there in a flash. She is not a friendly person, starting up the conversation She is not a good cook, making meals that are edible She is not an unscarred girl, unscathed by the past She is not a beautiful figure That draws your eyes She is not hilariously funny Ready for stand up comedy She is not someone to remember though she will remember you However she is not fazed by judges Changing ways to suit them She is not perfect She is not stopped by her imperfections, only pressed farther to become something more. And though I can not say who she is or what she will be. Here's what I can say To me she will always be the girl staring back in the mirror.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 1:04 AM UTC
She Is...
To some she is a shining light A flash of hope amongst the dark An optimistic helping hand To pull you from the dark And cheer your sorrow To some she is a black hole Pulling the world down with sadness Reliving the past that broke her And stabbing others with the shards To some she is simple words plastered on a white canvas painting a picture. never more but never less To most she is unnoticeable A tiny footnote scribbled in the corner of a forgotten notebook A wall flower whose thorns push away all but those with the key to her locked heart. When you ask me what she is The answer is impossible Because I don't know But I can tell you what she's not She is not a beautiful face, to stop you in a crowd She is not a chatting girl to talk you into a date She is not a innocent flower Welcoming with open arms She is not a genius to create the next invention She is not a musician, an author, a designer, a star, a doctor, or a hero She is not a loving companion for you to hold, and remember your every need She is not a great friend, always there in a flash. She is not a friendly person, starting up the conversation She is not a good cook, making meals that are edible She is not an unscarred girl, unscathed by the past She is not a beautiful figure That draws your eyes She is not hilariously funny Ready for stand up comedy She is not someone to remember though she will remember you However she is not fazed by judges Changing ways to suit them She is not perfect She is not stopped by her imperfections, only pressed farther to become something more. And though I can not say who she is or what she will be. Here's what I can say To me she will always be the girl staring back in the mirror.
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The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 8:20 PM UTC
I'll Glue This To The Drawing Of My Face
The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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And I want to say how irrevocably sorry I am… That I did not open myself to the thought that you were a beacon of beautiful. I did not love you enough to share you. I did not give you anything to stand on. I created a world for you that deterred love, To deter pain. Fought happiness to remain unscathed of disappointment. You have created a black hole of your heart, Nothing for anyone to fall into, Grab hold of… You have created a wall of your heart, That slows down anything that could give it meaning … Nothing means anything unless it is in relation to something else, someone else. It is what matters here, What we leave here, For someone else to hold on to… And you have given just enough to leave remnants of … someone almost here Almost alive Almost open, But nothing to hold on to. I am sorry. You are saddened. You have created nothing to leave here, And I never gave you the hope to hold on, that someone might stay here Share here Think gold Of the sun adorning your Being. I am sorry that I didn’t see it, They could have They would have … It was up to me To let you feel… To share you //An Apology To Myself…
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Aug 24, 2014
Aug 24, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
An Apology For the Tornado I Have Made of You...
i was reborn, like a phoenix but without all the glory. i didn't set the hospital on fire; i struggled to pull myself from the ashes of a former prodigy, one entwined with madness in all the right ways laced with misery like a noir heroine, so sexily depressing- whereas now i am just empty i did not emerge unscathed, no, not like the fledgling, i am covered in scars and faultlines from where the sorrow tried rip itself from my sorry body and the crimson glue holding me together replenishes itself more diluted each time before i died i swung through technicolor episodes of scarlet, rose, ecstatic white, and the sapphire blue to haunt my dreams waking and at night but the color leached away, the antiseptic began to pervade, refilled my veins and purged me of everything but grey. before my death, i reigned over the darkness, banished it when it did not suit me, manipulated reason, lived in a waking dreamland, in complete control of my life- but now, when i am fragile as eggshell, it's the only place i can hide, a haven where i can act like the lack of light masks an imagined vivacity and not a skeleton in flat black and white, disguises and emboldens me, allows me to be whole again, to forget the borders, my limitations indiscernable in dusk i used to cast my own light- now i am my own shadow and in the dark i fumble for what i used to be, reconnect myself with the world throw myself from the cliff and hope to find my wings again
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 3:41 PM UTC
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I need a hug, but not a quick, lazy hug during which the touch feels like less of a comforting gesture, but more of an awkward happening with limp arms hanging like gigantic weights, pulling you into the floor. Not one where you aren't ever really sure if you should hang on for just a moment more, or if you should let go, and release into an uncomfortable silence that lasts until someone coughs hesitantly. The sound reverberating through the atomosphere, leaving a heavy draft of atypical embarrassment at the contact, waiting for someone else to bring up some random topic of discussion to break the icy and heavy silence. No. I need a real hug. The kind where someone who loves you see your pain even though you might not say anything. Reading the waters behind your smiling eyes, seeing the hidden hurt behind your irises, they grab you, perhaps by your slightly shacking shoulders, and pull you into their warm encasement. Holding you tightly and safely in their care. And the two of you just hang onto this affectionate moment of profound concern among brethren of a species The kind where time seems to stop in admiration of this subtle outpouring of unified allegiance before which the universe bows. I need the kind of hug that demonstrates a fierce loyalty. Devotion that knows should the object of such intense friendship fall into the pit, from whence none return unscathed in some way, they will throw down a rope a foothold a salvation, and they will pull that person from the depths of the darkness maybe even at the risk of falling in themselves. Yes. That is the kind of esoteric gesture that can be so impactful on those in pain, regardless of whether that pain be great or small. And should you find that you receive love like that, treasure it. And should you find that you give love like that, never forget how special and rare someone like you is.
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 8:20 PM UTC
Simple Gestures of Kindness
I need a hug, but not a quick, lazy hug during which the touch feels like less of a comforting gesture, but more of an awkward happening with limp arms hanging like gigantic weights, pulling you into the floor. Not one where you aren't ever really sure if you should hang on for just a moment more, or if you should let go, and release into an uncomfortable silence that lasts until someone coughs hesitantly. The sound reverberating through the atomosphere, leaving a heavy draft of atypical embarrassment at the contact, waiting for someone else to bring up some random topic of discussion to break the icy and heavy silence. No. I need a real hug. The kind where someone who loves you see your pain even though you might not say anything. Reading the waters behind your smiling eyes, seeing the hidden hurt behind your irises, they grab you, perhaps by your slightly shacking shoulders, and pull you into their warm encasement. Holding you tightly and safely in their care. And the two of you just hang onto this affectionate moment of profound concern among brethren of a species The kind where time seems to stop in admiration of this subtle outpouring of unified allegiance before which the universe bows. I need the kind of hug that demonstrates a fierce loyalty. Devotion that knows should the object of such intense friendship fall into the pit, from whence none return unscathed in some way, they will throw down a rope a foothold a salvation, and they will pull that person from the depths of the darkness maybe even at the risk of falling in themselves. Yes. That is the kind of esoteric gesture that can be so impactful on those in pain, regardless of whether that pain be great or small. And should you find that you receive love like that, treasure it. And should you find that you give love like that, never forget how special and rare someone like you is.
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And then I woke up. I woke up one day and everything was different, Finally there was colour again. - I could see silver in the clouds, Emerald in the grass, Topaz painted across the mountains on the horizon. Sapphire in the sky and obsidian amongst the stars. I was alive again. - This time I'll be better, My armour thicker, My wits sharper, My fists unscathed, My tongue poisonous, like the biblical snake upon the ear of eve. I am born again, I'll run each day, Train each day. I'll eat only the finer foods, For nutrition and not taste. All the while my mind will be honed, sharpened like a ****** blade. Chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics. I'll lay the stepping stones towards Valhalla, My path towards the übermensch. N.H.
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 9:55 PM UTC
Rise
queer creature of white stone: the spirit of the island in the head of this lion, the soul of the natives in the body of this fish, spirit and soul, lion and fish, mingle together by mere wry humour of evolution’s word we revere this beast, (it watches over us from nine metres above), we bow down our backs, (worship it as our exemplar): for many of us, unknowingly, we emulate the spirit and soul of this queer white creation of stone. standing tall (unshaken!) even as jaundice bolts of heaven’s creep tip-toed behind its scales and strike: its cemented steadfastness of stone we emulate, for through the towering grey waves of crisis, and the threatening dark clouds that foretell our very fears, we too, have floated and transcended and appeared unscathed. mutated monster – child of bad genes, they despise such unfavourable antagonistic features (shall it rule like a lion or flail like a fish?): its unlikeliness of surviving, of thriving we emulate: for this dotted smudge of red pen ink on the globe, destined to bow down to fate – bowed down not, and flourished. beams of white water spouting out in a perfect shape of a quadrant’s circumference, endlessly, its majestic spewing action we emulate: this island of expectations, sterile smell of success, fate of our future in the setting of an exam hall, (in there do you not think we resemble the merlion, our mouths the hoses, the papers our well?) but, oh, the merlion – so many of it – the merlions, same-maned, same-scaled, fluttering and bursting with imitation across our home: such congruity, conformity we emulate: for years of yearning to swim in the mainstream waters, of being goldfish, instead of losing the waters for flight like flying fish, have made us very much, about the same. queer creature of white stone: do you see not how we resemble your very self, how we offer you praise (by lifting our human arms, arching on our mere knees, hoisting our lowly mortal heads, surveying your colossal royalty, camera in hand)?
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Dec 27, 2011
Dec 27, 2011 at 7:02 AM UTC
the merlion spirit
queer creature of white stone: the spirit of the island in the head of this lion, the soul of the natives in the body of this fish, spirit and soul, lion and fish, mingle together by mere wry humour of evolution’s word we revere this beast, (it watches over us from nine metres above), we bow down our backs, (worship it as our exemplar): for many of us, unknowingly, we emulate the spirit and soul of this queer white creation of stone. standing tall (unshaken!) even as jaundice bolts of heaven’s creep tip-toed behind its scales and strike: its cemented steadfastness of stone we emulate, for through the towering grey waves of crisis, and the threatening dark clouds that foretell our very fears, we too, have floated and transcended and appeared unscathed. mutated monster – child of bad genes, they despise such unfavourable antagonistic features (shall it rule like a lion or flail like a fish?): its unlikeliness of surviving, of thriving we emulate: for this dotted smudge of red pen ink on the globe, destined to bow down to fate – bowed down not, and flourished. beams of white water spouting out in a perfect shape of a quadrant’s circumference, endlessly, its majestic spewing action we emulate: this island of expectations, sterile smell of success, fate of our future in the setting of an exam hall, (in there do you not think we resemble the merlion, our mouths the hoses, the papers our well?) but, oh, the merlion – so many of it – the merlions, same-maned, same-scaled, fluttering and bursting with imitation across our home: such congruity, conformity we emulate: for years of yearning to swim in the mainstream waters, of being goldfish, instead of losing the waters for flight like flying fish, have made us very much, about the same. queer creature of white stone: do you see not how we resemble your very self, how we offer you praise (by lifting our human arms, arching on our mere knees, hoisting our lowly mortal heads, surveying your colossal royalty, camera in hand)?
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Once upon a time... You & I lived lives divided Until by fate we were united When we first lit the fire Once upon a time I would watch you from a distance Desired you, but stayed resistant To the Urges that would cloud my mind with Wickedness, persistent Your perfect fairy wings Fluttered lightly in the wind And though I did the best I could My thoughts were wrought with sin And I desired you like mad For the Angel that I had Left me burning despicably With wretched flames within And You were so Inviting. Your Body Ripe for the Taking. Guarded you were Behind Gates of the Dragon Yet I watched you intently Plotting my Ransom Waiting on the right moment to strike To steal you away from your Protected Life And to take you back with me Into my Cell In the dark and abysmal cave where I dwell To teach you the ways Us Creatures gain pleasure To make you my Slave And to ransack your Treasures And then came the day That you broke away From the Chains That held you to where you were safe I saw you And watched you and Stalked you Intently While you were out searching the world Innocently And then, When you were finally in reach And we were Alone I snatched you away from the flowers and reeds And stole you back with me into my home A cold and depressing Dungeon of Stone Your protector was gone And you were all mine When we were alone Lost somewhere in time And to my shock, and utter surprise You became the flame that lit up my eyes And slowly but surely as days slipped by I became yours more than you became mine And then, you escaped or did I let you get away? You emerged from my cave Beautiful, unscathed I just couldn't bring myself to be one you hate When your love is so sweet I just couldn't betray it But then, I thought of you out in the world Alone On your own My sweet pixie girl And I couldn't JUST COULDN'T Handle the thought of a Monster like me Dragging you through the mud Coveting you the way that I do But most of All Tasting your Love Staying put was so much harder than trying to be your Guardian and Rescue you and Shelter you from any more Hate or Abuse And now I see my sins Led me out of the darkness within Into the sunshine of your life - Where I found the Source of Light I needed to keep me alive And I feel like I owe you my life And now you're free from my Prison but I guess, so am I, in essence In the end, the Fairy Showed the Goblin, He longed to be a Prince.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 10:58 PM UTC
The Princess and the Goblin
Once upon a time... You & I lived lives divided Until by fate we were united When we first lit the fire Once upon a time I would watch you from a distance Desired you, but stayed resistant To the Urges that would cloud my mind with Wickedness, persistent Your perfect fairy wings Fluttered lightly in the wind And though I did the best I could My thoughts were wrought with sin And I desired you like mad For the Angel that I had Left me burning despicably With wretched flames within And You were so Inviting. Your Body Ripe for the Taking. Guarded you were Behind Gates of the Dragon Yet I watched you intently Plotting my Ransom Waiting on the right moment to strike To steal you away from your Protected Life And to take you back with me Into my Cell In the dark and abysmal cave where I dwell To teach you the ways Us Creatures gain pleasure To make you my Slave And to ransack your Treasures And then came the day That you broke away From the Chains That held you to where you were safe I saw you And watched you and Stalked you Intently While you were out searching the world Innocently And then, When you were finally in reach And we were Alone I snatched you away from the flowers and reeds And stole you back with me into my home A cold and depressing Dungeon of Stone Your protector was gone And you were all mine When we were alone Lost somewhere in time And to my shock, and utter surprise You became the flame that lit up my eyes And slowly but surely as days slipped by I became yours more than you became mine And then, you escaped or did I let you get away? You emerged from my cave Beautiful, unscathed I just couldn't bring myself to be one you hate When your love is so sweet I just couldn't betray it But then, I thought of you out in the world Alone On your own My sweet pixie girl And I couldn't JUST COULDN'T Handle the thought of a Monster like me Dragging you through the mud Coveting you the way that I do But most of All Tasting your Love Staying put was so much harder than trying to be your Guardian and Rescue you and Shelter you from any more Hate or Abuse And now I see my sins Led me out of the darkness within Into the sunshine of your life - Where I found the Source of Light I needed to keep me alive And I feel like I owe you my life And now you're free from my Prison but I guess, so am I, in essence In the end, the Fairy Showed the Goblin, He longed to be a Prince.
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Trauma cemented my secrets deep within the crevices of my core, yet he cracks my chest and I am a chilled corpse drenched in formaldehyde, slowly decaying, laid open for all to study. Ordinary organs on display, hiding the scars of past mistakes: bruises from an ex-boyfriend don’t tint the epidermis, wine that splattered the walls and my white t-shirt have already left the liver, the folds of cerebrum unscathed from the demons that scratched away at my sanity. He’s seen me naked, vulnerable, and now I’m terrified that he isn’t interested in understanding –   just observing – my anatomy.
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Dec 30, 2018
Dec 30, 2018 at 2:29 AM UTC
Cadaver