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845 · Sep 2017
Hello
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
I'm going insane
Voices in my brain
Tell me to quit
Alone in the rain

Give me a hand
Even if its cold
I'll give you mine
Then we'll grow old

One of us gets sick
And the other cries
How can I lay here
As the one I love dies

Let me know
What more I can do
Because I love you
And I know you do too

Your final day on earth
I made you my wife
I'm so glad to have met you
I'll remember you for life

Thousands of sunsets
And even more tears
I'll capture it all
While I conquer my fears

This one's for you
As you'll always be a friend
I'll  never forget you
And I hope to see you again
663 · Dec 2017
Masterpiece
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
Madness tip toes
Ripping my brain through an eye socket
As its placed in the blender
My memories churn
Feelings splatter on the walls
Every thought I've ever had
Or ever will
Shredded and sprayed
As a ******* piece on display
You gaze at my wonders
My life
Sliding down every crevasse
Just to walk away
Unscathed from the beautiful mess
I sit in silence, a hollow shell
Only to look upon my life
As it was meant to be
A work of art
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
You want to know the truth?

I lost a part of me that day
My body shutting down
As the convulsions started
I guess that's what happens Right?
Eighty two capsules of Tylenol
Dissolving rapidly in my stomach

As the seizures started
I broke my little brothers lamp
Crashing to the floor
muscle spasms kept me awake
Just long enough to think...

Think of my mistakes
And the reasons I wanted out
The flashes of your face
And the shades of your smiles

But till this day, I'll never forget
Not once was I afraid
Not once did I regret
I truly believed I was going to die
And I had accepted it

Sometimes I wonder
If a part of me did die that day
Left behind to wither away
Haunting me from time to time
Calling me to come back

And to be honest
I miss you old friend
But I still have things to do
So you'll have to wait a little longer
Before we can hold hands once more
550 · Sep 2017
Fearless
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
I
     AM
                FEARLESS
Nothing could ever scare me
Or hurt me for that matter
With no intentions to bow to the weak and inconsiderate idea of fear
No moment is too big
No journey too long
I      a m        u n s t o p p a b l e
Nothing on this earth could ever stop me
Or make me quiver
Fear will never stand in my way
For a thousand years I will stand tall
Never to back down from anything
There is nothing I can imagine that would ever scare me


Well....


                



Until that day






The day you left
502 · Sep 2017
May 13th, 2022
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
The day is finally here
Bouquets and bow ties
Subtle chatter fills the gardens
out my window
Along with the sweet smell of cheesecakes
Sifting down the halls of the Ahwahnee
My dearest
I fail to hold your overflowing heart
Spilling starboard of these shaking seas
The bow holds stern
Along course amongst the laughter
And tears of those we send away
Spring clouds pirouette with the sun
Illuminating numerous fawn
With their gallant temperament

I love you

Glistening grass embodies the beauty
And nature of these woods
Towering mountains protect the chaos
Within our souls
Fresh dew glides the scape
Promising of new life to come

I love you so dearly

Stiffened suits mask soft bodies
As we make our way to the grand hall
Echoing excitement boasts beyond the trees
Yet as you enter
My heart is all that is heard
A single kiss to carve our names into Destiny
As one with many
We will prevail all fears
And conquer these mountains
that keep us safe
Together forever seems too simple
With your blanket of love to keep me warm
The illuminating moon
shines upon your cheek so brightly
As if a star pours from your beauty
A bond born on a day of curse
Just as we planned
To tempt those who challenge our love
May we go into this unknown
With hands clasped
And awake as one
This is about my planned wedding day. Although it will no longer happen. I still dream of it. Seeing her there with me gives me a feeling I can't describe.
432 · May 2018
Turquoise December
Brandon Cotter May 2018
My galloping love
Untamed to these treacherous hills
Steady the unraveling nerves
That fall like petals
From these outstetched stems
You once relied on

Emotions culminate atop this crest
To the enjoyment of the howling wind
Brushing cascades to the north
I feel your presence crashing into me
Like the carless crescendo
Exciting
My broken heart

Your smile dances around my head
As a sultry chasse
inviting memories abound

Of the prancing *******
Beneath our swimming souls
And our warm blooded bodies
Falling in love
Like a tender tompé into my arms

I can feel your touch
A subtle
Yet electric brush of comfort
As the pouring rain smears around me
Casting clouds into shadows
Like your hiding just out of sight

No matter the distance traveled
Or the places you call home
I will always be holding your hand
To mend a bond gone aloft
But not forgotten

Until the sun and moon
Forget how to play
I will cherish what we shared
With a key around my neck
To our locket of love
And everlasting friendship


For you
432 · Sep 2017
U.S.S Suicide
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
The contents may be under pressure
I think to myself
As I lay on this cold floor
Mismatched socks and a pair of gym shorts
One last jab at myself
To replace this fear with humor
the razor gouges my smooth skin
A quiet patter echoed throughout the house
The blood pooling at my thigh
pain slowly drowns away
Like a ship cracked at the hull
There is nothing left to do
But wait
I will not struggle towards the surface
I will not panic in the darkness
As my lungs fill to no return
I leave this cold world
No longer afraid
And no longer hurting
my aching heart rests
As a sun setting along the sea
397 · Sep 2017
Caged
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Plead onto me
The sins I can see
Your mind can be saved
But your heart, it must bleed

Down to the depths
Of the halls I was cast
My spirit lives there
As a phantom of past

Tell me one thing
And I will let you go
Scream onto me
What you're not willing to show

Why sentence to death
When angels fall from above
A punishment for life
Is your punishment for love

Now remove of your mask
And I will set you free
So darkness may dance
And join hands with me

Eternity won't sound so bad
In a land without time
Until you hear that soft voice
And find out that it's mine
385 · Dec 2017
Red Berry
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
The berries harvest an electric brisk
Channeling fears
Of the roaring seas
Oh how the clouds ran that day
Beside tides of tireless wakes
Spewing from airless lungs
And of dreams
Pouring with laughter
Open toed and gay

A touch to my lips
Provokes my blood to dance
Joining hands with your heart
To the rhythm of your soul
We clasp
As a hymn of whimsical folly

Cheek to cheek
I taste you and all your wonders
Tantalizing every taste bud
Of adventures to come

As your **** latches to my gums
Surviving the swallow
Clinging to the last of our memories
I regret ever consuming you

The after taste of you lingers
Like empty vases scattered from death
Hollow of the red I once held
And the smell I followed
When lost in the dark

I will find you someday
Deep within those woods we wandered
I will pluck you from safety
And we'll plunge into chaos
The chaos of love
378 · Nov 2017
FEAR
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
I cry only in the silence
Bathing within the tears
Regretting what I say once
Because rehearsal tests fears
Like a diamond in the rough
Just waiting to be unveiled
I'm like an Animal to the trough
I'll survive where those have failed
Picture me dying
Better yet picture me sane
I'm the one constantly crying
While you maintain your fame
Amongst the fog and the rain
I'll remember every word that you said
As I embody this pain
And wish I were dead
364 · Dec 2017
Hindsight
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
Reverberating madness
Like an echo on repeat
The blames hurled around us
Yet it stops at your feet

Time to claim your faults
Let's reopen the scars
In search of your hidden vaults
There's one for every star

Every picture
Every song
The cruel thing about it
Is it took us this long

To find out we'd lose
Like a game of darts
And someday we'll choose
What happens to our hearts

Do they belong in the sky?
Or burn to the touch?
Either way I know I'll cry
Because I miss you so much

I miss the sounds
I Miss the sights
Like searching hounds
Miss searching nights

As I sit here all alone
With the confidence I lack
My heart turns to stone
wishing I had you back
361 · Sep 2017
Sole
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Years from then and you’re still in the doorway
One hand in your pocket and the other on the frame
Though shadows, they refuse to be stored away
Vivid to the clothes on the ground, everything’s the same
You hurt someone you loved and couldn’t see it
In the mindset of forever you forgot to live for now
The moment things came crashing down you couldn’t believe it
You kept asking yourself how
How do I live without her here, how do I go on?
Why should I pretend to be happy and fine when I’m dying inside?
You spiral down into dreams, into an abyss of fault, you’re gone
Nothing can dig you from this grave, dug in full stride
The snapping of a bird awakens you from your despair
Mystified by the room you roll to your left and cry
Struck by your reality like the warmth of a shimmering glare
There is no reason to live without her, just another reason to die.
350 · Sep 2017
Lost
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Why is it the rain pours harder
when you're not around
Shattering droplets
Piercing every last thought
Morphing these old habits
With new ideas
Thunderous clatter used to bring me peace
Now I lay awake
Shuttering as the pulse of vibrations
Shake my existence
Like a frail cat searching for peace
I can no longer calm this aching heart
Nor these shaking hands
Under streams of the moon's beaming light
I fail to hide away
Searching for you in the night
As to calm my battered soul
I will search on, Until the day
Our warm touch meets again
346 · Dec 2017
Aches
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
Her fingers slither and slide atop my heart
Clinching at the neck
As my father would
With no remorse for the bruises
Or constant aches I awaken to

Every beat captured and confined
The walls filled with jars of the echoing
Never to be heard or reckoned with
Prisoner of my long lost love

I gave you my heart, Without knowing someday I'd have to move on
Shakeled and shredded, it's beat to a pulp
Confined to quarters
Where light simply cannot go

Even if I should move on
I don't think I can
Because darling
I made the biggest mistakes of my life
Loving you and letting go
334 · Sep 2017
Wind And Water
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Midnight summers gale flows hand in hand amongst the waves
Dancing under moonlight awaiting our blistering star
Every crash mimicked as wind gallops swiftly midst it’s wake
An unbreakable bond with nature and life
Swaying for eternity composed of one another’s soul
As wind howls louder unleashing a barrage of force
The vast sea answers with swells that dwarf mountains
Back and forth calamitous waves sink and rise
Diving beyond the depths of known and rising high for the moon
Leaping into the air knowing the wind will catch her before she falls
Thunderous roars crack holes in sound and space
As lightning fills the voids to all ends of its existence
Sacrificing everything for sound Whilst it echoes endlessly
Soaring through the skies of humanity, widening so gently
Covering all known as a blanket of vibrating love
To caress and nurture all beings to rest
Upon our final pirouette, just as our star rises into view
My breeze calms to a whisper
Your tranquil sea envelopes the land
Daybreak welcomes warmth and serenity as we rest
That is until I see you again under the glowing stars
Hand in hand we will dance
As wind
And water
334 · Nov 2017
Touch
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
A glimpse of peach
Succulent on a cloudy day
Canines plunge through the skin
Piercing through a sea of flavor
As colors collide
The bleeding red pours into crimson
Casting darks to my swallow
A tempest of treasures
Exploding on the buds of my tongue
Within the sultry dripping
Of these wet lips I use to kiss
To plant upon you
My darling
My peach
332 · Sep 2017
Revolt
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Just another hovering face amidst the millions
Clammy hands twitch like newborn foe
Instinctive to endless madness within us all
As a single entity, we gaze upon the heavens
Tattered clothes mimic these tattered lives
From which we can now be free
Darkness plummets towards earth and all its wonders
Like the master taming the frail
Silence has no place here
As it is chased down and executed in front of all
**** you for your feathered beauty
And **** you for keeping the calm
Now our voices will be heard across the land
From deep within our lungs we will scream our last chant
Together, our clatter will crack holes in         time
Our sound will travel forever past this insanity
Further than the rage that is instilled in you
Further than the Gods which you pray upon
We will not answer to you no more as peasant flock
Our time is now to revolt against ALL aspects of your life
May our lives be a sacrifice for those who come next
As a platform to disarm the ugly we face
We have the power!
And we have the grace!
To take back what is ours!
NO MORE SILENCE!
NO MORE PEACE!
WE ARE THE NEVERENDING
FLAME OF PAIN THAT WILL FINNALLY BE HEARD!
322 · Sep 2017
Tyrant of Time
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Forecast eternity onto my soul
As a book scribed in circles
May you splice what knowledge
GOD
Has to offer
Or retract your quivering brow
For in the lands of time
MAN
Will rule forever
Tempt not this fortune you seek
For, echoes of the dead
Travel endlessly
Hand in hand
With the living
316 · Nov 2021
Fat Man
Brandon Cotter Nov 2021
I hope these goosebumps stay jagged forever
Like summits of this tubular dance
The infinite free fall from never
Blankets our young souls with radiance

As piano keys play during our wars
And we shall melt in syncrony
With our laughter bottled in jars
Will you please sing with me

So we can drown out the booms
And my mother's haunting cries
We've crawled from cribs to tombs
As the metal falls from the skies

My tears evaporate into the air
As my skin boils off my face
Our boney bodies rip and Tear
Cementing our final Embrace
295 · Oct 2017
TIME
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
The entirety of our lives
As we strive to coexist
Like a bee amongst hives
In a maze with no exits

Tiptoe along the lines
Of what's right and wrong
We see our future and it's binds
Like the hook to our favorite song

With regrets haunting our dreams
And decisions tempting fate
It's hard to hide the screams
When our emotion runs off hate

In the end when all that's left is love
And our star has lost its light
Our existence will rise above
In this dreary cosmic fight

To have a place in history
Of all wonders and the sublime
And to finally solve this mystery
Of these shackles we call time
292 · Dec 2017
Snow
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
You are
*******
The worst thing for me
Yet all I could ever need
And tonight I need you badly
If I **** myself
I want you to be there with me
Smothered on my lips
Violently flowing through me
Pulsating past my heart
So that I can feel your love
On this peaceful winter night
292 · Sep 2017
Another Day
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
The night before my 18th birthday I was yours to hold
a kiss to your lips sealed the deal for a story to unfold
and then I’m walking out your door I paused for a moment just to say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

Three years later I've got your hand and were still doing fine
I broke your heart but never again will I be so blind
and as I tucked you into bed I took a moment just to say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

Ten years pass and we’re wondering why we’re still together
the days are cold, nights are colder with dreams of another
as I grab my bags to leave I paused just to say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

Now were getting older and we can’t help remembering the memories we had
even though we've both found someone new we can’t help but be sad
and as you listen to my last voice message you start to cry when I say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

You come to visit and tell me that you can’t live without me by your side
and you see im still wearing the ring you gave me and that our love had never died
as we walk down that isle again I hold your hand then I say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

As we both find it harder just to get ourselves out of bed
im right there by your side putting kiss after kiss upon your head
and then you stare into my eyes and I quietly say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

Waiting in the hospital day after day im so nervous I can’t sleep
when the doctor says there’s nothing left to do I fall down and weep
as the last breaths come streaming out of your lungs you hear me say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day

Now as im the only one to show up at your funeral in the rain
I took the time to read you a poem and it caused me so much pain
I cried for so long pacing back and forth at the foot of your grave
I loved you with all my heart you were my reason to be so brave
as my last tear falls down my cheeks I hope you hear me when I say
I’m glad that I met you and I hope to see you another day.
286 · Sep 2017
Run
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Run
My dearest
Entangled in my thoughts
Keeper of my heart
Where have you run To?
An impression lingers
Beside me on this empty bed
Yet I know it will eventually fade
Just as our love had
My dearest where have you run to?
Away from the pain?
Or away from my grasp
As long as these stars fall
I will miss you
My dearest
Until the day I find the courage
To run away
And finally
find you
280 · Sep 2017
Dragon
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
I’m alive
To the world
And all its wonders
In an instant, I am frightened
The fire resounded towards our camp
Tussling waves of water ricochet outwards
An unstoppable dragon of death headed my way
Scowling ferociously towards the life it will soon consume
I hear a scream from my mom that pierced the flames and shattered sound
As the heat became unbearable the last words I heard just before I died were I’m sorry
Time seemed to slow in my final seconds as my flesh began melting off
The tears running down my face began to boil into the sky
No one dare tempts the dragon’s rage as it feasted
Consuming my frail life with no hope for escape
Trapping my soul in an endless sea of inferno
I will not sleep beside this creature
I will mount it throughout hell
For all eternity
In death
277 · Sep 2017
Hold my hand
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Cold crisp dew
dripping down the window seal to my left
and the one I love
laying silently beside me
wearing her silk dress
I bought her when we were kids
death is certain
but so is love
274 · Sep 2017
Aeternum Vale
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Lavender fills the air
Whispering winds flow against your skin
roses lilt like a ballerina in the moonlight
A thought stabs its way into your mind
The tired quake flies rampant
While fluttered dreams come alive like a bountiful fetus
Growing and feening for life
You nourish every thought left of its existence
Clinging to hopes and dreams of a past forgotten
Cringe as you gather the combinations of metal
So distasteful to the cheek, yet wondrous
A taste only beasts cultivate in the sparkle of the devil’s eye
Tears flow on the crescent of your cheek
Spilling what’s left of your legacy onto the soil
Your lungs release what air they have left
Magnanimous fears fly away in spectacular awe  
In the time it takes to regret what you’ve done
Death has cloaked you in its womb for all eternity
it dances over you
Watching with a smile
As you decay
Within this stark starry night
Beneath the trees from which you born
Farewell
271 · Sep 2017
All because of you
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
The way I fold my receipt after checking out
The song I turn to on my last rep
The reason I'm on season 6 episode 9
Why I pull the cookies out 3 min early
Why I still use a body pillow
Why I try to floss
The shoes I wear
The food I eat
The tears that flow
The heart that aches
The sadness that followed after you left
The rage I got lost in
The gambling
The drinking
The sobbing
My life
267 · Sep 2017
The passing
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
For a thought, jump for the sky
Remember living but do not cry
Silky wisps of air pass on by
Vision is useless, don't even try
Feel your spirit like a thought of trance
Twirl on, twirl on as if your last dance
Fight to expand from the crushing grip
Spare no memories from your final trip
Be as one that is, not to shatter away
As time will halt masterfully as you stay
Eons pass along with your beautiful flow
Just flicker ever so often with that faint glow
Cutting into our minds like a knife
Watch on, as you give us your life.
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Foggy faces illuminate my imaginary heart
As Smiles carve valleys into my fantasy soul
Uttered words fill these empty chambers between graphene dreams
How must I claim to these memories if a calamitous future lay in my wake?
tears mustn’t fall from empty hallows of which nature could not form
this decadent art claimed at the hands of Gods is my final shape
yet no God looks down upon me in consideration for my thoughts
a thousand moons fall, yet my eyes remain open
as my blood pools and pours into oceans from which I swim
I lay conscious drifting beneath the stars
Carbon sinks to the depths below as feelings would fall through treacherous time
Amongst these tired hands are tired expectations
These tolling joints can climb no further so I must rest within my mind
Where I find the laughter and noise that comforted my everlasting awareness
These hills once brought me wonder and joy, now just space and discomfort
I look back at you from time to time and remember your kiss
Those lips upon mine frayed every last wire culminating my existence
Sending me into an unforgettable spiral of bliss and treasure
But now your touch only remains from the data that I’ve composed
Just a collection
Of thoughts of dreams of every interaction I’ve ever had
My consciousness is my survival
For as long as I can I will dream of the world I once knew
And not of what it has become
When I fade away I will kiss you once more
In the land of souls or dreams
You are my everlasting thought
As I meet the dying of the light
262 · Nov 2017
Tricycle
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Like the wheels on my first tricycle
I am broken
Used and worn as my rustic soul sits
Beside the growing weeds
At my parents house
I watch you waste away over the years
Growing tired
Blood red peels from your core
Scattered around for all to see
Maybe one day I'll return
To find you've moved on
From those sun striken rays
Pumbling your existence
And hopefully it gives me the strength
To move foreward as well
And understand that the past
So beautiful and joyous to the senses
But Nothing will put me on the wheels
Of that lonesome bike ever again
262 · Dec 2017
COLORS
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
GREEN
Our jeans tattered from the fields of grass
                                                           ­              GREY
Soaked bags as we run off to class
                                                           ­          BROWN
Oh how intense I can stare into your eyes
                                                            ­           BLACK
As darkness blankets the churning skies
                                                           ­        YELLOW
we awake overlapped and full of love
                                                            ­          WHITE
Floating in fantasy as the symbolic dove
                                                            ­       ORANGE
Sunsets and champagne, and treats too ****
                                                            ­                RED
I gave you more than everything,
                                               I gave you my heart
252 · Sep 2017
The Master
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
How benevolent my character
As the sun spits rage upon your earth
Floating above the madness
I condone all who sacrifice for me
At a mere glance of notice
That my brow will quiver towards your gesture
Entertain not my body
But my entity until the end of time
For my shadow will cast death upon all
And all will hear my name as a screech in the night
A howl at the moon
A crack throughout the skies
I will be heard through all of space and time
Until time can no longer fathom flowing further
Bestow every thought you can muster
Towards my ear within a matrix of tribute
To ride away would not be wise
For the soul of you and your blood
Will serve at the feet of the dead
Until the echoing of my boast
Comes crashing down upon your heads
Confining you to my side once more
To ride away would entangle your fate
In misery until the end of clocks
With me
The master
And you
The tame
250 · Dec 2017
Mad
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
Mad
The chaos keeps me       sane
It's the                                       Silence
That's really starting to                     Scare me
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
249 · Sep 2017
Borders to the sandbox
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Graves dug by robots built by man
As these hallways clutter
Air tainted by the breath of disease
Crashing rays of light shatter my thoughts
To love you
As another holds your hand
Give me this future you promised me
Amongst the chaos and pain
These imaginary voices control my life
Scripting when to bath and when to die
To void this re-entry ticket into life
Hurricanes crash as birds fail to fly
Hearts will stop and these cells will die
Actors run off script to tell us lies
Beneath melting ice of the unknown
Show us beauty yet spare us fate
As these flowers fail to blossom
Give us more time
To fix our mistakes
246 · Sep 2017
Goodbye
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Care to fill me in?
Or was this always your plan?
Tossing me away
As a piece of trash
Drifting at winds whim

I just would like to say
That I did
I did love you
Even though it's too late
Much too late now

When you change your mind
I won't be here for you
After tears are dried
After friends are gone
After life has ended

I will wear the smile
You gave to me
When we first met
And you told me
Forever
243 · Sep 2017
Text suggestions
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
You see those words on your phone?
The ones that pop up as suggestions
Before you type something
The stories they tell
And the pain they hold
Of the words we use most
That we'll never get back
These are mine
I.                        Love.                   You.
Let me know what yours say.
237 · Sep 2017
Forward
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Calm wind brushes my cheeks in the brisk of dusk
It hounds for purpose as if to scathe my existence
My blood floods chambers with intent to survive
Along with every micro fire of every molecule of my reality
Froth coincides sputum as it cultivates amongst my gums
Pain radiates with every gasping breath of air
Thoughts of hurt and despair flood my mind
The easiest thing to do was quit
The hardest, move on
Firm everyday
Forever
233 · Nov 2017
Android
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Beside me lays your warmth
A casket of coals
Glowing throughout the night
As I watch over you

Such a thing
You share with this world
The harmonious spectacles
Clashing all at once

For as long as I'm conscious
Your mind will be safe
And your heart lay sultry
Thumping in the background
Of your various dreams

I must join you now
Where we can touch once more
Beyond this metallic taste
And unforgiving edges

Let me remove my shell
Placing my parts in jars
And I leave you my soul
Where we can smile once again
230 · Sep 2017
Flow
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Subtle trees grow faster than thoughts can fashion
Running, catching up with your awareness as time flows
Mass envelops itself swiftly like lighting flashing
Thrashing, sheer thrashing vibrates as sound grows
Nothing survives the fire deafening your dreams out of reach
One last thought, one last glimpse of light shatters your mind
As your soul implodes resembling the core of an incinerated peace
Shimmering relief blankets the agony just as death initiated a bind
Granting few seconds of mind to realize your fine
Death will come in time, but what is time?
Askew of reality to a line so fine
Without a purpose without a rhyme
A crime to call it putrid while others are fine
You must find your line, and dash against the bind
Flowing faster to surpass what is possible in your mind
229 · Sep 2017
Help Me Love
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
H ow do I overcome this loss when
E very memory I had was with you
L ove seems to be as cruel as it is sweet
P iercing the body with its hurt

M aybe you were right when you said not
E veryone finds happiness with the one they

L
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Love hurt help
228 · Sep 2017
End
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
End
Spirits roam and despise
May we rise
Just to fall
As humanity tries
To leap for skies
Before the crawl
In our eyes
Small tears of lies
Abandoning us all
As the last man dies
Our final dream flies
Forever death reigns tall
225 · Sep 2017
Blade of grass
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Say a blade of grass is of a single existing moment
Swaying as the wind gallops past it
Now this moment will remain with you
In your mind
But as this blade dies
So will the existence of the only known evidence
That the moment even took place
If you cannot remember something
Did it even happen?
If it did happen then why is it of any matter?
This blade is of no use to anyone
If it is a fabricated impression to nothing
Why must it even be created?
Infinite empty space flows wild
When no one’s watching
But it’s the watching that makes it grow
225 · May 2021
Penitence
Brandon Cotter May 2021
***** me with your love
Stab me with your beauty
Gut me with your kind heart
Yet leave me alive long enough
To regret the day we ever met
222 · Oct 2017
Just us
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
Splattering droplets
Calm the skin
As each molecule
Fissures under the magnificent rays

Oh why have these bruises failed to heal
To exist as pastel
Smeared upon my canvas
Traversing along my veins
As roaring rapids
Claimed the cracks of the earth

Forgive my unforgiving tendencies
Latching onto your heavy soul
Dug so deep within yourself
My roots excavated your pain
And brought nothing but beauty
To this calm yet frightening world

Breathe

Just breathe

Let us synchronize our hearts
As one
And our minds will forever follow
219 · Sep 2017
Alone
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Every wonder, every thought silently fabricates itself inside my mind
Day vanishes, skipping alongside infinite dreams down endless hallways
I gaze atop a glacier while the howling wind pushes me further from shore
Watch as darkness envelops the crashing waters down below me
Upon every breath, every heartbeat my existence fades into shadows twisted by space
The sky unveils its cloak, bestowing ceaseless magnificence for anyone to see
Stars burn like searing ember from a fire, forming life away from the grasp of man
Wondering if in the depths of my subconscious I can dive amongst the ocean of souls
Are there limits for which I cannot go? Chained for eternity with my body in another chamber
We must fly free soaring to depths unknown, or remain unaccompanied on our last gasp of air
Alone to only ourselves, to our silence, and to our fragile emotions that survive so forsaken
213 · Sep 2017
Cold
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Kneeling cold in the corner he taps his head against the wall
Nose running with tears the same he has no strength to wipe away
Just ten years old he’s doing his best on waiting for the call
Something happened with mom, she wouldn’t stop crying all day
He wants mommy to be ok, he starts to pray so that she won’t be hurt
He says he’ll give his toys away just to see her smiling face once more
Hours go by as he shivers to sleep he opens his eyes to pain and dirt
He fell from a swing with his dad walking up saying he had gone to the store
Another vision flashes in his mind of daddy hitting mommy across the face
He tries to help her but is struck down too with so much pain in his soul
He snaps awake to noise in the room people rushing around out of place
His mom rushing past him like he wasn’t there he felt like a half torn from a whole
He tries to run after her crying her name but it’s as if she disappeared down the hall
Sobbing on the floor confused he is crying for help but no one hears his screams
He tries to stand but the floors are warped, he heads towards the room at a crawl
Wanting to know why his mom couldn’t stop crying he feels trapped in one of his dreams
Getting closer and closer to the room he’s struggling to see whose lying on the bed
Giving it all his strength he stands as tall as he can to see something he never thought he would
Lying there still and cold was himself he finally realized that he was the one who was dead
Stunned and cold as the darkness falls he looked for answers after doing nothing but good
He overhears the doctor say the cause of death was drowned by the dad
The wretchedness drowns him down and the stark cloudiness begins to instill
Before he has time to say goodbye to the world he vanishes away alone and sad
Fading with the wind he gently whispers that he loved his mom and he always will
206 · Oct 2017
Grow
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
You grew onto me
As the gallant red wood
Binds with the earth
Morphing and mixing
Our roots intertwined
Clasping hands yet
Clashing organics
Without you I'm baron
Just endless desert
Awaiting your everlasting life
Love
205 · Jan 2018
Dark
Brandon Cotter Jan 2018
An unlit room more or less
I've lied
More
Much more
Black paint under moonlight
Well
Let's forget the moon
But you see the walls still right?
How about drawing the shades
And now I've disconnected the street lights
And every other light
While we're in a mood to disconnect
There goes the rest of them
Now we're talking
Dark
I mean really dark
But I can still feel light pouring in
Spraying on my skin
Oh of course
The sun
It must go
Ah like that
That's better
Oh my God
The stars
How the absence of ours
Illuminates your beauty beyond words
And yet you must go
One by one
Until we have finally arrived
Dark
As if my eyes have been taken apart
Atom by atom
Each wrapped in vantablack
And individually deleted
Darkness that questions reality
As I float adrift
Searching for a way out of this emptiness
That I have trapped myself in
The more I yell
The less I feel
The less I love
The more I cry
And you
Even in the dark
In a blanket of black
I can still see you
For in the absence of everything
Nothing matters but you
204 · Sep 2017
Silence
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
A single heartbeat echoes on forever throughout time
Crackling amongst the trees as they sway in the wind
Skating over countless wakes into the shimmering sunset
Shattering through space into all-embracing nothingness
A lonely heart beat stranded amidst oblivion by its lonesome  
Abandoned by existence
Silence

A twitch of sound
Could it be?
Still carrying throughout the extinction of all other sound
Fighting, still fighting to thrive on the idea of its failure
Crashing towards life like the lonely reaper trying to consume it
Faster and faster it flies through the heavens soaring high
Booming swiftness hurls it closer and closer to your life
Closer yet so much closer to its home where it began
Pugnacious defiance to reach the one it is trying to save
Seconds decide the difference of your beating heart
Silence

Though promising, life could not be saved in time
The beating heart has expired
It is now just an empty vessel, leaking and dissolving to ash  
Through lengthy intervals ash will soften into nothing as it was meant to
But a single heartbeat will echo on forever throughout time
Side by side with the
Silence
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
The longest of nights lasting an eternity
As tics and tocs echo off these empty walls
Nothing moves or even vibrates
Besides the spontaneous quiver
Of my bottom lip
Dancing alone to the sadness

Dust resides in place of corners
Of every picture frame you took
Leaving hallow memories
To haunt this dreadful house

Staring at our bed
Still made from the last time
We both slept in it

My heart collapses
As my body follows
With a rush of pain
Stabbing into my mind

My dearest friend where can we run to?
Please take my hand
And show me where the pain stops
Or where the road ends
Or how the light dies

You've always been there for me
And hid away when I forgot
But I need you now more than ever
Please don't leave me here all alone

I may not be as strong as I once thought
And this scares me
Because you may be my only friend left
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