Confidant
Only the city knows for I’ve spoken to it in those dark and special hours when it’s conscious to stormy hearts.
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Rusted Love
The song can never be played, the lyrics never discussed, for the singer is depressed by love perverted to rust The world has stopped turning, its people gone home Families stare at one another until they all children alone The poem can never be repeated, the words never argued, for the Poet is sad and buried beneath love like dust.
Read the full article...Who Could Have Thought Snowflakes So Heavy?
I’m alive with bloom, so strong and sun-tanned, then leaves floating goodbye, months later, limbs broken by snow I’m a tree I may be me but I may be you or anything wanting to be…
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My eyes, key to society’s door Take a seat in my head and we’ll begin the tour Warning light: NO SMOKING – DANGER IN THE MIND A room for each derangement, patient’s name upon the door: Suicide, who put you here? (Me) Conformity, who put you here? (Me) And you, Alcoholic, who put you here? (Me) What about Druggie, Murderer and Rejected, who put you here? (ME) Visitors, our tour ends but be assured we’ll keep searching for a cure for this dreaded disease named Me.
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Burn in yourself (every moment) If grief should prey, revel in it for a second and forget in the next When death is on your doorstep, curse it mightily and then give it your biggest smile ’cause this is what it is to Live.
Read the full article...Fucking, Loving, Dying
Fucking, loving, dying – it all seems the norm from outer space It’s only down here that it feels insane.
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