Anxiety
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Overwhelmed
So many stairs But they all lead nowhere For every floor of this building Has fallen into disrepair Empty offices With bright blinking lights Overturned tables Give shelter to mice Scattered chairs Litter the halls As unhooked phones Are endlessly called Heartless machines Beep and crackle Printers print pages Of mindless babble The manager’s door… Continue reading
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Great Rocks of Time
There are two Great rocks of time Standing by us On either side The past and the future They tower and loom Casting shadows Of fear and gloom They are always Threatening to topple on us The future from fragility The past from failures But sitting between These two rocks of time Is a thin… Continue reading
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Tumult
A wave approaches A towering black wall Foaming at the mouth As it begins to fall My mind becomes flooded Water on the floor Spilling out from every cupboard Are dank and terrible thoughts But I could not Beat this wave With force or stubbornness Fury or rage I had to surf its tumult Crest… Continue reading
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Oppression
I have felt the weight Of a thousand terrible tears And felt the claws Of my festering fears I have looked my anger In its red, cloudy eye And watched as despair Blotted out the sky I have felt the grip of dread Before a challenge begins And the endless emptiness After it ends All… Continue reading
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Heartquake
A deep sound Makes the ground quake It’s the beating of a heart That’s about to break It sends shuddering waves Through the floor Causes the locks to break On every door It causes teeth To chatter in their jaws And bones to rattle In a gruesome applause It vibrates through The creaking foundations And… Continue reading
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Running
I have been running My whole life From a darkness Loitering in my mind My striving for success Was out of fear A negotiation tactic To show it needn’t be here If I stopped My lamps would go out And from its fortress The darkness would sprout I would scramble desperately Hunting for a candle… Continue reading
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Beacon of Hope
A single flame In misted glass Stood before A vast sea of dark This marauding darkness Was a black beastSearching for flesh On which it could feast But that meagre flame Became a valiant dagger Piercing the beast And killing its power And the little flame danced In the fading nightAs it watched the beast… Continue reading
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Whispering Snakes (repost)
Shameful whisperings Encircle like snakes Corrode my belief And undermine my faith They sing in my dreams A spiteful tune of woe They slither under my skin They go everywhere I go These snakes bind my hands And wrap around my neck They warn me not to speak Or my life they will wreck But… Continue reading
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Premonition
A lament It lurks in your mindA secret thoughtThat years of depressionHas brought to the fore Like an itch under the skinTingling in your feetLike a tarantula on the backAlways just out of reach It’s a dreadful premonitionThat nothing mattersThat all joy is fragileAnd always shatters Continue reading
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A Court of Crows
A court of crowsGathers in my mindConspiring so close togetherThat their beaks grind They croak and groanCackle and moanAs they bicker overMy bag of bones Their seditious whispersEcho in my hallsAs they urge my enemiesTo go to war But this councilWill be disbandedWhen my white dove of hopeHas finally landed Continue reading
