Anxiety
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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
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Dark Towers
Dark towers Scourges of the sky My sunset canvas Is scarred and maligned They cut into shreds My days of azure blue Their spiteful spires puncture My birds of truth The horizons of the future Are maimed and obscured And cumulus clouds Are strategically lured Ancient foes erected These structures to intimidate But to fade… Continue reading
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The Machinations of Crows
Crooked crows With beady eyes Whisper and croak As they strategize In their frenzy Their feathers they shred As they scheme and plot Their misdeeds of dread They orchestrate the downfallOf my kings and queens Gathering ever more influence Under their wings Their crafty counsel Deposes my thoughts And their dark murmurings Form their own… Continue reading
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Left Behind
A lament EverydayI start undergroundHearing the footstepsOf everyone else pound I must get up earlyTo try to catch upSo that I am notLeft in the dust Some days I make itOn others I fallSometimes I am assaulted By nasty things that crawl But whatever the circumstanceOr how hard I chaseI always start at a disadvantageIn… Continue reading
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The Black Beast
Concealed in the darkHidden amongst painA treacherous beast cowersFrom the light of day A fiendish foePretending to be a friendIts words of warningHave nefarious ends Among the rippling windsIn the twilight hoursFace the fearAnd confront its power In its coreIs a golden lightThat this black beastHad tried to hide Continue reading
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Don’t Wake the Monster
Don’t wake the monster That sleeps in his mind It broods in its fortress Of a thousand whispered lies With bared teeth, it snarls Accusing with its claws It thrashes in hysterics Screaming at his flaws The struggle is brutal To put it back in its box On the darkest days The fight never stops… Continue reading
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Self Sabotage
A caustic emotion Muddies the water Like a belch of octopus ink Before it is slaughtered A desperate squirt In vain protection Leaves the animal In disorientation And in this swirl Of black catastrophe The octopus becomes Its worst enemy And so it swims Right into the trap As jaws thud closed With a thunderous… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 