Bitterness
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Burnt Heart
My heart burned black Festering with fury Anger glowered as embers Scorching inside me Bitterness oozed out Viscous like oil My skin blistered with rage Throbbed with boils I knew this anger Would eat me alive So I planted something Deep inside A golden seed Of truth and hope That purged my clogged arteries With… Continue reading
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The Bitter Crowning
The prince honoured blameWith a throne seatHeld on to grudgesAnd to the bitterness of defeat He had been wrongedAnd it had to be acknowledgedBut he used it as an excuseInstead of using his courage So he crowned bitternessAs the chief emotionHe revelled in itAnd drank its poison It rotted his worldAnd stagnated his dreamsAnd he realised that thisWould… Continue reading
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Faint Suns of Hope
There is a sadnessEntrenched in my heartA bastion of bleaknessA castle of dark It leeches out poisonIn viscous, black fluidsThis river of despairTurns my dreams into ruins So I made some sunsFrom candle lightsAnd sent them on their wayAttached to some kites The castle laughedAt my myriad of dawnsFor when one sun risesThe other ones… Continue reading
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They Still Don’t Understand
I don’t knowWhat more to doTo explain to peopleWhat I go through I have written poemsOf light and darkTo show the battleThat goes on in this heart I have revealedPulled back the curtainOf how writingMakes vague emotions certain How it turns wisps of cloudsInto blocks of stoneSo I can break them downAnd move them on But still they don’t… Continue reading
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The Masked Man
A lament No one cared who I wasUntil I put on the mask Until I made fitting in My most important task Only then did they Let me in their circle Even though for me It was extremely painful So I tightened the mask To keep the pain at bay But this meant I had… Continue reading
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Dragons of the Heart
She raises dragons In her chest Beasts of fiery fury Of blood-soaked red Her heart trembles At their churning Her hands write To sate their yearning Endlessly they eat Words and phrases Little chunks of knowledge Severed from pages They spewed out flames Dark and bitter But their thick clouds of smoke Were making her… Continue reading
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Rage
His intestines writhe Like a decapitated snake His bowels squirming From the force of his rage His jaw is clenched Bolted shut His tongue restrained Like a rabid mutt When he speaks, he spitsLike an agitated cobra Like a bubbling cauldron His fury spills over He let it spew Out of his mouth And lets… Continue reading
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The Orphan Girl and Her Suns
There is a sadnessEntrenched in her heartA bastion of evilA castle of dark It leeches out poisonIn viscous, black fluidsThis river of despairTurns her dreams into ruins This castle laughsAt her myriad of dawnsWhen one sun risesThe other one starts to fall Until one dayThe castle crackedAs her faint suns of hopeShowed their true impact Continue reading
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The Darkness and The Light
Can you see it? The darkness and the light? The falling feathers Of a bird learning to fly The shattered fragments Of a slashed mirror As a princess learns She was meant to be a warrior The trailing smoke Of a secret fire As a so-called friend Is shown to be a liar Do you… Continue reading
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Bitter Words
Taste the bitter wordsThe ones wrought by painAs they flow through youSee how they change See the disappointmentsBecome footsteps to higher planesSee how the lossesMake you value what you gain Feel the sadnessSwell in your stomachAnd marvel at how itTransforms into courage The sad words burnAs they go downBut wisdom will rise upAnd rest on you as a… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 