Disappointment
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It’s Not Complicated
A lament There’s nothing complicated here It’s not hard to understand There’s no need to speculate This is not hard to grasp Take a person Work him to the bone Strip him of what he loves And leave him on his own He will dwindle and fade Fall into an abyss Be consumed by exhaustion… Continue reading
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Bleak Landscape (repost)
My mind is a bleak landscape Not by design Scattered with corpses Once dreams of mine A famine came one day It never left It dried my rivers Left me for dead Dust storms roam The sunlight, they cloakI am stalked by fear On hopelessness, I choke I laid my bleakness Before the Lord And… Continue reading
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Capsized
Raging stormsWith fiery wingsSwept down uponMy naive dreams Small sailing boatWeak and untestedDipped under the swellAnd never crested My hands clasped crude rockInstead of goldSnagged seaweedIn the crippling cold But in the armsOf the raging seaWas where I finallyLearned to swim Continue reading
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Dead Dreams
It seems my heart Is actually a graveyard With overgrown grassAnd headstones that are scarred Here I laidMy dreams to restAfter failing for so longTo make any progress I sealed these tombsWith walls of stoneAnd tried to forgetThis tragic mausoleum But when I buriedMy aspirationsThere was no roomFor my pain to fit in So I… Continue reading
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Mood Drop (repost)
A lament Why does my mood drop Like a stone in a lake? Like a dead bird from the sky Or a beast bitten by a snake? Why does my mood drop Like a foolish climber off a cliff? Like an elevator gone rogue That is descending too quick? There is a gravitational force Working… Continue reading
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I am not a Zoo Animal
I am tired of people Trying to fix me Of prodding me With endless enquiries Of marvelling at my pain Like it’s an animal in a zoo And discussing among themselves Which techniques they would use Of trying to make me Their pet project Or seeing me as a challenge For their incredible intellect But… Continue reading
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Lonely Lighthouse
A lament Lonely lighthouse Dark thoughts cripple Their bony fingers So thick yet supple Brick by brick They tear it down Even as storm clouds Gather round They screech as dreams Crash into the rocks Shriek with glee As sailors cry out in shock The coast is littered With crumpled ships And the capsized are… Continue reading
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Gloom
A lament Depression is like Being locked in a cupboard When the mansion of your mind Is waiting to be discovered It’s like finding an oyster With a blackened pearl Or rockets with no fuel On a dying world It’s like a record that has Become stuck on the chorus Seeing a single band of… Continue reading
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Don’t Pity Me
I don’t need your pity Your kind, empty words My pain is rotting meat Your words, tasteless herbs Don’t deflect, don’t divert The blood-stained flows of my heart If it is too much for you to bear Please don’t bother to ask I don’t want people To feel sorry for me To gawp at my… 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
Dawn & Dusk 