Emotions
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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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Derailed Thoughts
Thoughts derail Go down wrong paths Get stuck in cycles Of fear and wrath The voice is so familiar It sounded like his own But by the time he realisedHe was too far gone He’s been going in circles For hours now Thought he was solving the problem But it was all a sham A… Continue reading
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Messages From the Deep
Emotions are Messages from the deep Old parts of you Trying to speak A crowd of voices Boiling up from within Each one screaming Urging you to listen Some can guide Some can inform Some are misleading Or by pain, are warped Some can empower you Lead you to change Others ensnare Wrap you in… Continue reading
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Castles of Dark
He fought fearsome foes In abandoned castles of dark Ignored the melancholic whispers That clawed at his heart He crossed bleak landscapes Scaled rivers and fjordsWrestled with bearsAnd fought obsidian swords He subdued dragonsAnd outwitted sorcerersTo the poor and orphansHe gave up his last morsels Who is this man, you askWhat kind of hero is this?To face… Continue reading
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Spit Out The Bones
Take what you need And spit out the bones Take from my words What helps you grow I do not have All the answers But I will share What brought me advances I can only show The path I have taken How my joy From its sleep, was awakened What sticks in the throat What… Continue reading
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Lost Words
I sang a songBut a silence ate itI wrote a letterBut the ink was wasted I let words flowLet truth beBut found that the wordsWere nowhere to be seen I poured out my heart’s sorrowThat tender emotionAs a raging riverBut it was swallowed by an ocean I lost those wordsBut now I seeThat all those wordsWere building something… Continue reading
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Survival
Take one step forward No matter how small Keep getting up Every time you fall Invest in yourself And those around you In a world of deception Hold on to the truth When darkness swirls Whispering like a ghoul Reminding you of all the ways That you are a fool Then reach out In that… Continue reading
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Pale Lord
A pale lord Sits enthroned Bids I enter Into his world Tells me that There is no hope here That this is the residenceOf all I fear He offers citizenship To this land of gloom Assuring me there is No escape from this doom But I step closer And his crown slips And I see… Continue reading
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Music and Light
I see it on the horizon A rising dawn I hear it on the winds Whisperings of a new song It is music to my ears Laughter in my lungs Joy in my heartSweetness on my tongue When you have endured The darkest of nights Then you appreciate The slightest hint of sunlight The opening… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 