Pain
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Split Sky
The sky before me Is split in two One side flashes with lightning The other’s a glorious blue One side thunders With looming black clouds The other is teeming with birds Making musical sounds One side crackles With bristling intensity The other side glows With a radiant glory A beautiful contradiction A perplexing paradox And… Continue reading
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By the Fire
I stand solemnly By the fire Is this a rebirth Or a funeral pyre? Is this where a phoenix Rises from the flames? Or where slimy eggs Unleash dragons untamed? Will the fire scorch me Reduce me to ash? Will black crows gather To cackle and laugh? Will I survive To see a rising dawn… Continue reading
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Wrestling With Words
We writers We wrestle with words We grapple with Our deepest hurts We lasso letters Subdue sentences Assert alliteration On prose skeletons Phrases follow us Verbs vex us We’re haunted by imagery Of our past failures And all of this In desperate pursuit Of seeing our problems From a better point of view Continue reading
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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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Dance in the Rain
Black clouds thundering With dark sounds My golden notes drowning In puddles on the ground The rhythmic raindrops Beat me down Becoming the bassline For this sorrowful sound This miserable music Refused to go away So I started learning To dance in this rain And as I was twirling My golden notes rose Shimmering like… Continue reading
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Buried
I tried to bury My pain with purpose Until my strength was consumed By a pitiless furnace My body was worn down Until there were only scraps So that a gnarled skeleton Was all that I had I dragged myself on Through more and more misery Too afraid to face The pain inside of me… 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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Empty Instruments
I try to drown out The terrible noise With a host of empty Instruments of joy I flood my senses With sugary notes Cherry-topped tunes On ice cream cones I bash my head With heavy bass lines To try to drive The sadness from my mind A mindless melody A simplistic symphony Repetitive lyrics That… 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
