Pain
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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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Stormweather Friends
A lament I don’t want Storm-weather friends Can’t they see the message That it puts in my head? That I am pitiful A charity case A way for insincere people To maintain face That I am of no interest Have no worth Except as some sorry thing To be picked up from the dirt In… Continue reading
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Stormy Waters (repost)
Dark, stormy waters In the glass of my soul Inner turmoil concealed Within this fragile bowl As the darkness thrashes Like a tortured snake Tremors roar inside me The bowl starts to shake I lift open the hatch And let the darkness out My insides feel relief As the troubled waters spout They hurl themselves… Continue reading
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Wicked Branches
Twitching branches Pale, ghostly arms Sickly leaves unfurling With blackened palms Greedy and cruel With clinging vines Wicked whispers which Corrode and undermine Spiteful words Birthed this jungle here And so festering self-doubt Leads to paralysing fear The branches lock Around their victim Twitching delightfully As he starts to listen 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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Fungus
A lament Ennui is a fungusEating at the brainA wretched infectionOf unspeakable pain Beautiful paintingsMelt into grey mushAs soon as you liftThe cover to look At a brush of your handGlowing jewels fadeTheir serene texture convulsingInto rugged rock again Beautiful melodiesTurn to discord and bickeringAs soon as they knowThat you are listening The pen that… Continue reading
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Fog of Confusion
A lament I am lost In a vapour of confusion A maelstrom of misery A fog cloud of pollution Twisting and turning On an outdated map As chittering voices Mock me with laughs On this journey Of desperation I lost my bearings And my sense of direction Then I see A familiar landmark A broken… Continue reading
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Enigma
I am an enigmaA walking contradictionOne day I do the impossibleThe next I am bedridden My mind can masterComplex puzzles and problemsAnd then at the smallest effortSuccumb to exhaustion I can write thingsThat impress even myselfBut then struggle to find the wordsTo ask for help I don’t understand This juxtapositionBut I will find a wayTo… Continue reading
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Hollow Reed (repost)
I am a hollow reed That wails as the wind blows I am mourning church bells Echoing with resonant tone I paint with black This paper, my canvas My words are a seething sea Brooding, tumultuous I do not mince my words They are not for the faint-hearted I will not underplay my emotions Not… Continue reading
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Bitterness (repost)
Stale milk Stagnating inside We harbour envy Then it rots our minds It darkens our corneas Until all is black It poisons our tongue Weaponises it for attack The world melts away Leaving only sharp edges The sun diminishes To darkness, it pledges Your flesh turns cold As the warmth disappears Your emotions embalm No… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 