Perfectionism
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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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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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Pedestal
Take me down From your pedestal Let me be normal Let me be a fool Let me joke Let me laugh Make funny faces Do a silly dance I am not a saint With a halo on my head I am a joker, a jester A confidant, a friend Take me out Of this straitjacket… Continue reading
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Treadmill
A lament I am on a treadmill And I dare not stop For a bed of spikes wait If I were to fall off I am in a cruel game A wicked trap Holding a boulder over my toes Until my arms crack If I stop my efforts My mood will fall If I continue… Continue reading
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A Court of Crows
A court of crowsGathers in my mindConspiring so close togetherThat their beaks grind They croak and groanCackle and moanAs they bicker overMy bag of bones Their seditious whispersEcho in my hallsAs they urge my enemiesTo go to war But this councilWill be disbandedWhen my white dove of hopeHas finally landed Continue reading
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Broken Trust
A lament My trust in people Has been eroded For when I needed help I instead was scolded I was branded with The mark of incompetence Derided for my Lack of resilience I opened up Exposed my emotions They stabbed my heart With a black poison Now their voices are Inscribed in my mind And… Continue reading
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River of Gold
In a shimmering land Of beauty untold Flows a wonderful river Of endless gold I was told That I must travel Search high and low To encounter this marvel So I crossed Burning sands And passed through Dark and treacherous lands But when I needed That river the most It searched for me So I… Continue reading
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We Are Machines
A poem on toxic productivity They say producing is all That really matters To make things of worth And to make them faster They say we are machines Churning out produce We’re trees in a vineyard All our worth in our fruit But fruit fails And machines crack Achievements shine briefly Then fade into black… Continue reading
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They Bruised the Sky
Bloodied skies Over treacherous plains A weeping moon Has no words to explain Caskets carried On broken shoulders The funeral pyresNow overflowing What sort of violence Can bruise the sky? What sort of treachery Causes the moon to cry? Cruel words Catch in the flesh And bring a million Dreams to their death Continue reading
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Self Sabotage
A caustic emotion Muddies the water Like a belch of octopus ink Before it is slaughtered A desperate squirt In vain protection Leaves the animal In disorientation And in this swirl Of black catastrophe The octopus becomes Its worst enemy And so it swims Right into the trap As jaws thud closed With a thunderous… Continue reading
