Regret
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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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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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The Words are Gone
A lament The words are snatched From the tip of my tongue They turn to ash As they leave my lungs The cogs in my mind Grind to a halt As the words vanish Into a fog Sometimes when I speak The words are switched And they cause damage I don’t know how to fix… Continue reading
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Well of Sorrows
I have in me A well of sorrows Its dampness permeates Seeps into my bones I filled this chasm With wretched tears Hiding them from The scorn of my peers On some days It overflows As ink-stained tears That form into poems So I will let this flow Of tears start So other emotions Can… 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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Shadow Birds
A lament Shadow birdsPerch on lanternsMigrating dailyFrom their home in the mountains Their dispiriting criesPierce the glassAnd make their homesIn people’s hearts They spread outTheir gloomy wingsAnd summon miseryFrom hidden springs Winged sorrowsOf times gone byReturn each nightTo make people cry Continue reading
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The Steadfast Fern
Tangled fronds Of a fern tree Scattered by a storm That didn’t need to be Dust and detritus Shift with the wind Circle the tree With a cruel chagrin Dishevelled and broken Beaten and bowed But this fern tree still stands When others fell down Continue reading
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Fire and Decay
The king wanders his hallsEerie and blackenedThe smoke forming figuresReplaying what had happened His ancient hallsHad burned to ashHis glory, his legacyNow charred scraps He found old masterpiecesVivid frescos stained blackIntricate landscapes and portraitsOnce made by his hand Many had delightedIn this operatic hallBut the walls weakened from wearAnd were destined to fall Then this cursed fireHad gutted this… Continue reading
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The Decay of Silence
A lament Moss grows On unused tongues And damp builds up In wordless lungs Silence heralds A cruel winter And suppressed emotions Will eventually splinter I held in my words To avoid the painBut that wretched painFound me all the same Continue reading
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The Masked Man
A lament No one cared who I wasUntil I put on the mask Until I made fitting in My most important task Only then did they Let me in their circle Even though for me It was extremely painful So I tightened the mask To keep the pain at bay But this meant I had… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 