Resilience
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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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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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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
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Misery’s Misty Mirage
An injection of misery Black poison in my soul Dragged my optimism Into a wretched hole Fed me sadness Stole sweet joys from my mouth Hung grey bags of misery To pin me to the ground A misty mirage To show me lies Replaying dark memories In my mind But a side effect It never… Continue reading
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I Want to Win
I don’t want to Use my pain As a shield From necessary change I want to grow I want to win I want my story To have a victorious end The child in me Does need comfort I will always be there To ensure he is covered But I am An adult now And it’s… Continue reading
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Inversion (Part 2 of 3)
A lament Trees suck the breathOut of my lungsGraceful musicCracks my ear drums Citrus fruit soursAnd blackens my tongueBird beaks openAnd suck in my songs Surging flood watersChange soil to sandA wisp of a featherShatters my hand An inverted worldSets its mightTo stop my journeyTo the other side Final part is published on 4th September… Continue reading
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Inversion (Part 1 of 3)
A lament I see cold stars In dark skies Their blue light No warmth provides A black sun rises Radiant dark Light flees into cracks Night is about to start Blue flames lock me Into a pillar of ice Water shoots upwards The ground by clouds dried An inverted worldSets its mightTo stop my journeyTo… Continue reading
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Capsized
Raging stormsWith fiery wingsSwept down uponMy naive dreams Small sailing boatWeak and untestedDipped under the swellAnd never crested My hands clasped crude rockInstead of goldSnagged seaweedIn the crippling cold But in the armsOf the raging seaWas where I finallyLearned to swim Continue reading
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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
