Rumination
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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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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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Great Rocks of Time
There are two Great rocks of time Standing by us On either side The past and the future They tower and loom Casting shadows Of fear and gloom They are always Threatening to topple on us The future from fragility The past from failures But sitting between These two rocks of time Is a thin… 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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Sticks and Stones
Sticks and stones May break bones But cruel words Turn hearts to stone You can get back up From a push or a shove But be crushed by the weight Of betrayed love Cuts and wounds Can be seen and sown While inner damage Hides in the unknown It’s the body’s nature To attempt healing… Continue reading
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Running
I have been running My whole life From a darkness Loitering in my mind My striving for success Was out of fear A negotiation tactic To show it needn’t be here If I stopped My lamps would go out And from its fortress The darkness would sprout I would scramble desperately Hunting for a candle… Continue reading
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Echoes
Why did the people Trying to help me Sound like the voices Depression sent me? I went to them To be released But they tightened the straps And added a leash The condemnation, the shame The endless berating Why did they echo My internal narration? They thought I was weak And they did not hide… Continue reading
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It’s Not Complicated
A lament There’s nothing complicated here It’s not hard to understand There’s no need to speculate This is not hard to grasp Take a person Work him to the bone Strip him of what he loves And leave him on his own He will dwindle and fade Fall into an abyss Be consumed by exhaustion… 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
