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The Elephant in the Room
If we do not speak of it It will not be there That’s what we said And for days we managed To skirt around it For words do damage And sight even more If we allow ourselves to see it … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, Poetry
Tagged avoidance, blindness, denial, elephant, out of the mouth of babes, truth
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Stage Mirror
Pierrot has gone And Columbine Before her mirror Deftly draws The makeup and Such mystery That deep within Her heart she stores Her love is gone Her love is lost She cannot bear Or view the cost Pierrot has gone … Continue reading
Different
I was a different person then I shed my skin so many times I scarce remember, yet these photos and these memories attest to a time when I was other When I cherished hopes to my breast and played the … Continue reading
Spoken
A love never spoken Just a flower that’s pressed Still fragrant years later All tear drops unshed And in this we have bled We have bled A step never taken Given over to fear Remembering joys never known From words … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Water
Tagged denial, heartbreak, loss, lost love, regret, sadness, unrequited love, unspoken
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Saw It Coming
I saw it coming But you refused to see You shut your eyes And turned away from me The mirrored image Showed the tumults sway You wouldn’t notice You just looked away I saw it coming Saw it take you … Continue reading
World Outside
There is a whole world waiting outside I don’t care There are lush fields brimming with green Growing there Within my home everything’s dark All is despair There is a whole world living outside I’m not there Watch how the … Continue reading
Competition
Slicing flesh So fine no blood erupts from translucency Whisper cruel, deluded pride corrupts all human decency Sweet laced words that hide your whiplash smile Qualified support Friendship’s mask will shield the crocodile from well deserved retort We’re the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged attack, belief, choice, competition, competitive, cruelty, dark, delusion, denial, false friends, insincerity, jealous, truth
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Noli Me Tangere
My tombstone reads Noli Me Tangere In death as was in life I would not love-born Children bear To no man be a wife And should they seek A lock of hair I gave instead a knife Noli Me Tangere … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged belief, choice, dark, death, denial, Life, noli me tangere, Philosophy, Relationships, Spiritual, touch me not, truth
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Poverty’s Child
Stark brutality A lash tells many many stories Bruises form beneath hidden, innocent skin Poverty’s child Wide eyes hopeful Pitiful question There’s no alibi given in this moment Wondering glance A passing interest is just passing Never sees the darkness … Continue reading
Hymn to the Fall
Hovering above me this crystal night I felt the hand of spirits caress my cheek and then it seemed I heard them speak and call me traitor, call me weak As though upon their testimony worlds would rise and fall … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged acceptance, angels, Aspiration, belief, choice, dark, delusion, denial, dissociation, Dreams, lucifer, Philosophy, Spiritual, the Fall, truth
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