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[525] Vivid Night, Vivid Light
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As I gazed upon my lifeI see a divide so clearMy yearning soul and the worldly strideMy ambition rears its teethas authenticity dies a silent death My heart craves revelling in the inner realmbut the external world the sound of a drill in my mindI am reminded of my privileged lifeAnd the inner light that…
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[524] The Call of the Wild
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The truth, the night, the vastnessThe endless sky and the endlessflights of fancy and feelingsThe intuitive heart and itstiptoeing to stay aliveThe silence and its endThe sounds that illuminate lightNature dies in our mindsas we disconnect from the worldThe trees and the rivers fade awayand we lose touch with the earthRisen to the surfacethe depth…
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[523] Count Me Out
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When the lights go outI’m left with a lack in melike damage dwells in my kneeIs it pain or upward spinal ecstasy?Playing catch up to my thoughtsAn utter abandon of prideShudder and stutter in speechAll the ravens waiting for meIn the painting of my lifelies a dark centre amidst delightMelancholic bitter sweet flightA confident self…
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[522] The Ascension Back Up
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I emerge out of my shadowto bask in the light once moreHow many more lessonsbefore I’ve seen it allThings that sparked joy no longer burnThe world outside remains so incitingYet I am a captive craniumIn a world where feelings never meet thoughts where life never meets deathAll I hear is a crackling of my dimly…
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[521] Our Tale Out Of Time
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Malignant thoughts overstay their welcomeThe lure of passionand the forgetfulnessof the aftertaste it leavesThe ruins of my resolveweaker by the second To resist all temptations where the mind is forgottenTo bring awareness to my breathwhere the self is forgottenI centre my attention to the conscious tillthere is no awareness of my external surroundings Only an…
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[520] Enigmatic Presence
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Running out of wordsin a velveteen quicksandEngulfed in the eternalI listen to my oceanic orchestraMy inner world jostles and i turn the other wayuntil i’m facing awayfrom my eventual fateEverything and nothingall at once, twice and all timesI move feelingsI force sadnessI grab the fleetingI am an enigma stuck in my own wayslocked out of…
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[519] The Great Beyond
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I hide from your secretsI live in another planewhere we words are extinctso we only listen to the musicthat we emit from our bodiesThe music of our impossibilityIn another world you lay next to meIn another world we kill each otheruntil we’re born again, in another worldA million sunsets meeting at the edge of the…
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[518] No Place Called Home
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Cradle me in my sufferingBreathlessness in my cryingWaves crash on my wallsTook a second to break it allBefore you turn into a strangersay it one more time you doMisty self image I’m starting to forgetSlivers of courage remainsI carry it in an open casketThe journey of remembrance is now one of survival holding onThe man…
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[517] Meeting Beyond Right & Wrong
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I am anonymous to youBut we know in our white heartsthe unique way we look at things We meet on a common groundin the afterglow of our celestial dreamsThe world of reading between the lineswhere we reside in between the wordsStar crossed lovers with no end in sightHere, Jupiter is in our palms Metamorphosis of…
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[515] Slivers of You & I
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The world knows me notfor they only see the livingI exist in the merrymaking dreamsI exist in the margins of timeI am the reflected But the reflection is all they seeSubtlety of thoughts is my palaceThe source of light is my kingdomYet in the five senses is where i amusually lost and foundIn forgetfulness is…
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[514] Cosmic Dance
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Dying embers of a visageshow flashes of returning hopeFlooded libraries drying upKnowledge cannot be drownedeven inside the sullen bodyeven inside the dormant mindDying embers of a visageshow flashes of a time gone byBubbling of gaps in memorieslike the time you saw her for the first timelike the time you felt it all should endlike the…
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[513] The Blind Kingdom of Dreams
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Signs of her auburn hair Her lips only touch despairSlight bravado in her touchEvery deed she does is fairKindness leaves her soulwhen she sees with her gawking eyesLives, sunrise, wars and doomhow could it coexistShe never blinked to sleepconcentration fallacyInsomniac in the fleshThe night spoke in tearsOne day she awoke from the furore of the…
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[512] Quicksand Love
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Scarce emotionsGive me all that’s leftWe’ll make do with our doomWe’ll make do in our nestNightly talks replete with insomniaMy chest filled with your tearsSecret language of the cricketsWe find common groundto translate our soulinto each other’s heartsWe see itOur fulfilled potentialI feel your hands filling the gapsand the falling of the memories of sandsceases…
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[511] Enchantment Breaks
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Hide inside my mindto not perish outsideFugitives of the ethereal worldContaminate the sky I hurry into your embraceand find a faraway homeNot much to satisfyWe communicate in the nightDecorate your insecuritybury it underneath Assurances turn to dustwhen your lips drip venomIt’s never good enoughwhen your will is setYou make me leave your embraceas we attend…
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[510] Nevermore is Forevermore
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A walk with the head downConfidence fading with each footstepWords talk about memorial hurtThe hurt pulls down another soul to hurtThe atmosphere and the ambience of a noveland the will to live inside it, outsideOutside, all intentions lose their battleCalmness comes across as passivityLove comes across as narcissismQuestionable care loses its wayon the way to…