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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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[509] Solving The Puzzle
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Puzzles of a storychurning in my soulThe medium stays runningWhere do I find the source?Painful to live in the pastSo the future is where I resideThe makings of a storyrustier every nightSunbeams on my eyesI wake up to tonightA blank slate of calm for a whileThen the while simply diesTroubles of the heart take time…
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[508] Puzzles of the Mind
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An eternity without words or lives without eternitysentences without meaningno centre within or withoutIn shadows, haunting of the pastIn light, shimmering of the futureI find myself in extremesof inability to understand or being able to understand it allPeople move on but I stayTimes change but I am the sameThe expression has quietened The words have…
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[497] Images of the Mind
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My internal images havebecome black holes andfractal shapes of the darkBare thoughts of bare bonesblocks all the weary soulsBut dawn comes to lift me upAnd the light finally sets me free in sleepThe dreary Sundays and evening hazea broken path and internal rageFading sense of self, state of flowWords that sow, images of an ideal…
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[496] The Knowing
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The need to be understood drives all of us in our conversations. In all our little body movements and all that we signal on social media. We project our fond illusions in order to miraculously escape a direct confrontation with our truth. We seek to experience without experiencing and try to imbibe someone else’s articulation…
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[492] Yesterday In Search For Tomorrow
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My words exist for another timeThey’re born with accumulated dustThey die with my first cryThey are trapped in reflection of all that I cannot createIt is adorned with jewelsof all that I cannot hearSkies become dimLands part in waitKings recognise their sacrificesQueens fly in their dreamsThe past I was never a part offeels more real…
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[489] Ship of Theseus
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Stay here Don’t go back to there againThe rapture in the mind is real as real can be The mind expands when it lets go of nowand flows with the feelingOf flow itselfLet yourself forget the selfConnect to every epiphany you forgetDon’t bring it back to the world of timeBring eternity into the moment of…
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[488] A Treatise of Truth
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Are you as lost as I am?You say you found a wayWe both know of its impurityTell me the truth of your wayward waysA memento of which you keep in the deep of the darkest nightAll the signs point to confusionsentences without punctuationspaintings without signaturesEverything is a circle to return to the end of understanding,…
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[482] Aimless Walks to Find an Aim
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Look over your shoulderto find a soul piercing glanceAvoid it to not be terrorisedFace it to go through a change𝘈𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦catches you off guarda heavy feeling that expandsfear galoreParalysis analysis of what could have beenConfusion bleeds through your words𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨the gaze makes you awareof all the benign things that addinto a snowball of old age regretSo you…
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[481] My Eyes Desire You
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Future halts when eyes desirea glimpse of the pastThere was no me in the flow state of hearing you be youNow I carry my existenceto fill the cavity of youHedonistic tendencies fill the spiritual void There is awareness but of my doomed stateThere is tranquillity but of being lost in melancholyMy hurt feelings hurt who…
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[478] My Underwater Memories
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Habitable ruins of memory catch me lying about my propensity to forget I’m lyingRusting body of doomand lively winds that delay itat the end of my bloomNobody can save itNobody can save itrivers that dry devoid of emotionsI am not a stoic I view my mistakes whenthey are in motionNo control over keeping secretswhen I’m…
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[474] Reality is Just Another Dream
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Don’t view your mistakesunder the glare of the sunTalk to your weaknessin the comfort of solitudePauseUnderstand to reactand discriminate your woes awayA lively mind is waitingat the end of the overwhelmingemotion you are feeling right now Falling into reveriesthat I can’t interveneAll of my desiresand imagination freedThe will to control diesin the subtle world of…
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[473] The Test of Will
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The familiar forgotten feelings mark a blue moon return. A knot in my mind that I thought had unravelled reveals its survival, as it resurrects. An ugly moon hidden by the clouds. I know no other way to talk about it other than talking about it as if it is something other than what it…
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[472] The Only Question You Need to Ask
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A great writer lives to pose a question on why things are the way they areAn eternal idea is their elusive museHow stands in wayof what is still vagueThe journey, pathless fortruthThe end, a beginningof livingThe purpose, to knowyouThe answer, deceptively simplewhy? Art by Josh Pierce As pure coincidence, or you can call it the…
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[471] Transformation of The Unknown
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Starve your illusionsSever all attachmentsFeel things ratherthan simply know themWisdom is the journeyyou take with an incompletestatue called knowledgeRefine it untilit becomes specificto you and you aloneUntil that statue becomesa reflection of your higher selfyou carried with youfrom the unknown Art by Daniele Buetti