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[542] Come Home
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The answer is the simple thing deniedThe obstacle is you in your own wayThe present is tethered to the lifeless pastThe future wails in denial of the presentYou say things to others you want them to say to youYou hear echoes from them, memories fading like dreamsYou see things in the margins known only to…
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[540] Distant Intimacy
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A question that tearsthe very earth you walk onEach slight step you tookTowards the deceit of progressUnwinds as you fallto the familiar dreaded beginningwhere forever dies at its endWhen it’s all but a reverieI cradle you in your peaceful sleepThe lullabies I sing take shape of nightmares for insomniacs of realityQuestions seep into dreamsThey assume…
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[539] In Search of New Beginnings
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A blackbird soars, circling my tragedyAmorphous thoughts form in my mindI dare not brave its end Nor even stand amidst its trance to not be lost againTo be lost is to no longer be groundedIt is not flying in the infinite skyIt is a hopeless free fall for a hopeful divine interventionIt is a leap…
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[537] Darkness Behind Closed Eyes
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Mind fails to stay stillHeart knows its way aroundBut in this jungle of the material worldI feel lost, a rose wilting on my pillow of tearsIn dreams, I meet my saviourBut how can I be saved from what I can’t name?I try to stay present, but distractions aboundThey say to wander is to wonder, but…
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[535] Until We Meet Again
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To meet her once is to meet her for all eternityHer auburn hair a flame, ablaze in ferocityComfortable in silence, comfortable in selfThere is a lust for an experience that is beyond selfA hereditary habit of reading newsTo meet her again is a chance to be rebornShe has never had a crush (at least that’s…
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[533] A Take On Modern Love (And Listening)
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Utter confusion in metries to find an understandingin the way you listenin the way you livein the way you breathdeaf, blind and mute Your loudest thoughtstands on the edge of every smileYour smallest inconveniencesfind a way inside my headThey take up the spacethat I could have reserved for my own I give away the space…
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[531] As She Fades
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When I am standing on the edge Revelling at the vista, which the mist blurs I forget the lovely image, hers, asShe fades… fades… fades awayOver me, joy has taken me in its veilMore a creature of this world And one less angel on the earthI want nothing more, nothing lessWhen I am standing on…
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[530] Broken Pieces of Our Past Lives
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An aftertaste of when the mind’s apocalypse ends, blissRed lipstick on my soulA feeling that lingers in the infinite pastThe warmth of a past loverThe apathy to accept that it will not returnThis is the sound of the universea portal to another world where I bloom in the discarded NaPoWriMo Day 2: Today’s prompt asks…
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[529] The Hollow Earth
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where vulnerability goes to diewhen the listener is self consumedwhere love goes to hide when you’re not presentthe hollow earth and its ravenous voidthe space of no returnwhere lightning cannot be capturedthe constant beating of the heartconsumes all friendshipschasing a lost memoryrunning on lost groundi see the glimpses of remembrancebut forgetting makes a distracting soundwhere…
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[526] For The Last Time
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my tiny impulsescarry me to the distant pastcarry me to the near futurebut never fully present you areinvisible to me different livesdivergent universewhy does it still feelyou know me better my tiny impulsescarry me to you my growth in the nightwhere is your sunlight?faith in synchronicityfate seems destinedto make me forget youto make me forgetful…
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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…