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There was a time. There was a time When your fabled dreams Seemed honest A time when Your open arms Coated in dented silver and tainted dreams Understood my Size 12 shoes When the world seemed to be against you Yet, still, Your blunt eloquence welcomed me home Then, your “rainbow”… …shat t er ed Your heartbeat became an arrhythmia of petulant theatrics. Your topaz coated spit Released from refilled white-out bottles, Brushing away quartered moons of an iridescent shame A copycat of robotic muses Infringing upon your pedestal, Turned loud mouth, afflicting broken tongue The “Stalin” of a messenger’s wit, You raised your voice to a poignant sky!!! And, as if Yahweh cured your muted disorders, EVERYBODY HEARD YOU!!! Including me That was your goal… …excluding me From incipient edge, I witnessed you, A turpentine puddle in front of a confessional booth On a melancholic Thursday morn, With ripened glares to avoid your hallways Tangled, dangling pacifiers as your doorbell ... There will come a time. There will come a time When social feeds will deprive your vexing smile Of validation Where ignorant heartbeats will awaken Through lyrical epiphanies To see your “rainbow” As a faded, stolen crayon Where flirtatious dialect from withered accomplice Licks cubic zirconium’s aftertaste Forgetting that karma doesn’t tolerate one-night stands For me, that time is now. Then, I knew who you were. Now, I know who you are. You are not what you say. A false advertisement in Sunday’s illiterate paper… …with erased verbatim amongst your mirrored peers Remembering how you falsified truth’s smile Dire requests for empathetic warmth of our yesterdays Yet, my Agnostic coat could never be thick enough For your saturated, dual face ©Drake J. Eszes
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