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Solemn Slumber

Lay in slumber of your solemn sleep
Leaving behind those who weep

Cry into the deaf air
Only silence will answer
Your life will remain in plight
Lay in slumber of that solemn night

Tattered memories cry down weary cheeks
Flowing into the forgotten sea
Rapids that rage the most remain unseen
Lay in slumber under that solemn stream

The memory that burns the most
Is that you chose the life of a ghost
Lay in slumber under the wings of your new host

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Not a Star

Not a Star
but a Sun
for stars are for gazing
and suns are for living
one million stars to light up my night
one sun to light up my day
when it rises I smile
when it sets I cry
I stand and stare
as I say goodbye
waiting for yet another rise
as the earth shuts its eyes
I’ll do the same
I dream of no stars
neither constellations nor comets
just one sun
that lights up my life

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Oasis

I hope to see you soon
my oasis in the scorching heat
quench my thirst for love
shade me from the rays of loneliness

Free to roam the infinite desert
yet I beg for the captivity
of emerald green palm trees
and sapphire blue lakes

A glimmer in the distance
a shimmer on the horizon
does here lay my garden of eden
in these planes in oblivion

I approach to see the reality
just a mirages’ trickery
the imagery that appeared so real
still hides her face in this desolate place

A forgotten feeling to remember
lost again in a world so harsh
left with a greater thirst
and a weakened soul

I know salvation exists
my oasis in the scorching heat
with every brief glimpse of fantasy
I come closer to my final reality

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What Haunts Me the Most

Grey scales paint the eerie atmosphere
	realistic fiction portrayed in my docile mind

I find myself
	atop the highest part
	of a crumbling castle

The spectral fog settles
	revealing her secrets

Draped in a vivid dress
	of baby blue
	lined with daisies

She stares out of the shattered
	stained glass window
	into the firebreathers abyss

Volts shred my veins
	as she sways
	and faces me

Rivers of ruby red flow from shoulder to fingertips
	glistening in the moonlight as they raged on

Silver streams of tears glide down her cheeks
	which hold a pale rosy hue

Still gripping the lightning struck sand
	still dripping with fresh depression

She manages a sorrowful smile
	that screams, “help me…”

But I cannot
	for I am chained
	and can’t move

Emotionally she whispers
	I love you baby

Giving into gravity
	she embraces the wind

I awake

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Love-Loss

An inexplicable feeling,
Naked to the human heart

A cold to catch,
	Or a butterfly

Take hold of the rains,
Or wallow in their wake

Lay in slumber of your solemn sleep,
And take time to weep

For the soul you’ve called home,
Has gone away and flown

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I Follow

The river swiftly swayed through the forest.
For many years I’ve rowed this hollowed log,
followed every crease and bend,
through white sands and murky stills.

And it seems I have forgotten why.

I look to the shoreline and fantasize,
to beach, and sleep with the snug, serene grass,
my toes wrapped in the blanket sand,
but the current leads me downstream.

Who am I, to bout what nature says?

I am man, on the immortal river.
Sorry, but I can’t make south rotate north,
I shall stay a pawn, a paddler,
floating down, broken oar in hand.

And now, I am all but remembered.

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What Remains

creep into that wasted house
no structure to reinforce
what has been hollowed out

one day soon these walls will collapse
and the cause will be chiseled in the ashes
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