Best Eating Away Poems

Written: February 5th, 2024
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My heart is leaking...

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~Marionette Master~    

All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on

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The Moon slowly moves its way...

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EDGE WALKER 

Waking up to the depth beyond such things every day
One day I choose to walk and become Queen of Mandalay

In the depth of...

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What is this feeling
This feeling deep down in my soul
Eating away at me
Threatening to tear away my flesh
And unmask me as someone completely different
Than who...

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Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.

I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life...

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Existing, so removed, in your ivory tower
From high in your loft you wield your power

You weave your emotions like Rupunzel’s hair
dangling enticingly waiting to snare

Keeping...

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Fighting the demons 
no one sees 
only you feel it 
eating away at your skin 
crawling in your veins 
where your blood use to reign...

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I, the empty man,
The hollow man,
Exist here in the shadows
Of twilight.  My senses dead,
Burned out of me along with
The tattered, wasted rags 
That were...

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I lie beside you
Trying to keep still
Yet…this need is eating away at me
I sigh
Sure that my desire
Is working its way out of my body
Glowing out...

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When the night falls, slowly eating away at the blue day,
I lay, eyes awake, mind searching for a perfect image of you.
I search my ears...

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one moment the sun loses a spark ~ and from that fireball life grows dark

 one moment steadily turns to night ~ blackness gnaws eating...

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Solid roots buried deep within the earth
Though a chimera
Far above the dense ground
High high above
Where there is no one else around
But down down below
To a...

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And I ask you what you want
And you ask me do I care
And I just want to ask
will there be love there?

I've been dying to...

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Consuming fire
Bitter ire
Eating away at me,
Turning me into ash.
Burning fire
All consuming ire
Smiling has become strange.
It seems that I've really changed.
Everything I once knew,
Grew a crooked...

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Fear eats within my soul
	unknown moments where failure is
agony collapses giving away
	falling swiftly downward stopping hard

black iron lines angles down
	parallels joined in molten bonds
repeating rolls...

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