A Man Chained by Vices
He is lost on a long road with no turns.
He doesn't move forward to find,
freedom from his addiction.
He doesn't look back to know
why he is shackled to his vices.
Instead, he sits still wondering when he will be struck by ecstasy again.
Chained to the sidewalk, he waits near the cold road,
helpless like a newborn child that can walk.
He looks up to an unforgiving winter.
Praying salvation wash over him.
It felt like movies
There were purple colored flowers spread across the ground
And its just the dazzling view of you
Everybody else locked in my cold prison of haze
You were walking towards me
And proceeded to commit a tragic sin
your eyes whispered they want me too
I just want to be chained by you
See to it
That you remember
The cage of
Those who tried
Defying the oppresion
Of those who sought wrath
Paths of life
Please choose the right one
Rig ht or wro ng
Make it quick
Thereare people in line here
Impatient waiting
Never more
Chasing so blindly
On fake star s
Dead night sky
Prometheus never came
We all stay stupid
Invading the veins
Shadows follow me into the rain
Whirlwinds of many rusty blades
Juniper and Thyme
Indigo stains
Crimson River flowing toward the Ocean
Robotic array
Under the sky we made our home
Questions of violent pain
Under the bones we speak to echoes of stone
Snow falls like kisses of death
Snow men and Snow Women preach for our end
Yearning for waves doom waved in and avowed
Night returns each day
Dawn breaks with each mourn
My wife my bride my shadow my side
Like a get away driver nothing escapes without union
I stand here, cursed.
Soughted upon a brim of hope.
Yet darkness be it me for swallows.
My site is blinded by my blood red soul.
My hands are numb by the sharpness of my beastly nature.
The wildly hairs, knitted to my’th skin.
My ivory gates, beckoned me to crimson devour.
I..
I am forever doom, by the blood red moon.
Chains my existence keeps. Yet held tightly to my essence beneath.
Thus thou never to escape..
The fate of being a
Wolf..
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the chains that hold on to me
I kept 'hold on to the memories'
now screaming looking at the sky
beacon tell me will I survive?
the chains of the past
and pain stuck under my skin
the blood moon is on the rise
and something buried will come out at night
in chains of blood
in chains of memories
i try to survive
but haunting midnight comes after daylight
Life
Afraid of living
Masks the shadow of
Death
Chained Heart
She turns from love, a shadowed flight,
Afraid to face the softest light.
Her heart, though aching, will not yield,
Behind her walls, forever sealed.
Caresses fall like whispers lost,
Each tender word is met with frost.
Affection knocks, but finds no door,
Her soul remains a guarded shore.
She longs to love, yet fears the flame,
The burning touch, the whispered name.
Trapped inside, her heart of stone,
A kingdom cold, forever lone.
She cannot break the chains she’s cast,
The scars of love, too deep, too vast.
So, silent now, she turns away,
And keeps the warmth of my love at bay.
Morganite, Jasper
Floor Voiced of many waters
Drinks of my Creature
Seers eyes roll over
Stigma of the Messenger
The Tree of Knowledge
Apple of my eye
Medusa's organa seed
My Jealousic Stone
The Palmer Worm feeds
Honey in mouth, sour stomach
Scroll is unveiling
Wisdom in connect
Strings of raw experience
Our discovering
Dew of Collective
Words on lips under cover
Supple Oasis
Sins hide quietly
Lions roaming to devour
Souls in Final Hour
Shaking Globe Hourglass
Signs, Flux relativity
Reveals Pearly Teeth
Sigh of Elements
Message in delivery
Krakens in release
My Equalizer
Binary Twin, incoming
The Throne has spoken
Sylphs, Fairies, Imps, Sprites
Moonlighting on the dark side
Bitstreaming the Night
Ology fractured
Today's Client, a new breed
That's the business
Mushrooming sales, sniffs
Crystal, clear intent
To manufacture
-oting with money
At the Poles, even my wife
There's Aurora now
Lunging from darkness
Retro grade it forward, Ho
Think plunges work well
Everything's for sale
Well, Specially People, Hell
Got a few right here
Ever since Biden
Been no need for deception
Magic, fade to black
That's a rap people
Cut it, print it, Sell it high
I miss the old days
Video stores, love
Obeying Constitutions
Common decency
Can we tell every truth ?
Can we write those ?
If I do, I shall suddenly be a stranger,
that nobody knows.
They might see me as a demon
who can feed its mother to the crows.
Society will scream like a priest,
“bury him with his twisted prose” !
So some truths we can never tell,
Keep those chained in our secret hell
like prisoners in rows.
(12.11.2023)
The living mindscape.
Virtues stage, showing colors.
Painting the belief.
Sculpted in truth's form.
A resurrect, re birthing.
A glorious seed.
Sunlight on our skin.
The kiss of destiny's plan.
Shining in fullness.
Wade through trials' fires.
Follow through the mire.
Wishing, stokes desires.
Thinking in silence.
Genuflecting what makes sense.
Sending confidence.
Someone to share it.
Truly a gift sent from God.
Unwrapped hearts with strings.
In living color.
The world shows a designer.
Of a designing.
Urging urgently.
Wind carries sounds, just a taste.
As my mind swallows.
The intentional.
Inventional-convention.
Dire introspection.
Showing Cause, Aeffects.
Righteousness spell dialect.
Never, derelict.
Afterbirth of hope.
Placenta in the remains.
Gives us its growth pangs.
A beautiful way.
It has its way to premise.
In living promise.
In living color.
The Holy Spirit sends it.
Wisdom to gather.
At the bottom I can hear his words barely grasping the hand of reality and gravity As he speaks atoms split I feel urticating. For I spit into a white void I am reborn and remade.
Music from within
Keep a light on for me
While I set myself free
Break away from these chains that holds my mind bound
Hearing ths song that has no sound
There is no one else around
It has always been up to me
to set myself free
From the invisible chains that holds me down inside emotionally use these chains to hide
Freed from this locked chain
There's so much I could gain
Just sitting here watching life pass me by
Time for me to fly
Spread my wings in flight
It'll be such a sight
Wouldn't feel so alone at night
Be alright,
Just free me from these chains that holds me down inside
To long I've just sat here trying to hide
Time for me to take that ride
Free me from what hold me bound
Lost to the music that has no sound
Dream of some coming day
Where I can find my way
To free myself of of these chains that holds my heart
Free to make a new start
Free so I could learn to live again
Ready for my life to began
Locked in a cage,
Bound by chains,
I’m a prisoner of fear,
Full of growing pains
And afraid of change
In a future that is near.
From all the struggles,
I seek release,
Relief from what troubles,
The ability to be humble
And a way to achieve inner peace.
I no longer swing
From the ropes of shame,
Instead I sing of
The beauty after the rain.
Break free,
Of doing the same,
Day to day,
So afraid of change.
Don’t fear uncertainty,
Or the retrograde of mercury.
Welcome each blessing
As a new beginning
And life’s way of testing,
Look for the deeper meaning.
Life is full of hardships
That try to make you afraid,
But don’t let those hangups
Keep you ashamed.
Remember,
Faith over fear.
When it rains it pours
And that’s why we pray.
God reached down
And lifted the cage,
He cut the chains
That bound me to solid ground.
He knew that I was meant to be free
And now,
Even through blinding fear
I can see.
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