Occurring disturbances echoing through the mind
Felt asleep
Twist and turn
Dreaming feeling like a nightmare
The midst of danger
The dream of enter
It was a person, train and car
Approaching train
A stop at a railroad crossing
Thought of can make it
Car got stuck in the middle
Train steadily getting closer
What do I do?
Do I jump out the car and run?
Meanwhile the train is coming and coming
I could be killed
Suddenly, the car starts and I pull away
The train passes and there was a getaway
Escape being a blessing
Dream as it would seem
But what does the dream mean?
Immediately woke up
Had drenching sweat
Wondered what did the dream surround?
There was danger, but somehow there was protection
Dream over
Went back to sleep
My soul still to keep.
have many demons
for all kinds of reasons
they stay locked up
until I really need them
I dream of tornadoes
and overflowing volcanoes
100% rotten tomatoes
your regular meat and potatoes
the demons always wanna talk
they’re watching me like a hawk
I can’t even go for a walk
I always feel like I’m being stalked
they must not hear my silent pleas
they walk and talk and stand by me
one of these days I’m going to break free
I’ll do it on the count of three
1,2,3, I try to pull away
but the chains are here to stay
“you’ll always have it rough”
“you’ll never be good enough”
but here’s the thing you guys
I know all about the lies
I have the cuffs, you have the keys?
no, the keys have always been inside of me
you can scare me into the night
but I won’t go down without a fight
my energy has grown so bright
I’ll never let you dim my light
a vow to the demons of my past
the ones I grew close to pretty fast
it’s time that I let you know
it’s time for me to let you go
I grew up hearing tales of who You are
So kind, so just, so full of love and grace.
You watched me closely like a guiding star,
Your whispers now still echo in this place.
I speak to You, and tears begin to fall,
For in the quiet, I can feel You near.
My Friend, my Shield, my Strength through every call,
You lift my soul and cast away my fear.
Without You, Lord, my world would drift apart,
My dreams and goals would lose their light and worth.
Yet still, You knew the secrets of my heart,
And cleansed my sins before my time on earth.
Please help me never drift, never pull away, never trade
Your presence for silence. Because in You, I find everything, I will ever need.
I finally went dancing again
This time my partner was a ghost from the past
Their movements so fluid that it felt like I was on an island
Their touch so cold I thought I would catch hypothermia
Their face so distorted colors bent and contracted around them
We twirled and waltzed throughout the night
We both knew the steps
One step, two step, pause, pull away, pull them in, twirl
But something was different
I could no longer feel that spark that once was there
That electric feeling that sent shivers down my spine is gone
I feel nothing as our eyes meet
I don't feel the rhythm in my heart
I don't feel a sweet sensation meeting my taste buds
All that once was is gone
I guess that's what it means to dance with a ghost.
Hold on, keep on
One step, one more time
Push forward, pull away
Eyes open, on the finish line.
We wear the wind without knowing
who it belonged to before.
A coat of yesterday’s anger,
today’s kindness sewn in the lining.
Faces blur at the edges—
the barista is your brother,
the stranger at the bus stop
holds your childhood in their eyes
for just a second.
We revolve through doorways
where names change
but the silence between words
feels familiar.
One day you are the voice,
another day, the echo.
Interwoven shadows—we circle each other
Actors before a shattered mirror,
forgetting who plays whom
and whose cue it is.
There is something behind it all—
not watching,
not judging,
but weaving.
The thread runs through all of us,
and tightens
when we pull away.
--- Christopher Johnston
I see you in Albany
yet you pull away from the call
aloft to all those that care
Gone are the fields
once mellow blue
that curved and glided,
that tears at your heart
Try to dream
beneath the trees
Heed the call
I told you how I felt,
but you'd twist it to arguments,
and now I wonder is it
worth speaking at all?
I stand here, weighing it up
respect and distance,
I've been matching what you give,
but when the lines blur,
I begin to pull away.
No one's coming to save me,
I've known that for a while.
But I thought you'd be there
to break my fall.
Am I wrong?
Your actions say so.
And now, I'm deciding if staying
is just me falling anyway.
allow me to love you from far
Our connection transcends fate; it's an unexplainable force.
Though it led us to a dead end, I can't let go.
I've realized I can never love another like I love you.
This love controls me, and I'm powerless against it.
Once, I believed you were my destiny.
Now, I see that our paths diverge.
You seek an exit, while I long to hold on.
If you're my destiny, then I'm lost without you.
Any other fate seems empty.
My heart remains yours, and the love within endures.
The more you pull away, the stronger it burns.
If this is our inevitable end, I accept it.
But know that my next partner will receive only my body;
My heart will forever belong to you.
It was crucial for you to know how I feel.
Please don't forget me as you move on.
When our paths cross, don't avoid me.
A simple greeting would soothe my longing heart.
Allow me to love you from afar.
The love you had is there no more just like the closing of a door .
The coldness you have is in your eyes without any love that’s no surprise .
I have lost your heart and the passion we had to stop loving me you must have been sad.
I reach out my hand in a tender touch but you pull away did I hurt you that much.
I didn’t see it coming I must of been blind you no longer love me I’m left miles behind.
I thought there was a future but I did not see you had a future but not with me.
You still haven’t told me why your love died I suppose I will never know the reason you hide.
But my love is forever it never dies even though I can see the hate that is in your eyes.
Don't be hide anymore behind
this shameful mask of coldness,
I start feeling your indifference;
you pull away and enter a fantasy world,
where nothing is real to human eyes:
don't hold on your ego and pretense!
This shameful mask of coldness
has kept you in dreadful darkness,
is there anybody who trusts you anymore;
even words aren't as believable as before!
Steal kisses and run away,
spend nights in stranger's arms,
conquer and use innocent girls;
never think you won't pay!
It's time you took off this mask of coldness,
it has hurt me more than the other lovers!
Pray that you don't step in hell again,
burn in torment for the lies you told me;
there's a payday for everyone who deceives,
there's a cold day that brings rain and shivers:
you did it to yourself, no pity on you, demon...
I have clipped your wings: you can't reach me!
Scream, don't ask for mercy, keep your frown,
cringe your teeth, nobody can hear you, dummy;
the mask of shameful coldness has come down:
it's my turn for revenge, why should I feel guilty?
The truth was
left lying...
Somewhere within the
duration of our comfortable
silence.
I can taste all of my
unshed tears,
as the gift of fluidity
in the language of love
and violence.
Solutions tear at me and
drag me under as
I pull away from the
foreign sense of inner purity,
and as I become lost in
contrast, and my
insights blind, I
become another of Gods
condemned and guilty.
Sentenced to a quasi-life
of perverse flirtations
with a dark, deceptive
mortal art;
who pricks me with the
sharpened end; a perpetual
threat, causing me to dance
with death as I simply
fall apart.
You pull away again,
and leave me to the sand,
stripped, rooted, waiting
on you to roll in again.
And again, you will,
to smooth over the edges,
soften my jagged, hard feelings
with your wanting,
weathering waves.
Because you simply
can, because I will remain
constant, still, unyielding.
Because I am
but a stone
for the tides to crash upon.
Yet you,
in all your distance, you,
in the deepening dusk,
in the scattered embers
of our fire turned by you,
I see you, clear.
And before you rise again
to wash the view,
I will look at you,
a mere surface,
reflecting the light’s descent.
i don't think i deserve a second chance
you could pull away at my string
unravel me, make me dance
and that would be too much for this stasis of mine
frozen in different snowflakes of time
each bearing memories, asking for tithes
demanding fealty, a bended knee
lest they warrant me another execution
so ill sit, fester, let the salt enter
whilst i try to escape this wasteful brine, all of my own making
my own tithe
I raise a glass to you
My lips lingering along the glass
I pull away the stains along my wrists permanent
Your eyes roll to look at the mind you don't have
"To the happy couple." I smile over your bodies
I cannot tell if when you told me I was insane if you were right
I remember how cold your hands were, maybe you were already dead
I don't think you can be colder than this
The miss you dawn on me
The lies you spew like blood
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