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Misplaced In Maroon Mists

I’m feral like a fox
misplaced in the
maroon mists 
of wilderness,
only found in 
woeful woodland. 
My skin is blanketed
in crimson balmy
hyacinth feathers
from a 
forsaken rainforest. 

Misguided on 
delusional paths, 
where spring-tides 
mirror liquified colors
of warm diamond tears 
I’ve suppressed
behind ice blue sighs.

And I’ve seen
splintered petals
beneath thick-leaved
jewel orchids, 
that surrendered 
to greying leaves
on tainted twigs
and broken branches. 

I’ve walked through
fields of thorns
where the 
musky scent
of roses remained
a poison to 
my aching soul. 

So, why does it
feel like I’m chained
from vines of changes,
that suffocate
the sun within me, 
crucifying the fragility 
of premature 
begonia beginnings? 
Am I to follow 
the darkness,
to cast away the evil,
constantly pushing me
into a cave of 
cacophonous silence?

As I see beyond 
the gossamer veil,
hiding sharpened talons 
of treacherous eagles-
flying amongst 
vicious vampires;
emerald foes 
masked as friends, 
feeding my conscience
with cruel concoctions,
oblivious to the truth,
that I am a bark believer
of marigold miracles.

So let the 
steel black breeze
and the 
faceless ghosts
of fleeting time,
witness how I 
rise against
wicked wolves 
lurking behind
stars within
a chiffon laced 
canopy of nightfalls.

For, I am more
than the empty labels 
you’ve placed,
like the shame, 
I’ve buried beneath
lyrical lies drizzling
from vanilla skies.

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