Scorched and Singed
Yesterday
I cried my heart out
For I wept tears of glass
To lay a path for you to walk on
Barefoot on the hot pavement
naked as I bleed
In the hopes that you won’t taste my fear
Teeming with anger and hatred
As I stood with a clenched fist.
hot coals in my palm
Ready to unfurl
Shoulders hunched, grasping at
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Categories:
singed, addiction, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Singed Cheeks
the winter sun aches with me— slipping through a tulip's throat
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Categories:
singed, angst, flower, heartbroken, introspection,
Form: Monoku
Free Cee Singed and Signed By Satan
SINGED AND SIGNED BY SATAN
Hell follows me wherever I go
Flames singe me from far below
Satan has spawned a thousand tears
A devil who has led me for too many years
I feel the devilish heat even in the cold
Because the demon who bedevils me is bold
He listens not as I blatantly plead
And smiles when my body
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Categories:
singed, angst, me, me,
Form: Quatrain
Singed
I move my life to marching drums,
carving paths into my bare palms.
You showed me how to play apathy
I've never begged to a silent god more than
when I dreamed of empty tables
and riots in my wardrobe
(instead of lions or snow),
but then you glowed through the mist of my mind, and
thoughts of you were all I could
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Categories:
singed, life, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Singed By Love
Open your heart, and blindly we'll see
The irony, that is you and me
What was meant to, but never meant to be
Just hit rock bottom
Dang.... And the pain was too much to bare
Love locked and loaded, fired at will
And it seems only I was caught in the crosshairs
with bullets of temptations and frustrations
Struck through my heart
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Categories:
singed, lost love
Form: Free verse