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Celibate Sinner

...I scrubbed the shame from under my fingernails,
as if guilt could be washed like dirt.
Cold showers never baptized the ache; 
just gave it discipline,
a neat little collar for the beast inside.
...

Water

...sleeps
in the curve of hollowed rock

         we  
forget its name
until it speaks
in mirrors
in pulses

murmuring down spine

        all we are  
returns
in ripples

   memory break...

Where Happiness is Hidden

...Is there happiness in the finite?

Of course not.
How could there be?

Like a cup too small for the ocean,
like a clock chasing its own hands,
like love letters
crumpling at the edges,
their...

Where I Wait for Myself

...
Every day I awake in a place where the sky
is a mist mourning sleep. I stumble on a tower—
leaning, broken, alone. Its stones call my name 
like someone trying to rouse me, like someone 
who’s ...

Darkness, A Binding Story

...The air around me is cold, a hollow ache within my bones. 
Darkness consumes my vision, my dreams are ink spilled on a page.
My shoes are filled with stone, my eyes adrift in a river of tears. 
Em...

Hurt in the code

...Broken wings 
slurred speech
 cracked halos all around me
Shattered heart
 unmade plans
 fake apologies and unheld hands

To many hurt to many gone to many kids continue to be taught wrong
It...

Mislaid Indented Help

...Helplessness seeks help in despondency
When resources slip out of porous hands
A tacit realization of innate inadequacy
Devours the dregs of impaired self-esteem.

The feeling sinks in the pool ...

A Tree Walks To the Concrete Forest

...On a frosty opaque day in windy winter 
I, an old defoliated tree denied the sky and the soil 
by the young aggressive ones spreading branches,
walk out of the green forest in sheer desper...

Life of Antonio Rickmon

...I truly sit and I ask and think why me?
For all the good I put in the world I gotten bad double in return.
I feel alone, outkast, not right in my skin
Its so hard to be thankful for the next day o...

Lights Embrace

...Splinters of unheld memory
Swirling in a tsunami of letters
and hidden shames
Chessboards with whites replaced with space
Creatures formed without a face
touch replacing taste
magic with wonder...

Lights Embrace

...Splinters of unheld memory
Swirling in a tsunami of letters
and hidden shames
Chessboards with whites replaced with space
Creatures formed without a face
touch replacing taste
magic with wonder...

Single Trace

...No one hears my silences
none seen beyond my mask
pain hidden by laughter's task
sadness pulls at either corner of my mouth
cottoned coughs explain
the unheld tears
hold on tight to fears
as s...

No Imposter, I - For Std Contest 138

...No Imposter, I

Should I once ignore your smile
Call the undertaker
For I be dead unless I be
Imposter fraud or faker

Yet should I be, blind to thee
Even should a fraud I be
Interloper stil...

A Numberless Dream

...A Numberless Dream

Today while walking together with reverent hands
there are many unheld books with my unkempt dreams

To the wonderful man, who bestows my passions worn
we walk with harmonio...

The Walking Tree

...On a frosty day in winter an old defoliated tree 
denied the sky and the soil by the younger ones
walks out of the green forest in sheer desperation.
Crossing barren lands goes to a modern city qu...

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