The Thunder
Can you grasp the thunder?
Can you hide its flashes from an overflowing river?
Can you pay your river Life a hideous win?
Can you call yourself a mercenary who is stained?
I want to tag you under the umbrella of twisted fame,
I want to hide you between the mischievous game,
I want you to quit the possession you adore
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Categories:
unmask, extended metaphor, imagery, lust,
Form: Free verse
Unmask Me
I spaced out.
Walked away,
To find a corner
To collapse in.
Seized out,
Suckered into,
A flashbang of
A flashback.
Collapse into me,
For God’s sake,
Almost didn’t manage to
Safe myself from
The bloodshed.
Take two,
Strike three.
It’s time to recover,
Achieve sobriety
Or face the fact that I’ll become
My own worst enemy.
Institutionalized is no
Place to be,
Rehabs and hospitals confine me.
It’s good to feel safe,
But this place,
These places,
Shouldn’t
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Categories:
unmask, addiction, confidence, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Unmask the Maskers
Father above,
why are we dying?
No matter how hard we try
we can’t stop mothers from crying.
Everything we see.
Hear. Read.
In this place
is only to mislead
Those in power
Cheat. Lie. Steal.
They’re hidden agenda
we’ve began to reveal.
Why can’t we try
to unite
to come together
and fight.
Too many brothers
bleeding
Too many
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Categories:
unmask, bible, poetess,
Form: Quatrain
Yim Sayest He
that i might love as
lovers do
and make woman want and need me
then they shall stand before me
to be mine
the need of belonging
the soughted bare
thus must I havest thee as mine
the keepsake of love
that as lovers we might engage to
be in love
thus the creation of our togetherness
might have others to wish us apart
curse them that we
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Categories:
unmask, character, clothes, love, music,
Form: Ballade
It's Our Time
As I travel through the places in my mind
Your the one thing I can't seem to find
Or leave behind
So would it be possible to unwind
The love that has been so blind
Not able to escape my mind
Because now is our time
We should not mind our love from the past
No matter what I try to
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Categories:
unmask, appreciation, best friend, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Unmask
As I lay here wondering of the future and what it holds for me, I embrace myself.
My soul begins to get disturb and my heart becomes very heavy.
What is it that I’m over looking? What is it that I’m supposed to see?
I pray that the Lord will give me a sign, but
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Categories:
unmask, confusion, depression, faith, fear,
Form: I do not know?
Unmask the Fool
Unmask the fool
Who openly dishonors
What love really is
And who suffers from it
Who openly says that
Who suffers from no love
From it he shall die
What love could he have
Openly dishonors everyone
Unmask-ing the truth
The fool only loves pain
Love really is more powerful
Than all of this
Russell Sivey
Entrant into Debbie Guzzi's "Et cetera" Contest
2/26/2012
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Categories:
unmask, life, love,
Form: Free verse