Trying To Sleep
...I am trying to sleep here; can someone let the world know?
Somewhere the pressure cooker whistles,
Rises in the night air, the smell of pulao rice.
The peddler selling eggs on his final tour,...
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Categories:
unshut, night,
Form: Free verse
Because We Must
...Addiction is a hole left open,
A bullet-wound unshut,
It's something left unspoken,
A band-aid covering up a cut,
And we, unmarching soldiers,
Fight, fight, fight
Filling holes with clouds of...
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Categories:
unshut, introspection
Form: ABC
I Just Want You To Wake One Day
...I just want you to wake one day and maybe comprehend
The extent of my emotions, but I doubt you'd understand
I shouldn't have to ask to always be there on your mind
I'm sick and tired of never kno...
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Categories:
unshut, love, day, day, me,
Form: Rhyme
Forever No More
...No more invisible speechless, deaf and blind child
With neglected pleasures being addicted to denial
Floating through time, gravitating towards a warm arm
With an appetite for the emptiness that p...
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Categories:
unshut, introspection, lifegod, me, prayer,
Form: I do not know?