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Rage Is Not Mine To Keep

Anger
I cannot feel
For when my lip twist and turns
Theirs nurse those fated words

Hostile
Rough, her hair and skin 
Are tough
The ash falls

The embers and flame 
Snuffed out by a gust of 
Impenetrable change

Rage is not mine to keep
No it is theirs
Their spear and the bullet
With the barrel pointed to the forehead
Of the finger on the trigger

Anger, Joy
They do not know the difference
For my shouts hold a
Certain tone 
A shift in the air

A laugh
Or is it a cry
For help
For anyone to
Please help

Rage is not mine to keep
Neither am I

My hands bound
Turned away from the air of
Boundaries
Do you not know boundaries

But I am angry
I am so angry 
I am so angry that I could just

Rage is not mine to keep
Neither am I 

For the smile that graces my face
It filled with teeth that 
Hold it all in 
And all I

Want to do is 

scream  

I want to scream and
Feel the things promised
To me didn't they say
I could have my

Own

They own my

scream

They own my scream
And rage is not mine to keep 
Neither am I

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My Mama

She who soars 
Just beneath the clouds
The weight around her neck heavy
It’s too much

But she won’t say it
She won’t admit that
Her labor might have been 
In vain

Her creations treat her as
The bane
Of their existence 

One snip of the rope
A claw for the neck 
That holds the shoe she bought 

Italian leather
Dried out by the heat
Of unrequited
Love

Do they even love her
Their nose sky high
With disdain
And she holds

The might of a thousand 
suns is on her shoulders
She is all dried up 
Even the oil of the coconut
The olive
The seed

Has been planted
In her back
For her womb is tired
And 

She is tired 

My mother is tired

And no one will help

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Maybe I Should Be the Liar

Maybe
I should be a liar
To spare and to coddle

To take away all sense of 
Purpose and truth
Maybe I should

Become the person
With the too wide smile
And the lifeless eye
The fated crinkle of cheeks

Maybe someday the truth 
Will come
And climb aboard
To fly close to the sun

Maybe then I would fall and 
Crash and burn
Or maybe even
Take the chance to learn

Maybe I am the Iceberg
The fated foil
Or maybe I know all too well
How bad things will go

If I just let go
Then maybe I can be
The truth
That sets you free

Maybe I could soar
With wings that
Touch the very tops
Of the trees

Maybe I could
But I will not

Because the truth is 
The snake
The venom is your trust
So I’ll become the liar
The villain in your tale
I tell you exactly
What you want to hear 
With perfume in my spells

I will sit and play the part
And be the perfect belle
For the only thing that sets apart
The story from the tell

I can be the liar and I will 
Fare quite well
Because even when the
Trust was there 
My lips spoke a farewell

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Singularity

I am a horrible person.
That is one thing I can be sure of
Because while children drown in
Seas of improbable circumstance

Mine is the hand that weighs 
The balance of time and space
The cosmic mistake
The harvest of a fruit not yet in bloom

I am a horrible person.
Damned are those who hold
Me in their heart
For I claw

And I break
And I take and take and take
And when there is nothing 
Left to give

Escape.

I am a horrible person. 

I am a horrible person?

No I am the sword
The mighty hand of God
No I am the result of a verge
Of the merge of two mighty mountains

I am the last marble to slip from
A sealed jar 
A 
Sealed 
Jar

I am a horrible person
But whose to say 
I am
The only one

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Blue

I do not like the color blue
But blue loves me

It wrings me out
Flat to dry 
And to feel 
And to cry

I do not like the color blue
But it enjoys my company

And the bus passes by
But I am not on board
No because I am the train

The train that wrecks
Everything in its path
That destroys the little solace 
Of the tracks it follows

I do not like the color blue
No I love blue just as much

Because when everyone else 
Gave up
It was blue that I could trust

Because blue took my hand 
And dried my tears
And helped me up

I only made one 
Simple promise 
And for blue that was enough

I do not like the color blue
But blue is my only friend 

Blue showed me the sneers
Blue caught the red hand 
Blue saved me

Blue 

Saved 

Me

And I have everything to 
Owe
Blue has nothing
To gain

So why did blue save me
And dry up my tears 
Only to desert me
When yellow calls my name

I do not like the color blue
And I hate the color yellow