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My Balance 2

she arrives 
parting these prison waves 
the terrible jolting crash 
of release 
shocking noise 
this lucid vision 
of you 

all too kind 
to fault 
all too warm 
to freeze 
all too flawed 
to hope 
all too real 

no more 'I' 
your light remains me 
indecipherable 
love; 
this white blue lightning 
sears the flesh 
but purifies me 
you purify me. 

r'thom'10

Copyright © Ryan Thomas | Year Posted 2010



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My Love

one vow
one order
one blow
here inexorable from you
my love

show me the way
with chains 
these shackles so cold
and passionate
my love

you promised
and here we are
together forever 
'til death do us part'
my love

it's been such a long time
since i paid for your mistakes
do you see us there?
smiling
my love

you thought you got away
but here we are again! 
no running! besides;
this knife is so sweet
my love


R.Thomas '10

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Sabotage of Eternal Promise

strange arrangements

promising faith but

is feeling different privately

breaking that

is it natural

the right way about it to remain mono

yet so guilty for shattering such things

"what are you thinking?

is that my business?

would you if you weren't with me?"

is overcoming the urge enough

to overcome the shame



R'Thom '10

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My Balance 1

without support
silent echoes and rumours
'did i hear that?'
tracing invisible paths 
through insubstantial material
no kindness
no direction

fatally incorrigible 
from fear 
walking is sitting
running is lying down
the passage of time ceases
i drift
like carbon monoxide

slow burning 
self-destructive
to one
to zero
without matter
without life;

without you.

r.thom'10

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Best Wishes, Tainted

whisper my name
as a cold shot of pain 

the aftermath of a requited cruelty
reminds me of the perfection we could never be

but now it's over, 
i can't find my soul
now it's over,
i'm wandering alone

despite the joy for which we fought
too many promises returned nought

but what makes me sick to think
is that the ravenous jealousy inside me
can't bear to picture your face, 
since, rightfully, someone pure has taken my place




r_thom '12

Copyright © Ryan Thomas | Year Posted 2012



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We Are Animals

fighting back instinct for modern civilization

denying truth for some desperate stab

at feeling special; above and beyond

making ourselves jealous

insecure

imaginatively punishing others for doing

what we are also doing ourselves

and despite our best efforts

and through all of our confusion

and even for being brutally, fervently

faithful 

(because it's 'the done thing')

human x is to human y

as sperm is to egg

we are animals

 

rthom10

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Loose Thread

amidst the circular, infinitely lateral depths,
a blinding, stark sliver finds consciousness;
erupting forth from the inverted arterial cascade
in arching pathways dimensionally untied
by helical vacuum vortices.

spiralling into a unique interpretation,
etched in nothing, tracing contours,
simulating substance, expanding and contracting;
held forever-more in a blind copy, apparently real,
yet in final calculation, a divisor effectively zero.



ryan thomas '10

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You

you tore me to shreds
with idiot lies and rumours
try me again
one word is enough
i won't wait around you'll see
bad decision
one more time
i'm done for
but do you think you do me favours? 
do you think you mend me?
consider me before
you tear me 

r.thomas '10

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Vote

pure clean love
gets my vote
the truck with the armour
outside my house
their house?
gets my vote
this cold silence
gets my vote
our new decision
'all for one'
gets my vote
never mind, sir
all under control
there is wrong love here
they call it
will they find us soon?
this oppression
gets my vote

r.thom'10

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You'Re Up

when you think you're out of the woods

three-headed alligators come chasing

somehow invisible, the apocalypse holds a card for you

the black sky cracks open, rolling icy thunder

in your direction

the things you said were quite tough

but were not, and never will be

birthed from some divine origin enough

in order to keep from reality

that single mind-blowing TRUTH!

that henceforth and forever-more you'll stand

and lie

in numb submission to;

this cold wait for nothing is yours and mine



 

ryan thomas

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