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Coma

want to lie here forever
in this place where you never leave
hidden here for so long
fate made you breathe
made me find you all over again

to wake is to hurt
unconscious is comfort
where i never have to let you go

forever is not long enough
i will hold you till time can no longer be measured
till we both forget that this isn't reality
till I no longer have to wake from sleep

drowning in this coma
water composed of you
won't fight the waves
won't hold my breath
just let go into you
so i never have to let you go again

J.Hart 12/08/09

Copyright © Joshua Hart | Year Posted 2010



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Wormhole

The basilisk is looking my way
Time fragmented into memorial shards
Explosive regeneration hides pain
These flames won't cleanse my wounds

Dark strands of your hair cover me like a cat of nine tails
Each strike harder than the last but I can't look away
This wormhole gateway into your soul fails
But I cannot feel you any other way

Ubiquity of your eyes creates a prison of denial
The pretenders would believe this can be beaten
Hangman is cut loose by a cellar door
Every day I want you more and more
Spare the incidentals and grant me once more

How do I get back there?
How do I get back to that place where I held you?
How do I get back into your beautiful heart?

This wormhole gateway into your soul fails
But I feel you. Every day. 

J.Hart 01/30/10

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Rush To the Head

like a concussion you fill my head
and it's not safe to sleep
that's where false hope breathes
you're so loving in dreams
and there's nothing there to tell me
I should know better
nothing to say be careful
soon it'll all be over and what you were holding
will vanish into the waking eye

If ghosts can do no harm
why does yours hurt so much

part of me will always be preserved in a glass prison
waiting, watching
to see if you ever come back
should you return
pick up where we left off
great moments live on forever
some things never change
the me that loves you never ages

as you get ready to say I do
wish the best for you
hoping that one day my heart will loosen it's grip on you
but even when my hands are too old to hold anything
I'll still carry you
my last thought on this earth
will be of you

J.Hart 11/16/10

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Cursed Will

a year of condensing myself into words
to make this manageable
hidden behind several proxies
in a twisted hope that i still touch you
all in vain
don't know how to tell myself
i'll never hold you again

hanging by a thread from the comfort that's been unraveled
you give me nothing
and there's not a road i haven't traveled
hoping to find my passenger
how could my heart have been so wrong
driving all of me to still care for you
the only thing that makes sense 
is the one thing i could never do 
let go

J.Hart 11/19/10

Copyright © Joshua Hart | Year Posted 2010


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