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I Am a Robot

Icy cold
metallic
clinical, calculations
stiff, sharp movements
 
With strength like god
and no morality to stop you
from tearing
this world
apart
 
Do you dream?
or do you only
think
solve
and destroy?
 
You beautiful,
cold, monster.

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We

Sometimes we fear 
Without reason 
Sometimes we curse 
And scream 
And cry 
Without provocation 
Sometimes we hate 
Without knowing why 
Sometimes we keep secrets 
That ache deep inside 
Sometimes we think 
Hateful, evil thoughts 
Without meaning it 
Sometimes we lie 
Try so desperately 
To hide
From our reality 
Sometimes we try 
To survive this 
Terrible (Beautiful) life 
And sometimes 
We can't

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Morality

The evil
that you so deeply fear
cannot be hidden from
It is no faceless thing
to be avoided
 
It lies
behind your child's eyes
It grows
in your neighbor's smile
It crawls
from your lover's body heat
It moves,
multiplies in the silence
 
And no matter how
fast you run
hard you pray
you can never
never escape
because this evil
this vile, obscene
putrid thing

lives
deep
inside you
feeding on your thought
on your actions
and on every single
violent dream.

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She

honey brown skin
warm, soft
black angel hair
long, lovely

now lusterless 
with dead doll eyes 
and skin like parchment 
cold, colorless
her deep red lips
now unable to utter
a single beautiful noise

a perfect, silent
motionless sculpture
until time
turns to dust
her pretty 
little eyes

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Little Mermaid

I float
dance along
the ocean floor
 
I glide
move along
my aquatic hell
 
I gasp
float along
as I try to inhale
 
My lungs fill
I struggle
I flail 
 
The light dims
I sink down
deeper
 
Into the cold
unforgiving
 
grave
of
the
sea
 
Into the deep
where little fishies
will gnaw and nibble 
at me

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Past the Line of Sight

I'm teaching myself to blur the line. Distorting Depth; reality 
Firing tiny bullets, no one can see. Changing life to one dimention.
You breathe the air I breathe. 
But you can't see what I see. 
I am. 
But who am I? 
I think 
Breathe 
But do I exist? 
Am I real? 
Hardly. 
I'm teaching myself to change the tides. Dwelling hell; fantasy 
Thinking little evils, invisible things 
Seeing life in forms and colors 
You see what I see, 
But you could never ever believe 
You are. 
But not me. 
Control 
Losing 
But never again. 
Raining? 
Always

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The Process

Smash me 
Break me down 
Disassemble me 
Piece by piece 
And hate me 

Gather me up 
Repair me 
Shape me 
Into something 
Beautiful 
Amazing 

And watch me rise 
Like a phoenix 
From the ashes

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Dancer

Caress me
with your kisses
you little delicate thing
with your soft, silent
quick and tiny breaths
and wings like the
stained-glass windows 
of the cathedral
and as they pray
you dance
paint the air I breathe
with fragile beauty
Feeding flowers
with the dust 
of another lovely
Creature
Visiting the minds
of dreamers
and children

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Chemicals

I can feel your heart beating
faster, faster
 
I close my mind
and fall
down 
down
down
 
suddenly 
I'm lost in the sound
 
My world becomes
the blood
pumping through your veins
 
My world becomes
the sound of your voice
muffled in my hair
 
I lose myself
sink, melt
in the warmth
and comfort
of 

disillusionment

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Down By the River

Color me red
with violence
Bind me
with that look you give
those words you say 
Take me away
from myself
from the gods
overbearing
staring down at me
Create a silence
and listen
and as night falls
as you dream
alone, know that
there is no
structure
no sanity
no peace 
on this earth
Swallow the chaos
and sleep soundly
deeply
color me