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Skipping Stones

Love soars
Like a rock being skipped 
Across uneven waters
The energy drains with every fall 
The rock takes
Until
Finally
The momentum dies
And drowns the hopes
Of ever seeing it again

Love is like a skipping stone
If you throw too hard
You'll have one glorious leap 
That immediately end in tragedy
If you throw lightly
The distance and the leaps 
Seem to last forever
Leaving you heartbroken
With victory

Love is like skipping stones
It never lasts on the surface
But you know it's still lying there
Deep underneath the tides
Of memories and sorrows
Every rock thrown
You think you'll do a little better
Get a little farther
Rocks can't grow wings
The problem is
People are so focused 
On skipping stones
That they forget 
To hold them first

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Sunrise

The moon acquainted the sun
after every dusk
The moon lived in the void
of the sun’s slumber
Only to die every morning
and leave the sun
 forever shining
without it

The sun is lonely 
who howls to the moon
The shadow of rain drops
clouding it’s light
as solitude devourers it
Leaving it to freeze

The hope for clear skies
was all that ignited
the fire blazing for love
in a world where it thought
it’d find none

The sun loosens the lasso
that cradled the moon
letting it depart
towards the horizon
It never knew



The sun met a mountain
that sparked a song
within her diamond chest
That set fire to the phoenix
whose wings vibrantly burst free
in a vortex of fiery color

The beat of a song
that danced gracefully
with every tune 
the wind sang
that warmed the furnace
of the empty heart
that sheltered the sun

The light gazes lazily through her window
cascading over everything precious
that the sun’s touch finds
A comfort to her soul
that only a mountain
could adventure in search for

He gently guided her 
down to the gorgeous earth
to present to her
a blossoming field of 
midnight flowers 
blooming into luminescent stars
which helped guide her
through the oceans of night

The terrors subsided
into the oblivion of light
dissipating into the past
of fallen summer leaves

The sun sat atop the roof
of her own sunrise
whistling a joyous melody
to the passing winds
of a new dawn

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Black Tea

To arise alone in a half complete bed
asymmetrically warm
half of what was once whole

A drowsy confusion
guides brown eyes to
the white letter
calmly resting in the mornings light

The beautiful present
written within the white
brings forth blurry vision
forgetting in an instant all that was to be
their future

He was already treding
his destiny that he
beckoned on himself
from early days
of tea and training

Of a frightening home
a loving brother
to a barren land
now eyes of hate

To have known
what was awaiting him
at the end of this road
and to keep walking
toward the beast
he had created

To die in the arms
of the one he’d raised
of the one he betrayed
was his fate
of that mournful day

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Icy Hearth

An ice cold firework
Discharges in my heart
Detonating out shards of ice
To pierce the mind
Pricking my fingers 
As the heat
Drains from me and
Like a welcoming fireplace
Warms the souls of the
Dead hearts I've dug up
From the graves of fireflies
That never saw it
Past summer

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These Hands

Clean the dirt
From under your nails
To convince the world
That you're cleansed from sin
When in reality
You're clean of sleep
Dig out the torture
With your teeth
And revel in the foul taste
Of Deceit
Pick away at what heals you
In attempts to put your current demons
To rest
Pluck out the boats from the harbor
So that the balance of the waters
Becomes uneven
With too many fish
Drown yourself
In a dry wasteland of guilt
Because it was your own scarred hands
That brought you here
Detach your finger tips
From you mind
So that your soul can rest easy
Knowing they're no longer
A threat
When the very thing
That connects your thoughts
To the page
Like a bridge of beauty
A river of lanterns floating
Towards the unknown mind
When it all turns to dust
What do you do?
When it devours everything
In black hole flames
And takes delight
In its own tear stains
What do you do?
You indulge in it
Let the darkness and flames
Bury you in the bile of
Demons harboring inside
Your Detached limbs
Let the blood
In your veins
Boil away the mold
Growing over the place
You call a cemetery 
For the grotesque
And the evil
Brake open the crate
To your selfish nature
And watch it indulge in
It’s twisted pleasures 
Allowing the flames to fester
Is just like opening a gate
Towards disaster. 
Today is the day
That darkness reigns
Supreme

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Rekindling

Whirling colors have ceased for comfort
for the wonders of Earth vibrantly register 
with the ocean hued eyes of aging apatite

The crunch of our feet as we traverse the dried
warm ocean beneath us
a mirror of the sky which touches the truth

To die so beautifully
as the phoenix dose before us
this repetition of sorrow
so sweetly brings us to peace

To hold your hand now
and witness the wonder of everything 
that is magnificent
that is mournful
that is inevitable

To ask you how you see
this world meant for us to believe
would you retell the same reflection
from which burns so brightly
in the eyes of the ocean?

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Memories

The beam that cradled the world
everything the hummingbird knew
the open plains of growing grass

Have long past
deteriorated

Marsh grass overcome
by trompled leaves
bluejays humming
a familiar song

A wolf lost in its own home
finding curiously familiar places
its never been

To sniff out what has long been
lost
covered up by the snow
of the spring
the leaves
of the fall

The tree does not grow
if it holds tightly
to all that it is

To remain where you stand
you must walk
through the ocean of time
the time of you

To throw your heart
into the fire
and create something
new

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Worms

Worms crawl to the surface
To die
Commit suicide
We are like worms
Wiggling inside 
Our minds
Trying to break free
And fly
A bird catches us
In it's beak
And starts to flap it's wings
Carry me above the clouds
And help me breath
Let freedom ring
Don't carry me too high
So I can't find my way
Back down
The Earth raised me
From the dirt
The home of my heart

A worm can't fly
Only believe
And try

Don't leave me to drown
In your bile
Your talons pierce my skin
Scratching away at the pedestal
Leaving my words
Unattainable
Snap me in half
I'll keep squirming
My life won't stop
Just because I'm hurting
A worm's heart is it's body
It tears and it dries
But in the eyes of a bird
It is life giving

Don't carry me too high
So I can't see the ground
Don't carry me too high
So I can't find my way
Back down