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The Seal of Sanity

Many lustfull luxuries,
lustering so luciuosly,
how many moons will fade before the sun?
Can't you feel this longing jeweler,
waiting for the lovely lunar,
to eclipse the empty canvas holding none?

Come fill the waiting piture,
suture up the fissure,
illuminate, whats dark and tiresome.
It's freedom the will free him from,
a picture that has fouled up,
and rotted all that is this, inprsioned one.

Without a jailer to realease it's spoiled,
stagnant and complaiciant toil,
pressure will result to fail the seal.
Once this man is broken,
he will search for wounds to open,
within everything, and all the he can steal.
For consiquince meens nothing,
and heartache seems like stuffing,
to a seething man who can no longer feel.

Those who neglect this warning,
will soon erect a mourning,
within the wreckage of all they used to know.
For he will spare no other,
consuming souls benieth the cover,
of the quilt that you and all the others sew.

Be weary of wich cross you hold,
its body might contain the mold,
Imprisioned, with no jailer to be told.

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2008



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Innocent Emotion

When I take a close look
What do i see
I can define you a mystery
As a man caught, staring at your chest
i can't see through a bulletproof vest
Your heart is what  seek
not a life chambered without a key

Just to sit beside your mind in silence
Knowing how you feel inside
No need to hide or fight reliance
Glowing with a reeling pride

This simple intimate notion
Lost inside an ocean
Because we can't planley be
Emotionally innocent and free

A broken system of relating
Leaving lonley people waiting
Empty hearts continue fading
Without a light, how can we begin to see?

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2007

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Be, Leave.

Still on that same road
Or so ive been told
Cant see the time
But maybe I 
Dont wanna know
Why cant you just leave
And let me be
But lets rewind
Just for a time
Before you go

You can count on me
I will drown your sorrow
But you can never leave
Once i fill that hollow
And you need to know
How far that river flows
If your gonna fight the tide tonight
Or do you wanna come and hide tonight

Your absence is cold
Why cant we grow old
Its hard to fight
I see the signs
Its gonna snow
Its hard to believe
I cant let you leave
A lump of coal
A piece of diamond
I dont know

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2007

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Prisi (Nursery Crime)

Quiet while I take attendance
But there's one missing all this week
Make a call to the parents
Send someone over

The cop said it was abandoned
There's no sign of the family
But the father was a madman
A coward's cover

Lights off in
In the attic She's sleeping
Stone cold dead

The place smells like a landfill
And the power's been off for weeks
They said they found her in the attic
Her life is over

So you silence your daughter
And discard her so aimlessly
Theres' no way for you to fight it
The charge is murder

Lights off in
In the attic she's sleeping
Lost, found, dead

Alone
With her frozen eyes
That you left for the world to see
While a child lies
In a criminals
Nursery all alone
With a silent cry
For the rest of her life she screams
When the fire dies
In a criminals
Nursery all alone

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2008

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Candle Lit Heart

A febel flame 
Now resides
Because of you
Alot to gain
But more to lose
Because of you

Your voice holds a candle to a lightless heart
Life now surges through a forgotten circut
Unused as it is, it still feels firmiliar
Without you beside me the light grows dim.......

Though not out, it barley burns
Throughout the fortress, for your presence it yerns

Like an overfilled balloon it grows when your near

I step on myself you pretend not to notice
While i keep flapping like a migrating locust
I still dont know what to make of you
Dont even know how to leave when you want me to
With you i could stand forever
We could be toghether

Or we wont
But i cant know
Because of you

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2007



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Heaven Resides In Hell

I'm more than new to this
So i dont know how to tell
Are you my heaven 
will you put me through hell
I just want to know you
to get close and hold you
You heard everything i told you
its not a fake i sold you

You are beauity
you look right through me
I want you truly
do you feel the same
To soon to place the blame
Feer said i scared you away
I can feel the sky returning to gray

Can i help that i found you
Ill do anything you want me to
Just so i can wake up
So i can face the day
So i can feel your heartbeat
your love in every way

I feel like i can change you
and show you what its like
To believe in something better
To ride a bigger bike

Copyright © John Willis | Year Posted 2007


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