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Whisper

I’ve sat atop my boulders of woe, peering across a sun bit desert landscape, where clouds hung from its sky like cotton balls. Reflecting upon the years, they settled deep within the forsaken canyon carved within my chest. Here is my escape…my rest. I closed my eyes and let the ancient winds kiss my skin. “Breathe”, it said in a whisper, “and leave your troubles here. Resign your fear, for these boulders eventually will crumble too, and the woes that you carry soon will be few.” I did as my ancestors said, and left it all to erode, carrying away with me, a heart light with hope.

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Muted Love

Not this day
No 
My mouth shall not say
The words that linger
Trailing broken syllables 
From memory bay
Without meaning
I cannot form them
Even as I pray
Turning in guttural acidic taste
By bitter bile way
Fumbling resentment 
Phrase to phase
With no sway from sentiment 
Shall I dare?
Shall I say?
Nay!
Struggle thought 
Drowning heart turned grey
Oh how heavy they drag 
And scuff the floor from their weight 
I look at them there in utter dismay
Clutching my heels as I walk away
I left them there
Begging! 
Just as they left me that day
Those words... 
Once meant for you
That I will NEVER again say

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Unhinged

I ate myself the other day
Unhinged my jaw and chomped away
No crumb was left after I dined
No limbs, or head, or crooked spine 
Each bite I took was bittersweet 
Laced with love and shamed defeat
I didn't even say goodbye 
To all I loved and held so high
My tummy rumbled, so then I ate
What was left of me,
That you didn't take

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Eos - Call of the Dawn

On the seventh ray
Of the fourteenth sun
Death hath come twofold
Arose a Titan in this age
Amidst this nimbus looms darkness
Betwixt the ash and sage

Approach cyclical ritual
Dousing wings in feral flames
Latent gravidity does surmise
For upon my resurrection
Eos I shall rise

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Reanimation Damnation

Quiet is the night, laid blight amid this infernal necropolis
Loosely mantled soil, smother marrow of perished veneration
Yet windows still aflame, a dormant witness to troth thirst
Cold and stiff, until a shift, unearthed

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Sole of My Soul

These shoes no longer fit 
Torn stitch
Missing sole
Floating down sun drenched river
I ponder if retrieving It would suit my purpose 
Or further enslave the symbolic liberation from foot
Oppressed by lace and tread 
Left to walk earth and root
As I force it up between my toes
Leaving trails of heel
Scent of pheromone 
Torn shirt
There is nothing to sniff out
Or parties to gather
Only reflective soul
A vestige of the whole
Alongside an old shoe 
And buoyant insert

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Thugetry

I have been 
A shut in and shut out
Kicked in and kicked out
Strung up and strung out
Sore thumb that's stuck out
I'm not a saint or girl scout 
But I've cut ink and bled out
Mi vida loca like "Blood In Blood Out"
And each one I've wrote about 
Knowing at least I'm not a sell out 
This is the therapy of my soul shout!
I'm not looking for a handout
Persuading you I have clout
I do this for me…
If this you ever do doubt 
Then you can kick rocks and get the hell out

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Precipice

I wait on this precipice looming down at my fate. A jagged Niagara daring me to soar with abandonment onto its edges. 

The abyss tells me fables, a serenade of its amorous ruse. Crashing waves harmonize the melody that shuffle my steps closer, closer I ebb. 

It sounds so beautiful, the peace. To be washed away. 

Drowning in my lamentation, I close my eyes and embrace my declivity, because fallen angels don’t fly, and humanity has scorched these wings for the last time.

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Beware the Dawn of Bitter Light

Beware the dawn of bitter light
Breaking bows of arcing flight

Casting sails full of schemes
Drifting, fading, lucid screams

Beware the myriad of twirling hues
Miles away from waking ruse

A brazen thief of peaceful bliss
Plunder, pillage, a devil’s kiss

Beware the day of hollow woes
Waning moonlight ivory doze

Longing for a wink of sleep
Touching, holding, you I keep

The fear of day, it haunts me so
For morrow comes and dreams must go

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Bark

Paper spiders everywhere 
Crawling through pinholes in my brain
Cutting the corners of my mouth
Tartaric taste curls my tongue 
Forming words I would never say

An inferno of verbs 
Flying through gutted roots
It’s warm butter to a blade
Until the right ones land and spread
That's when they begin to ricochet

     You’re only hurting yourself. 
   That’s what they tell me anyway 

I’m a dirt digging plant
Living in the embers of memories
That took decades to slowly fade
Put out in tiny doses 
On a slow drip of acid rain

It’s the smell of melting gospel
Revealing monstrosities 
Awoken from pits of smothered rage
It’s inhumane 
To mistreat animals like this
Yet they do nothing 
As innocence is stripped away

Some of us still live in cages
Gnashing teeth 
Snapping necks at the end of chains
Some of us still live in the embers
Feeling a burn that never fades

I’m recording scars in tree rings
As bark covers wounds with age
Building cages for the demons
Nesting in my conjured rage