Tag: contemplation

  • And This Too Is True

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    A worry came over meAs if this had all been a farceLike I had been looking too deeplyAnd was pulled into blackened waterAnd what emerged from a moonlit spaceNot me but a creatureWho wielded my voiceTo use words unlike mineAnd made a big showingTo convince itself of its disguiseUntil enough time passed byAnd even it…

  • Beginnings in Every Season

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    Fallen leavesAll orange and redAre so beautifulFrom sight to soundThe luscious colors to the pleasant crunchFrom being crushed underfootAnd the smell of their rotPortends the richness of fallThe transition between this and thatLike a hand that beckons and takes you asideTo hold you thereIf just for a momentBecause you should adore magicAnd though it will…

  • An Elegy

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    Time to time, I strain my eyesBecause everywhere I look are zombiesAnd they’re all out to get me,With their fevered gaze set before my directionSnarling and clawingWith arms outstretched for me even as their flesh tearsBut I watch them in comfortAs they cry and flail against a wall of glassAnd I shut the blinds and…

  • Supplant

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    Will you take these failings of mineAs not a mark or a stainAnd my name not as a deviceTo besmirch or shameAs if your tongue recoils to even speak itBut instead accept me whollyFor all a man isAnd these hands that tremble before you?These are thoughts that materialize as I standOver a sunny lake with…

  • Become Other

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    A self best perceived through a kaleidoscope As every view is as different as the one before itAnd it shifts, transforms,Becomes whatever you want it to beBut only the beholder is privy to its formAs the creature is ignorant of itselfAnd is cluelessly content.Fastened to a ball and chain of its own wisdomOr lack thereof,It…

  • Scraps

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    Here,Bloodied nails from looking for traces of goodAs if distortion could make senseWhen that’s all contradiction. It was plainly clear. One only had to look in the mirrorBut now you can only tremble:There, the sight of unraveled flesh.

  • Burn

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    Leave me to burn,If you willBut don’t abandon me;Even as I turn to ash,I only want to keep you warm and secure.Gather around me and feel my heatAnd as you come closerThe flame only grows larger.Even at my end,I only wish to be of use to you.

  • To Dust

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    You were dust in my handsThe way you released yourself from meAs if every part of who we were wasTo be scatteredAnd lost in the winds of timeLike any other moment,Made to be forgotten,But the difference lies in the pit it leaves behind;A void too impressionable to disregardBut the mystery behind its origin will forever…

  • Prayer Finally Finished

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    Dear God,Dare I aspire for a horizon of promiseAway from where all my dreams lie before me,Their bodies still warm,Their hands still reaching for the skyAs if in their last momentsThey still chose to believe in You?I am alone in a desolate fieldEmbittered and stained with malcontentWith nothing but reproach left;God, please, tell ME— There…

  • Move Me

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    You are just a whisperAnd I must listen for you intentlySo I am yours eternallyAs my attention bends its kneeAnd never waversBecause you must be with meAnd I must never lose you.I beg: don’t drift awayAnd retreat into the dark cornersWhere light cannot pierceAnd shadows greedily lurk.Their claws bleed onto the vinylLike tendrils, surrounding you,Threatening…