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"This Love is not a building. It is not a tall skyscraper, built with layers of brick and a strong steel frame. This Love is not the foundation grounded in stone, steady in strength. This Love i..."

"Grips of savages rage under lids As breaths remain constant, yet weak Unyielding thrones in palaces of strife Chap and Chafe buttocks young and old Movements too slow as time ticks away Certain..."

"Bits and bytes sent over steel nooses Yet no response Tireless hours Spent in tortures thrones Yet time ill wasted Waking nights staring at snowy pearl skies Yet agonized twists upon rumpled sh..."

"Players play as the merry, Loud and gay, Sprayed the room with Alcohol Players stayed in the wisps of May As the Final Curtain Fell. Yet David stayed on the stage Away from the alcohol and the Pl..."

"There is one constant in this world. One thing that someone can rely on. Pain. Pain, translated into the darkness of this world, as this society considers it. Pain is something that you must fight, st..."

"The snow flakes fall on my hair, Frozen in place by the wind The sheer shock shudders my body As another cold blast assaults my icy face It is a dark day out, Sun hidden by storm clouds above. ..."

"My finger presses upon the lever As my eyes close to accept thy gift The icy liquid shoots up from it’s spring Cooling my charred breath as my broken lips part The icy water rushes into my mouth ..."

"I’m trying to Or maybe not For life is full of Beauty for which is sought Poetry and prose Tickle my mind As heavy gusts of fan And blades, impacted and resigned. Kind light and gentle set..."

"I once found true sight, In the absence of the light. I once found joy, In the cunning and the coy. I once found glory, My mind ablaze in the story. I once found adventure, In the grasp of the Mi..."

"I sit on this hardened gold Elevated by hollow steel. Leaning against the wooden slab With my feet against brown metal. My eyes are blurred with the words on the page, The brown frosty Book I hold, W..."

"The warm wisps of weather winds embrace my body as I stare out on the water. One year ago the wench was worse for wear, causing warned words and silent wickedness. The slam of the wedge door behind me..."

"I see the small boy, joyfully sliding down the wooden incline The fence around which used to bar all passage without instructions from a giant The swing where he used to twirl on the seat The blue ch..."

"Why do you torment me, Infernal machine? The way you clank and clatter in the darkness, The way you sputter and stop in the mid day's heat, The way miraculously comes to life in the winter's storms, O..."

"What if I told the ape to play nice? What if I told the bird to fall into a cage? What if I told her? I don’t know. Laughter rings in my mind As I hold the black rose to my chest. Crumpled and fragile..."

"If I were to burn, Would you Ascend? If I were to crash, Would you rumble? if I were to rumble, Would you strap? if I were to scream Would you widen your eyes? If I were to release Would you ..."

"To sit and think upon a wizened stump... To fidget and play in plumbs and olives... To shine and glimmer on fields, ruby and emerald... To darken and rain upon hero’s ticker day... To rise and fall wi..."

"upon a window's shattered night upon lightened crevices neath door's floored distance comes darkness's first hope. upon talon's first scrape upon wicked sneers and jabs comes faint brushes silk upon ..."

"you are my candle’s first light in an infinite space and time born from a friction and our magical heat slowly to take your place into rhyme at first, a dim light spreads through the darkness as you ..."

"I must look pathetic My Darkened eyes My strings, sircles hung below My shotty, unshaven face My motted, grimy hair I must look pathetic My tired neck collapsing in air My shoulders weak and shruggin..."

"Single Rose dropped on the floor. given by a hope, trying to open the door. placed, to be sure, very fine hopes indeed... Held by a wish Hoping to succeed. Spread out by a love that blooms from afar H..."

"insolent words of immature youths race across sheilded lines... avenues of hope and shadows fade falling victum to spite's sweet poision. Friendship fades with simple words, Mistooken identities and h..."

"Sometimes the darkness pulls you in. Sometimes the night is all you can see. Sometimes when visions and attempts at peace follow your path as in a blind stupor, they fail. Fictions Friends and Trust..."

"Sometimes you can't stop the rain. Sometimes you can't shield yourself from the constant onslaught of stinging needles as they plummet from darkened skies. Oh, you can shield your body from th..."

"The poisoned little pill slips down your throat Digesting slowly within acid confines… With no rhyme Very little reason Oh, lover, can’t you see the rage? Oh, lover, can’t you see the pain? Oh, lover..."

"I dreamt of you this morn Sitting there by your computer And I was just watching… Just watching… We were sitting outside the sunlight Simply staring out into the distance What were we seeing? What we..."

"I still watch my door at night Though to say why would be to betray… An adult fears naught of those things… Legends long ago, buried with age… I still bear the marks of yesterday Simple black smirks ..."

"You know i never finished... What I wrote, What I felt I couldn't write more then a few words What I felt, What I saw I could only wait for tohse immutable Dozens What I saw, what I struggled Minutes ..."

"How can I live with a brick wall? All my words go crashing onto her surface Tumbling on the ground, to no avail Like a icy surface reflects the lightning’s last strike How can I be with a hollow cave..."

"To you, my dear Take it Take it all Come into my chest and rip out my spine Move down my body and cut out my spleen Just leave me here to rot Take my soul and burn it upon the pier Take my heart and ..."

"You wanted it? You wanted to behold the rage? You begged and pleaded You cursed and screamed And still I took it You pushed and ravaged You pained and speared You ignored and balled And still I took ..."

"I don’t write anger well Never have Never really saw the point in it Why hold in the pain to let it get to anger? Why harness it to power a poem if it only degrades your spirit? Makes you less of a pe..."

"Reading the words you speak to me Feeling the excitement in your voice The passion, the challenge Hearing your happiness in your letters And knowing yours smiling brings me light And yet a dark shado..."

"I feel so lost right now With the heat of our battle still upon us The intensity of the words searing our flesh I feel so lost right now Lying next to you after sufferings false stop Only to rec..."

"I realized last night the pain I must cause Being like I am Needing what I do… I realized last night the loss I feel Knowing you are gone Simply need to walk through that door I realized last night ..."

"I miss sleeping next to you at night The phone molded into my skin as before Hearing your soft breaths against my skin Feeling the peace surround us I miss laughing with you The joyous mixture of iro..."

"We were once like a song Flowing, floating, it’s power intact Our words flying through the wind With twinges of chords And the drums of our hearts We were once an original Placing the track in the pl..."

"I scared my roomate yesterday I just heard from a friend today The ferocity of the conflict The pain on my face The anger in my voice… I scared my roommate yesterday Confused and frightened Angered ..."

"It’s sad now… To see our downfall.. To see our fall from grace… To see what we have become… It’s sad now Nary a word said of joy… Nary a syllable uttered in enrapture… Nary a note sung in longing… I..."

"Since I can’t reach you my voice Using a language evolved from emotion Since I couldn’t speak to you with the wilderness between us And you raising your barriers so And simply not caring any more Tha..."

"Right now I’m about to go to the shower To feel the grime of another night wash off my body To feel the gentle drops of warm fluid running over my skin To sooth my torn heart… Right now you are about..."

"Words expressed in anger Words expressed in hate Words that know no feeling Yet so heard to fate Screams uttered in silence Tears shed in the past Pain flow overwhelming Pain compounded untill the la..."

"I can’t sleep tonight I’m not too sure why While plotting plains of Friday’s pleasures A thought glittered across my mind Walked back up the stairs Saw the evil hands once again Into my quarters do I ..."

"Sometimes I have the words Sometimes I don't Sometimes I reach the stars Sometimes I fall asunder Sometime I spin and dance Sometimes I burn and crash Sometimes I can braze with light... Others it can..."

"I wish I could show you the sides to me Now too late with damage and death between us… But you didn’t see so much of me Just Like I haven’t seen so much of you… You never saw my loneliness at night… ..."

"I don’t know how to love like a poet anymore How does one do that anyway? Do they harbor all of their pain in a vat of oppression Yet releases with failed hearts attempt at heal? Do poets love with an..."

"Striking sounds and plated teeth Fills the air with gloom… Plucking tones and mournful play Saturates hollowed halls and tombs Single fingers and unskilled moves Pound the ivory slow… Gracious ears an..."

"My bones ache with fatigue My soul creaks with ache But what kind of sleep do I need? Do the thrice hours of rest do me in night after night? Or does the cold stone wall affect my soul? Does the unc..."

"Just let me lay here Lay my head upon the floor No pillows, nor rug Just the concrete and me Just let me lay here Broken and alone While fleeting thoughts lay Tattered and Torn around me Just let m..."

"I have once been true to the night The jealous mistress who sunk her claws into me The hated woman standing in the bitter blue of the river From the wicked tubes of mindless delight To the blasting pa..."

"I witnessed… Upon a dreary day Long ago within the pavements A duel of dismay… Two women, Same and yet condemned Standing side by side Face to face, winds racing down onto them… They stared at each ..."

"Why does it feel like my heart is empty? That a piece has been suddenly flown away Far into the distance and is now held by another? Why does it feel like sleeping here in comfort is not enough? That ..."

"I watched the flight of gulls today Floating high above my car Painted wings soaring slowly in the sky Staring down at knolls unclean I watched the flight of gulls today Racing towards their ever que..."

"I don’t like answering machines For being so far, touching is nar close For being alone, it doesn’t fill the gap For being lonely, it nary compensates I don’t like answering machines It is a simple m..."

"I watched the flight of gulls today Floating high above my car Painted wings soaring slowly in the sky Staring down at knolls unclean I watched the flight of gulls today Racing towards their eve..."

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