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Disgust

Words seep from your mouth

Like toxic sludge

And you lick up every drop

With your split tongue

As you spit it out

In everyone’s face

Hoping that they all

Enjoy the taste

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Living Wake

The anger that you feel is real

The grief that you feel is real

Everything that pulls your heart

And sinks its teeth into your soul

Is so real

That you can allow yourself

To mourn the living

Especially those

Who are blind to the evil

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Saint Lucifer

Fallen from grace have you

Dearest angel

And the world was there

To watch you tumble

With no grace in sight

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While you brush off the dirt

And manage to extinguish

Every small flame

There always remains

The ice at the core

That even the devil

Could not thaw himself free of

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Ghost

Your gentle shadow

In the glow of the full moon

Still haunts these hallways

Especially in the ballroom

Where the dust on the piano

Outlines your fingerprints

And my feet continuously ache

On the cold floor

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Sad Child

Somber tears

Of self-abandonment

Are lost in the ocean

As the sinking feelings

Remind me of my youth

And beg for me

To lose myself again

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Sword Swallower

The truth pours down

Like an August rainstorm

But it is no match

For the fire in my chest

That is fueled by Greed

As it listens to the wails

Of my heavy soul

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Devil’s Doing

Guilt and shame

Rule side by side

And nobody dares

To diminish their pride

.

Close like siblings

And thick as thieves

They sit and laugh

As they watch others grieve

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At Rest

I have fixed my eyes

On that sturdy oak yonder

With the yellow leaves

That sing lullabies in the wind

And its brassy bark

So rough but tender enough for a bed

Where I shall close my eyes

For just a moment

As I wait

For the new season to come

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Dot x3

There remains an empty air

That sits across from me

And it speaks so softly

That even the roaring waves

Take a moment to listen

To the space between us

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Glass Coffin

I have no choice

But to look up

And watch as the earth

Slowly falls

And blinds my view

But all that I have

Is a butter knife

To unbind the locks

And dig me out

Of this rotting hell

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Life Support

This is it—

The last moment

Where I am gasping for air

And begging

For one more minute

Before my body turns against itself

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World Burn

Tie me to the sturdiest oak

As you light my cigarette

So that once you finish

The final knot

We will not have time

To kiss each other goodbye

Before this wildfire

Consumes the world

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Woman of the Night

I still can smell

Your cheap perfume

That could cover the stench

Of my rotting corpse

While your lipstick

Stained the collar of my shirt

.

I clutch tightly onto the earring

That you left

On my bedside table

And feel it pinch my hand

As it leaves tiny marks

That draw the smallest speck of blood

.

If only you had left

Forgetting something else—

Something that I could not

Twirl between my fingers

That left more pain

So that I could forget life

Outside of the darkness of night

That you stole

In just one breath

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Scared Child

Momma

I am crying for you

But I can tell

That you too no longer recognize

Your baby’s face

As it drowns itself in tears

And begs

To be reborn

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Fairytale Ending

We praise every valiant knight

For slaying the dragon

On his journey

To save his true love

But how is it

That I am selfish

For trying to killing the beast

Inside of me

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Wilderness

I believe myself to be lost again

In that very strange place

Where words both constantly run dry

And rattle my tired brain for hours

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Pillow Thoughts

Somewhere between

The mattress and the box spring

I can scream forever

And no one will hear me

For in the end

The only ears that cared to listen

Were the thousands of little fibers

Of my tear-stained pillows