Dead Inside

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…by the Eyes of the others,

Our mind devoirs our souls,

Slowly sinking,

Seeping,

Breathing,

No more light it fades away,

No more love it falls away,

No more time it ticks away,

No more blood it drains away,

Dead inside but with a smile,

Slowly bleeding words of beauty,

Slowly bleeding poetry,

From a hidden shadow deep within,

Pain courses through my veins,

Killing me slowly,

Killing me inside,

Slowly slinking from the path,

Normality nothing but a robot,

Normality nothing but a plan,

Normality a white sheet with the same marks…


By Marina Vos

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I Am All

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…terrible at seeing your side
or letting you know when you're right
my mood swings are off the charts
and I can always pick a fight
I never want to admit I'm wrong
or really let you in
I can find your fault in anything
but still I don't feel like I win
I decide when I can deal with you
even when I can't
I let myself deflect until all the s*** I couldn't take mentally caves me in
I have panic attacks that I know you can't stand
rather than not being able to breathe I wish I…

By Whitney Kitchen

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Poor Man's Christmas

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…hot dark night,
The moon hangs low and heavy,
No tree or lights but family and friends,
It's the poor man's Christmas no fancy dress
Or big meal,
Not much toys for the children but they know it's hard,
It's the poor man's Christmas,
Slow music on the radio and TV softly playing in the background,
Kids run laughing through the adults,
It's the poor man's Christmas,
No tree or lights,
It's the poor man's Christmas with bottles of wine,
Sip after sip after sip,
The night grows darker and they grow drunker,
It's the poor man's Christmas with bottles…

By Marina Vos

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/marina.vos.564

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Cloaked Hypocrisy

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…stalk the sight of a righteous plight,
Of a pious light hypocritically bright,
Where I see rosary ashy majesty,
Fasting to craftily revel in vanity,

Gold fills with silver spills over in bronze,
Free-will for good will fulfills only pawns,
Fighting to free we devour and plea,
For to free we mean we for the fee don’t you see?

Running in circles unfurled they whirl,
Seeding with pearls of glass that they hurl,
A lie isn’t lying if I say that it’s not,
For when I write the rules who am I to get …

By Ethan Kunz

Facebook URL: https://m.facebook.com/myshadowshines/

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Dawn

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…battle never ending,

A war forever lasting,

The voices and screams ring through her head,

Words spoken to unseen faces she's still fighting her unseen past,

Hidden tears barely scratch the surface,

Her mask slowly falls as her shadow dawns,

She was fighting everything inside her to save the ones around her,

She holds on to her chains,

To hold on to those who broke her,

She holds on to the unseen faces,

She holds on to her unseen past,

But as she slowly let's go of her chains and

As her shadow dawns,

Nothing is safe,

Another person takes…

By Marina Vos

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/marina.vos.564

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