Promises Unkempt

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…said you’d be better... it got worse

You said you couldn’t live without me

Me? The one you never even see?

In the beginning you were so filled with passion

Now I’m on the back burner for when you’re bored says your actions

I’ve been telling you for weeks I’m not ok

Now my wrists hold the evidence that I barely survived another day

You are done there, living separate lives

She’s making your lunch and wearing your ring

Doesn’t seem so done from this side as another piece of my soul dies.

Why do I do this to myself…

By Gabriella Nelson

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Dawn's Early Light

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…light not broken, still pitch black beyond the glass
The window’s act as mirrors where no outside visions pass.
Perhaps a time to ponder how I view my life and self
I reached for pen and paper which was stored upon the shelf.

Before I’d had the time to organize my thoughts in ink
My eyes began to notice hazy lines, quite dim and pink.
Reflections off the windows seemed to fight to stay opaque
Deep purple background silhouettes now follow darkness’ wake.

The sun had not yet shown its’ disk above horizon’s line
It’s glowing vanguard, chroma blues, not…

By James Geehring

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Aberdeen

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…older man from Scotland drank a pint of whiskey; neat.

And wandering off the known path home, was swallowed by the peat.

The earthy taste of scotch now on his tongue forever more

His spirit haunts the pubs about as ghostly local lore.


The simple-minded townsfolk swear they’d felt his presence still

When, after dark, inside their hearts they’d feel an icy chill.

A drenched and musty smelling form appeared with reaching hand

To clutch at souls of sinners who might dwell within this land.

To venture out at night upon the streets of Aberdeen

Your mind should not be…

By James Geehring


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Wishing Well

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…the bottom of the wishing well,

Were all the things I remembered.

The whimsical stories you asked me to tell,

And all of the things you never heard.

At the bottom of the wishing well,

Your words are but a memory;

Of all the bullshit you tried to sell.

What I bought was misery.

At the bottom of the wishing well,

Is where I cast the stone;

To a place where learned lessons dwell,

And the memory of you is only…

By Jessica Doland

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Whispers of Death

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…and calms

Hides beneath our shells,

Hollow and pale it shows us something deep within,

Pain so sweet we ache to relive it,

Death it brings us closer,

It holds us down and forces life to take our hands,

Life brings us back and shows us the true beauty of death

Beauty of the fallen few angels and the unscathed demons,

Death it is everything and is nothing,

Life is nothing and is everything

Like black and white they hold us together with broken stitches something so strong and so fragile,

Words can not speak of the beauty,

And words…


By Marina Vos

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Wild but Sweet

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…waited too long, along time I never had

You won the lottery of my heart and soul

So you alone have the grace to command

To watch this heart surrender and fall for you

Spending time together was preordained

Even though atimes you hurt like thorns

My destiny is to love the joy mixed with pain

Remain for me sweet pain, I won't give you up

Even in another world I will still choose you

For I can never find means to live without you

Around you is my center of attraction

When with you I love life and prays…

By Nwankwo Christian ©

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Little Girl

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…girl holding her heart

Broken by the past

Broken by someone she loved,

Little girl forgot what it's like to be with someone She trusts,

Little girl almost gave up

Til she found someone,

Someone she loves,

Little girl holding her heart wishing she could fix it, wishing it was whole hating who broke it

Hating who stole it,

Little girl a warrior hidden beneath

Those brown eyes,

Little girl holding her heart

Broken by the past

broken by someone she loves,

Little girl standing alone,

Standing strong,

Showing the ones who broke her

She can fix her broken heart…

By Marina Vos

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

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Breath

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…tired,

She's always tired,

Somehow no one sees,

The battle inside her head,

She needs time but she can't control it,

Slowly it feels like her soul is slipping through the cracks and her mind is turning to ash,

Something so simple, so beautiful,

Yet her mind cannot find peace to except it,

Something her soul can't control and her mind can't expell,

It's clutches grab at her heart slowly turning it to black,

She's tired,

She's always so tired,

Looking for a way to slip away,

To slip from the darkness around her heart,

Because she can't take it…

By Marina Vos

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

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To Good to be True

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…your picture close to my heart

My thoughts pull me back to when I fell in love with you

 

Day weeks or months, I don’t know how long it took

Our eyes met, hands touched and I felt it perusing through

 

Love needs no security; love needs not to be feared

You taught me the art of loving for endless years

 

Looks like those of a fictional hero, graceful in his ways

Our eyes locked, heart stopped, you took my breath away

 

A coincidence or a miracle, what was it I wonder

What did I ever do to deserve someone…


Website: https://theserenespirituality.blogspot.com/

By Anonymous

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Lost

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…the dark I am lost

Digging, grappling, wandering

Hoping for something to anchor on

Like a ship sinking slowly in the sea.

 

I tried, I cried, I begged

Alas! My light, my love you fell on deaf ears

I am battered, my heart is shattered

I failed, I failed, I lost the case

 

I shamed and been shamed on

I hurt and have hurt

Struggling yet standing

Fighting a losing battle

 

Come light, come light

Illumine my way the fight is still on 'til I won

Life and light will be mine again

Come light be mine…

By Rhine Torres


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