tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020494193630921722023-11-15T06:57:29.827-08:00Soulturin. Poetry CornerSoulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-73283946366323379002014-01-11T16:08:00.002-08:002014-01-11T16:08:32.928-08:00Shadow<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You forgot
your shadow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It didn’t
follow you to the grave,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It didn’t follow
you into heavens light,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it came
alive at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-22210327570792216432014-01-08T06:10:00.001-08:002014-01-08T06:10:32.309-08:00Bring Me Back What Is Mine<div class="MsoNormal">
Bring me back what is mine<o:p></o:p></div>
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From that long-ignored place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve spent too long gazing into that darkness<o:p></o:p></div>
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To accept it’s cold, fickle embrace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Bring me back what is mine,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I beg untoward you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I assure you, I’ve repented, relented,<o:p></o:p></div>
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So we can return to me and you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Bring me back what is mine,<o:p></o:p></div>
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This vile desperation<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is poisoning my system, corrupting my heart,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cannot handle separation <o:p></o:p></div>
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Any longer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Please,</div>
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Bring me back what is mine.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-58641924092127201392014-01-08T06:09:00.002-08:002014-01-08T06:13:45.201-08:00Funeral Arrangements <div class="MsoNormal">
‘He’s dead!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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They said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Call his family!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said one,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘He has none,’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Call his friends!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said one,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘He has none,'<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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‘Should we give him a funeral?’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Asked one,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘We shall give him the funeral of his life!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said another,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘He won’t have one.’<o:p></o:p></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-25278245084163044312014-01-05T17:59:00.004-08:002014-01-05T17:59:42.120-08:00The Tree Spoke to Me<div class="MsoNormal">
The tree spoke to me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her voice tender and weightless,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her words wise, and ageless:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The apple does not fall far from me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the seeds will travel far away,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Away from me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will miss them when they are gone,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wish they could stay,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stay with me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know they can’t, I know they won’t,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But that doesn’t stop me holding on,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t you see?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The apple is part of me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And always will be,<o:p></o:p></div>
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You see? You see?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked far and wide, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked high and low,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the Garden of Eden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I found no apples, no seeds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just a field full of dark, disfigured and lonely
weeds.</span></span>Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-84132057854542185792014-01-05T17:54:00.002-08:002014-01-05T17:54:32.460-08:00That's How I Felt Before I Fell<div class="MsoNormal">
That’s how I felt before I fell.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I felt stupid and fragile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was lost in my insignificance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I felt my individuality being oppressed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a lie however, so I let myself fall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was finally free from the naivety of youth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had never been so sure about anything.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I felt whole, complete, and content.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s what being in love does to you.<o:p></o:p></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-84403286795628401672013-12-16T14:48:00.002-08:002013-12-16T14:48:34.044-08:00Life<div class="MsoNormal">
It is blinding, <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The light we are born into<o:p></o:p></div>
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We stand on our own two feet <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because we are told to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then come the lessons, <o:p></o:p></div>
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The learning,<o:p></o:p></div>
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The rhymes,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The rhythm;<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are taught from the beginning we should have a certain
disposition.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Take into consideration the fragility of mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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That when we are all children we so commonly find.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is not one who does not doubt or second guess,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But when life is made in black and white, <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no multiple choice test. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then we walk, whether on sand or stone,<o:p></o:p></div>
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We travel the world, ultimately on our own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Collecting blisters and callouses,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dead skin, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dry flesh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The weight of the world ripping through that fragile mesh. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Now I can feel it,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Coming for me, and me alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A static, distorted, ethereal voice<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Calling me on the phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness creeping, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lurking,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just out of sight,<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the day begins to end, <o:p></o:p></div>
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And heralds another night. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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And I’m floating<o:p></o:p></div>
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Falling,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spinning,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Down and down some more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Into that nothingness <o:p></o:p></div>
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That we all hate and love to ignore. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Where do we all stand<o:p></o:p></div>
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When it all comes to a head?<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the lights fade to blackness<o:p></o:p></div>
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And everyone is dead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
See I don’t think any of us can know<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We split the world into molecules,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Particles,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Atoms;<o:p></o:p></div>
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But in what way does that ever help us grow?<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no encore, nothing follows the end of the show.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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At least, not for those-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those left behind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who have nothing but their grief<o:p></o:p></div>
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And very little piece of mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From infant to elder, <o:p></o:p></div>
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From unconsciousness to reality,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our lives are determined,<o:p></o:p></div>
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By a series of technicalities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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And whilst we wander,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Endlessly,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aimlessly, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the turbulent ocean of doubt and uncertainty<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our voyage becomes a one way trip to deception and cruelty.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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We shine a light ahead, to see what we must pass<o:p></o:p></div>
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Only to bring into view a cloud of poison gas. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We choke,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Splutter,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cough,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And gag-<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What was my point again?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This journey has rendered me deaf and lame,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember now- the potent, unforgiving refrain<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every life ultimately ends the same-<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life is nothing if not a desperate struggle for<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fame,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pain,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gain,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life is nothing, if not a game.<o:p></o:p></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-82062394573352540222013-12-14T19:08:00.001-08:002014-04-27T06:33:54.341-07:00Believe<div>
I believe in nothing, at least that's what I believe. There was a time when I counted each 'tick' of the clock, but all they do is deceive, and run parallel with every 'tock.' So I traded counting for waiting, in the hope it would stop the anticipating, something will happen, something must happen, something would happen, something could happen, but no. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div>
I believe in nothing, at least that's what I believe I believed. My frustrations were just imaginations, of another character whispering in my ear. Apathy is my defining trait, I've been told... I hear. There are times, moments, fractions of seconds separate from reality, where I might let myself believe in love and spirituality, where the world isn't such a daunting, desolate place, and we aren't just bodies, floating through empty space. I like to keep a safe distance from those moments, and weep as the sight of them passing by, brings another pathetic, self-hating tear to my weary, bloodshot eye.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I believe in nothing, at least that's what I tell myself I believe I believed. That somehow that is justification for me being so passively aggrieved. When In truth I know there is nothing, or little, at the very least, that can be said to solidify the position that my lifespan should be increased in light of others, whose lot is worse than mine, whose misery and suffering I am unable to define, especially in comparison to this life of mine. There is nothing of significance to be said, and yet here it is. I believe in nothing, but I can't believe it's true, I have to believe in something... If not myself, then something, someone... You.</div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-65314715754438943252013-11-29T16:16:00.003-08:002013-11-29T16:16:59.059-08:00Gold<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
night air is so tender as it gently soothes my porous skin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Away
from the mounting intensity, the chaos, and the din<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
the life I was blessed to have been sold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
running away, I’m running north- or south, I’m running in-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Into
the beautiful raindrops of gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
burst into blistering oblivion, opening my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
see nothing but an aurous hue, embracing the dark, night skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">God!
I feel exceedingly fragile- old,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When
I hear the screams of youth- infancy- those dull, deafening cries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tearing
through the searing raindrops of gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As
I proceed up the blackened, charred steps of severely scorched oak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
feel my lungs begin to fill, to falter, as I start to choke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
enter a room embellished with mould,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
there I see him in his crib, as clear as night, as clear as smoke,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
infant crying, sad raindrops of gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is what must happen, I tell myself, this is what has to be,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
my youth be engrossed by enkindled gold, so my soul can be free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So
the infant’s cries dissolved into the crackle whilst I did flee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
did not fly away, nor did I bend, I did not stay to scold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
simply ran; North? South? No! I ran into the raindrops of gold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-13023032147998367362013-11-25T17:19:00.003-08:002013-11-25T17:24:11.692-08:00It's Time<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
“It’s time,”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said the clock, <o:p></o:p></div>
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To the weary, old man,<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s time to return to the place where you began.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The old man did not believe this to be true,<o:p></o:p></div>
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So he questioned the clock, and asked him of what he
knew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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“It’s time,”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said the clock,<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s not something I can change- or stop,</div>
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Though I would- if I could- change that endless ‘tick,
tock’”<o:p></o:p></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-71862599113610249992013-11-20T14:55:00.001-08:002013-11-20T15:00:24.755-08:00Nothing<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obsolete, Incandescent overall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Every sense alleviated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the highest possible degree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No candle to higher our ambition;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Relative to the alternative,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deliberating with precision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ascension<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dependant on the small things:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vile, uncouth mammals,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Scoured from the horde.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blasphemy! Apathy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eccentric to the core.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dissolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Permanent vacancies spared a sickle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transitions appear, semi-visual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What would life be without</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> An uncertain rhetoric?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Procreation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Absent minded in the ignorant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bleak and foul-mouthed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who slumber in and around the home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everlasting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolution in binary squares</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Leering
apples from the grave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peeking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In terms
too violent to define.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Nothing.</span></span></div>
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Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-92136108925986128942013-11-18T17:45:00.002-08:002013-11-25T18:30:40.300-08:00Icarus<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Born from the womb of no-one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And destined to amount to nothing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Before I could walk, I needed to run,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From the legionnaires, the soldiers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That were coming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The camp was consumed by flame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As the embers tended to the weak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The legionnaires marched on, blameless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Slaughtering the frail and the meek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All we could do was run and hide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Trying to escape the apathetic horde,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We sheltered in a nearby tenement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Away from the burning, sharpened sword.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The roof came down upon us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Weakened, I imagine, by the blaze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I was trapped beneath the debris,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Surrounded by an endless, fiery maze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Then I, powerless to act, to move, to fight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Watched my mother’s flesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bubble and burn into the black of night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It was on that day they started building the wall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The morose monument that would replace our camps,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 159.9pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Standing firm, standing astute; standing pretentiously
tall.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">II<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pulled from the ashes, I know not when,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">An old, kind, generous soul took me in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She nursed my wounds, and restored my trust-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My faith in humanity. She taught me all I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And ultimately how to lie and how to sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Through her wisdom I learned of the truth-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Why the people in my camp were slaughtered:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For their flesh, for their blood, for their brains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For their hearts, their souls, all of them tortured. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Conformity was preferable to complexity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Life was ill favoured when lived in ambivalence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Certainty was desirable in cases of ambiguity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Concerning humans of depth and difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I appreciated the terrible irony of their fates:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When the soldiers destroyed them with a slash,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And erased any history of humanity in them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They were all the same- the same colour of ash. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My saviour, my nurse, my illegitimate mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who went by the name of Agatha, introduced me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To those who opposed the injustice of the city,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I learned there were more options that to die or flee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Adolescence was spent training to be better-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I desired to become stronger, to become faster,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To be able to tear away the veil of perfection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Shielding the people from the city of disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I built bridges where I could, though I could see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They were not flawless, like the ones high in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Teaching myself the intricacies of their technology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I soon became aware of my increasing lack of pity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Their robotics were much like they were; methodical<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mechanical, unfeeling and lacking that indefinable spark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That held the joy and wonder of life- no they did not
care-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So why should I? I would strike them in their hearts
so dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Years passed on, my vengeance lay in lulled stasis,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Until one calm night, basked in glimmering moonlight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I slept- but not for long- there was a struggle at the
door:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The legionnaires, the soldiers, they were coming tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I emerged from my silent slumber, half in dull reverie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To see her on the floor, Agatha, she was trembling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stood around her were three men, with batons burning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She saw me and I knew- to survive- I must be dissembling.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They beat her until she was numb, and then a little
more;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Until she was sore, until she was broken, until she
was dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Once again, I was forced to watch, but worse than the
pain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She had made me promise to laugh, to protect myself,
as she bled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I was spared due to Agatha’s precautions and warnings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But she was now another victim of the vile, corrupt
constitution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That I promised to destroy. Her death did bring me something:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A release of any guilt I would feel bringing the city
to its knees, in a word-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Absolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-19071051086450099282013-11-18T15:59:00.000-08:002013-11-18T15:59:13.100-08:00Agitation<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fickle irony traces a
tremulous finger down her spine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gripping, clutching at her
long, luscious hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Desperate desolation
fumbles at her cumbersome clothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tearing, shredding with
terrible trepidation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cognitive confusion
embraces her soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Infuriating the mind and
aggravating her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Lonesome longing throbs
with anticipation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Caressing the skin and
scratching at her scars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Agitation seizes the
imagination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Immersing the senses and
crippling her emotions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet she feels eternally
condemned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To a lifetime of devotions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-33732367856472860482013-11-05T18:17:00.002-08:002013-11-05T18:17:35.711-08:00Phases<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strange; how these things
fade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love to love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friend to friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is dictated by phases;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some which never end.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-83726540810303441312013-11-05T18:13:00.002-08:002013-11-05T18:13:32.020-08:00Aelliona<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
is conflicted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
life as bleak as the tower she works in,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Day
in, day out, night in, night out, it would be a sin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
complain, or to be late, or to slack, or to hate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
career, but then again, she asked to work late.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
walks home, because the monorail is down again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wondering
if the sky will shed a drop of rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
scenery so picturesque and serene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
landscape free from litter, unsettlingly clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
road she walks is long, narrow and straight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
is built of glittering marble. Then- a gate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
gate, leading into her abode, swiping a card<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
enters the beautiful, desolate courtyard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A
fountain allows a flow of clear, pure water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To
fall down to the bowl, like lambs to the slaughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Before
she can pass through her own front door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
is beckoned by the old man who lives on her floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">His
window has been shattered once more by vandals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
doesn’t care, her hand eager on the door handle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
he coerces her into his living room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Filled
with relics of the dead, no hope and too much gloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
is conflicted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Inspecting
the glass, she knows she cannot mend the pane,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
can recommend a man, one who will come again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Leaving
abruptly, she enters her apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
reflects on her work at the police department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As
she makes herself some coffee and something to eat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
mind wanders on, as her heart swiftly retreats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
knows her ambition is a condition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
the city will not let her dreams come to fruition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Society
cannot fix her, it’s not permitted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
her to step out of place, she’ll be committed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
sighs and hopes the weary old man will die of cold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He
is after all, so fragile, so slow, and old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
he had hopes and dreams once upon a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When
the world was flawed and littered with filthy crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When
people sprouted from the earth, a vulgar plague,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
sin, sacrilege, scorn, with a history so vague,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It
could be used to justify moral apathy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">No!
Not in this world, a world free of agony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pondering
her existence, she looks at the city<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From
her window, it looks so perfect, so damn pretty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
canals of crystal, interwoven seamlessly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
tower blocks of silver, dotted so greedily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Across
the scene, all the way to the manmade horizon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
dark, heavy, iron blocks, forming an imposing wall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That
allowed them the freedom to be trapped, one and all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She
is conflicted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In
a world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
the stars are not permitted to shine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
inequality is freedom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
liberty is standing in line. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-47077271052394574292013-11-04T15:01:00.003-08:002013-11-04T15:01:16.863-08:00Broken<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Along the broken hall,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the broken bathroom <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of a broken home,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There he is slouched. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His bleak, vacant eyes gazing
lazily at me;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The eyes of someone close.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The little boy speaks with
a man’s voice<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I saw him standing over
her-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A puddle of blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I try my best to pick him
up, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I drop him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I try my best to carry him<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I am too weak,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cannot carry him,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cannot carry-</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-13246570195270407682013-11-04T14:58:00.002-08:002013-11-04T14:58:35.180-08:00Unrelenting Rain<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I heard it in my
dream last night,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The sound of
rain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Unrelenting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">It poured upon
the plants<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">But the drops
were far from quenching<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Their thirst; it
became them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Their thirst
became their death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">It dried their
throats silently,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Until they
choked;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">And ran out of
breath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The plants are
no longer now,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">But there’s that
sound again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I hear it in my
ears tonight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The unrelenting sound
of rain. </span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-72120051954433610312013-10-28T14:45:00.001-07:002013-10-28T14:45:43.461-07:00Myself<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been deceiving? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been telling,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Everything is alright?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That is for you to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been hurting?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been beating,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To a pulp?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Why don’t you look in the
mirror?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Don’t hide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been cheating?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been lying to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been harsh on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been rambling to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have I been deceiving?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Telling? Hurting? Beating?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Listen; hush and just <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Listen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Slow, solitary, solemn,
silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who is it you are talking
to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-56242497356968491252013-10-28T14:36:00.003-07:002013-10-28T14:36:32.353-07:00The Silence<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I know who you are”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She said;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lost in a blinding dream.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I know who you are”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wailed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With no air in her lungs to scream.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You are the pride, you are the sloth<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That has been sent to punish me for living
this way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are the lust, you are the greed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That has come here to see that I dutifully
pay<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my crimes, for my cowardice and for my
fear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are the glutton, you are the envy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is here to judge if I am humbly sincere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are my own wrath<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For leading myself down this foolish path.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I know who you are”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She cried;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her tears impairing her vision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I know who you are”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She sobbed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sincerely regretting her decision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as the darkness took her,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And her pain disappeared into the night<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her senses dulled and crippled,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She uttered with both defeat and defiance:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I know who you are-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Silence.”</span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Soulturin.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07298755994347420266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102049419363092172.post-52817369258399237812013-10-28T14:26:00.002-07:002013-11-04T14:45:20.472-08:00Downpour<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trepidation is the protagonist of the narrative<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of this life. Striding confidently down the lonely aisle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But running from the altar, it is an imperative<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Attribute of my character, that sick sense of denial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am not left without a want for some form of desire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let it be stated that I wish to be elated,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For any other alternative would make me a liar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A sense of foreboding leaves me alone and undated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The clouds roll in, the ones I myself brought into being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I cope, cowering underneath with my head held low,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For there were many, potentially, but now they are
fleeing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My sunshine, my daylight, I watch as they inevitably go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I suppose then, through it all, in summation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am left shivering in the downpour of adoration.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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