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"Bless You"

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IN OUR HELLS

There is poetry,
Hacked to pieces in our Hells.
Please, save me from this!


WET PAIN

Housebroken and trained,
Excuse me from this wet pain.
Will dry quick, I think.


REJECT ME

Reject me from life.
I do not wish to be here.
Where do I belong?


DOUBT DOUBT

Take an interest
On that which makes you happy.
It lingers in doubt.


COME DANCE WITH ME

Harmless within me
My innocence knows no bounds.
Come dance with me, please?


FALLING BOMBS

The bombs have fallen.
I hear them calling my name.
BOOM! BOOM! I am dead.


REALITY IS A DREAM

Caught in a fantasy.
Reality is but a dream.
Help me find the light.


CRAZY INSIGHT

My freedom to write,
Keeps me up at night then some.
A crazy insight.


FOR I DESPISE YOU

Do not drink and drive.
How many have lost their lives?
For I despise you.


TIME AND TIME

Between night and day,
Twilight emerges. Hello.
Time to light the fire.


A SOUL SO THIN

Too many colors
Wrapped around a soul so thin.
Cannot describe them.


FIGURINE

Flashin' in satin,
I see your figure formed. Nice.
Flash some to me please.


THUS WE WAITED

And thus we waited,
For sanity to return,
But, it never did.


COMPLICATED INSTABILITY

Complicated me.
Instability in me.
Madness to become.


THE SAME DIFFERENCE

Poor and rich forget,
Their same, yet different minds.
Remember your fate.


ENGAGING IN PAIN

I try to engage.
There is no pain on this page.
Forever happy.


A LOST RESCUE

Lost in a forest.
I'm hiding among the trees.
Someone rescue me.


SADNESS IN A SEDATIVE

Tired and sad, I sleep.
There's nothing that will wake me.
I'll never wake up.


HEARTACHE

King of a nutshell.
Don't I pretend very well?
Heartache in Hell.


THE WISDOM OF YOUTH

Mommy, protect me.
There is danger all around.
Keep me clean and wise.


FALLING DOWN

Losing interest,
In things that I loved to do.
I am falling down.


LEAVE IT ALONE

Like a tree, I grow.
Water me, feed me, and love me.
Indestructible.


BORN OF CHARACTER

Characteristics.
Born unto me by my birth.
And sins to follow.


SILENCE KILLS

Leave in silence now.
My Ophelia is dead.
Killed by her own hand.


LOSER

Waiting patiently,
For my turn to crawl away.
I am a loser.


DARK AND DELICIOUS

Everything's dark.
Sick, with words upon my back.
Delicious to be.


PSYCHOSOMATIC

Inconceivable.
Conceived by evil and good.
Chromosomes in check.


TWISTED HEART

Heartbreaker she was.
Her heart was twisted. Ugly.
The cheater assumed.


FRAGILITY
Frail. A China plate.
I want my heart back, you whore!
I'll wait in the ditch.


LOW TIDE

When the tide is low,
They'll discover my body.
They won't know it's me.


COCOON

I can't live like this.
Like some twisted animal.
Show me the cocoon.


INVASION

Invading my mind.
The secret souls will admit.
The fire that lingered.


SHUT IN

A promise to bet.
I haven't gotten there yet.
Close the blinds tightly.


FLOWERS VERSUS WORDS

I'm a romantic.
I always gave you flowers.
It ended in words.


UNCOMFORTABLE

Her milky white breasts,
Where I laid my head to rest,
Did no good at all.


THE DAILY DOSE

My Muse Platonic.
Unconditional lovely.
Feeds me daily.


BRAILLE

He's blind, deaf and dumb.
He communicates through braille.
God, what becomes you?


SPRING TO FALL

It is now springtime.
Catch me if I shall fall down.
Can't pick myself up.


STUCK WITH ME

God, I want her bad.
Alas, it will never be.
I am stuck with me.


TO DIE A PAUPER

A depressed poet,
Stuck in a rut. Help me out!
I'll die penniless.


LOOK EAST TO THE DAWN

Look east to the dawn!
Shedding love on everything.
And the nightmares gone.


BECOME THE SIN

I am a narcissistic.
Vanity in a handful.
I become the sin.


LOVE GONE BAD

I have loved and laughed.
Even at a love gone bad.
Now I cower. Sad.


WEIGHT A SECOND

Instabilities.
Or so they have labeled me.
I carry my weight.


ENDURE

And, so we suffered.
To be like Christ on His cross.
Endure till the end.


BEYOND A SHADOW

Bombs are falling down,
All across town and beyond.
Return your shadow.


STOP

I know what you don't.
They'll never stop chasing me.
Get out of sight now!


A TRIP TO THE FOREST

A trip on a tree,
A forest of the lost souls.
Still mentally ill.


MY LOYALISTS

No more time for me.
Thus begins loneliness. See?
Just pen and paper.


THE TITLE REMAINS THE SAME

Surrounded by death.
Suicide is the title.
I'm a chicken shit.


CAUGHT

Caught in the sun's glare.
Caught in a heavenly snare.
Which I must beware.


FIRST PLACE

Lost. Engaged with rage.
Where have they all gone, my friends?
Jealousy takes first.


ALL I'LL EVER BE

A sore that festers.
A heroic child inside.
All I'll ever be.


DREAMS OF MEMORIES

The Son. The Father
Catching up on memories.
It was all a dream.


CHOICES

To live or to die.
This is my freedom of choice.
I'll have to abide.


GOD'S BREATH

Demons I have seen.
Am too paralyzed to scream.
For lack of God's breath.


LUXURIOUS

For sorrows enter.
It seems alone I must be.
A sick luxury.


BEGIN SKIN SIN

Candy coated sin.
Coveted from the begin.
Harbors under skin.


EXIT

Situated now.
The stage seems deranged a bit.
The scenes are not here.


BOW AND ARROW

Bow down your arrow.
Let violence turn to pieces.
I am the psycho.


CARPE OMNIBUS

Today is the day,
I'll write a book in one day.
It's easy to do.


INTERVIEW

A crash test dummy,
Is my qualification.
Am I hired or not?


FIRST IMPRESSION

Locked in solitude.
I refuse a confession.
I see depression.


ANSWERS

What I saw in her,
I'll never know the answer.
Was it happiness?


PISCES IN CRISES

I'm a lonely soul.
Swimming round a fish bowl.
Please change the water.


MODERATE TOLERATE

Just tolerate me.
Give me an ounce of your time.
For love is lacking.


DISAPPEARANCE ACT

A hundred poems,
That were never sent to you.
Alas, there were more.


REMOTE CONTROL

My blind revisions
Signs from the television.
I have lost control.


PIECE TO PEACE

I look at myself.
I'm a modern masterpiece.
I receive no peace.


WELL DONE

Shakespeare. I've outdone.
More poems than you have writ.
How I can mock thee.


FRAMED

What's my frame of mind?
A little abstract for sure.
Abstinence from art.


SHHHH

Tell me a secret,
And I'll flush it away.
Remember it not.


TAKE NOTICE

If only she'd see.
If only she'd take notice.
I am not ugly.


TONGUE OF WISDOM

The serpent haunts me.
Taste his forked tongue with wisdom.
Cast the serpent out.


FAKE REMEMBRANCE

Drifting silently,
Afloat in subconsciousness.
The memories, false.


SLOW AND HOLLOW

Medication time.
A million pills to swallow.
I'm slow and hollow.


PLEASURE BEFORE BUSINESS

You can't take my place.
You want to erase me too.
Pleasure comes with pain.


THRIVE

Woe to self-pity.
You thrive on those who don't live.
I'm alive in death.


UNSURE

Sitting in silence.
What to do, but pray for you.
My faith doth waver.


INK

Ink upon my skin.
Forever reminding me.
The remnants of pain.


PROPOSAL

Bold and beautiful,
I met you so far away.
Will you marry me?


CHASER

Purple and painted.
Every beat of my heart.
Chase me down the hole.


SET ME FREE

Encore to the choir.
I'm imprisoned in my head.
Set me free, to be.


FROM FINISH TO START

Annihilation is hate.
What is agitation then?
When did the pain start?


CALL ME HERO

Precious is her name.
The one who called me hero.
I'm consumed by fire.


TWICE BITTEN

And so shall it be,
You and I have history.
Don't hurt me again.


THE WORM TURNS

A turn for the worst.
The worm turns inside of me.
Expressing his face.


UNFINISHED

Wait! I'm not done yet!
Feed me the words I will write.
Cannot say goodnight.


TRAMPLED

A future to be.
Memories left on the steps.
Just to be trampled.


BLISS FOREVER GONE

She said she loved me.
But then threw my heart away.
Bliss, forever gone.


RECIPE OF DOUBT

Good looks to cook me.
A recipe of doubt.
Where's my self-esteem?


IN THE MAKING

I am becoming
The monster of energy,
To complete my work.


POET FROM BEYOND

I am established
As a poet from beyond.
I have lost my way.


BOREDOM UNINTENTIONAL

To bore you with words,
Is not intentional, see?
Yet full of neglect.


FIRST BASE

When I first saw you,
Oh how my heart plummeted!
I live in regret.


HER SCENT

She is elegant,
Her scent is Ophelia.
Return to me soon.


ON YOUR MARK

Ready, set and go.
Your words, like a river flow
Deep into my soul.


FOUL DREAM

I dreamt of murder,
For the voices told me so.
But, I did not act.


UNJUST TRUST

Can't trust anyone.
They are all against me too.
What am I to do?


SHELTER

I will paint you nude.
Shelter you. Give you some food.
Beat that slave drum loud.


TRIM

Hiding in the trees,
I cannot find the forest.
Her mind is well trimmed.


ENTERTAINED

Entertain me please.
I do not bore easily.
But, lack the pleasure.


ASK NOT

Huckleberry Finn,
Is who I am, so I win.
Do what I ask you.


CONTRARY

Quite the contrary,
I am singled out by pen.
Forever writing.


NEEDS

I want to know you.
To feel, touch, I need so much.
What was abandoned?


HARNESS TO CREATE

Harness to create.
Flowers on a China plate.
Is more becoming?


SLOPPY GESTURES

She gives out her hand.
Freely, I am commanded.
Let the words flow out.


TRUE YOUTH

A man undaunted.
Flesh crawls, his mind is haunted.
Use youth. Become truth.


PACK OF LIES

Promise I'll call you.
What a pack of lies! Deceit!
Once, twice, and she's gone!


BY BREATH OF LOVE

Forever more healed,
By my muse's breath of love.
Annihilation.


PORE DOORS

From every pore,
Millions of unopened doors.
Bleed and ye shall see.


SILENT SPARKS

Gas perfumes the air,
Until that one silent spark.
Then, BANG! All in flames.


RICH SPEECH

A reenactment
Covers your hair so lightly.
Your speech speaks so rich.


AS ADVERTISED

As if advertised,
At the speed of light you come.
Then, demons no more.


REWARDS OF MY BOUNTY

Counsel to the soul,
The rewards of my bounty.
Words I'm still counting.


FLEAS

Oh, you little flea!
Spreading mockery to all!
I will not bow down.


INTROVERT

A private poet.
An introvert at his best.
Words tell his story.


LIMITS OF SLAUGHTER

Pushed to the limits,
Enduring, I call for more.
Slaughter me for the rest.


GREAT ARTISTS

Great artists die young.
I am one among them. See?
Please don't cremate me.


VOID OF THE PARANOID

As silence slaughters,
The void of the paranoid.
So shall darkness rule.


FOR I SHALL LIVE

Cancer gave me life.
It challenges me each day.
Embraced by the tears.


THE CURE TO HATE

Don't stop loving me,
For I need the cure to hate.
Vengeance shall be mine.


PATCHES

Always on my mind.
My shadow in reverse gear.
Patch the holes that hurt.


INFLUENZA

Deliberately,
You influenced me to more.
My mind evermore.


STARS

Confined by the scars,
Of the mental prison bars.
Look up and see ... stars.


RACING FOR THE RAIN

The desert remains,
Quickly racing for the rain.
Drenched in happiness.


CONFOUND YOU

You could've had more,
If you would have stuck around.
Alas, you are lost.


NEGATIVES

My childish daydreams,
Are nightmares of night screams.
They come from beyond.


GLORY TO MY NAME

One day, I'll reach fame.
There'll be glory to my name.
You'll just be the same.


PRETENTIONS

I don't believe you
Anymore never again.
You are pretentious.


ONCE MORE

Once more, I'll love you.
Then, I'll have to turn my back.
What you stole turned black.


TIPPING POINT

I cannot stop this.
These words are the tipping point.
I'm insanity.

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