Prose

Pandemonium

We are one In a black and white world From thorns to crowns We bleed in colour A man’s breath Is God’s breath We desecrate His image When we remain silent Brimming and brewing A broken world bleeds Mercy like rain For every shattered heart We are dwarfed by indifference Shadowed by fear They march(…)

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A Dream I Once Had

Time and waves This stilled heart, embraced Upon the deep ocean, my voyage drew the light of stars Every day was eternal I rested in fortresses of sand, wind, and wave They carried and filled All the broken cracks in me I wondered in quiet towns that lay in dreams Waiting to wake up They(…)

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Skyscrapers

I grew up in skyscrapers A divine frontier, a home in the stars Nights of warm ember, lights shine forever It was you and I In a carousel dream   Childhood melds into leaves, afternoons in the sun Dappled and strong, the bird that calls Echoes down marble halls A light in my room  (…)

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Atonement

One year fragile The heart remembers her dreams It was an age gone by When desperate desire culminated into fantasy and delirium We came true at last.    I remember every emotion, every day We live in memory Each golden moment treasured in the sun I found these pieces in your eyes.   These tears stain(…)

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Fire Free

How can we enjoy being young When we are fired in pain Pain only comes to the old Or so we were told Then the truth broke in And every bone began to pierce   We left our yesterdays in piles of pills Chalked them up to more unknown tomorrows We were a little worse(…)

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Deep Tidings

Emotion runs deep, in the face of the sea. The waves come in, wash me clean, but the shore recedes and takes my dreams. I have lost them, caught in the timeless reverie of touch and goodbye. The days anchor into months fallen, forgotten. But each moment remains, silver breaths in the dead of winter. I reached(…)

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Sacred Interludes

The monogamy of single mindedness, the tragedy of double minds and singled hearts. I waded across the bay, and allowed myself a taste of territories beyond my conservation. It flowed into me, sweet waters in the midst of the frozen sea. We were stranded in places without reason or care. These fleeting luxuries I could(…)

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