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The purpose of all of this
Was to learn the proper way to express
These burdens weighing heavily
Upon the breast, of a burned out,
Exhausted exoskeleton
I’ll drink my tears through a one way mouth
A lock to keep, everything in
Embraced by warmth of gaslight
This concrete floor is home
This is the path once walked
This was a fine line crossed
No one can find
An invisible man
That never spoke again
The beginning an alluring dream
Was painted, in the end walls,
Were erected inscribed with the caption
“Please don’t touch the art”
It hurts to live in fear of speaking up
Is there a politer way
To encourage one to spectate
To sit down, and listen
Is there a validity,
in why these options
are viewed with such disdain
Is there a politer way
to encourage one to spectate
To sit down, and listen?
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Beaten senseless by circumstance
Fault directed within faults reach
Maternal, fraternal
Physics knows no bounds
Exterior unharmed yet
This foundations flawed
Pills produce psyche, add subtract
Depending on stages, of deterioration
This life lacks the importance of attention
Mutilation, return from absence
Make it last as long as possible
Make it illustrate internal collapse
Mortality anguish, temporary relief
Bare white walls
Faster, you have been here before
Mirrored image of an unknown man
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Love found by a fake silhouette
fraudulent frame
Hide me, inhale me
Take me inside, victim, invitation
She won’t know you, she won’t remember you
Exhale
That first kiss is teeth through your lips
Contamination, her proper name
Falling in love with falling apart
Pieces, shattered, memories
Her heartbeat beats me to death
She brought this flood
She brought this plague
Hungry puzzled, pain is her craft
She’s employed, by decay
She doesn’t listen
She only tells
Falling in love with falling apart
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ILLNESS AND ACHING
01:30
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Reflect oceanic rhythmic sway
Behold the absence of light
Longing for help, to be held
It’s not the sleeping
It is the dreaming
Cratered soul
Ruptured spirit
False refuge in this counterfeit bed
Heart, hurting, healing
Interchangeable
Beating, or waiting, or breaking
All eyes on this monumental agony
‘Oh’s and ‘woes’ illness and aching
Now just a keyhole narrative
Arms cramped in dread. Negligence
Compost this dark into daylight
As sadness cradles this renewal
Rudementary emotion becomes unchained
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THE ISOLATION OF US
01:30
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Yesterday I sewed my eyes shut
I danced for the angel of death
Put yourself in the ground
Let your ego die
Let’s see patience and pain
Let’s see you get kicked aside
Let’s see you give up
I’ll shake your hand when you deserve it
I’ll love you again if you make me proud
Try to sleep thinking about fiction
About a life that won’t exist
A moment of understanding
I want the nostalgia of love
In a desert of silence
Forcing a smile has become a task
Talking is irrelevant
Look out at the good world
From the isolation of us
A vague pain became your downfall
Any flame that burns brighter than yours
I’ll put a dozen Roses down my throat
To shake the memories of your past
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