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Dew Drops
07:38
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Glistening, in the fields of green
Pure drops of heaven's blessings
The morning air never felt so cold
Weakened bones in age of old
Innocent breeze
Greets familiar ghosts
Wandering the earthen groves
Never to have found a home
Eternally lost
To seek the element
A sanctum of felicity
Vacant in wooded atrocity
Amidst the giants
Of bark and scars
Withered roots
And smiles carved
Tales of war resides within them
Battles won and lost
Thriving children sprouting
O'er the graves of fallen hearts
What say you oh earthen god?
Shall the kin of damaged limbs
Now rise through the tombs
Of forgotten hymns?
Eulogies of ancient times
Sung through the whistling weeds
The tears wept by clashing minds
Flourish the valleys of cleansing skies
As the endless cycle of sun and moon
Continues to spew their eternal crime
May the morning dew
Bring hope to a clouded hue
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Moonlit Bloom
08:27
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Whispers of hope
Gleaming from streetlights
Under the midnight sky
The lunar shine decays the sudden mist
Of foggy dreams and weathered wrists
Wandering the trails of nostalgic air
Amongst the paved paths and chlorophyllic hair
Each blade wields the curse of ephemeral stains
A cloudy thought once held vividly
Subject to perpetual dementia
Sipping on vapors of twilight dew
Familiar taste of toxic brew
Invited to the dance
Of moonlit bloom
Entangled in its aura
Its airy limbs suffocate
Drowning in memories
Adrift the sea of starlit dreams
To gaze upon the altars of cosmic grace
Astral steps to a distant place
Greeted by a silhouette
A shadow of what once was
Translucent under the lunar gleam
A haunting figure woven of forgotten seams
To feel its touch
A cold graze of phantom haze
As the morning hails on the horizon
The moonbeams flicker in the waning shimmer
Farewell to the cosmic ghosts
Celestial curtains begin to close
Tears wept of cherished tales
The warmth of innocence
Now fades with the sinking moon
Sipping on vapors of twilight dew
Familiar taste of toxic brew
Invited to the dance
Of moonlit bloom
Entangled in its aura
Its airy limbs suffocate
Drowning in memories
Adrift the sea of starlit dreams
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Clouded Haze
02:53
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Suffocating in Silence
07:58
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What used to beat so frivolously
Now stands in silence
The vivid language it spoke to me
Now graces the ears of the unworthy
From a seed
The fertile soil
A home for wandering youth
Splashed with the gods most gracious gift
A chance of awakening
The humble slumber
Exit dreamscape
Piercing through earth's embrace
To feel the light again
So warm and inviting
Breathing the air of life
As the years go by
Innocence slowly fades
Maturing with the passerbies
Eternally shaped by the outside world
What was once full of color
Now dimmed in shades of gray
The smiles of nature
Wiped away
No silver line to grace the sky
A wilting child suffocating
The toxic plumes of arrogance
And selfishness enshroud thee
Unmasked
The true identity of poison
You gave to me
Stolen my will to breathe
As time sinks into an empty void
All that can be done
Is gaze upon what was once real
Accepting the loss of everything
The sun shall not shine upon thee anymore
A waste of its benevolent light if used upon me
No urge to thrive in the flooded soil
To drown willingly
Grant me this request oh accursed sun
Your gift brings chaos and agony
Had this be known
I'd have declined aeons ago
To never suffer again
I was never meant to be
Drained of all visible light
Return to the earth
What used to beat so frivolously
Now stands in silence
The vivid language it spoke to me
Now graces the ears of the unworthy
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Velvet Bleed
05:56
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Disguised smiles
Paint a portrait of ecstatic fallacy
Beneath the forced expressions
Lie the darkest chasms of vulnerability
The constant need for a bleed
The velvet comfort of blinded hope
The texture of dreams
Draining effortlessly
The waking hours call for admission
The sun has demanded expedition
Do I depart on this unending train
Or let the stakes of night's reign hold me down
To gaze out the window
A sight so heavenly
The sky so inviting
The emerald hue of the grassy plains so calming
Yet the feeling of life is absent
Dreary stagnant phantoms hover overhead
They've taught me the secrets
The darkest fears the common avoid
Acceptance of deception
Live the lie or taste the fruit of death
A noose looks more enthralling
When you're colorblind to fluorescent bliss
To hear the birds and their
Deceitful ballad of misdirection
At thine request
Whilst thou play a eulogy
For these bones have withered to dust
May nature possess me in her divine embrace
Let thine roots curl and contort to lock my limbs
As the gravel and dirt begin to sink
I humbly accept the fate of her gift
Beneath thee I shall rest
Disguised smiles
Paint a portrait of ecstatic fallacy
Beneath the forced expressions
Lie the darkest chasms of vulnerability
The constant need for a bleed
The velvet comfort of blinded hope
The texture of dreams
Draining effortlessly
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Petals of Autumn
07:39
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The stench of death
The corpses of fallen petals
The autumn wind stirs a chill to spite the warmer days
Decay and lifeless souls meet once again
A sight so yearning and beautiful
The will whisked from color sapped tapestry
Failure draped over the stems of budding youth
Killed before they could breathe
The suffocating gasps for air
Fell silent for the only life to walk
Has been deafened by malice
The loathing ghosts have no empathy
The autumn nights
So somber and lonely
The ground littered with regret
Stumbling carelessness of dreadfulness
To peer into the eye of the cosmic deliverance
To seek the truths the mind has held back
Spiritual connection of the constellations
Now realized the destiny of mortality
As time continues its hateful game
The only peace to be found is in waiting
Waiting for the inevitable
The scythe shall reap its earnings
Another soul void of dreams
Desperately wishing for endless sleep
With no legacy, its safe to return to the cosmos
Immortalized in astral dust
The petals of autumn
Are all that be
Skeletal giants who were once their home
Empty with reprieve
For what is on the horizon
Shall cleanse the earth
Frigid winds colder than Fall's generous graze
The approaching tempest of winter haze
The frost of whimsical crystals
Consumes the wilted innocence
That used to be
The stench of death
The corpses of fallen petals
The autumn wind stirs a chill to spite the warmer days
Decay and lifeless souls meet once again
A sight so yearning and beautiful
The will whisked from color sapped tapestry
Failure draped over the stems of budding youth
Killed before they could breathe
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Oh, the stars shine bright in the dismal sky
The warmth I used to feel from the searing sun
Now shines upon more deserving scum
As time continues to pass
A pondering thought begins to grow
Was there ever a place in the gardens of old
For a wilting dream amongst admired shrubs
To plant the seed in undesired vineyards
Wouldst thou flourish or simply die
Is it worth the venture?
In ignorant strife i bleed
Coping with the presence
Of everflowing acidic taste
Parasitic hands fill my bed
Digging in the soil once fertile
Now left with nothing
I denied the betrayal of your intrusion
For as long as the the wind still rustled the vacant leaves
The dance of deceitful charms might entertain my blind euphoria
As I stand and stare o'er the cliffs you built
Screaming for a sign
Naught but Astral dust in my presence
You were a ghost that should've never been
Wading through the waters
Flooded by the tides
Unknown to me
Shall it rise or falter in your mind
Abandoned in phantasmic witchery
A fallacy I'm led to believe
As the aeons continue to pass
The roaring tempest of enmity begins to swell
In agony, the decay of exasperated will
Cradling the intensity of narcissism
The wounds you've cut deep shall eternally bleed
As I curse to the stars of my unending desire
Of apathetic sleep
To reverse the calamity that bred
From shadowed hearts and frigid limbs
I'd give to thee upon thy request
Anything worthy of treasured fervor
In the wake of unrelenting abysmal gloom
The lavished clouds of hungry spirits
Demand more than a mortal can offer
Yet the irrational hopes of elated dreams
Shall tempt to feed the starving ghosts
Void of all things
Eager to greet the reaper
A blade of soul ceasing obliteration
Offers more bliss than journeys traveled in ephemeral time
The roots have withered
The stems drained of any color
What once stood tall as a giant in the gardens
Now wilted beneath the stars
The cosmic giants shall not weep for thee
For death was always imminent
The cold, merciless winds tear apart
The moldered foundation
Ashes of earthen sand
Now carried away in the eulogies of the forest gods
Lifeless, the flower of quarreling ambition
Lies at the base of diminished aspirations
The battle now lost
The realization of worthlessness
The futile attempts to seek out a legacy
It all ceases to be
Memories once fond in the minds of many
Now forgotten in unwritten tomes
The shores of celestial wishes
Never to be uttered by the dead
To be sacred in desired hearts
A fallible dream to never be realized
As I walk through the heavenly doorway
To climb upon the tallest steps of
As I walk through the heavenly doorway
To climb upon the tallest steps of oblivion
Tears of Starlit Melancholy now grace the Astral skies
This is what it means to be
To wilt beneath the stars
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Starlit Melancholy West Lafayette, Indiana
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