TheHen

The stars, the skies, the horizons, the unseen dreams.

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Hope's Facade

Hope is merely,

A false illusion,

Fleeting,

When truths are uncertain,

A facade to cover,

The hole of dreams,

Down the drain.

Unbreakable, this tendency,

To make our minds believe,

That Chance will somehow, someday,

Be our friend,

From days till end,

The wounds never mend,

Only suppressed,

By a lost cause to expend.

So when reality comes,

Hope is lingering,

Final fight,

A surreal daze,

Only to wake up,

Pained and fazed.

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How silly of me,

To have once believed,

All your lies and remedies,

And to fall straight into your web,

Of twists, turns, and spirals, alike,

Only to find myself back at the start,

Dawning realization of your trickery,

That finally shines upon me.

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Long Gone

Cloudy skies,

Reflect the storm,

Above oceans and bays,

On its way,

To cracked grounds,

Where unburied lay,

Await the flourish,

A measly nourish,

Of ashen gray.

Long gone,

Long gone,

What left,

Of the joy,

The sloven toy,

Rising dawn,

Where are those,

Grazing fawns,

The greenery,

No more,

On the neighbor's lawn.

Sparrows flee,

To the single oak tree,

No where to run,

No where to hide,

The last of their calls,

A desperate plea,

A yearning,

Of the oceanside tides,

A last rebellion,

Against their demise.

Though,

There was still the trickle,

Of water’s flow,

The rain spattered,

Down it came,

As if glass had shattered,

Pieces of life,

Miniscule,

Mere efforts,

To wash away,

The desolate decay,

Soot and clay,

Rather pointless, it seemed,

For War has deemed.

The wind,

In its last breaths,

Exhaled sighs,

Of silent sobs,

Given a voice,

To those of death,

Who wail regrets,

Unheard,

Deterred.

The hills,

They curve up,

Then down,

Lust of battle,

Long gone,

Long gone,

No one there,

Plain despair,

Pain, pain,

Wholesome bane.

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2 seconds

Good ol’ days,

Smother you whole,

When we were three,

We would scream and flee,

We would laugh and play,

And run along,

Singing our hearts,

Joyful songs.

A decade later,

More doleful for sure,

Lost in social media and its lore,

Though who could say,

A century ago,

We would have been the same,

For all the world became.

In the first second,

You are there,

We stood upon the mountains,

And saw through the skies,

By then we were thirty,

Though the seconds seemed like twenty,

Elusive, we were,

To the world outside of our own lives.

In the next,

You are gone,

Was it a dream?

I couldn’t say,

Your reflection upon

The waters’ gleam,

I looked up,

But I couldn’t see,

Was it real?

I couldn’t feel,

There was only a breeze,

And rustling leaves,

I’m sorry,

I swear I couldn’t see,

That I couldn’t help but turn,

And say,

“Must’ve been the wind.”

It was only after,

I looked back,

That one second had past,

Then it had gone,

Just like how our time and life,

Had come,

And go,

A wound,

That I could never sew.

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Why do I feel like I’m falling,

Into oblivious skies of calling,

Your fingertips left mine,

I left yours,

But you would never really know,

The pain, the tears,

That left me in utter woe.

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Withered

The beckoning of the skies,

Though today it is not blue,

Rather it is of red, orange hue,

Smoke lingering through its sighs.

Tree bark,

To be flaked and tattered,

Through the wind shall it be scattered,

When the blazes bear down,

Life be shattered,

No trace of embrace,

Only that of Earth’s disgrace.

That of the ruthless,

Blazing inferno,

May seem reckless,

Nature, however,

Shall be doubtless.

No, I see great fire,

Swept across land so dire,

Destruction it its wake,

All is at stake,

Yet, old endings,

Come new beginnings.

Trees scorched to that of core,

Trails of decay that lie in store,

Withered, pointless it is,

When life has come and go,

Only that of emptiness and pain,

Wilted flower,

But nothing more.

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"I'd rather do some bad things now to learn how to do better things, rather than doing good things now without learning how to overcome the cruelty of this world." -TheHen

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Shaft of moonlight,

Reflection upon,

Lapping waves,

Darkened nights,

Void of dawn,

Etched in graves.

Sweep the stars,

Dazzling points of the skies,

Dreams that are so close, yet so far,

The waning moon that dies,

Behind the smothered abyss,

A haunted, eerie bliss,

A lost, illusory gaze,

Awed by the starry daze.

It is then and there,

Though I knew not where,

That Sky’s shadow had fallen,

Who whispered a song of the sullen,

A calling to its solemn stance,

A drifting into its dire dance,

Only to be answered with its solace,

Reveries of silence that seem so flawless.

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The constant howl of wailing winds,

The clouds above the sandy shores,

Vivid skies and setting suns,

The melody of birds high and sung.

Fire that caresses the flaring blue,

Seemingly scorching the beige hue,

Joy and serenity remain strong and true,

The life lived now with no such rue.

Storms that careen over the tidal waves,

Surging like the knight who was once so brave,

Wings of loft, upon my soul,

To the deepest seas, and the golden shoals.

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Shattered Skies

Open air, no soul, no mind,

Drift away,

Away, away,

Before the blue,

Before the clouds bestowed upon,

Endless arrays.

No waiting for time,

Door of sublime,

I scream,

You dream,

Vast, vast,

Away, away,

First or last,

No matter.

Crimson streaks,

Dust, death reeks,

Burning, barren trees,

No such thing as free,

Run, run,

Away, away,

Inferno devours,

Ashen flowers.

Wall of glass,

Between Earth and Sky,

Reaching, grasping,

Yet no stars for clasping,

Banging, banging,

Against the glass,

Desperately trying,

Cracking, cracking,

Maybe it’s breaking,

I want to ride the clouds,

Fly, fly,

Away, away,

I wish to never stay.

Why, why,

Can’t I shatter these skies,

Take me away,

From this ground smitten decay,

I pray, pray,

Please, please,

I’ve been at it for years,

It’s forced me to tears,

Break away,

Away, away,

Just let me,

Shatter the skies.

Shatter this nightmare.

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It is the very existence of time,

Then comes the lingering lives,

The loss of death.

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Cloudless Nights

I still remember the days,

When there were no cities,

No lights, no streets,

Silence, no fray,

Just skies,

Of shadows and moons.

I guess it was inevitable,

Yet I couldn’t help but say,

That if you gave me one more day,

I would have never left you here,

Alone, lost in this festering fear,

You don’t need to believe me,

But I tried,

And when I simply couldn’t,

I cried.

I breathe my sighs,

Into the sinking air,

Blinded by lies,

Why is life so unfair?

Now it is the fog of regret,

That hangs over me,

Haunting in its silent breeze,

Taunting our memories,

I try to stifle the tears away,

Though impossible to keep much at bay,

I am sullen,

With hollow pain,

With the yearning,

That you’ll come back to me one day.

I wish we could go back,

To those cloudless nights,

When we could see those stars,

And laugh about our silly flaws,

And cry about our scars still raw,

And fall silent for whatever cause,

I just wished,

We were never so far.

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Flourish in the deep scent,

Of spring's blossoms,

As the breeze whispers nature's name,

An elegant flight of drifting cranes,

No waiting for mere relent,

As trees bow to the critters along,

The choir of the sparrow's song,

The coming of April, June, and May,

And those souls who always pray.

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It was nothing but,

Shadow's breeze,

That hung above our heads,

In sheer of time's freeze,

Crept along the slanted walls,

Till' it threw its storm,

There was a silent crawl,

Then a raging brawl.

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I still remember the days,

When there was a fire in the hearth.

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I wonder why I see a fire,

Burning in the water.

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You can't blame yourself for not knowing,

If you didn't even begin to learn it. -Unknown