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Possession

Thought is a war that you have with yourself

Am I just the ghost, or also the shell?

Haunted by blood as I lay down to rest

Can you hear my mind with your head to my chest?

In darkness with arms wrapped around you so tight

Join me in stillness to take in the light

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Barbed

I mix 'neath sunlight turned to rain

the perfect blend of warmth and pain

apply to the wound, but just a drop

if we add too much the blood will stop

the ache in you hurts more than mine

don't worry about it. I'll be fine

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Psorinum

expression of the human soul is often done through art

I bring my pen to paper and then don't know how to start

every living being around me has a message to impart

but as I look inside myself I cannot find my heart

you might think it a problem but it isn't hard to hide

I nod my head and laugh with them and smile bright and wide

my peers accept the signals someone real should provide

oblivious to all of the machinery inside

since I can't rely on waiting for my feelings to arrive

to calculate my actions I must research and derive

so long as I can do this I suppose that I'll survive

and hope someday I can be sure I'm actually alive

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Celestial

I drift upon my broken ship beneath a starless sky

And try to chase the glimmers in the corners of my eye

I loathe to think I’ll be in darkness ‘til my journey’s done

But I know I won’t see daybreak since I’m hiding from the sun

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Timber

We rarely met to watch the sky beneath our favorite tree

It was hard to find her anywhere but worlds of fantasy

So I asked in precious moments just what she'd been dreaming of

I knew she'd never had a lover, but she often fell in love

Her mind wove tales of mighty beasts and prophecies and kings

Of dark and light and hot and cold and sweet and bitter things

She painted over daily life to show me stranger lands

Each brush stroke made with care that's found in a good mother's hands

I found her there again today; I hadn't checked in years

The grass beneath her shimmered with the dewdrops of her tears

I pulled her close and gripped her tight and felt her body shake

It wasn't 'til the sun set that she told me her mistake

"I saw," she choked, between her sobs, "a different kind of dream."

A pause to breathe and hold inside the psyche's wailing scream

"It was a future that I saw. A world I made for me."

"And now I'll die because I know of things that cannot be."

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A Damsel in Distress

The failure to relinquish grief is a well known path to villainy,

Whether we should like to admit it or not.

Revenge, best served cold, is precisely what one might seek,

To remedy that searing pain.

The colder you become,

The hotter it may burn,

And the less you will feel.

Perhaps it is not so great a cost, then

To sacrifice a little moral fortitude,

To keep hold of that promise.

That promise that you will suffer,

For a purpose long forgotten,

Until a hero comes to set you straight.

To free you.

To end it.

That is their job, after all.

Come, hero

I'm waiting for you.

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Paranoia

A whisper that belongs to no one

The cold grasp of invisible fingers

Assaulted by the murky static of shuttered eyelids

The scent of blood

No wound

Where does it hurt?

Laughter from the audience in an empty room

Innocent commotion invading a stagnant world

Twisted into unnatural shapes by imagined forces

False memories reverberate in an empty skull

I can't breathe

Captivity is torment and freedom is death

The promise of a sunbeam is stolen by the moon

Shadows cast once more upon these prison walls

Covered in frantic scrawlings only the blind can read

Don't let go

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Vertigo

The gentle burn of eyes gone dry

a plea to the mind. In reply,

a gesture to chasms within my core

Warning unheeded, they grow some more

Those dreaded hours when locked away

are all the words you'd never say

echoing within their tomb

and prophesying oft of doom

The sickening green of shifting light

an endless call to extend the night

Caught at the whims of youthful dreams

that belong to someone else