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Magic #2

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The boy in the tree

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Cloud#2

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Clouds #1

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Reconcile within

Fear

Love

Years have allowed me to grow Wrapped sturdily around your spine Voices fueling all those questions Guarding a place I consider mine

I was hidden for a long time A seed inside, buried deep Awakened through dance and words Spreading out, never asleep

In my oasis of the status quo Safety is my primary concern Strengthened by your routines Retreat, here you’ll always return

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Entangled Souls

Our paths crossed Not once Or twice But so many times Unknown to us, an attraction existed In these crowded and hectic places My eyes looking for yours there Among all the waiting faces

Looking back it was perhaps More than lady destiny out there Doing groundwork, ready for more Making sure with our jokes and glances While waiting, we chose the right open door

You turned and looked that final night Mak…

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One more step If there is something I take home from Portugal, it's my tired feet. I never started counting the steps going up those hills after leaving the Sintra train station on my first full day there, and in hindsight, that's a good thing.

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Deadend Gaze skywardsFloating on a closed door,Turning slowly in an ice cold current,The key locked from the other side…

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Hey Soul, it's me.

Hey Soul, it’s me.

A heartfelt talk with you has been long overdue. You must have seen that I have been eager to avoid everything related to that which lies ahead of me. Whether it’s about what it is I want, I think I want, or believe that I should want. Right now it’s all a but messed up to be honest, and I’m partially to blame for that. Closed eyes have never averted any situation coming anyone’s way. And today…

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Mirrored Voice

Strength had become abstract When new tears ran down my cheek Aware of that soft dark voice As it droned on and .. I let it speak

Recuring lies without a choice Questioning my right to be Alluring shadows beckon “It’s easy, come, just wait and see.”

I am a lucky person to have a second, friendly, voice besides my own Which alone has kept me grounded, It’s through hardship that we have grown.

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Colorful Masks

Here I’m among bright angels Lights flashing, a merry tree Facing deceiving brightness Ground, no longer can I see

Living alongside one another Colored balls are how we portray Our masks, showing gold or red I’m not transparent, I sway

Between layered dispositions Rarely showing this dark shell Covered with smiles and a joke Endless tunnels are where I dwell

Where is our rowdy housecat And how…

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Isaac

Why did I have to open that door? 

These words kept tumbling through Isaac’s mind as he sat there, a defeated man, his hands going through his matted hair, slightly squeezing the flesh on his skull as he moved them onward towards his neck and shoulders. His naked elbows rested on the face of his dark wooden desk, stained through many years of use, while his eyes darted across the surface and…

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An escape

While we danced together, we chatted “Dancing is an escape,” I openly said. Your response “How” followed me home on the drive, and eventually my bed.

Storms have caused dark rising tides to nibble at the edges of who I am. Beaches with shells washed away it doesn’t discern or give a damn.

So I’ve retreated, reduced emotions to the necessary minimum to endure that ever beating surf out there. My body…

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Backseat living

Watching the world pass me by snug, in the backseat of my brain Out there is easily ignored no need from me to explain

-what do you want- they keep asking but, decisions are not mine to make They feel addressed to the other me He’s not here, he left on a break

Blank stares and a few short words is what I’m now left with to play Take me with you next time you go Guide me for now, so later I can be ok.

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Hi, I'm the End.

Hi, I’m the End.

I..

finally met the end, it slowly became an established fact when I said -I’m done- and watched the doctor react.

Averted eyes, my tears run wild. I grip a leg, but it’s to no avail, an attempt for comfort, strength, my flesh never felt this frail.

Too long have I let it run its course. A widening hole totally obscured by welcomed distractions aplenty -It takes time- she said, rest assured.

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Beyond the net

I take a breath, see it rise in that chilly autumn air, scowling in the knowledge that life just isn’t fair.

Trying to escape the rock and that hard place, from which the new me has been born as if flipping a switch.

Worries and doubts ever jeering -Hurry up and remove the net Let him go, let him fly We’ll see how far he’ll get!-

Their ridicule pulls me back Shackles of my own invention But to rush…

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/Alarm

Ah, another day of strife Hiding under my spread, my blankets and a pillow. When I know there’s only dread.

To go beyond the snoozing. One leg out, then back in. A dark cold world snickers. I think -how long has it been-

Of being afraid of every morning Hoping to have energy left to survive beyond the grind It makes me feel bereft

Of appetite for

Life.

When you figure out the unhappiness…

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