I helped you bring fire into this world
a fire you claimed as your own
with night I forgive your selfish desire
with day I rage in my bones

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how curious this time
my circular mind
spins round and round on me
each thought ends
where another begins
until thoughts turn into dreams

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I seek
locked in warm embrace
captivated by confused longing
I incite riot with the flick of a curious tongue
and linger in the soft shudder

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I am always here
in the space between dreams
painting my thoughts upon a canvas of red silk
pretending not to notice you don’t visit anymore

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Soft and fragile
It enters in silence
with no fear
and in a splendor
of rainbow hues
altering my perception
of mortality
and the path I walk

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We live the charmed life
Sorrow covered in ash and dust
hands to the flame
shivering with contempt
as the lords of the manor
sleep in silk

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My pain is a pretender
she smiles sweetly
while peeling my layers
exposing tired bones to the elements
with precision
a banshee in training

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One night within
the scrying glass
I spied a shard
a broken past
a memory
I’d given rest
a vision of
the way it ends
a mystery in chains

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Within
All silence is golden
all form is splendor
the answers dance within the questions
and I see all that I am brave enough to look upon

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Self imposed solitude
the less I speak the more I feel
the more I feel the more I see
the more I see the more I close my eyes
and listen