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Burnyou've run blind for miles on inches i handed you,
cut the road to ribbons with your crooked teeth.
driving through the night with your lights off
like a strung-out junkie with an apathetic death wish.

you're setting everything on fire and i'm tired of putting you out,
this time i'll let you burn because i've got no fucks left to give.

you drag your cocaine fingernails down the hallway walls
like an asylum patient taking the time to read your horoscope in the chipped-paint Braille.
the vacancy signs in your eyes contradict the medicated Chelsea smile,
tomorrow they'll find you hanging from sheets knotted to your bed rail.

you've bl

And The Walls Came Tumbling DownI think I'd like to let my mind give way,
To spill over humanity, a disease -
An ocean rising up into a wave,
An epidemic, an endless viral sea.

I don't think prevention is the answer;
You cannot control what you don't understand.
I persevere; it eats me like cancer,
And watches me as psychosis takes my hand.

If I allow my mental walls to fail,
Would silence - kindly, softly - ever prevail?

The Pessimist and the Optimist

An opposite unlikely
Together, forever seen
Holding their hands tenderly
Unfolded in a reverie

One is a darker nature
Who sees the bitter side of things
Who can not discern the positive
But knows exactly what are kings

The other a sheltered hope
Who lives in a narrow world
Who chooses to disregard
The opinion to be hurled

With one or the other
They are the split of souls
A broken half to the other
Until forever never tolls

The skeptical deserves
Someone, a far cry away
From all he looks down upon
Beyond his haunted casement

A care-free spirit
Would lose her sense of direction
Without a map or sight to lead
Her thoughts, only another

A Song from the House of Misers

There is a sound from the House
The House of Misers alike

Bitter and gray it rings about
Twirling around the heads on pikes

Its notes scratch upon the door
The House creaking and swaying along

Disharmonious screams to hum upon
Finding where the fallen belong

Wooden shambles hang a loft
All dirt and shadow to create

Musical melodies to join with voices
Throats rasped with dusty hate

Shaded clouds overhang
A curtain above the center stage

Let the orchestra play as well
Its boneless fingered members age

Piano, oh where art the pain?
Broken keys add such a taste

All in House of Misers sing
A river of bloody haste

Puddles o

Faint Lullaby

Don't give a thought
A whisper is all that would be lost
Softly blowing across your cheek
Calming a soulful oblique

Darling, don't you go
Stay and listen to my words once more
Hear as they breath a life
A life without a single strife

Love is merely a cautious tale
That stays a rose, becomes a grail
Oh dear, don't drop your tears
Cease declaring faithless years

For a tender touch brings about
A ripple of faded doubt
But trust me, precious
You're not alone...

Virulent Shreds

Become encased
In that ravened norm
For in that cage
Will is a tainted soul

Hidden beneath that soul
There are many spirits
Of which to claim
Secrets, not of their own

They each are alike
With one part set aside
Buried deep in a darkness
That tries too hard to hide

They scrawl down all of such
The things they regret
The things they wished
...they didn't touch

Ink is set in stone
So far apart
They never know
Where underneath truly lies

A devil of a light
So harnessed in redemption
Of those lost hearts
That have become not

They can write
They can speak
They can say
All of the words...

But they may never have th

Swinger on the BorderlineRacing thoughts,
Unblinking eyes.

"Clingy" and demanding,
With a fear of abandonment.
A fear to stay alone.

Acting out,
Screaming in pain.
Why won't you listen to me?

All you do is make me feel horrible about myself.
Whoever "myself", is.

All you do is scream at me,
With acrimony.

All you do is neglect me.

You finally reach out, you lend me that hand of yours.
I stop. I hesitate to reach for this hand.
I refuse to.
I don't need help. I'm completely fine. I don't need you. I hate you.
I lied, I think to myself. I lied,
To spare feelings of anxiety that I'd have if I were to talk about my problems.

Shifts from happiness,
Sad

If only life could be so gentle
Like that of a riverbend
If only life could be so gentle
And not a barring end

If only love could be so sweet
Like that of the tender moon
If only love could be so sweet
Rather than a stabbing harpoon

If only laughter could be so loud
Like of the ringing bell
If only laughter could be so loud
Then an angel could hear the sound

If only hope could be so close
Like a knocking at the door
If only hope could be so close
Instead yet nevermore

If only such things were to pass
Like a soft tick of time away
If only such things were to pass
And never remain to stay

Claustrophobia

The still beating heart
Is encased in these bitter walls
These sheets of foreboding
Disposed in arranges of steel

It is deathly surrounded
All by the coldness of such
A reality that was never known
But dwells deep and takes over

It drives downward and downward
Secretly twisting its heart into mine
My heart beats and bursts
No regular sound to be heard

Its metal framing cracks a spread
A resulting shatter of thus
The overbearing and tormenting
Until my heart can not take it

No more...

Forever it shall be
Unframed in a claustrophobic matter
With no will nor strength
But a splintered dagger

Blackness comes over
Never like the wave of death
But rather like an overcoming peace
Threatening to drive away all insanity

If I could describe the dark
I would say it is simply
By pure, pure evil means
A night that can be overcome

The temptations to sleep once again
And no longer care about such worries
Overwhelm the inner core
But I still do not give in

Whites clash with black
A night blue touch of colder stills
Softly floating upon such thoughts
Making me all but lost

Nights fall upon the day
Like only that of its long lost prey
It fades the sky in its gray
Blurring the life and hue away

Oh how the darkness has c

Tearing Him To Shreds.You better watch out
You'll break his little heart
You're tearing him to shreds
Destroying everything he believes in.

Do you care
That he is no longer there
Because he cares
That you're gone.

But are you gone?
Have you physically left, no
Just no emotion at all
Nothing left for him.

He won't come back this time, no
Won't see your light again
No one notices but you, me
He no longer cares about the actions you take.

He deserves better than the lousy you he had.

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by ~Octavias101, Dec 30, 2012, 2:53:11 PM
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~HeyArnoldfan7734 Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I feel like this far too much, as well. Know how it feels. I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way.

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~Octavias101 Dec 30, 2012 Student Writer

thank you for your understanding. ^^

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~HeyArnoldfan7734 Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

You're very welcome.

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~Chapel-Horde Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

4 words that say much more. Wonderful.

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~Octavias101 Dec 30, 2012 Student Writer

thank you.

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~kyokomogami333 Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

True that

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~Octavias101 Dec 30, 2012 Student Writer

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