Tag: escape
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Books on Love
It’s easy to find love in a book, Kismet never reads more poetically. It’s true granduer seems veracious. It’s enchantment seems like a gift voluptuously made. Neverendingly baiting my need for escape. “What do you desire?” My pneuma pulls me keenly, pleasures me knavishly. “Yes, yes” it casts a sultry spell. “Yes, yes” it lures…
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Bridges
Bridge to Freedom I hear the melancholy slither of the stream across the stones, I feel the dampness of the wood as it seeps into my bones. My legs dangle through the railings, Dried up mud cocoons my knees, I watch my teardrops salt the water as I cast secrets to the breeze. I feel…
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Evanescence
The route along the cobbles is silent Save for the shushing of the water wheel The grass glistens green, pear, then emerald As the winds rush through its blades with such zeal The sky is adorned with falling blossom Its scent sweeps over me like a tide I should probably get home for supper But…
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Worked to Death, Death to Work!
I’ve had enough of all the office politics, Of sickly pricks and inappropriate wit, How many ways could I get out of this pit? Take a hole puncher to my finger tips? Or perhaps I could just staple my lips, Or jam pencils into each eye socket, Use scissors as a hara-kiri sword, Or hang…
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Tricks and Mortar
In the stillness all around there’s not a sound that the silence hasn’t bound The voices have been pounded into the cracks of these surrounds and the echoes of these walls The whispers of these halls – they tell it all – They scream in muted voices the errors in our choices And the legends…
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Conscious Me
Who am I when I close my eyes and slip to a world of paradise? I am not the she you see by day when desire’s dream has ebbed away, Engulfed in flames of sin I lay, Forgiveness from my God I pray. A wretched soul that claws the wall, At Redemption’s door my footsteps…
Serena Malcolm 