Enjambed, sangrias and tattoos of butterflies
Jigsawed between organs.
Open the mouth, tonsils stretching far below
The ridges of the waves in a mass ceremony
Of season.
He tells me, You're the lucky one
And I want to find freedom without knowing why.
Ambivalence is too familiar;
Shanty towns and metal houses poison neurons
And I'm back to the beginning, saving lives, saving lies
For later when they mean something more than pillow talk.
I am pen and paper and you are a multi-minded Renaissance man,
There isn't much I wouldn't do for you yet I stand at the streetcorner,
Generic walking symbol screaming in my face.
I would part the ocean like Moses,
I would eat the entire apple myself, I would run away as Lilith did to save herself,
To save you,
But you need to find the part of you I own by mistake.
White walls and liquor-tainted, idealistic dreams won't bring you rest and rain,
You are an endless heartbreak, deflated, white in pure form;
My arsenic dress is prepared for the red,
And you are the thing in which I swallow. down. whole.














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"Why do you run away?"
"Because I think it's fun."
Shima Uta- download it, listen to it, get hooked. It's awesome.
i'm still processing exectly what you're trying to say in the poetry... when i first read it, i don't "straight away" understand it, however, it's more like the words gave me snaps of mental picture running thru my mind!
i like to quote a fav line
"There isn't much I wouldn't do for you yet I stand at the streetcorner,
Generic walking symbol screaming in my face."
personally i think this is a good pick up in the poem
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"There is something in each of us that wants us to be Unhappy. It creates in our imaginations problems that don't yet exist- quite often causing them to come true."
~Benjamin Hoff The Te of Piglet
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When the fox hears the rabbit cry he comes running, but not to help.
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Chill out, life's good
"And I'm back to the beginning, saving lives, saving lies"
I don't know why, it just stood out to me.
I also like the many references to different things. You don't see that much on Deviantart. A truly superb poem. Definitely a favourite
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