Sometimes the undertow swallows you deep

Makes you feel strong tugs at your feet

Sometimes a razor blade stops you from bleeding

makes you feel sleepy

makes you hear pretty peaceful strums 'til sirens come and then silence.

When all the perverts and parasites shrink

dry up and die

step on outside

breath in the toxins that keep you alive

kept you from trying made you deny

your sacred hell imprisoned cell of silence.

Swimming from soundless dreams streams of the past

a hurdle, a curse, thriving to last Completing so timely the end of the act, the curtain has closed, the blood has turned black, now face the crowd and take a bow before silence.

Ringing and singing it’s hard to ignore

the tapping of feet, a knock at the door

Crying of baby like never before

Ears become tuned

no more to ruin

Smells so foul and scowls have swelled into silence.

Don't look down and end the act of silence.

Lizzi Potts and forget-me-nots,

she never knows where to find them

Lizzi Potts keeps lizards and hops in bottles for buzzards and blind hens

Lizzie Potts follows the dots and dabbles in tongue-twisting woes

Lizzi Potts is ridden with clots with clumpy fingers and toes

Lizzi Potts babbles and gawks, soaking up sun as she goads.

Lizzie Potts forgets she's not a human, she's a toad.

Something more than my mind

occupies

Inside, a guide defines a path no longer

stagnant

A possibility magnet.

New strength fed from the depths of my speech,

Anchored and barren in my belly, glowing;

Constructed by thought alone:

Light shines heavy on the peaks of parchment paper crevasses,

Shedding dust and dull relief, binding lustrous, looping ink.

Mountains made of pulp and leaves,

Rivers hardly seen...

Topographic lines and dashes,

Speckled rings, flowering.

This is where it never ends--

This paper, I made for You.

Of anything I can say,

If only once and always:

Inscribed promise

To stay Yours,

To nurture and to teach

Eternal calligraphy...

Absolute and true

Reflection of Your youth and beauty,

Twirling under the moon and relished

Folded sweetly,

Sealed, enveloped.

Tucked away

Until the day

You're reading it to Yourself.

@justaperson

Jack Hunter

Jake Matters

Adamo

Fox Ryder

Leland Barker

John A. Verone

Lorin McLellan

Cody Tilberry

George/Cassie Medlocke

Mix and Match!

Wrapped up in thoughts of missed opportunities,

He leaves his mind to wander into the undone.

Drippings of dew on his winter coat and embers.

Blood, still fragrant, makes him remember

He's the Brave Hero

He's the one.

Next time, he'll be more ready and steady.

This is what made him hard;

The sharpness of the air

The power in his flesh

His steam, arizing after the fight,

Breathing deep, he licks the thought clean,  

"I'm the one feared within, all around."

He points his nose to the dawning sky

And cries a cry, waning with muscial resolve.