I crawl into a corner;

A crevice deep in my thoughts

Where vivid pictures whisk me

Away from my reality:

Perhaps I find myself suspended in

Emptiness

Where silence is golden

And gentle sleep cleanses me,

Where I can simply exist

And nothing more.

Or perhaps I become lost

And lay on snowy ground

Of a forest unknown to me,

Hearing the wind caress my face,

Frost running along my skin.

Sometimes I see dancers, painters, musicians;

Passions unfolding in my mind's eye.

Uplifting and captivating thoughts;

These thoughts which center me

Bring me true peace and fulfill

My happiness.

"Just keep it to yourself"

My mind says, insisting

That whatever comes out

Of this tired heart of mine

Is meant to be kept secret

When the mind thinks

It wants to work behind

The scenes of a movie 

While heart goes all out

For all to see and feel

But the mind chooses

The rational part of life

Thinking, obsessing over

What is meant to be

Or where things should be

While the heart pushes

The mind creeps up

Closing all the doors

Keeping to itself

But the heart exhausts

When it does

And when it does

Keep to itself

It may explode

Firing all cylinders

For all to feel

To hear

To see.

let it in cleanse the sin

setting free all the victims,

bound to graves full of rage

they will wait for the penance.

and the crowd crying out

for the pull of the lever,

holding fast for the crack

of a neck stopping severed.

justice sways all the same

for the throats that are guilty,

reaping seeds of their schemes

bloody hands twitching filthy.

stop the heart chambers scars

there will be no redemption,

until the stretch severs breath

and the ground gives acceptance.

dig it down hear the sound

of the dirt cut by shovels,

smell the rot of the lost

haunting thoughts full of troubles.

I will leave you with peace

as a cure for your vexings,

all my germs taste like sperm

and your guilt is expecting.

A deep dark pit filled with a burning fire,

A light meadow in the warm of summer

The highs and lows I constantly feel.

A false smile and a forced laugh

Expectations to live up to,

But all I want to do is scream

To finally be completely and totally free.

To let my feelings fly like a flag,

And to let people know the real me.

I learned at a very young age. Not to grieve. There is a cycle to life,

You live, you die

What you touch in between is all

You ever are.

The glory dies with you

No matter the age

The wealth

The pomp and

Circumstance

You aren't remembered quite

As you lived

There's a certain martyrdom

That comes with your demise

Shrines go up

Or they come down

However the case may prove

And life goes on.

Your tears, they're mocked

Ridiculed and thus we learn

Not to feel

The numbness sets in

Overtakes you

And you reach into the void

Praying for pain

For happiness

For content

For anything you can feel

If you are missed

It is a silent sort of longing

Despair

Is weakness here

Graves go untouched

Unviewed

“Hey it’s moving!”

H-E-L-L-O

“Whoa.”

“Ask it something.”

“Ok. Ok. Can you hear us?”

YES

“Told you this was cool.”

“Go on, ask it again.”

“What’s your name?”

B-I-L-L-Y

“It said it’s name is Billy.”

“Hi Billy. Welcome to our home.”

T-H-A-N-K-Y-O-U

“It’s responding again. Awesome.”

“What do you want, Billy?”

P-L-A-Y

“Play? You want to play?”

YES

“Are you a friendly spirit?”

NO

“No?”

“What are you?”

D-E-M-O-N

“It just said demon!”

“I don’t like this anymore.”

P-L-A-Y

“Make it stop!”

“Wait, there’s more!”

R-E-A-D-Y-O-R-N-O-T

H-E-R-E-I-C-O-M-E

“Let’s get out of here!”

9-8-7

“MAKE IT STOP!”

“I CAN’T. THE FIGURE’S STUCK TO THE BOARD!”

6-5-4

“I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!”

“SHUT UP!”

3-2

“OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!”

1

“It stopped. It’s over. I think we’re safe now. What’s wrong?”

“B-B-Behind...”

F-O-U-N-D-Y-O-U

#Horror #Paranormal #HarryHorrors

When we've taken vengeance on our enemies

When they have taken vengeance on us

When the battlements that used to be our homes crumble

When the world is darker and much less humble

Then we have truly lost our way

We will have lost the right to rule any day

Our simple pleasures will be lost

Our children taught to be soldiers at what cost

Our skies will darken with machines of war

The ground will bleed under military law

And we will have realised much too late

That war was the only means to seal our fate

Understanding is what is needed now

Empathy explained to those who don't know how

The ones who have never been shown any compassion

Who can only hate in measured fractions

Some people don't understand how good life can be

They can't relate to the simple joys of family

So we must show them how

Educate them with a new vow

That human life is sacred and should be revered

Murder, rape, terror and fear are seeds of destruction

They are the reckless paving stones to our undoing

And until we stop the process of an eye for an eye for an eye for an eye

The peace of our world will always be denied...

How naive we are to think this can end with more death

More terror, more casualties and regret until no-ones left

Except the grieving and angry of the innocent forsaken

Who will then perpetuate the cycle of the broken

And rise to fight in the names of the deceased

Now blinkered and in rage they no longer want their war to cease

They no longer listen to innocence, they no longer see reason

On all contents they continue to fight through the blood of the seasons

And we begin to disintegrate amongst the grief and the wreckage of our lives

Our world becomes so inhospitable that no one survives

And if by chance that we do

Would this be a life that you would want for you?...

Revolt...

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- My condolences and thoughts go out to all the people who have suffered needlessly for any war, for any act of terror (and greed) in any time.