But how do you erase a memory already ingrained in your mind?
How do you stop hoping?
These are the issues

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Dead of the night

In the dead of the night…
When Virgins undress,
When babies are made,
Angels come down to play,
The world is just right.

In the dead of night…
As Owls kiss goodnight,
And Witches sleep tight,
The moon smiles down it’s light.

It’s the dead of the night…
When i take off my mask.
I step out the light…
I go into the dark.

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Love adds color to life,
they say.
I’d like to disagree.
How can ones life have color
If one has no life?
For some of us,
In whom this darkness resides,
love...
Brings life to us.

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Sauntering into the chapel
On shaky knees and wet boots,
I collapse into the confession chair.
My heart swinging, my limbs trembling,
I go “Don’t bless me, father, for i have sinned.
I have sinned, father, i have sinned.
For just a moment ago
I saw an Angel.
Oh father! A damsel I’d be damned for.
My mind swayed with her hips,
My resolves went with her steps.
I grew savage, an ancient man,
Hungry on primal instincts.
Tell me father, what is this feeling,
If not possession?
I have sinned father... i have.”

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Might i remind you,
my heart is no man’s land!
Not even mine.
Come at will
but leave as still,
for this is not your path.
Your steps must be wary,
your voice leery,
this is not your home.
Stay on guard, arms at ready
for this is the war zone,
this heart could go haywire.
I repeat,
my heart is no man’s land!

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Anti-matter

I think i am anti-matter.
For nothing else explains better
how i fell into you
and we became nothing.

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you think you know pain?
The 4am screams in your head…
The emptiness when the
alcohol clears up…
The despair over unrequited love…
The hopelessness watching
people you love suffer…
Some days you clutch your chest,
you’d do anything to make it stop…
But it doesn’t.

Do you think you know pain?

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Divinity

I sacrificed my divinity
at your altar of promises.
Promises to stay forever…
promises to live forever…
promises to love forever.
Now, i age and wither
under the weight of
unfulfilled promises.

Maybe i should’ve
stopped to think…
How do we love forever
when i’ve become mortal?

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You my dear must be
a deity in human form,
for what is this unbridled beauty
you bear?
Must be such a burden
for everyone is gazing,
mouths wide open and drooling.
This beauty... This beauty is of
sorts that the locals venerate.
I come before you in all servility,
with my heart in hand and
my knees bent...
Do with me as you please
for there shall be no other use of me.

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I, for one
cannot be said to have fears.
I am wild,
untamed and
a force on the streets.

I’ll let you in on a secret though,
one you must never divulge.
There’s this lingering fear
somewhere in my gut,
phasic too... haunting.
A fear of losing you.

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