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  September 2023     1 month ago

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Balance

Modern, balance sources of validation
When it's way too early, for alcohol
day's want to hurt as badly as the nights
Rub out jagged edges with co codamol

It only muddies this holy water
Stack like wood, reasons to live, for later
I only...

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Moonlight comfort

Lost parasocial love to engagement
Insincerity thought was flattery
Masking these tired mistakes in the present
need to recharge my social battery

Feel myself no more than a data point
Invisible lines that criss cross the sky
I know it was...

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Deeper connections

Never said, liked you better in my head
Stumble over metaphors, lose meaning
Light up all my emotions lifts buttons
on a mission a flurry of cleaning

So your plan consists of me just waiting
Eventually when the world is through
With you,...

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With love, there is no free will

She once called you a leader, rose up to
the occasion then, saw the problems clear
Didn't mind indulging, my anxiety
allow a thank you, for a sincere ear

Feel dishonest, the art of omission
when I've thought over, our entire future
Today...

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"Is 3 crows an attempted murder?"

In a grey world full of street pigeons with
Swarming seagulls, like locusts, here squawking
Over nothing, fight each other for scraps
I have lived a thousand times the crow king

Watch the others, known as foolish yet quick
Cunning vs my...

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Latest Comments: 9 total

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It's an excellent poem forwards yet read backwards is more a tale of redemption which is very talented and quite the feat.

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precise and tells a story in as few words as possible brilliant stuff

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excellent poem full of life

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great poem got me in the feels and I loved that lol

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brilliant and before his tiime

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9/10 in 2.5 mins hey what do you know I'm a bit smarter than I thought

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Some will simply hurt you when they have nothing else to give you, it's in essence not to be forgotten

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The come up bit just doesn't work for me I know you think it fits as it is meaningful however it merely breaks the flow make it the title maybe?

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I like short poems but I feel this could have a little bit more back ground we have no rapport with the characters so sympathy is a big ask

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