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HIS LATEST FLAME/FUGITIVE

HIS LATEST FLAME/FUGITIVE

Feel like a fugitive in my own life, kind of use to it and enjoy it. Filling the gap where your life and love should be. Do you know how fucking alone I am now? That doesn't matter. My views go to ink, captured in my poems. What will you think when you read it?

I know you exist, somewhere. If you didn't, I'd be totally alone.

Like now.

What if you d...

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love   darkness   hope   soulmate   twin flame   kindred spirit   his latest flame   moira rankin   tricia reid

ANGST

 

ANGST

 

To be a Goth, do I have to suffer so? Have loneliness burn into my soul, sadness fill my heart, loss bring me to my knees?

All I have is my life and a few songs to help me by in this endless grey world of mine,

no Goth girl to save me, no real escape from this morose existence to gain ascendancy to the heavens.

A soul mate I yearn for, to escape the barest mini...

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life   darkness   alone   end   suicide held at bay   music   gothic

TEAR

TEAR

 

I am a black diamond with a dark flaw

so deep in my heart, never to be healed.

Will it destroy me or be my saviour?

I don’t know. I weep silent tears and pray

to my gods and goddesses to release me.

I saved Shi but who will save me?

I need understanding and help with me being me.

But I can do it, be happy with a kindred spirit

and grow for the futu...

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tear   darkness   depression   alone

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