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Paradox

"I don't want revenge.

I just want to make you smile"

 

Sometimes the truth is, we are left alone.

There is no one to go to.

Just left on your own

inside the world that makes up the collision of your heart and mind.

Each day time passes, and still you could say to me: "Your heart is mine".

 

Folded down in sorrow. Tears that rain into my heart.

Never leaving my eyes, ...

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love   secrets   forever silent   sadness   heart

No Voice

Without a voice
I am left here in this world
to forever be silent.
Because as I try to speak,
my voice vanishes so quickly,
so that I'm left here unspoken
with no one to hear what I have to say.
And for someone to apprehend
my words I speak, with my unheard voice,
would be such a miracle I can't explain.

But even though I have no physical voice
I have a language of my own I write.
A ...

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no voice   physical   silent   forever silent   soul   gift   language of my own

levenslang stil

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Here within lies
a recollection
of large talons
that tear smooth

creamy flesh

a cadence ricochets
off paint peeled walls
of the clatter as soles
strike dry dirt and stone

blood rushes

two sets of eyes
squint and scan
backs hunched low
only darkness shields

...

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levenslang   stil   levenslang stil   forever silent   quiet   mute   always still

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