i trust you with my burning tears
and with all the secrets that I have kept
i give them to you for all hope is now gone
the fears have overcome my life
guilt is now my overwhelming enemy
memories of sunsets are forever fading
i embrace the dark as an ever present lover
this embrace of yours sears my soul to the core
my end is now rapidly approaching
there is little left for me to do now
after all that I've tried for all these years
it seems like a poor excuse of a life
when it is finally over I will still not be at peace
my soul will be condemned to wander eternally
to seek forgiveness from those that I have harmed
from loves l
some of us laugh
some of us cry
others ignore
until one of us dies
the dark turns to light
clouds move away
rays of light
illuminate the way
the path that was chosen
holidays and hell days by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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holidays and hell days
holidays are hell days
the things that were
perpetrated against me
while at the very least
were criminal acts
but more importantly
they removed all
happiness from my life
being molested and yes
raped on every single
holiday and birthday
for a four year period
eliminated anything joyous
from my entire being
i now find excuses to spend
such days alone with my tears
my fears and my anger
i cannot feel like you do
christmas holds no special
appeal as does new years
easter is but a time of pain
and birthdays are days of horror
i am and always will be alone
my year holds but 365 days
and none of them are special
they may be
i trust you with my burning tears
and with all the secrets that I have kept
i give them to you for all hope is now gone
the fears have overcome my life
guilt is now my overwhelming enemy
memories of sunsets are forever fading
i embrace the dark as an ever present lover
this embrace of yours sears my soul to the core
my end is now rapidly approaching
there is little left for me to do now
after all that I've tried for all these years
it seems like a poor excuse of a life
when it is finally over I will still not be at peace
my soul will be condemned to wander eternally
to seek forgiveness from those that I have harmed
from loves l
some of us laugh
some of us cry
others ignore
until one of us dies
the dark turns to light
clouds move away
rays of light
illuminate the way
the path that was chosen
Longing for Grace by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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Longing for Grace
Chaining you down
I see your eyes dilate
I see your muscles tense
I see everything I want in front of me
But I can not have any of it
All that is within my grasp is but air
Unseen forces are holding me back from you
I see everything I want in front of me
My vision is messed up
Not what it once was
My need for you has increased
Despite my unwillingness to make you mine
I feel the restraints that are holding me back
A dense fog clouds my vision
There is a hunger for you that I have not felt in ages
And I am not willing to succumb to these devices
I don't want to want you
As much as I do
I want you to want me
For you to feel t
i've finally made up my mind
maybe not
is this what they call insanity
bipolar maybe
and this is my normal
i want to be alone
i hate to be alone
i can't stand the silence
i need the silence
is this what they call insanity
bipolar maybe
and this my normal
i know what i want
i'm not sure
i'm up
i'm down
i'm all around
i'm here i'm there
i'm every where
is this what they call insanity
bipolar maybe
and this is my normal
i'm calm
i'm uneasy
i trust you
i don't trust you...
a ravaged heart by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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a ravaged heart
once
there was a soul inside
something to keep
the shell together
but that's been dead
for a long time now
and any vestiges
of hold that once were
they are now gone
and there is nothing left
to keep me from falling to pieces
so my skin rips itself apart
to show what little remains inside
it solely consists of a
small, frozen and broken heart
it used to be a human heart
a heart like any other
here lies what happens
to a heart in the real mortal world
some call her Xacto by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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some call her Xacto
her body
so long and slender
fits perfectly in my hand
she comes
with many different
types of blades
she lives
in a comfortable
padded wooden box
she likes
when i take her out
for our special dates
she always
is prepared for anything
lines, curves or words
she is
meticulous about
her cutting edges
she take
great pride
in her appearance
she hates
her given name Xacto
i call her Ophelia
she only
speaks to me
she ignores the rest of the world
she will
compliment me
on a job well done
she says
that my blood is like
a fine wine sweet yet mellow
she has
never broken a promise to me
unlike most of the other women
the sun ... my enemy by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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the sun ... my enemy
the sun
my enemy
recharges my mind
my thoughts
begin to race
way beyond their norm
the sun
my enemy
recharges my illness
i begin to shake
my hands tremble
i can't focus
the sun
my enemy
recharges my nightmares
i can no longer
sleep to dream
but i sleep to scream
the sun
my enemy
recharges the urges
i fight to control them
and all there nasty thoughts
of death and harm
the sun
my enemy
recharges my death wish
suicidal ideations
plaque every waking moment
the tools of destruction are handy
the sun
my enemy
recharges the pain
pain so intolerable
that I wish to perish
to wither away
the sun
my enemy
is also m
to my birth mother... by AlwaysAnUnquietMind, literature
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to my birth mother...
Dear Mom,
Have you ever given
any thought to me
after that dark, warm
summer night
that you crept away
from the hospital
and left your child
to the whims of strangers
my true identity
so callously stripped
away from me
that I have grown
and matured into
someone else
something else
maybe no one
Sometimes it takes
a thousand tiny deaths
to feel alive
to feel anything
Sometime it takes
feeling nothing
to attempt
to function
Sometimes it takes
all your concentration
to keep
the atoms of your being
from ripping apart
Sometimes it takes
every ounce
of your weak will
just to not care
Sometimes you can't hear
anything over the screaming
of your brain
trying to perceive reality
Sometimes the only thing
you can manage
is to keep breathing
and just barely
And sometimes
it takes oblivion
which is nothing
that you possess
i die every time that the sun rises
it leads to another day of pain
when i am forced to rise from my bed
the prospect of a new day is unbearable
this pain that encompasses my being
has refused to leave my life
endless thoughts of self destruction
continually appear in my mind
is there any way that this pain can end
or must i take my own life for it to be over
i cannot take these endless days of drudgery
continuous black clouds always block the sun
Chains got a hold of you,
cutting in your wings
as you lounge about in your grief;
comfortable in your agony.
Time to break free, butterfly!
You cannot fly when your
wings are stretched taut
by things you cannot control.
Let go of your shackles, butterfly!
Give in to things you cannot dictate.
Your wings are tattered
from self-inflicted wounds.
Fly away, butterfly!
It's time to heal
before your wings no longer spread.
Sew my mouth shut so
the pain stays inside.
Hide the fear
behind dull eyes.
Stop the screaming that
bubbles up to the surface.
Hold it back until
it is silenced forever.
How can you like what you see?
This tainted, needy body laying before you in heaps of anguish.
Streaks of red on this lily-white canvas; eyes dim to the sight you behold.
You look beyond the stained, beyond the slivered flesh and see perfection, where perfection does not exist.
You strive to see what lies inside this torn flesh, to the heart beneath.
But the heart is broken and bruised the color of night as lightning streaks across the sky.
Is this what you wanted, the used?
Is this what your own heart desires, or does this decrepit heart allow you to see past your own desolation?
Questions, my dear, can only be answered by reality in
Neon my night light,
jukebox my lullaby.
Music playing soft and slow
soothes my lonely mind.
I stare at couples on the dance floor
moving to the beat of the song
and I wish you were here with me,
I wish I moved in your arms.
I sit at a table for one,
in the corner all alone.
I close my eyes and you are here;
my body sways on its own.
Our bodies touch as we dance,
your hand moves to cover mine.
You look at me and smile,
and my heart skips a beat.
The song ends and I open my eyes,
realizing it was wishful thinking.
As I leave the bar alone,
I look forward to my dream becoming reality.
You took in sea water
as if it was oxygen
and two white reefs
formed half moons
in your mouth,
a barricade of coral
heads.
When I tried to kiss you
they spoke back instead
and with my tongue
I felt their braided cheeks
until it was no longer
you and I
inside.
Your mouth grew wider
to accommodate the fish,
nesting eel esses
in the well beside
your morals,
pushed me out slowly
to make room for lonesome
anemone.
Amongst sea companions
I could no longer
find your skin,
and the barnacles
and coral heads
all leered.
Soon we'll be here again
Reliving
The tears and the pain
Not knowing
What to do next
Just stumbling through the dark
With only a candle
For guidance
Everything is stripped away
Down to the naked flesh
The tenderness of her breast
For do you still remember?
The night you first committed
That act
The unknown horror
And now
Years later
It is only starting to affect
Listen to the Rain
And the sounds
Of your pain
For we have arrived
At a crossroads
Which way do we go?
Tonight the hour struck
Tears flowed
Goodbyes were said
And now
Just Listen To The Rain
Your voice cuts like a blade into the real me.
I hear the gasp (Was that you or me?) just before red is released,
hot and wet sliding down like a snake in heat.
Tight and round
sliding down like a silver plated cork screw, twisting tighter, cutting deeper.
Strangling and squeezing, setting me free.
Your words dig in deep like rugged nails into my skin,
deep purple moons forming until the I scream,
blood and semen smearing over squared 70s kitsch tiles.
I feel dirty and unworthy,
My flesh is never good enough,
marked by the wrong scars and stains of my impurities.
When you finally realize how impotent I truly am,
I will be le
"Beckon Me"
The trees are tall,
the moon is wide.
It shines so bright,
I cannot hide.
The stars beckon me,
calling me near.
I cannot fight;
I have no fear.
Our love is strong
just like the tree.
It bears the joy
of you and me.
And like the moon,
our love is bright.
It blazes hot
all through the night.
As with the stars
I have no fear.
So beckon me, love,
call me near.
I will not fight
for I love you so.
So beckon me, love,
and don't let go.
There is an emptiness in your mouth,
a gaping maw of black. You swallowed suns,
drank the star-dust dry.
Helene, raise your moon-arc face
and turn the sky. Part your lips.
Your breath - a prayer. Your words -
the black-hole roar;
merely a gasp.
Maybe it was us,
those people we hated
on the blacktop,
in the red-dirt track circle
around the football field,
legs dragging long lines of sand
across the high school
plateau.
It could have been us,
that we ran from,
pants around our ankles,
skin tucked up underneath our shoulderblades,
we always did have a pinched
look about us. So,
it could have been us
in the art room, at the board
writing calligraphy across
painted flowers,
making captions with our teeth,
making hickeys on the boys' necks
because everything's a canvas.
Wouldn't you say
that it could have been us and
everything about ourselves,
that it was us, wear
there she stand blind faith
the great lady of justice
we all just take her word
as honest plain jane truth
or is it just a lie
we will never know
we all just take her word
as the honest plain jane truth
this is they way of life
we never seek the truth
we know the truth already
this is how we live
only life is not blind faith
only love is blingd faith
that it kills us to let go of love
so we never do
we continue to blind our selves
to tie scarfs on our faces
blind our selves to our lover's flwas
when we are all falwed our selves
why must love blind us
why can't we see the truth
why faith blind
why can't we see
the col
Current Residence: Massachusetts Print preference: Boot Favourite genre of music: All Favourite photographer: Robert Mapplethorpe before going insane Favourite style of art: My Own .. hey at least I am honest Operating System: Do we compare penis sizes next? Shell of choice: Unfortunately the one I have now Wallpaper of choice: One that stays on the wall successfully Skin of choice: it depends on the wine Favourite cartoon character: Marvin Martian Personal Quote: "Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad."
I am dead but I am still waiting for the coroner to pronounce the time of death. Thus I shall wait just a little longer for that to happen.
I can no longer lay claim to being even a small part of society nor part of a family for that matter. A part of the human race I am not.
Loneliness has finally managed to embrace me within her cold arms forever. There is no longer any chance of escaping her.
Being alone was once a choice. Now all of the choices have been removed. Everyone has retreated from beyond my sight. I have been confined to solitary.
Seven days a week all I have contact with are memories. All that I hear are whispers and echoes
I did not go anywhere. But I am suffering from liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma). I knew from the start that when I was diagnosed that I would refuse all treatments. So I have been wandering the globe in search of nothing (reference to an obscure movie titled "My Dinner With Andre"). I am now back home and we shall see what that brings to me. I have been following your works while on the road and I must say that I still admire your talent and your zest for life. Pathetically you have been the only one that has noticed that I have been absent .... Thank you from the bottom of my heart ...
I am sorry to here about the cancer, that sucks. I lost my dad to cancer and watched him go through the process. I hope being back home brings you some comfort.