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The dark overlord is struck down by a mighty blow

The people all cheer for their hero

Meanwhile their hero is dismembered

He has encountered the retreating evil

They stand by and idly watch

Not daring to intervene on his behalf

The hero shall forever live on in our hearts

Let us learn from the mistakes we have made

The cynic speaks out, "We never do."

Why, oh why, do those words ring true?

 

 

 

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Sunshine and butterflies

Rainbows and flowers

I wonder if today

If today will bring rain showers

Rain in your hair

Rain in your eyes

Things walking the street

Things in disguise

Nothing to worry over

No need to fret

They'll be stealing away all the children

All the children you've met

Calm your pretty little head

Calm your mind

It's only a matter

Only a matter of time

They are coming

They come soon

To take you away

Away with the monsoon

The clouds begin to clear

The sky is blue once more

Now we can forget

Forget all that horror

The sun is shining

The birds sing

Too bad the children

The children are missing

No matter that

No more rainshowers

Only sunshine and butterflies

Rainbows and flowers

 

 

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I walk through a door

The warm air

Rushing through my hair

The sun shining bright

As if only it might

Silence cries out

My footsteps rout

Their rise and fall mount

It is drawing near

Bringing with it fear

Destroying all you hold dear

All one can do is run

Hiding away will not help

Stopping means you're done

Then it shall have your pelt

The door slams shut

Sound leaping off the walls

Life

Sitting in this room is anything but

Yet onwards time still crawls

The stink of its breath pervades

While those eyes invade

It will not stand for being disobeyed

Loving the smell of the afraid

Closer

It draws nigh

All one can do

All one can do is watch time pass by

Just wait

Just wait and cry

Nothing doing

Down to bed I lie

Never

It shan't overtake

Unless help you offer

And then your own bed you make

Only yourself do you forsake

But as it waits, lying next to you

All you can hope is that its power you shall take

Yield it as a sword

Bow down before you shall the hoard

To me m'lord

To me

Closer

It draws nigh

All one can do

All one can do is watch time pass by

Just wait

Just wait and cry

Nothing doing

Down to bed I lie

Raise your sword proud

Shout out to the crowd

Raising your voice loud

Look at the beast

Look at the beast you have cowed

 

 

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My head is spinning

And my feet are grinning

Walking along the avenue

 

Taking a step

Seeing how those before me have lept

All I can think to do is put on my baseball cap

 

Kicking at the debris

All of it in front of me

Eyes peer out the windows, but there's nothing to see

 

Upwards I move on

Still I have not gone

Worry not, it shall not be long

 

A stairway it is I traverse

A stairway to nowhere

As nowhere is my place in the universe

It's a stairway to nowhere

And along this path there's no need to rehearse

 

I swear I've been here before

I ask to myself, "What is there more?"

A question I quickly ignore

 

Over my shoulder I look

To me it is like opening a book

This one I gladly shelve away

 

I find myself thinking in rhyme

My heartbeat keeping the time

Giving myself quite a start when it jumps a line

 

Even with this to excite

I do not lose my sight

For upwards my eyes still turn

 

A stairway it is I traverse

A stairway to nowhere

As nowhere is my place in the universe

It's a stairway to nowhere

And along this path there's no need to rehearse

 

Fire and ice could not hide it away

Here such things hold no sway

Though fire burns and slip on ice you may

 

The clouds roll in

Lightning crashes without, thunder echoes within

I do all I can to withhold a grin

 

I step out into the void

Why should the unknown I avoid?

Nowhere holds possibilities one can not perceive

Whereas somewhere you know what you have to receive

The darkness so many fear

Shall forever more be here

 

A stairway it is I traverse

A stairway to nowhere

As nowhere is my place in the universe

It's a stairway to nowhere

And along this path there's no need to rehearse

 

 

 

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Come

To the darkness and brilliant light

Forever flashing in and out

Distances stretching into the horizon

As the unseen take on blocky shape

Come

Where the socks march in unison

A river of cold flows inward

Sounds dance across the walls

Your skin takes on shape and movement

Come

Where a thirst grows within

Fingers tear off dead flesh

Burn runs across you as a path walked

Regret cleverly disguises itself as sensation

Come

To the kingdom of the one who bleeds

Holding it in yet bringing it out

Strain is the companion of thee

The mark of the past has been left

Come

NOT DO, DO NOT

 

 

 

 

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As my eyes close a corridor opens anew

Paintings hang on a wall of shimmering light

Bearing a striking resemblance to all and none

Spiders climb the wall and I feel a sense of urgency

Danger approaches

In black and white it stalks its prey

Walking upright, with a bone club in hand

I open a door and stop within. Blood drips from the ceiling yet never hits the floor. The floor of white tiles welcome the mud I bring along on my shoes. Too long has it shone bright. Emptiness presides over this room and I move on. I walk through a door with a face of a clown painted upon it. Flames leap out, as if to grab me.

I close the door, backing away

I fall, only to be impaled upon a cross

Blood flows from my mouth, where words once escaped

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Just for now (still have to read the rest lol) but i adore the second poem! it's bringing images to my mind, a thing that doesn't happen often with me when reading poetry.. very fine work my friend.

 

The first is kinda hilarious btw.. is that just me? ^_^

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"where the socks march in unison"

 

i love it!! :)

is that where all the renegade socks go, when they escape from the laundry?

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