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DavidTheLion
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since 2006-04-06
Posts 36


0 posted 2006-05-17 12:43 PM


Heres my 2nd submission....a long "sucka". Its about an ex-girlfriend and our disfunctional relationship.


A time to Dine (A dime for Time)

It’s the Only way to really shine
It’s the only Way to really shine.
It’s the only way to really Dine.
(This table)

Is set for two.


Dragging tails and groping verses from the netherworld
She beckons forth into my dreams
Silence from the past cannot intercede
Tweed napkins made of flesh surround us
And develop growths that we can’t seem to grasp

She was like me
And I was like her
But together, somehow, we knew from inside our clock tower
All we had was an empty pot shot
Together we understood without words what it all meant
And what is was not

Treading along the star-spangled streets of our pain
All our syrupy satin-encrusted creeds were vain
Draping themselves in bushels of something sweet
But we never had anything good to eat
(We never had anything really good to eat)

Girl, oh girl of fragmented laments
Diffuse the confusion if your heart repents
Too many splitting reactions were bent
Too much to bare and so much spit spent
Threads ensnare with ever a glare
Feeling your feelings inside the itch of my hair

If truth be told
Of worships and warships and everything gold
Stringing along songs of suspicion and sin
Taking my licks on your bare soft skin
Oh WHY did you have to die this way
Where did death choose its head to lay?

WHY
Did the light fade from your face

OH WHY
Did you relinquish the love of a white-bearded grace?
Girl, oh girl
The cloak of regret has fit me to a tee
The glassy puddles of autumn leaving me to sink
Leaves of teal and musty oak bark soar between the snips of my fingertips
WHY OH WHY are We?

Hear this cry
From the part of my pit that doesn’t mind
The underbelly of the beast that never feels
The part of me that is a part of you that is a part of everything partly untrue
The inside half-numbed fantasy of a drunken halo
Is the inside of your own sluggish demise dipped in a beaten stale brew

We are caught in the same whirlwind
We bathe in the same depths of this old curse
We could have fought together the tides of tainted spirits and bee’s wax tears
Perhaps in unison our heartbeats could have had a chance
To hold the attention of the Creator
So he could extend his hands upon us
And deliver us from the clutches of the tainted dual suns that sets within us

Girl, oh girl
I wish I still had a choice
And this voice you will never hear
Dirty Words have been spoken
And injuries have sliced my tongue
To a stubby tip
Where even honey from your mouth I could never sip

Sorrows reunite inside this soul of intertwining art
The contrasting feelings of logic and passions wane
Beneath layers of my own self, insane?
Strength is somewhere just below the surface
Like a blinded bull catching its breath
Chained to a withered old tree with no purpose or rest

Can’t you see
This is not who I was meant to be
Can’t you feel
My dirty fingertips have nothing left to heal
There is only the remaining turmoil of a broken frame
That crawled free from a cocoon made of tar and angel feathers and a lion’s mane

Can’t you see you are me and I am you
I’m just below the surface
Embrace it
Truth is True

If you are willing to lift the seam
Stretch the skin above the horizon with your teeth, redeem
Wrinkles taught me that time can do many a wonder
For a face resting soundly upon the twin breasts of thunder

Father my father
Have you lost us?
Where have we been?
Where did we go?
Take away these shades of grey oozing down the eyelids of our inner sight
Amidst the lights and many sighs of twilight that we try to fight


Oh girl
Scrape off your crown
And come on down
Come over and sit with me on the curb
Underneath the murky lights of midnight
Brushing away bugs and beasts and bedtime feasts
And little crawly things that struggle to breathe right

Oh girl
Please come down that cloud
You think it is so solid-white puffed up and proud
But its been stitched together with a fading sound
Take my hand and come down
Accept the truth if truth be told
Heads hung low
But hearts plump pumped with a radiant glow

Our minds might have been stung
Our insides may have been overrun…
Overcooked with bitty parts of pain and then some

Pleasures pruned
Upon the tree of suffering and ecstasy
Bodies sluggish sipping time and nibbling the spine with cups of wine
I feel my soul knows your soul and this has a double meaning
If double-meanings could only behold

So pull down your hair
And let’s dine, dine, dine
Would you care for some wine?

Can’t you see your pain is like mine?
Don’t throw away your neighbour inside
Ill visit you when we lose your mind
We can go out and hide when the shadows lie
Forget the sunshine
It might never come
For painted beings like us we will always breathe numb

Come and sit at this table
Its been set for two
Friends with souls sleeping in the cool night stable
Friends who made mistakes and closed their eyes to the sting of their own Fable

I’ve opened my eyes
To the truth of me
To the truth of you
To the truth of beings inside that are half-true

Girl oh girl
Some have been told
Of this truth behold
Eyelids have handles if you are willing to reach
Some say they are crafted with vulnerable speech
Pull lightly and you wont grow cold
Pull tightly and you will never get old

When you find these handles rare
Let me know but beware
I will drag you over here by the hair
Deep, deep, deep into the rabbit hole we will go!

Midnight is nearing
And the table’s been set for two

Teatime and time for tea and for my favorite;
Vanilla ice-cream!

Two friends
Same soul
Sit down
Could it be?

Lets take off our crowns
To exchange them for future frowns
And finally we shall dine together
Finally we shall eat the fruit of our labour

Two guests and four hosts
But none of those ghastly old ghosts!
But maybe a few memories you miss most?
Perhaps a few memories you miss most?

Just you.

Just me.

Just a few of those good old memories that have hurt us the most.

(Lets give us a toast)

Lets give us a Toast!

Hoorah!
Ching, ching!

Who’s been broken the most!?


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Pauline
Junior Member
since 2006-05-15
Posts 28
Island in the Sun...
1 posted 2006-05-17 07:58 PM


jeez...you don't say!

hold on, i need to catch my breath..LOL

that's alot of words for a single sitting..but i hope you managed to get all your feelings out?

DavidTheLion
Junior Member
since 2006-04-06
Posts 36

2 posted 2006-05-18 09:00 AM


Hmmm...hehe, no, not quite...I feel this particular subject caught a lot of garbage and emotions for a good chunk of time that it will surely take many more to get it all out! Doh...!
Fabiani
Member
since 2006-05-12
Posts 123
Mesa, Az
3 posted 2006-05-23 08:45 PM


its long but worth it i enjoied it alot it going in my libary ^_^~
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