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Mad_Hatter
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since 2003-06-29
Posts 393
Canada

0 posted 2004-02-10 07:39 PM


There is a wake, left behind
Swirling purple-deep
A mothers tears could not compare
A wake of lost humanity, a wake lined with devastatistics

We are what we are
And we kill what we choose
Ditches lined with loved ones
Roadways, set aside for the fallen
An ocean would form, if it weren’t for this smile
Be what you must, confusing those who bleed

In the wake of what was never meant to last
Here lies the murders head
You’re safe, until you open up
You’re fine, until you’re secure enough
Destruction, this black inserted into reality
This is the face, a broken shard, wrapped in telephone cord

Listen to the booming symphony
An opera of famous deaths
Presidents on presidents
Residents vs. residents
The deep drums burst and the trees all leave
They huddle into a corner of this emptiness
Leaving a place for us to spread our hollow

In the wake of the murders cry, wipe the glass shard from your eye
“Lip stick stains”, oh broken pride
“Perfume wreak”, devastated this time
The cosmetic mix, makes this okay…

Smile for your misery
Laugh for this tragedy
Exhale, because it’s all a joke
Breathe as deep as you want
You can’t inhale the gun smoke
Hold someone close
They cannot make this choice dissipate

Faded in this bruising wake, is the face of everything that we delete
Destroy who we can’t be
A dead body becomes it’s sheet
The chosen ones, who’re left at murders feet

Rocked and stoned
Doomed but grown
Lock and load
Pay more for tomorrow
Forget everything for today
Left in this murders wake
Today is painless, because we chose it
Tomorrow we cannot quite decide
Left in this murders wake…

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Hollow_Emptiness
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since 2004-02-01
Posts 715
New Zealand
1 posted 2004-02-11 01:46 AM


This is an awesome piece of poetry Mad_hatter, my fav line is Destruction, Black inserted into reality and the line after it.

Hollow

I linger in the shadows, I breathe when I see you.

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