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Who's saving you?

TinaLouise
Twisted Dreamer
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Hepcat61 said:(or if you prefer the long form...)

you sing of the graveyards    
dug in the rooms of your parents’ house    
of ungiven, stolen emblems    
remade into their lurid icons    
singing among the markers and monuments    
of Formica and cement    
they beckon you pick up    
the chorus they composed in you    
while instead you sing    
of bringing their dead    
to your fiesta of the unliving          
         
even as your siren melody turns beguilingly to me    
I am departing    
as your caressing verses would dig in their claws    
I am vanishing    
even as your sacrificial dance is displayed for me    
I am disappearing      
as your open legs call me to the coda of your pain      
I am gone        
as I spill myself into these indulgent anthems    
I have no existence    
         
I will not regale in the costumes    
of your carnival of self denigration    
nor wear these woven word serapes    
of bleached bones    
nor set tables among the tombs    
laid with spoils of the damned    
nor accompany  your sorrows    
to the echoes of the dead's applause    
and will not strap on a skull face    
so you may sing my beauty at the stage    
   
not one more day leading parades    
through memorials of bleak worship    
holding up corpses    
that you may have your guests    
walking in the rot    
as death verses chill your heart    
dancing los voladores    
among morbid broken stones    
not one day more
the day of your dead    
ni un día más de los muertos    
   
you will remain in this tomb    
singing the comfort of its cold misery    
incant the long departed    
to sleeping and awakening with you    
I refuse to audience      
I will be no longer yours


Love this

TinaLouise
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[quote-33
Not being able to trust
is one thing that is important to most
Imagine it being yourself that you cannot trust
allowing into this thought, is your saving holy ghost

One day after another, I get up off the bed
and pray for solitude and a release from this disease
sometimes I've slept on the street, where I have last laid down my head
It is one sickness that, only within yourself, is the need to appease

To those of you who are not alcoholic drinkers
and instead, you devote your lives to saving someone who is
Imagine, for a second, put on your intellectual caps, you deep thinkers,
that it is you that is being held hostage[/quote]
Spot on babe! ✌

TinaLouise
Twisted Dreamer
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You guys are magik.. I can't make this decision.. There's only 1 winner and as far I'm concerned you're all winners.. 🙌

Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Oh!  I came here to vote and it seems it hasn't kicked in yet.  I'm ready when you are.  And thank you so much, TinaLouise, for making this competition possible. <3

TinaLouise
Twisted Dreamer
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Joined 20th Dec 2015
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Sweetry
Thank You.. Not only have you explained in great detail, the difference between an addict, a user or one who dabbles. You have also educated people that addiction is in fact a disease.. Society lacks empathy due to ignorance, its up to people like us to show them the way 👏
Well done great write mate!

Hepcat61
geoff cat
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 27th Nov 2015
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TinaLouise said:

Love this


Thank you... It comes from a very true place...

geoff

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