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Where am I?
South Africa.
#nature
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I Won't Be In Today
Such low desire
to join the world today
the better solution
would be that you call in sick
and join me in bed
and we can nourish
another sickness.
to join the world today
the better solution
would be that you call in sick
and join me in bed
and we can nourish
another sickness.
#dreams
#lust
#risk
58 reads
5 Comments
No time for revenge.
Get office.
#forest
6 reads
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Acid
If you're not going to eat me, you better not marinate.
#LGBT
25 reads
7 Comments
Eternal Shadows
Not proud of my past
New job, home, city & state
It all comes with you
New job, home, city & state
It all comes with you
#haiku
#LifeStruggles
#memories
39 reads
10 Comments
Only time will tell
I stare out towards you
I wonder if I love you
Only time will tell
I wonder if I love you
Only time will tell
#haiku
#LifeStruggles
#love #strength
#love #strength
36 reads
9 Comments
i cannot see (too well)
i cannot
see
too well,
each picture
of her,
each happy
remembrance
blocks
my vision
from seeing
everything
else.
see
too well,
each picture
of her,
each happy
remembrance
blocks
my vision
from seeing
everything
else.
#admiration
#beauty
#kindness
#relationships
#romantic
44 reads
7 Comments
CROWN
When anger and resentment
tear you down and you have
been made to feel like a clown,.
Remember honesty and integrity
and wear them like a crown •
tear you down and you have
been made to feel like a clown,.
Remember honesty and integrity
and wear them like a crown •
#admiration
#courage
#hope
#love
#strength
41 reads
9 Comments
Keyboard Bullies
Pathetically hiding behind
pieces of cancerous plastic
to make themselves look better
than their own mothers discarded afterbirth
pieces of cancerous plastic
to make themselves look better
than their own mothers discarded afterbirth
#LifeStruggles
66 reads
Crazy Love
Reading between the lines, she was out in left field and off the deep end,
grasping at straws to drink of a glass half empty.
grasping at straws to drink of a glass half empty.
#love
#metaphor
#morality
#philosophical
#prose
31 reads
2 Comments
As A Result Of Todd's Birthday Rave
Andromeda
woke up so
hungover and
discovered that she was
sleeping naked on top
of her ex-husband John
as a result of Todd's birthday rave.
woke up so
hungover and
discovered that she was
sleeping naked on top
of her ex-husband John
as a result of Todd's birthday rave.
#alcohol
#fiction
#friendship
#sensual
#suffering
44 reads
0 Comments
Warning
Life takes drastic turns
Always fasten your seat belt
Precautionary
Always fasten your seat belt
Precautionary
#haiku
#LifeStruggles
34 reads
11 Comments
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