Submissions by Fishmander
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write in an effort to better understand myself and others. These reflections are pieces to a larger shade. Thank you for reading.
Memento
Forged from sorrows of yesterdays
Another implant is failing
Another memento reused, gray
Replacing parts we are missing
Bound together
Chasing ourselves just to lose us all
Storms we weather
Will come to pass when our past is dead
Forewarned by lessons of our plague
Whatever cold left is shrieking
Whatever passion remaining breaks
Like a fever tamed now peaking.
Another implant is failing
Another memento reused, gray
Replacing parts we are missing
Bound together
Chasing ourselves just to lose us all
Storms we weather
Will come to pass when our past is dead
Forewarned by lessons of our plague
Whatever cold left is shrieking
Whatever passion remaining breaks
Like a fever tamed now peaking.
#love
#relationships
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
#FallingInLove
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Master
As the beads fall, adrift
I drowned again, poor soul
Each piece of me a secret
I'm scared to know
Keep to myself, alone
Taste the words bleeding through
In between a life denied:
It reached for you
Time dissolved now arrives
Suffer foul tithes of fate
You cannot change what you don't own
Speak to me alive
Like a virus I'm replaced:
Master of riddles and disease
Come to do with me as is pleased.
I drowned again, poor soul
Each piece of me a secret
I'm scared to know
Keep to myself, alone
Taste the words bleeding through
In between a life denied:
It reached for you
Time dissolved now arrives
Suffer foul tithes of fate
You cannot change what you don't own
Speak to me alive
Like a virus I'm replaced:
Master of riddles and disease
Come to do with me as is pleased.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
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Limbo
Staring into the
Mouth of my mistakes
Entwined, excavate
Another needle
Underneath my pride
Baiting memories
I cannot erase
Rewind, instigate
Wounds displayed frozen
For both you and I
Looming solo in
A black masquerade
Limbo in bad ways
Your heart, medicine
Which invades my mind.
Mouth of my mistakes
Entwined, excavate
Another needle
Underneath my pride
Baiting memories
I cannot erase
Rewind, instigate
Wounds displayed frozen
For both you and I
Looming solo in
A black masquerade
Limbo in bad ways
Your heart, medicine
Which invades my mind.
#love
#dark
#relationships #SelfDiscovery
#relationships #SelfDiscovery
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Asleep
The shadows swirl and seep
And I noticed
Eyes reach out for me
The dream is wounded.
Bridges turning cold and dark
In our damage, in our hearts
Will I touch your doom
If I lose myself?
If I stay will I find what I'm without?
If I stay will I find which has gone?
Will I be found alive or asleep?
And I noticed
Eyes reach out for me
The dream is wounded.
Bridges turning cold and dark
In our damage, in our hearts
Will I touch your doom
If I lose myself?
If I stay will I find what I'm without?
If I stay will I find which has gone?
Will I be found alive or asleep?
#dark
#dreams
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#love
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Corpse
Slipping further into
Another hole I shape
Another gleam of you
Wisping across my nape
A corpse condemned to life
Drunk on drawn-out moments
Passing time as we dive
Sometimes barely notice
Among the cold gallows
Feeling I can't relate
In this dance of shadows
Feeling lost and irate
Staining black our pages
Like installing old parts
Like horror through ages
Bleeding into my heart
Another hole I shape
Another gleam of you
Wisping across my nape
A corpse condemned to life
Drunk on drawn-out moments
Passing time as we dive
Sometimes barely notice
Among the cold gallows
Feeling I can't relate
In this dance of shadows
Feeling lost and irate
Staining black our pages
Like installing old parts
Like horror through ages
Bleeding into my heart
#love
#dark
#relationships #SelfReflection
#relationships #SelfReflection
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Snake Eyes
Rolling up my spine
Trepidation divine
Trapped trying to find
What's hidden up my sleeve
Blowing off the dice
Snake eyes and hypnotized
Lend me one more try
Just never mind the bleed
Speaking in tongues blind
Dark dogs howling behind
You can keep your light
Only usurps my peace.
Trepidation divine
Trapped trying to find
What's hidden up my sleeve
Blowing off the dice
Snake eyes and hypnotized
Lend me one more try
Just never mind the bleed
Speaking in tongues blind
Dark dogs howling behind
You can keep your light
Only usurps my peace.
#dark
#identity
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
#MentalHealth #SelfReflection
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Moth
You lurk around spreading kindness
You feed the mud as you fear this
You know wailings hesitating
Which hunger for a broken heart
Like a moth tired, drawn to flame
Your infamy is now your name
Simulating and maintaining
Casting your judgement from the dark
Their debris is your lottery
You wear people like jewelry
Permeating all the negging
You set yourself up from the start.
You feed the mud as you fear this
You know wailings hesitating
Which hunger for a broken heart
Like a moth tired, drawn to flame
Your infamy is now your name
Simulating and maintaining
Casting your judgement from the dark
Their debris is your lottery
You wear people like jewelry
Permeating all the negging
You set yourself up from the start.
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#anger
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Wrath
I watch your eyes as they erase me
Cornered by my lies, I'm fading
We can't decide what I am to you
Acids mix, collide and bonding
Mawkish smell implied, I am rotting
Breathe in hell to connect with you
Once a home my disguise, escaping
Left alone with the wrath of me.
Cornered by my lies, I'm fading
We can't decide what I am to you
Acids mix, collide and bonding
Mawkish smell implied, I am rotting
Breathe in hell to connect with you
Once a home my disguise, escaping
Left alone with the wrath of me.
#dark
#relationships
#conflict
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
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The Last Eclipse
I can feel a power returning
Rejuvenation has come at last
Each syllable a heart full beating
I can hear scars whisper through the past
Crimson is a nature invited
Cryptic how the soul begins to mend
Placate cracks with darkness belighted
It's getting harder to play pretend
Whittle away every fruitless hour
Molding this course despair into glass
Like season's winter we must devour
For this second wind will come to pass.
Rejuvenation has come at last
Each syllable a heart full beating
I can hear scars whisper through the past
Crimson is a nature invited
Cryptic how the soul begins to mend
Placate cracks with darkness belighted
It's getting harder to play pretend
Whittle away every fruitless hour
Molding this course despair into glass
Like season's winter we must devour
For this second wind will come to pass.
#dark
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
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Majesty
Subliminal, it's building
Weak with the old ones spilling
I've come too far now to restart
Stuck in a phase of waiting
My harbinger reversing
Letting go when I play my part
Familiar games revealing
Their demons on the ceiling
I've come too far to leave them now
It's so subliminal
How you decline
Scattered, desirable
Thoughts multiply
Majesty blossoming
Out of their mind,
Courting them softly until
The end of the ride.
Weak with the old ones spilling
I've come too far now to restart
Stuck in a phase of waiting
My harbinger reversing
Letting go when I play my part
Familiar games revealing
Their demons on the ceiling
I've come too far to leave them now
It's so subliminal
How you decline
Scattered, desirable
Thoughts multiply
Majesty blossoming
Out of their mind,
Courting them softly until
The end of the ride.
#dark
#relationships
#MentalHealth #FallingInLove
#MentalHealth #FallingInLove
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Phantom
This was the last time I
Could extend a hand to you,
Piercing slow deep inside
You only fed off the wound
Mirroring all that I
Had failed to instill in you,
Hearts pulsing traumatized
Your terror is now subdued
Ignored the warnings I
Didn't want it to be you,
Cursed by your own design
You could never face the truth
Forcing my will now I
Inflict penance upon you:
Scorned phantom sailing time
Under banners of the moon.
Could extend a hand to you,
Piercing slow deep inside
You only fed off the wound
Mirroring all that I
Had failed to instill in you,
Hearts pulsing traumatized
Your terror is now subdued
Ignored the warnings I
Didn't want it to be you,
Cursed by your own design
You could never face the truth
Forcing my will now I
Inflict penance upon you:
Scorned phantom sailing time
Under banners of the moon.
#love
#dark
#friendship
#betrayal
#SelfReflection
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Defects
The ashes that feed
Trickle down from a tube,
The shadows that loom
Never rest like we do
Be careful when you
Reach a hand through the cage,
You might be embraced
By what's staring backstage
The color's all wrong
But the lie is the truth,
With our defects gone
We will speak like they do.
Trickle down from a tube,
The shadows that loom
Never rest like we do
Be careful when you
Reach a hand through the cage,
You might be embraced
By what's staring backstage
The color's all wrong
But the lie is the truth,
With our defects gone
We will speak like they do.
#dark
#identity
#SelfReflection
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