Submissions by Mask-wearer
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2012 10:17pm
2nd Apr 2012 10:17pm
Angel
For you…
I’d capture an angel
Saw off her wings
Tie them to string
And fly them to you.
With the halo I broke off
I’d solder it on
To the top of my spine
Celestial metal to human fibre.
Blood soaked opal tunic
Shrouding my form
Concealing female curves
To be at one with your twisted thoughts.
But it will never be enough
To be good or pure
Or even true
You have a set image to find and fulfil,
In your dreams of heavenly angels
You would not settle for a daemon ...
I’d capture an angel
Saw off her wings
Tie them to string
And fly them to you.
With the halo I broke off
I’d solder it on
To the top of my spine
Celestial metal to human fibre.
Blood soaked opal tunic
Shrouding my form
Concealing female curves
To be at one with your twisted thoughts.
But it will never be enough
To be good or pure
Or even true
You have a set image to find and fulfil,
In your dreams of heavenly angels
You would not settle for a daemon ...
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Feb 2012 8:52pm
24th Feb 2012 8:52pm
Your heart in a jar.
I hope you don’t mind...
But I have taken your heart
You once gave it to me as some kind of prize
But you soon forgot the giving you’d done
Trying to squander it and make it cheap.
I try to remember what I saw in you
For it’s not there now in your empty shell
It’s almost sad to think you not there
But in your heart a glimmer of us
So I cut it out…of your broken chest.
I’m not a surgeon, not even a thief
I’m just what you left behind
So what if I perform a backstreet operation?
It’s the only way I’m going to preserve my...
But I have taken your heart
You once gave it to me as some kind of prize
But you soon forgot the giving you’d done
Trying to squander it and make it cheap.
I try to remember what I saw in you
For it’s not there now in your empty shell
It’s almost sad to think you not there
But in your heart a glimmer of us
So I cut it out…of your broken chest.
I’m not a surgeon, not even a thief
I’m just what you left behind
So what if I perform a backstreet operation?
It’s the only way I’m going to preserve my...
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Feb 2012 4:25pm
10th Feb 2012 4:25pm
To remember.
Do you remember?
I’m sure you do
Oh how you tease me
You enjoyed it too
Do you remember?
How it felt to you
I can still see your face
Oh you, so sadly see through
Do you remember?
It was masquerade
Masks hid dark feverous need
While you tried to…what? Delay?
Do you remember?
How joyous it was
We laughed and giggled
Broke out in applause
Do you remember?
You looked so right
Scarlet so much your colour
Don’t deny you had a good night
Do you remember?
How it all played...
I’m sure you do
Oh how you tease me
You enjoyed it too
Do you remember?
How it felt to you
I can still see your face
Oh you, so sadly see through
Do you remember?
It was masquerade
Masks hid dark feverous need
While you tried to…what? Delay?
Do you remember?
How joyous it was
We laughed and giggled
Broke out in applause
Do you remember?
You looked so right
Scarlet so much your colour
Don’t deny you had a good night
Do you remember?
How it all played...
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Jan 2012 8:54pm
28th Jan 2012 8:54pm
A single scarlet rose.
A single scarlet rose
Was all that remains of you
You placed it in my hand
As though it could be all to you
A symbol of love, of never ending hope
A single scarlet rose
Then...out the door you went.
A single scarlet rose
A reckless torture device
From charming happy doting
Now to suffocating chocking
Beauty whispered-beauty spent
A single scarlet rose
Was that all we had ever meant?
A single scarlet rose
Now doomed to die
You cut it from the ground
As though that would cleanse you
Why would your...
Was all that remains of you
You placed it in my hand
As though it could be all to you
A symbol of love, of never ending hope
A single scarlet rose
Then...out the door you went.
A single scarlet rose
A reckless torture device
From charming happy doting
Now to suffocating chocking
Beauty whispered-beauty spent
A single scarlet rose
Was that all we had ever meant?
A single scarlet rose
Now doomed to die
You cut it from the ground
As though that would cleanse you
Why would your...
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DARK POEM
Published
16th Jan 2012 7:38pm
16th Jan 2012 7:38pm
Lobotomised Girl.
Despise, dislike, disgust
Dead words meaning nothing
Hate - not such a strong word
Not when I think of you
So tame on my tongue
That wants to be acid
I need a better word
something more to utter..
If I could I would I promise
Lobotomised girl - My title forever
Completely numb, no feeling, no desire
Sat on the bed on the grey stale sheets
Wondering why you did this to me
I wasn't yours, you once told me in a mutter
stole my mind to corrupt with your vile matter
I can't escape this hell, this cycle of nothing.
...
Dead words meaning nothing
Hate - not such a strong word
Not when I think of you
So tame on my tongue
That wants to be acid
I need a better word
something more to utter..
If I could I would I promise
Lobotomised girl - My title forever
Completely numb, no feeling, no desire
Sat on the bed on the grey stale sheets
Wondering why you did this to me
I wasn't yours, you once told me in a mutter
stole my mind to corrupt with your vile matter
I can't escape this hell, this cycle of nothing.
...
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LOVE POEM
Published
13th Jan 2012 8:28pm
13th Jan 2012 8:28pm
Burden.
We once played all through the summer
It was unexpected for us to grow up and want one another
But it happened…
You understood me and knew what I craved
You didn’t shake your head in shocked distaste
You got me…
I got you, well I think I did, I hoped that I did
I wanted to make you ok, maybe even safe
I never wished for anything else…
But I knew from that look in your eye
I’d over stayed my welcome
Become a burden..
When? I tried to make you happy
You were my everything, you said I was yours
You said…
...
It was unexpected for us to grow up and want one another
But it happened…
You understood me and knew what I craved
You didn’t shake your head in shocked distaste
You got me…
I got you, well I think I did, I hoped that I did
I wanted to make you ok, maybe even safe
I never wished for anything else…
But I knew from that look in your eye
I’d over stayed my welcome
Become a burden..
When? I tried to make you happy
You were my everything, you said I was yours
You said…
...
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2012 3:16pm
8th Jan 2012 3:16pm
Tattoo.
If I was to let you draw upon my skin
Would you put in ink
All those bitter words
We promised never to think?
Would you cover every inch
In your demonic symbols
Just to show me just how much
I truly did wrong you?
Would you break the quill
In dire disappointment
The pale canvas
Not to your utmost liking?
I was never enough was I?
I’ll wear that now
Forever on my body
Permanently showing
That I let you down.
Would you put in ink
All those bitter words
We promised never to think?
Would you cover every inch
In your demonic symbols
Just to show me just how much
I truly did wrong you?
Would you break the quill
In dire disappointment
The pale canvas
Not to your utmost liking?
I was never enough was I?
I’ll wear that now
Forever on my body
Permanently showing
That I let you down.
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DARK POEM
Published
6th Jan 2012 8:17pm
6th Jan 2012 8:17pm
Shadow in me.
Beneath the cover of flesh and bone
A sickening being lives alone
It evokes a deadly excessive pride
That becomes clear when it leaks through my eyes.
A dark and sour aloof guest is it
Who won’t pay me a single pound in rent
I’ve become a prisoner of my own born shell
Or have I forgotten signing consent?
It rises up within me
Cutting off air passage ways
Preventing my soft words breaking free
Instead it replaces them with acid tongue
Isolating me from all that I love
It envies them, the attention I give
I can’t do...
A sickening being lives alone
It evokes a deadly excessive pride
That becomes clear when it leaks through my eyes.
A dark and sour aloof guest is it
Who won’t pay me a single pound in rent
I’ve become a prisoner of my own born shell
Or have I forgotten signing consent?
It rises up within me
Cutting off air passage ways
Preventing my soft words breaking free
Instead it replaces them with acid tongue
Isolating me from all that I love
It envies them, the attention I give
I can’t do...
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LOVE POEM
Published
18th Dec 2011 8:01pm
18th Dec 2011 8:01pm
A letter of hope.
Dear personal demon,
I feel like I’m falling and no one is there
No one wishes to understand or give a damn
I think it’s about think I let you know
That I’ve stopped protesting and won’t fight you off
It’s got to be the best plan I’ve had all year
I know you’ve been trying and I pushed you down
I heard what you whispered, the horrors you’d bring
So I’ve had a change of heart, finally, at last
Because it doesn’t matter, no one really cares
You could be me and they’d never miss me at all
See there’s the beauty we could do so much
I...
I feel like I’m falling and no one is there
No one wishes to understand or give a damn
I think it’s about think I let you know
That I’ve stopped protesting and won’t fight you off
It’s got to be the best plan I’ve had all year
I know you’ve been trying and I pushed you down
I heard what you whispered, the horrors you’d bring
So I’ve had a change of heart, finally, at last
Because it doesn’t matter, no one really cares
You could be me and they’d never miss me at all
See there’s the beauty we could do so much
I...
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DARK POEM
Published
17th Dec 2011 10:01pm
17th Dec 2011 10:01pm
Waiting.
The room turned cold
Clouds of breath
Empty but I, the only human trace
Wind howls and clocks strike
Mice and the like scuttle about
But I will never know the true length of time
That I’ve sat here in this damp forsaken hell hole
Peeling wall paper and the stench of decay
Only now do I fully remember
Like a cold water assault
A physical slap across my face
That we were a dream, a fantasy
We never were and never will
Be the love I wish we had been
You hurt me deep and I will not forgive
You lied and deceived and now you shall...
Clouds of breath
Empty but I, the only human trace
Wind howls and clocks strike
Mice and the like scuttle about
But I will never know the true length of time
That I’ve sat here in this damp forsaken hell hole
Peeling wall paper and the stench of decay
Only now do I fully remember
Like a cold water assault
A physical slap across my face
That we were a dream, a fantasy
We never were and never will
Be the love I wish we had been
You hurt me deep and I will not forgive
You lied and deceived and now you shall...
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DARK POEM
Published
11th Dec 2011 7:41pm
11th Dec 2011 7:41pm
Read the fine print.
Look at you
All skeletal
I think you’ll find
That that’s imprisonment
You should have read the fine print
You make me sick you stupid wench
What did you think would happen
When you sold your soul to the devil?
Top hats and pin stripes
A gentlemen to make it all fine?
How could you be so unwise!
I just lost all my respect for you
I had hopes and dreams for you, but this just can’t do
I’m cutting our conjoining cord
I can’t be near you
Without wanting to make you hurt
I hope your happy
Because I’m not....
All skeletal
I think you’ll find
That that’s imprisonment
You should have read the fine print
You make me sick you stupid wench
What did you think would happen
When you sold your soul to the devil?
Top hats and pin stripes
A gentlemen to make it all fine?
How could you be so unwise!
I just lost all my respect for you
I had hopes and dreams for you, but this just can’t do
I’m cutting our conjoining cord
I can’t be near you
Without wanting to make you hurt
I hope your happy
Because I’m not....
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Dec 2011 12:28pm
10th Dec 2011 12:28pm
A lesson learnt.
That isn’t a smile on my face to make it all ok
I’m just fixing the mask back in place
You won’t feel a thing I promise
As I take out my double edged hate
Satan is a sweetie don’t listen to those lies
He’ll throw you a party
Lend you his favourite cloak
Honour your final arrival
You’ll be ok, more than that
You’ll be a god, a deity, a dark saint
People will want you and you’ll fill their heads
An all consuming fire, you will be desired
See, it was just too easy
Look how your greed fed you up
Gluttony...
I’m just fixing the mask back in place
You won’t feel a thing I promise
As I take out my double edged hate
Satan is a sweetie don’t listen to those lies
He’ll throw you a party
Lend you his favourite cloak
Honour your final arrival
You’ll be ok, more than that
You’ll be a god, a deity, a dark saint
People will want you and you’ll fill their heads
An all consuming fire, you will be desired
See, it was just too easy
Look how your greed fed you up
Gluttony...
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