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Patterns

life is full of patterns  
the kinds that lead to places  
you'd never venture through  
way the lights create halos of colors in the middle of the night  
places you should never stop in if you are a certain color(you don't get to choose)  
you don't belong here man  
don't put that window down  
you shout through it  
quick as lightening  
you get the fuck out  
night suddenly lights up  
with sharp shades of red and blue and you're surrounded  
black tarmac smooth as silk  
with that beautiful yellow ribbon running down the center  
guiding you to another nowhere  
you slide into ramp curves  
where life is never a complete circle of wisdom  
just a short run that takes you down more streets sitting empty under the glares of eyes constantly changing  
red             yellow          green  
run into an empty soul house  
where clothes are piled inside the door  
window glass cracked casting fragmented shattered dreams  
large snake of colorful debris  
wrapped around table legs  
floor alive with tangled mess  
the end of which lies  
golden eyes catching wisps of light he's a ripped powerful growling mass  
who doesn't recognize you in the black of night where you hesitate  
sniffing out fear  
how did things get to here  
food in piles  
plates sit stained empty  
piled high in stainless steel  
every where you look life is a mess so colorful you can smell it  
creeping quietly as possible to not wake the lion that is mother  
who was waiting for your return under piles of blankets you can barely make out her figure  
her breath the only thing visible  
coldness seeps through the air with each exhale gray on black  
smoke swirls  
where you cave at her feet  
not able to move further through thick debris tapestry of a life  
not chosen  
hanging restless eyes wide open  
slipping back while hers are still closed so she can't see you leaving for something more better  
grass is greener on the other side if you're not there to fuck it up  
are apologies the right color now at this moment  
will they change the color of the night sky long enough to catch that golden star  
in rapid red heart beats  
where you dream to break this damn cycle  
you climb through that door leaving all those colorful scents wafting where souls scream and wail at the indifference  
where craning your neck out leaves you open and vulnerable  
still full of hope that those golden twinkling stars can show you the way until that bright disc slides over that black horizon lighting up a new world where the answers aren't always a tear stained no  
where the train stops momentarily for weary legs pulsing under the weight of all things that weigh you down no more  
climbing those three steps to freedom  
there's a new taste of crumpled brown leather where your body has never sat yet it feels like you've always been here in this place called destiny  
where the answers are easier to come by where there's no need to stop if you don't want to you keep going and going past the maybes that float in the windows mirroring the reflections of early morning with her red orange blues
few stars still shine where taste somehow looks sweeter where destination is a choice not a question of the time spent waiting on so many dark nights to change all your damn answers to YES
Written by jemac
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