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  • What Does Your Heart Beat For?

    What Does Your Heart Beat For?Everybody has a reasona reason to wake a reason to makeWhat’s your reason? What does your heart beat for? What does it wait for? Live, ...

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  • The Train

    The TrainAs I lay in bed,I hear the familiar treadThump…thump…thump…The train passes,I wonder if I was on it.Thump…thump…thump……To go away, to quit.Thump… To forget, Would they follow?

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  • Sparrow

    SparrowYou're like a bird pure and sweet,ebbing and flowing in the wind of your own deceit.Lost in a world all your ownhaunted by hidden sins, it's time to atone. Days ...

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  • Moral Compass

    Moral CompassDarkness comes and darkness goesits only superficial thoughThere’s a real darkness than that of the surface,A stream of wantsCloser to the heart of manFarther from the heart of GodIt’

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  • Straight And Narrow

    She walks the straight and narrow,Never turning to the left or rightThose behind her follow.Her burdens become heavy. While, theirs become light.Her pace long and direct;Never losing steam. in the ...

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  • Deleted

    Me: "Dear, Depression, YOU SUCK!" Depression: "I know"

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  • Dr. George's Final Words(Contest Entry!)

    Dr. George Wallace, a military experimental scientist, huddles in the trenches soaking wet and exhausted. Shivering, George searches for the perfect writing utensil. A stick in the mud. He begins ...

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  • Offbeat Souls

    What if our souls moved in ways we cannot comprehend?Crouching in a dance of our emotions,Collectively writhing to the music of time.Stepping forward and backwards, And from side to side.Our ...

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  • Fighting With Tenacity

    I look up, all I see is darknessmy limbs feel cold, numb, and heart thuds with a sickening slowness.Dread circles my stomach like vultures zoning in for the kill.I am ...

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  • Dead Language

    word I got was SINGULAR and I thought of LATIN(the language) haha I don't know why.The ghosts of our past haunts and influences our dividing paths.Like a language dead amongst ...

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  • The Way We Always Were

    Hello, Tory here! I just wanna say that I have never written a poem quite like this one so, constructive criticism would be good. In parts I know it can ...

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  • The Song of The Seven Seas

    Jade-green algae sits atop sharp boulders protruding from the agitated ocean.The stones act like a basin, salt water churning with an unmistakable melody,Its rhythm saved only for those who wait ...

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  • Help

    Spoiler! : I'm not going to lie I still struggle with cravings and I have relapsed a few times. But since this day the need to cut has diminished incredibly. ...

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  • There Sits a Judge

    There sits a judge in my head, he looks upon his realm of thoughts he readies to victimize. My mind is his paradise, rifling through memories and plays with my ...

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  • If I Were to Love

    If I were to love would my love choose to stay?

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