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Loud Silence -READ DESCRIPTION by AutumnObsessions, literature
Literature
Loud Silence -READ DESCRIPTION
stark slence not to the living
but to the dying instead
ceasefire of all the pain that
makes me feel dead
sights of seeing ppl exploding
and hurting you inside your head
the things you're afraid of still sleep
with you in bed
creeping blinders on all of the lookers
and straight through their looking glass
you're not alright but you can still pass
for the living and there is no life without
giving
receiving answers after they've left
we can't understand life until after death
yet never giving my secrets after life
and the lies about all how much is left
death may take that away but mind paralysis
means I'll just stay locked far away
still it'll come back possibly and hopefully
one day when the light is near
fighting in the dark just to stay here
but I don't know where I am
maybe I'll just stay hidden tucked away
somewhere being self obsessed bc I'm
living still but won't do it
out of fear at least not while I'm still here
love is love as beauty dies
living and dying both create
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Out of the blue by daveisquiet, literature
Literature
Out of the blue
There are times I think about you
As your memory comes from out of nowhere
Your smile and softer laughter
Straight out of the blue
I often wonder
Whatever became of that camera
35 mm and a closet darkroom
Was good enough for you
I bump into Jan in September
We went and had a cup of coffee
Talk a lot about you
How you sort vanished
Last she heard you were in Colorado
Working for some paper
Alone and happy
So your sister said
I have often wondered
Why you never chose to marry
It wasn’t that your beauty
Didn’t draw them in
No I think it goes much deeper
Like your stinging sweet memory
Hits me like a freight train
Every now and then
I guess we made it those four years
Got our piece of paper
Put those books aside
And ate a slice of life
Somewhere in those days
You and I we lost our way
That all started for me in the day you said goodbye
There are times you haunt me
In the most beautiful of remembering
The sweetest pain of knowing
What I will never know
Then again I am busy
And