Downtrodden, now
Skiing down slopes of
The ephemeral kind,
I see my past,
Above, behind -
[Me], there you are
Smirking down on
A solitude existing
Solely due to my own
[In]action, doing,
Undoing,
This is the undoing of me,
The untying of strings
Used to hold me together
You did, while ripping me apart,
Wresting me from the
Suckling of a
Life I took for granted.
Unbeknownst she has
Undone the ribbon
That pieces together
Her neck and her head -
Watch it fall,
I come tumbling down,
Bridges can't stand
In my wake.
Here a glance,
[A car crash,]
There, a raised eyebrow
[An explosion,]
And everywhere I turn,
Something seems to
Not-so-silently
Deconstruct itself
Perhaps to match this
For its the decon
struction of self that
concerns me, corners me
Browsing, perusing
I stumble upon
A fact of inaction
Tactfully bowing
Down to gods of
Some sense of fate
I don't quite believe in...
These pieces, quite broken
Nonetheless, are mine,
Peaceful, a sigh...


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I can't stand these lies [this life]
I tell myself
"it's worth it"
hushed betrayal
of sense of self
in place of freedom
I once knew
how to run
"drop everything,
just go"

running has its uses, I
ran for cover -
[shadows can't betray
when the leaves lay
across my path]
ran for truth -
[can't live
like this
anymore -
something better
must exist, persist -
{ent like a memory}]
ran for beauty -
[lies in eyes,
worlds collide
when
gestures gesticulate
to me
the meaning behind
reason behind
being]
ran for fear -
[{can't catch me
I'm the goldschalger girl}
swinging from moods
like vines in the jungle
of my
mind...
paranoia persists
despite prevalent
apathy]

Perhaps I need to start jogging, just
Keep up the pace, keep going,
chugging [or swigging] along,
Like the choo choo that could
I cho-chose you,
And thus my path,
Ran along the tracks,
Two trains collide and I stumble,
Shoelace caught again
In the current of things...
And I'm gone...

The beauty of passion everlasting contained within the explosion in my wake.

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