Why are secrets about me
Kept from me?
And
No one tells me.
No need to scream, snitch
I sense them.
I hear them
Sometimes before they happen
There is no mole in anyone’s midst
Fear not
I hear it in bits
I can’t turn it off
But I wouldn’t choose too
I only do so
When threatened
It was to learn the deeds.
That was all.
You need to take heed.
What I said before today
Calm, breath, I’ve spared all
For months on end
What’s life?
I won’t say a word
At least with you.
And why?
I don’t know.
You deserve it.
But it’s just not my place.
If it hurt I would
But no
I’m a devoted friend
And if I’m honest I’ve been happily astray.
I never heard saw or ever assured
But the truth
Come now sooth
Your very self
And the soul of which ink pours out of the cracks
But it’ll solidly harden and you’ll feel again
You may even learn to pray
But no I will not raise a hand
Paranoia be gone.
I won’t.
But if by proxy you are barred
What can I do?
Pretend nothing happened?
I guess I’ll try.
Anything happens more
Game over
I’m already bored
Of this collegiate lore
However
A betrayal with betrayal does not pay.
What lesson is there in that?
Now I know who.
I’ll keep my mouth closed
So now you see
There is no anger in this from me
Do not fear
A seer will never be a deer
Hunted and sacrificed to the fools who beleive they are a pack of wolves In sheep’s clothing
I’ve always smelled such loathing
I’m not lamb
You think you’re the gatekeeper
To my happiness?
I smile as I am the dam that holds back the water
That would drown you.
Drive the night time?
Oh really?
Try me.
You’re are gonna fail immensely
Believing others are fools
Because you’re simply a tool
Of hate
For you were told to hate
Your demons whisper intrude on my light
Why?
Because it blinds them of course
They want you drowned in your own life
Wading through toil and strife
And whose side do you take?
Break or make?
Theirs
I do so wish you’d see the fake
I hear There was a lake.
But zip my words.
Absurd?
I know.
I’ll stop the flow of it
You chose the wrong way
And do not even seem to know it yet.
And I waited for it
For I already knew
But it was bigger than all of us.
So no there was never blind trust
But I did what I knew I must
Be careful what you try to prove
for the receipts in my hand
I will take that stand
But I don’t want too.
And I will do what I have to
just let it rest.
I don’t have anything to confess
But I think you do.
You made up a war you were Told to fight
Listening to lies of those stuck in the night.
With a touch of the blight
They knew they could sway you to bite
And it was all for nothing
You got the worst end of the stick
I got out of the thick of it.
where when was chosen
To do such
But such other secrets
Come now
Just tell the truth
It sets you free.
Could you really be so afraid of me?
You didn’t know me then and you could never see.
I was never the enemy.
But I knew who was
You have to learn for yourself though
Or be lost in the hellish cycle
I’m destroying my own.
I’ve grown
But have you?
Or do you hold your hand out to cheap fulfillment to be left empty.
If you spoke would you just come again to betray
Again.
Don’t stay in the haze
I’ll admit on dawn
The name is dawn
I say things
That trigger
Then
Read energies
Then withdraw it when it feels off
Both detective and medium
I also stoke the fire
You think I like the liar?
No but if I was not wronged I’d never have to say a word I do not desire
To lie on anyone so I speak no name
I play no game
I throw out spikes that trip only the truth
And when I feel no air escape and discrepancy in the energy
I pull them back.
I hear whispers through the speaker.
I wish I knew why
Together it’s unstable
A little wild
But unstoppable
And never mild
But telling a child
What to say.
I file through all the sounds
To the one piece that is found
And throw the rest to the wind
I will rescind
any empty word
That night
I knew watching the flame and smoke
I know what this is.
Oh I knew immediately
And knew the road up this mountain was gonna be steep
What would be taken from me
Would be to set me free
God said it’s ok
Let them be.
You’ll lose alot
Even dignity
But that’s the journey
I have set for thee
I am not special
I’m simply me
And I didn’t choose you
Nor you me
It was always bigger than us
Can you see yet?
Any more secrets?
The black cat figurine.
I kept with a bite to the lip.
Did someone take a trip?
I wore what was given
While laughing in their face
I walk away with grace
Pretending to be without a clue
But when I’m through in through
Why am I the only one that grew?
The only one who cares for the truth?
I only know a few more secrets
And the others I’ve heard I hope aren’t yours
for your sake.
It makes me sad
Because they aren’t so good
I care enough to try to comfort an evil.
You were asleep.
Have you see it yet?
I was never the cause of what you live now.
Look closer.
And forget these secrets
They are of the past.
Breath
No you cannot ever manipulate
Nor ever use again.
You never did before
I’m not one of the many
You cannot ever assume that will ever be in store.
But you can live again.
What’s it gonna be.
It ain’t about me
Do something about you
I’m sorry
I should’ve told you.
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With the right tools
But I get randomly
2006 Chevy
Drove by your house
Mine?
She listens to the things that are said.
I don’t mean to encroach privacy
But I apologize
You can’t trick me
I apply that with lifelong skills of analyzing and detection.
Personality in understanding
See the soul in all its imperfection
An absolutely selfish, evil person
I’ll go toe to toes with
And when they finally see me
Look me in they eye with hate
From bad awful advice
They take from a spirit they think wise
Your still listening to them?
Then I’ll stand ten toes down
Because it’s bigger than me
But did you know of your own?
I wish you’d see it
Your own power you give out to all.
Call
It home.
Take it back inside if you.
Answer the call of it.
But with such demonic attachments and needs?
You’ll never be able to see all
And because you’ll always fall into the mire
Stop setting fires where they have no need
Why did I agree to this contract?
I guess I simply believed
It’s from the past I’m sure
It’s why the allure
Took in change
Cataclysmic
I know it before it even begins
I sense the whispers directed at me from the best of friends
The enemies
The fallacies on my character lied of
So ignorant
The game was lost before It began
I don’t play games
And your still trying
I just take names
I should’ve said
I should’ve said
You want me dead
Follow me home
Your friend
even hear the stories you told
On us
That never happened
And the perjury
Perjury
You aren’t the only one Im looking through
Everything I say isn’t mean just for you.
You will never be able to stop me.
I hear it coming.
If you were a good person.
Stop doin this to her
Someone says
I believe
Im free
Nothing of this world thrown at me can shake my defenses.
It can cloud the senses
But it’s not long til I snap to attention
Cry for the Demons on you
Doll
Doll
Doll
The craziest part is I was warned of him
5 yrs ago.
His named sounded out over and over and over.
So many creative ways.
To end anyone.
But it’s never gonna happen
I chose to care for you
Knowing who you’d befriend.
Knowing what you’d say.
Knowing the names of females around me
But the perjury
Blood was always a blind spot.
Oh I know
But not anymore
And you
I know your soul
Hospital
I looked at him.
50/50
Account
I’m sorry I should’ve let you know
But how do I tell you what will happen
When it hasn’t yet.
Worry not even though you’d come to lie and end
I still won’t raise a word to you.
Those convos were simply convos
Just fun in the moment
What they took from me
Simply set me free to speak
You thought it was gonna trap me?
Bring me to my knees?
I stay standing so easily.
But what was meant to end me
Set me free
Rising
You think I’m me?
Because of you?
Don’t make me ill
This began long before you.
You just made it spin
But you also stunted it
Before I began again.
Get a clue
I
Set me free.
I could never be
Who I was
Without first breaking the chains of love to blood.
Blood meaning dna
I know everything
Speak to me.
It’s on display
It’s already done
Every mistake.
Set me up?
It’ll never happen
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The problem is they don’t differentiate
I cannot tell them apart
These words
Someone else’s story sometimes melts inside
Confusion spelled with a con
Put it upon 404
Only number 404
That’s what it is but they have the power over it.
Use the phone.
I can’t read your mind
Nothing of the sort.
Never have and never will
I can’t of course
But you make sport
Of me
I’ll let you because I already knew
All destined to be
Only you had lessons you refused to learn
You always had to burn
Someone instead
Are you sick?
Who is sick?
It’s not so perfect.
But what we couldn’t do
The telepathy made it more than It was before
Why did everything have to be so serious to the core
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Synchronicity
In sync what we said that they even saw
Was quite innocent really
But whatever posted?
Roasted
And I understand your revenge
I truly do.
You thought I’d do it to you
Since I had some
But never even watched
I simply knew I’d need them to speak if You ever did
And you did.
But it wasn’t in me.
Here’s the secret
It don’t matter if you want it to.
If you don’t or do
It’s what I was always trying to say
There are conversations I can’t repeat.
I heard on the breeze
Awful.
Between two men maybe three
That’s a shadow I can’t except
But if that’s when the haze had taken hold
That’s ok
But be bold
Don’t let them take what your power is
They keep you from the path
It’s not about me
But you.
You have snakes in your grass
You haven’t seen them yet.
No offense they look just like you.
But I’ve a pipe for you
Controlled
I’ll handle you.
But those words I heard
Sounded of yours
Don’t make me say them out
Put that out in the ashtray now
Speak to me.
For a moment.
Don’t you
don’t end up
Where you shouldn’t be
But I won’t let you if it can be
But don’t even try the game I see straight through it.
Think me that foolish
It’ll be your last
smell the betrayal in your blood
Can you even speak with bones
Speak alone
Tried to stone
Me?
Smear?
Perjury?
I simply smile through it
Pay mind to nobodies, judging eyes, ugly lies and smirking sighs
It Does nothing
I can count the stars while standing in the stocks
Chained to the rock
I can pick the locks
Before my liver has been eaten
I’m below the waves
I’ll bury my own jar in the grave
To show you the protection around me.
I’ll stand years in the stocks
For a crime I didn’t even do.
Why did I sign the dotted line
Or wait maybe someone forged that one too
Cast down the villain and the thorns
Martyr
And just be who you are.
Only who you are?
Do you even know?
Is it sickness that grows eating the weak?
Never standing in the strength
You never knew you could be?
Or do you have something more
Hidden up your sleeve
But is it a knife or is it reprieve
Will you laugh or do you still grieve
With a smile on your face
To all around you that give you no grace.
You walking in place.
You weren’t made to trace
But walk your own line.
You always have so stop following the worldly and base
There’s a face
That looks back angry
Because you finally found out what you could be?
Cast down hero and the horns
Demon
And just be who you are.
“Every girl says that”
I don’t
—C.R.Stanger
2024