The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius~
25.2023.08
Poem featured here: https://open.substack.com/pub/introvertedsage/p/sos?r=29gi64&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
If I knew who I was, I would hav… Drug myself through the darkness,… But all I found was more devastat… The wind blows and my house falls… Shallow pools– just as easy to dro…
Let me see you Let me feel you Let me know the way you think. If only you knew how these simple… can bring me to the brink.
Nothing seems to scratch this itch… Nothing seems to patch this bridge… Nothing seems to fill this ditch. As I teeter on the edge of the cl… Like a mosh pit
Playing in their world gets me bur… Through trials and tribulations I… Battle scars and stripes I have e… Back to myself I’ve returned. Cut the cords or they can burn.
Never met this human life, Yet you know my true name. Making your way to me, A sure claim to fame. Final piece of the puzzle.
Shedding my skin. Doing everything I can to change… Can’t shake this feeling I’ll be going under soon. While parts of me slowly learn to…
As the darkness creeps in Do you look to your kin When wishing to place the blame. Reality will fade As we sharpen the blade
Take it all away. Shed my existence of who I was who I am and who I’ll ever be. Take away my fears.
Your life seems so scripted. To you that means gifted. No, no. I get it. You’re not a misfit.
And then when it happens You won’t be ready. Like a deer in headlights Stuck in awe, the beauty of a brig… Surrounded by the fears– you’ve be…
Maybe I’ll actually feel somethin… Besides my own misery. Care what others think or let my h… Of letting another in. Calling them all in– realizing the…
Do you feel me now Right there with you? Within these walls? Don’t look now but Feel
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Once burned, the old adage cuts li… Relates to me dearly, a friend to… Love lost I guess I take the blame. Cared less for her needs, realizin…
Under the rubble deep beneath the great abyss lies a secret winding labyrinth. Caves, tunnels, valleys, mountains… seas and streams.