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Icarus

Icarus

Self Determination

Self Determination
It’s never free
There is always a cost
Self determination
Requires
Casting off the yoke
Letting go of the world
Free from others condemnation
You are free to pursue
Your own course of action

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Imrogue
Autres oeuvres par Icarus...
Solitary

Staring down Into my own Oblivion Self destruction Impossible to escape
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Today

Today is the last day I am going to do this to myself The last day I will hold on to any hope Today is the last day
The Callous

It didn’t happen all at once The stress of impact And the heat of friction Combined Has a natural result
Insecurity

I can no longer trust my mind not to betray me, and devour me To bury me with thoughts of insecu… Was it love was it something else
Can you?

Can you Unravel the lies You tell yourself To make it through Your uneasy
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We cross one another

In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched
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I have touched the sky

Easy to lament Greatness touched and then gone bu… Few taste it at all
The hustler

What are you selling Everybody is That thing that you have That’s icing and fizz Every encounter
Late bloomer

I thought I was the adult I had the years that is without question But experience and wisdom Those were yours
Carnal knowledge

Everyone thinks they know what is best. The path they have chosen Must fit all. Knowledge of Right and wrong
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Too many times

Too many times you told me Too many times “if I had known” Too many times “ I wouldn’t do it… Too many times “ I fell too far s… Too many times I never measured u…
bittersweet

I didn’t know what it was like to… then you showed me what it was lik… I didn’t know what it was like to… Then you came along and accepted m… I didn’t know I could feel so dee…
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What's not to love

I love your grace Always seeing beyond The ruins left In the wake of sin I love your strength
A day in August

There was a day. it was in August we visited your mother in the hospital. Afterwards we wen… to a beach side burger joint.
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Unrequited

If anyone but you Had told me not to talk to you They would never have succeeded I let you go Because you asked me to.



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