Longing for what I know exists
Distant artificial light, a seductive incandescence,
My lone hope for escape
Travelling aside crystal streams, mountainous horizon
Breathing the oaken air
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A cave births flocking figures
Concerned, condescending, constricting
Offering a siren to evade the glow, to retreat to safety
In the familiar darkness of their cave
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Venom spills from my open wounds,
to hew their demands, to silence their idiocy
Running, erratic mind
Forced visions of a sacred utopia consume me
Paint over these foreboding thoughts
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Entering, hunched, small
Suppressing vulnerability's crescendo
Elusive s(t)rangers flit by, blurred static sillhouettes
Years yearning
Tears burning
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Led to the eye, judged by the unknowing
Ribcage bursting open
Tear the cellophane vessel, slither the broken, weak truth
Bare child self
Internal rust his scent
Exterior mask discarded, and now blurred like the others
This place is far from Eden
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