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Love the sinner, hate the sin

Crimes committed, committed again

Truth hangs on a rusty nail

Hidden by hope, waiting to impale

Days pass on a tenuous thread

Bleeding heart, consumed by dread

Creating a world, nothing it lacks

Wishing affection, ignoring the facts

Aware of danger, asking for pain

Feeling the blood rush, seep from the vein

Crying the tears, that should not have fallen

Wishing return, the heart that’s been stolen

Brokedown Palace

Outlines of faces behind translucent shroud

Hinting of eyes and whispers of lips

Peak out from the gauzy sheet

Like covered screams or sinking ships.

Brokedown Palace is where we lay our head

Amidst the bitter ruins of better days

With the rubble of stars as our pathway

With the broken hearts the distant blaze.

Green tinged skies hide the grayness that still is

Showing the scars of the land and of the sea

Cloudless above but no sun shines here

An eternal life of manufactured purgatory

Searching for hope that could bring new joy

To many a mangled and fractured life

Grasping for vines and digging for roots

To remove oneself from this eternal strife

Sparrow

Her broken hearted sparrow

Is avoiding all defeat

She hasn’t seen tomorrow

She lays dying at your feet

While she might be laughing

Her heart is seeping sweet

Her broken hearted sparrow

Has fallen in the street

Her lovely Aphrodite

She knew her when she was well

Her broken hearted sparrow

Hamlet he did tell

No One

My name is no one

We might have met before

While I was pining for you

You were headed out the door

My name is no one

I’m sure you don’t recall

I was the girl crying

As you headed down the hall

My name is no one

Don’t bother to retrace

My face is but a window

No reflection on your face

My name is no one

Shadow is where I live

You know not of the pain

That your indifference gives

My name is no one

I’m sure that you don’t see

You wander in the land above

While I stay in my darkened company

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Are there any words to express

The shunning by another

Are there enough tears to convey

What one does to the other

Can love go only sideways

And not come back around

Can love create a heaviness

That holds you to the ground

What keeps you in this darkened place

This cold and blackened room

What makes you stay and call it home

Like a enslaved soul within a tomb

Winds that whistle blow through your mind

Like a train about to depart

Winds that haunt your dreams and thoughts

Crushing your broken heart

You imagine that love will show its face

Though nothing has been suggested

You hold on to the walls, clinging to false hope

Your heart destroyed, completed, and bested

Realization

My realization sealed my fate

For I was underground

With a stake in my heart

And a knife in my back

My soul forever bound

My realization came too late

For I was buried in death

With a sentence of love

And a yearning for pain

My soul was gasping for breath

My realization came up swift

For I was caught off guard

With a moment of bliss

And a glimpse of hope

My soul was left unbarred

My realization was heaven sent

For I was cradled and charmed

With a smile on my face

And a grace to my ways

My soul was left unharmed

My realization was not in need

For I was strong and steady

With a strength to my step

And and a lift of my chin

My soul was willing and ready

Broken

My broken heart

Cannot decipher your riddles

Love used to speak clearly

Now it only mumbles

I catch phrases

Dripped in honey and poisoned with hope

Love used to be a fire

Now it only smolders

Where does the heart go

When it decides to wait?

Love in purgatory

Now creating its fate

My ember love

Remains true with hope

Though the flame has died
The spark provides the  light.