I found the missing parts of me Inside the landscape of my dream Far be it from me to forget That me and all the Earth is one So through this world I will go on While Sun and Moon will rise and set Inside the landscape of my dream…
Tag: Poetry
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Survival strategies
There will come a time when there’ll be nothing but survival on my mind and it’s coming up soon, it’s coming up now I can feel it And I want you to feel, I want you to know that I really can’t make it on my own no, not this…
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The deafening noise my heart makes
It’s as if you’re pulling your fingers through the darkness within me with all your words and your voice and all of that art and the desire to burn all my bridges, to sail all my ships to completely surrender in the face of the deafening noise my heart makes…
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Writers are such peaceful creatures
What harm could lie behind our features? No, writers are such peaceful creatures We might indulge in words and wine With purpose clear as if divine We might just string you all along And have you think we don’t belong But we are human just like you With eyes of…
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I will never tell you not to cry
What sorrows do you hide behind your eyes? Come, tell me what you’ve tasted of despair Cast off the smile you wear as a disguise Let loose your demons and let down your hair What curses have you bellowed at the sky? Come, tell me all your hatred, I implore…
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What do you dream of as you walk the Earth?
What do you dream of as you walk the Earth? What is it that you yearn to set on fire? A chaos of deep passion from your birth Made you into a creature of desire What guides your footsteps on the road to hell? What draws your eyes to heaven…
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Happen to me
If I let you Happen to me Pretend words have no meaning Let you build A fence of language A language offence To hold against me You ought to hold against me The border of your skin Between our fingers entwined A distance so far An ocean in our eyes…
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You’re so much more than good enough
Are you okay? Can you hear me in there? What are you doing to yourself? Only what others have done to you It’s not okay You’re good enough You’re so much more than good enough They were wrong They were wrong, and you don’t owe them a thing You can break…
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En längtan
En längtan följer mig vart än jag går. Den säger: “kom till mig, för här du finner en kraft långt bortom allt som du förstår.” Så massivt och så fast som berget står, så flyktigt och så lätt som vattnet rinner, en längtan följer mig vart än jag går. Så…
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Quoth the tired astronomer
Imagine looking up into the sky at night, toward the stars that faintly glow, to curse your human mind for being slow and yet unable to cease asking why. Those distant lights insist on passing by, around the Earth and through your mind they go, suggesting that there is so…