I’m not saying it doesn’t burn today is just simply, today sure, I’ve had warmer moments the sky can always be bluer and I can tune out the outside world a little harder but today I just don’t feel like breathing can I be suspended in time when I’m not moving forward or backward where […]
Author: Devereaux Frazier
the love to give
maybe I am not who I thought I am what if I’m just a fiend desperate for thrill a predator who strikes just to see the kill struggle for air in the waning moments what if I’m no better than my father itching to feel something child abuse stripped me of nerves so I don’t […]
awaiting the punishment
I feel no heatI see no lightI hold no loveI sing no songI believe no truthI desire no tomorrowThere is bitterness withinI butter my bread with itevery time I take a breathThere is sickness deepinside my marrowBreak my neck and ingest itMy heart is always collapsedSo drink the blood and be filledWith everything I’ve tried […]
alien or old school
you can tellby the way the wind blowshow it curves and shudderseach mile traveled is additional uncertaintyyou can tellhow the ground moves when I breatheon edge, willing, and cautiouseach beat is a white flag unveiledyou can tellby the way humanity is so quick to partwhen with any other they would stand firmthat I was not […]
slipping away
go ahead, lay it outupon the stars I have cemented my painstill, no answerI slam the phone done in anguishthere is slowness in my musclescreaking in the bolts of my mindand jitters in my eyelidsI just don’t work anymorebroken once, broken forevernever to fit in, never to be completedmy curse is being seen at all!can […]
giving my body away
dig back the layerseach layer of pink skintill it turns to blue veinsthe richness of bloodflooding my nostrilsI stumbleand collapse to the floorcan you feel death knocking?I am ready to escapeweakness becomes my strengthI’m crawling towards the balconyhighway smog blinds my eyesthis vacation was supposed to helpnowI’ve been robbed and secludedleft with nothing butflaps of […]
go, die now
the world suffers and burnswith scars never endingI stand backand light another matchone day they’ll understandI may bethe key to ending your painor the scapegoat that begsfor moreyou never wanted to be so freeand I always wantedto be like youbut you laughed, you mockedso I will kill, I will chalk upevery last pint of bloodto […]
passive vengeance
memories droolall over my present statethe exit woundsstain what could bewhat wasis goneI try not to reanimatethe monsterchaos magic temptsI’d like to think I was powerfulinstead I am silentpassivetoo oftenrather than the absence of courageI suffer from the absence of carethey watched me sufferprolonged my tormentwhy should I save themthey’d let me dieso shall I
Justice Isn’t Always Just
one man is convicted of murder a crooked officer maintains the curse of a sin sick law a country that is backwards and brute full of people that are ignorant and vain too many people claim to know the way yet bow to every governor and mayor no man has the authority to rule others […]
Love With Fire
We love with fire When it rains, the drops burn Before they even touch the scorched earth Your eyes opened are Sauron And I’m rooting through your earth You’re searching, I’m falling The ring was forged When you placed your hands on my neck And told me to never stop We love with pain Deserted […]
