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Giving Up The Ghost

You ever wish that you could just rewind? Go back in time, And just turn out fine?

Daydream (Dream Diary)

drawn from the memories of these fascinating and mysterious dreams that have haunted me, inspired me, comforted me and always left me....

Labels, In a not-so-perfect world

We live in a world where anything that deviated from the norm is mislabeled and misrepresented. So until we live in a perfect world, I need

A slow collapse

Is there a fury in the bleakness of the after-death, a separation beyond anxiety, a hopelessness beyond the last farewell?

Come, Sing Along

As I stand here In this crowd of strangers I hear a familiar song. One that strikes a chord Deep down in my soul. Songs of menacing...

Dream Diary I

And suddenly, I was falling through the clouds, through the rays of that blinding sunlight. It was a while...

Dream Diary II

I fell out of reality and into my dream only to wake up under a kaleidoscopic glass ceiling that somehow reminded me of your eyes...

When reality confuses you

The scene in my room is like a weird dream, and this reality is hurting my mind. I am standing and staring at my life in confusion.

A muse of tragedy - Part 1

Every sad faced clown, every overblown ‘everyone dies in the end’ play, every awful pop song about heartbreak. I’m the one behind all that..

Dichotomy of Good and Bad

The best way I can explain it is if I examine the separation of the two worlds to staring through a rain-spattered windowpane.

Tender

I feel tender, but not like a flower or a love story. Instead, a deep cut left weeping in the cold wind, like scabs that one picks until...

Paranoia II

I will wait for better times on the other side and find myself drawn to your gravity, once again, but time...

Not everything is meant for keeps.

ome things I embrace, some things I throw out to the pigeons and lost souls that search for meaning, and some things, I let take me to....

I am always tired

All that awaits me now, is death and her kiss, like slivers of moonlight on my shoulders and hopes that this night slips away without us...

I am having one of those days

I am having one of those days where this feeling is so impenetrable that I can’t believe I am able to sit upright.

I am colour

Part of a series combining spoken word with images. 'I Am Colour', uses colours as metaphors, as thoughts, as emotions, and at times a mere

Transient Affair

I know that these moments are brief, That this is perhaps, Merely an erotic coupling For those who dared and dreamed, And that is fine b

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