Tag: life
member name: Okang Ashiwel O.
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January 02, 2007 01:03 PM EST --
i thought i was smiling
but i couldn't feel it
so i went into the
bathroom to check.
i found a stranger in the mirror.
i thought i was laughing
but i couldn't feel my own laugh
so i went into . . . more
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June 17, 2008 03:48 AM EDT --
all his life,
he wanted to burn
but now he fades away,
slowly, like an echo.
the pain brings me to my knees.
i cry for him.
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February 21, 2007 11:33 AM EST --
the words refuse to come.
only tears.
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June 05, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
we talked for a while,
the conversation going
nowhere for a while,
just the soft words
that materialize when
two people trade words.
i don't know what you
watched for, searched for . . . more
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June 05, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
I dreamt the world
Into existence, last night
And you were there with me,
Two people lost in
Thoughts we couldn't write.
That's what we were.
And you could have covered me
With your . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:03 AM EDT --
it was a bleak, stark land
with two hundred flies
and no buzzards.
skeletons of dying spirits
provided bones for our
makeshift shelter.
i saw the skeleton of
the love we once had,
dying . . . more
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February 01, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
PART I
a parcel came in the mail
first page:
these were my dreams
when i had a life.
pages spilled memories,
colour and emotions.
smiles.
PART II
a large scrawl,
familiar handwriting.
one sentence. . . . more
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February 10, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
love is for fools,
and you've been a fool twice,
staring out our window, nights,
and wafting sweet dreams to a soul
that lavishes in ignorance, bliss
of you.
pray harder.
your love loves another . . . more
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June 17, 2008 03:57 AM EDT --
you sat and sang
and danced and played
and laughed.
mother and child,
and i watched you
from under the picnic tree
with no branches,
nursing the leftovers you'd
wrapped for me in a . . . more
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June 17, 2008 04:07 AM EDT --
friendship was when
i held your hand
and we walked by
dried up creeks
with dead spirits on the banks
and saw nothing but paradise,
i think.
love?
love was when you left
and the colours . . . more
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February 07, 2007 12:55 PM EST --
whoa, soulbrother
you've gotta be kidding me right?
how come you look so fleshy
and your staple is
the remnant of burnt offerings
offered on bloody, flea-infested rocks
to no one in particular,
to . . . more
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February 14, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
i looked up at
th blue skies
with seven suns
shining.
but earth was
just total darkness.
i'm either seeing things
or i'm blind.
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June 16, 2008 06:39 AM EDT --
it was valentine
but no one came
calling.
i know because i
watched from my
window same as you.
so i sent you a
black rose,
a black, metal rose.
you didn't understand
so you . . . more
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