Gilded Nightmares by Shadowof-Mahogany, literature
Literature
Gilded Nightmares
And you would think,
that once the marionette's strings rot through,
That it would spring free
and run away.
But no.
Once the Maker loses interest,
and the strings snap,
It only becomes another piece of decay.
A wooden heart,
one that will never beat,
Eaten by termites.
Wild yarn hair yanked out
by its roots by birds,
To warm their young in the nest.
Shiny black button eyes,
chewed away by rodents
Slowly the marionette will die,
a second, gruesome death.
Tonight I dreamed a gilded nightmare
of blood,
When Im with you I feel perfect
When Im with you I feel great
And there is no one else in the world
That could ever take your place
For you are irreplaceable to me
Irreplaceable like my beating heart
For I breathe only for you
For you are a dream come true
From this day on may we never part
For you are my lost puzzle piece
And like a puzzle piece you complete me
And made me feel so whole
You opened my eyes that were narrow and closed
And gave me the ability to finally see
What true love actually is.
True love is like the setting sun
It's a masterpiece to behold
I am the art and you are the mold
Let us forever sta
It's quarter to seven, as I'm walking along the tired sunset.
And what a sky to fall into. Envy seeps into my vision.
As the sun embraces the intensity with full lips.
Anticipation. provocation.
It's bright red hand of a take over, Speaks-
In a million tender tongues. Each with a sliver
Of a ribbon of seduction. Elation and mystery.
The sun brings itself to it's warm knees,
As the glow becomes veiled and disappears.
The night will roll up so eyes will not see,
A play that certainly will make all of us,
Dream sweetly.
The sun is nonexistent as the sky burns a brighter red.
And the shape of it's hand slowly diminishes into the gray
Can't Keep Me Down by TheseKrimzonFlames, literature
Literature
Can't Keep Me Down
You thought you would break me,
You thought you could take me,
You thought that you'd make me,
Give my dreams away
So lets avoid this confusion,
And ignore all the illusions,
While we watch your world go up in flames
Cause I know it's not,
What you were planning
After everything you've done...
I'm still standing
You see, I pick me up!
When you knock me down
You wanted me to run away!
But I'm still around
You tried to give me sorrow!
And hoped I would drown
You can throw me off balance,
But you cannot keep me down
You thought you could change me,
You thought you could shame me,
You even tried to blame me,
To make me forge
No, no, no
All wrong.
In any effort,
any attempt
to be something
other than something
else, the words
are left choked
at the bottom of
my larynx.
And my words
are methodical,
beautiful designs
that are but
AREN'T me.
Left disjointed
in stories abstract
and outside of myself.
Stories where
I can ignore
my very own
perceptions and
life-
Breath, breath, breath.
There's fire
in the stars-
I feel them,
see them burning.
Can you hear
their flesh
bubbling?
(Such a gruesome sound)
Alive, alive-
Don't be deceived!
They live, they breathe!
I hear them speaking ever quietly.
They kiss other stars,
before they die,
before they die.
They die without
a sound, though they
are in so much pain.
They burn, they burn,
like paper mache.
They die-
their firefly lights go out.
Memory of You
It was cold and windy,
The day we laid you to rest
And I couldn't help but wonder,
If I failed you, if I did my best...
(The memory of you...haunts me...)
I can't believe...!
That you did this to me!
You left me lost!
Left me alone!
I wonder why...you...
Just couldn't go on...
Now you're gone!
And nothing feels the same!
Now you're gone!
Everything has changed!
I am haunted!
By the person I once knew...
Haunted by...
The memory of you...
I know that you felt anger,
And I know you felt betrayed,
But that does not excuse,
The selfish choice that you made...
(The memory of you...haunts me.
If only the two of us could be
Sitting backstage of reality
Where all other actors disappear
Balcony tickets have been reserved
No less than the best do you deserve
With a cast of two, the show starts here
Each line is completely improvized
With no stage directions to provide
And dialogue only for us to hear
The show will enchant us in every way
Until the sweet closure of the day
The curtains will fall, ending our premier
November again,
The time of masks gone
in a puff of smoke and magic.
November again,
I'm going to be sick.
Why are all of the leaves
almost gone?
November again,
Give thanks for the
thankless,
God knows there's enough
of them.
November again,
I'm going to blow
chunks.
Too much turkey repeat.
November again,
like every other month.
Some good, some bad.
I hate it all the same.
November again,
it's not so bad...