Haiku Series #26

The ruins of us
It all makes sense doesn't it
I only see now

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Haiku Series #25

He and I are one
Intertwined, never ending
Rooted in my soul

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Haiku Series #24

These faded letters
Whose words I reread again
From too long ago

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Haiku Series #23

Laughter fills the room
Hair cascading down my face
These moments with you

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This Place

Breathing is much harder

In this shallow

          empty place

The constant chatter

      invades me

One foot

   in front

      of the other

Damn it

          I'm lost again

It never stops

   this swirling

      in my head

I just wanted a place of 

      solace

Instead I got

solitude

Haiku Series #22

Hiding in corners
That's your solution to life
I embrace it all

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Haiku Series #21

See me with fresh eyes
The person I try to be
Don't give up this time

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Haiku Series #20

I'm drifting away
The little pieces of me
Don't know who I am

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Haiku Series #19

I stayed home today
Couldn't really face the world
Sometimes it's like that

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Haiku Series #18

Cold wind is blowing
Deep into the lonely night
My life without you

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Haiku Series #17

I see you looking
But I turn the other way
Sweet vindication

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Haiku Series #16

Little reminders
See them in all that I do
They hide everywhere

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Haiku Series #15

Music: my solace
It replaces thoughts of you
I need this breather

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Untitled 1

You stand there stone faced
Calloused fingers grip a cigarette
I watch the red light burn
As it all slips further and further away
Sometimes I say too much
But there's not enough time to say it all
So I stare at that light
And let the silence speak instead
Knowing I only have until it burns down to a nub
What's left of us?
A discarded cigarette, laying in the gutter
Sounds about right

Haiku Series #14

You're nothing to me
Hilarity of the week
Now just forgotten

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Haiku Series #13

Take off your halo
See, it's crooked anyway
Let's drop this facade

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Haiku Series #12

You know, this just sucks
I don't know how else to be
There's something missing

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Haiku Series #11

These leaves swirl too fast
Time slips between my fingers
Forsaken in snow

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Haiku Series #10

Smoke screens hide the truth
Don't want to see anyway
It hurts less this way

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Haiku Series #9

You are everywhere
Days bleed into each other
Til memories fade

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Invictus

I will not hide in corners
Running from the light
I refuse to rage a war just to prove my point
The emotions are spilling over
While you sing a lullaby
Tempting little devil
Watching others crash into jagged rocks
Lost forever
Smothered screams and heavy blackness
Pulling me under, I will not lose control
Your never ending army grows
Unwilling souls swirling into the depths
Intertwined and restless

It's all engulfed in flames
Why is it so inviting?
This urgent pull
Seductive and desperate
It almost makes me forget
I'm that close to letting you in
Surrendering to that vortex
But your words don't soothe me
They knock me out of my reverie
I will not fall victim
I am my own 
And you can't have me anymore 

Haiku Series #8

Try to stay away
I'm the match to light your flame
Into a wild fire

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Haiku Series #7

Our toes brush the sand
Your silhouette in the sun
Stand still, just like this

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Haiku Series #6

Who says I am wrong
I pretend that this is real
Don't take it away

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Haiku Series #5

Hear the breaths I take
They are deep, they penetrate
They match yours with ease

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Haiku Series #4

Wake up! I'm still here
Running through the foggy streets
Just open your eyes

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Haiku Series #3

Quite appropriate today I think...

I can smell the rain
Sliding down my window pane
Reminds me of you

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Haiku Series #2

Turn around and look
I've always been standing there
Waiting to love you

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Haiku series #1

Newest mini project: a series of haikus whenever the moment strikes:

I sank deep today
Rain washes it all away
Sun beams give me hope

The End

I grate my feet on broken glass leaving a ruby path
A swirl of dust pushes me back
Blinding me as I claw through the air
It's heavy and stings my eyes

Sway, sway with me
Let this current pull us away
But the ripples tear piece by piece
Until all that remains is horridly raw
Unfiltered and crude
It shrinks me, swallows me whole
And then spits me back out
In the early afternoon sun
Where I lay to waste
My insides scraped hollow and left to rot

Yet the noise of the world goes on
The busy people with important things to do go by
The move in taxis and walk their dogs
There's only one inevitable truth:
In the end, life goes on