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Kara Palais May 28
Karma's a revolver with a cherry red smile,
dancing in the dark like a ghost gone wild.
She waits under the cloak of stormy skies,
with a perfume of gunpowder, secrets, and lies.
Every sin's a bullet tucked into her dress,
Tell me, are you sure you want to place your bets?
Spinning the chamber with slow caress,
every choice calculated under your duress.
Humming sweet lullabies in the back of your mind,
she's satin and danger, all intertwined.
Pulling the trigger with a wink and a sigh,
you thought you were wanted, but you're just the high.
Ask yourself before you begin:
Can you stomach the cost of the chaos within?
She plays to collect, and so far has yet to miss a debt.
Do you really want to tempt Karma when she's actually Russian roulette?
Kara Palais May 26
New
I wear a smile and play the part
Hide the storm inside my heart.
As long as you don't meet my gaze,
You'll never see I'm lost in a haze.
Racing forward, standing still.
Waiting games are breaking my will.
Hours blur and chaos stays
While spinning through these endless days.
Too much to do, too much to lose,
I'm drowning in the wish for new.
Kara Palais May 26
I wake to find the morning light,
yet everything’s the same.
I can’t explain, I’ll never know
Why life goes on through the pain.

The shadows in my doorway,
the steps I swore I heard last night,
My world is gone can't count the tears
I've cried in this new life.

The clock still ticks and the world still spins,
And there's an ache that time won’t quiet,
echoes of love lives on in my head
I'm supposed to go on but I don't know how to do it.
Kara Palais May 26
Love is fire, sharp and brief
wild roads whisper, where shadows meet.
This summer spell is a dream we made
My heart calls out, your soul to claim

Let's slow dance to broken songs,
twisting in shadows where we belong
With a melody only bodies can create
is it lust, or love, or some wild fate?

We'll talk til the stars no longer shine bright
writing our story in the heart of the night
Hearts adrift in a fragile dream
Wrapped up in a moment that just seems like a scene

Your eyes like mirrors of endless days
holding me still in their golden haze.
A love too fleeting to name at all
Comes to an end at the beginning of fall.
Kara Palais May 26
When everything is loud the mind goes silent
but never in the way one would like it
The race is so overwhelming it's now just a hum
The hands are steady but the mind grows numb
Eager to please unsteady to rise
Constant exhaustion from boundaries pushed aside.
Anger held down suppressed in the void
Feelings inundate set up to destroy.
Kara Palais May 24
The past was riddled with solitude,
I woke up in lace, like an old movie scene.
Now morning hums in a honeyed mood,
Last night you treated me like a queen.

The sky was heavy just before,
in shades of black and blue.
Now the storms don't come anymore,
Since all I see is you.

The night once sang in minor keys,
and every hour felt like pain.
Now even silence seems to please,
As I hear your voice in the rain.

There's color where the gray once stayed,
a bloom where I had only thorns.
The price of love was what I paid,
and in return the world was yours.

Since then I live in softer light,
A dreamscape soaked in vintage hue.
Our romance has set the world alight
What's changed? Babe, just me and you.
Kara Palais May 24
You laughed like a secret, sat close like a spell,
But clubs in your grin meant you never thought well.
Said we were soulmates, sisters in crime
But you cracked at the edges
when it wasn’t your time.

Queens don’t trust jokers, I learned this too late
Playing your part and I sealed my fate.
Spades behind backs and diamonds for shine,
You twisted the truth with one scripted line.

So here’s to the fall, to the crash, to the end.
To fake little hearts that pretend to be friends.
I’ll toast to the silence, to truth in the dark
And rebuild my throne from your fake house of cards.
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