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Shin Feb 2014
Looking around this jungle
lost in suburbia.
My best friend and I found the
willow's whips.

Continuing past, we see
the fortress of oak.
Guarded by small dragons with
poisoned fangs.

Ignoring this for fear of
our souls consumption
by the gluttonous wood's wolves
we head east.

The corner of rich and poor
rests an innocent stream
idly whispering its tale
if you'll listen.

Time filled with infinite laughs
the sun sets back home.
We mount our iron horses,
we were young.
Shin Feb 2014
You were a nauseating complication
that had nothing to do
with the pain that I do now feel.
Your inconsistent
consistency
brings me down.

The cowl that you wear among that filthy hair
brings a halfhearted laugh
with the frown that I do now wear.
Your inconsistent
consistency
brings me down.

Amid the rope that you continue to jump
sits the lonely and lost
with the flowers we do now hold.
Your inconsistent
consistency
brings me down.
Shin Feb 2014
Don't disregard a flower
just because it looks like a
balloon
and don't think you can pull on
her petals when she is in
bloom.

And maybe the priest was right
maybe these flowers aren't
anything more than simple
flowers.

I choose to ignore this fact.
Shin Feb 2014
The little rag doll looked up and smiled.
With button eyes shining, she said:
"The noise is nothing, sleep now child."

The tattered cloth began to snare,
and the poor doll bumped her small head.
She cried and whaled, but no one cared.

In stumbled the soldiers with glee,
they tore the poor doll by her threads.
tossed to the side, a doll can't flee.

God was dead, and the angels chained.
The doll was nothing more than bread,
and nothing more could she now gain.

That used doll fell into the fire.
her buttons gone, and owner dead
lost in a sea of the liars.

That doll belonged to a small girl,
and that small girl became a dove
If I may offer one more pearl,
Please darlings, don't forget to love.
Shin Jan 2014
I
Heard a voice
speaking words of joy
just listen, ignore the noise
and you will find it, like an old toy
or
you might not
maybe you'll just laugh
while the children sit and rot.
it's okay though, life is just a gaffe.
Shin Jan 2014
I'd say the world turned gray
the moment your eyes closed.
As mine remain today.

I merely watched cartoons.
I had not yet supposed
their credits would roll soon.

But when father sat down,
and showed me your gray ghost.
I knew I'd rather drown.

A light had just been snuffed,
for death's not a great host...
he called you on your bluff.

We reached down to join you
clawed our way to the most
infantile state of blue.

But you knew we would live on.
In our homes with blankets tucked.
Yet I'm merely carrion.
My emotions have been ******.
Shin Jan 2014
Maybe he really was just a hipster,
but man look into that dream filled sky.
We all know how the story ends,
with a shovel in the ground.
But he sees the middle.
This tale's rise and fall.
Quite intriguing.
That he can
really
see.
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