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 Oct 2021
The X-Rhymes
dead fly on my roller blind
dragged into the light
there to find as I unwind
or draw back up at night

round as ripples on a pool
flattened by the wheel
spinning on the pole and spool
cured of real by reel

this had happened long before
and would repeat again
knock he might on heaven’s door
but here he will remain

like that movie, Groundhog Day
from his dream never wakes
rolling out and rolled away
reminded of mistakes

reflecting on this gruesome sight
I think of my life too
and perhaps explain it might
why I get deja-vous

someone, somewhere pulls a string
and once again I'm seen
life and death are the same thing
we're dead flies on a screen.
True story.
But we got a new blind.
 Oct 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
Hard to decipher how you feel
Admire your poker face
Cannot see past your blank expression
Make sure there is no trace

Work to match aloofness
You won't notice I care
Underneath my cautious mask
Gasping for air

Beats of heart pound in my ear
Blood rushes under my skin
Sounds so loud from my perspective
Swear noise fills room we're in

Talent is acting like past never happened
Wearing indifference like cheap cologne
How dare you sit there talking to me
As if friends is all we've ever known
 Sep 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
I want to feel better but I don't know how
Write your name in a broken heart
In the sky the sun is shining down
But inside of me it's cold and dark

Wind whispers doubts into my ear
Tells me I'm to blame
That the world wants me to disappear
Filling me with shame

So I think I must deserve this fate
Your absence my punishment
I wish my pain would be erased
But it stays perpetually present

Again and again I am destroyed
Each hour alone brings me grief  
I can no longer find any joy
I search everywhere but it's out of reach

When will the downpour within my soul stop?
So a rainbow can take it's place
By now it should be over but it's clearly not
I long for color to occupy this empty space
Please don't come back another day
 Sep 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
What is expected from me?
You were the half that chose to leave
I'll do my best
Be your friend
Even if leading to another dead end
Never thought we would wash up where we are
Two separate shores
Watching you from afar
Be truthful with me
That is what I most desire
Sick of the games
Frustrated
Tired
Fake way through a familiar apology
Promising to be the man I know you'll never be
Like a rolling dice
Have many faces
Expert at bluffing yet you're always holding aces
You gamble my love
About time you lose
My heart not an object to pull apart or use
I'm sick of betting my chips
The poorest hand
For you I go all-in
Don't even understand
I never was good at cards
At least that is what I'm told
Probably should cut my losses
Say farewell and finally fold
But what can I say? I guess I'm just a gambling type of girl...
 Aug 2021
lua
my heart hurts
it squeezes
and bursts in my chest
as i cough up petals
she talks to me in flowers
and the sweetest of curves
but not about me
not about me at all
not me and her
and im left to yearn
yet to smile for her
bring the balloons
answer her questions
and watch them together
this is how it always ends
anyway.
and ill never tell her
how often i explode for her
i never will
anyway.
 Aug 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
Say something
Prove I'm wrong
You have an argument ready
Mess up perfect break-up speech
This is headed south already

You excel at sounding smart
Realize how little you know
Compliment me
Flatter my senses
***-kissing you owe

Are you fooling yourself?
Got nothing going for you
Walking away
It's what's best
It isn't easy for me to do

Dang dude
Grow the hell up
So immature it makes me sick
Lame in a multitude of ways
Including a tiny ****
Hope no one is offended by this hilarious yet brutal poem
 Jul 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
Go rot in hell for all I care
Saying you love me
My heart locked in an iron vault
No one allowed to take out or see
Been played many times before
A monster's all I'll ever be
 Jul 2021
Thomas Steyer
My indicator light's stopped working
near side at the rear.
I do right turns only
guessing my way, oh dear.

I'll spiral towards my destination
that's the plan, you see.
But I end up where I've started.
How stupid can one be?

Put a new bulb in the other day,
now the brake light's broke.
Is this for real,
or is this a joke?

So I think, brakes are for losers.
Slowing down or circling like a goof,
I'd get there so much faster
if I fixed a blue light to the roof.
 Jul 2021
Amanda Kay Burke
You are more resilient than you realize
Heart will survive though it may bleed
Sharp words cut your ego down to bone
Use them to strengthen and succeed

Turning pain to tools is hard
But it is better than nothing at all
The choice is yours whether to fly
Or succumb to wounds and fall
Use these injuries as building clockd
 Jul 2021
Brett
I am addicted to peace, but it always seems to fall away from me.

Down in the depths that ring hollow, the material never seems real.

Something about a feeling, resonates on the only currency I care to perceive.

Like falling upwards, and watching the ground recede beneath.

These gridded blocks like bars, that keep me from being free.

Discarding dog tags, and gnawing through the leash,

That keep me tethered, to the hands controlling my belief.

All these passing smiles wreak of resignation.

Fabricated happiness, sows the seeds, of roots that clasp your feet;

Ensuring, you never leave the places,

That you never chose to be.
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