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Understanding
There is a fine line, between willing and understanding
the clueless hole left in your soul is grappling for the spark that once lit your heart
while you whistle nonchalance to the sea of faces that crash through your life like a broken wave
Because understanding is not done without willingness
and these problems you see so clearly in front of you honey, they don’t exist
not to them no, they don’t exist.
Those promises whispered in-between sheets late at night remain there, woven in the cotton that you have forgotten with the bite of yesterday’s dawn.
They implore you they do, presenting lies disguised as childish riles
and your bedroom light now is sheltered in shadow and it feels like a gallows, but they can’t see that.
No, they can’t see that.  

The lids of your eyes are left masked in disguise
these problems you feel no longer seem real
but the confusion does.
And that rise in hysteria that makes you grow wearier turns your soldier façade into something so vague
and you can’t explain it because your heart is like rock and the problem now is
You don’t know what.
That confusion is real and those things that you feel they are present they are true they are here.
But there is hope
Darling there is hope.
For you aren’t alone in a world full of scorn there are people that care honey, people are there!
But you can’t see that
no, you can’t see that.
I'm not the best at poetry but there you go
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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fever
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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I find solace in the clouds
-she brings rain
to cool my brow

tranquil in my fever-
I close my eyes
and leave here

solace in tranquility.

r ~ 9/4/14
For Joe Cole's challenge.
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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thunder
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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i still try to remember
to take my boots off
at the door

my feet are wet
from walking in the rain

i leave laetoli footprints
on the pine floor
-like the first man

trying to walk upright
but can't seem to
get it straight

There's a lot of empty space
in a house
so full of quiet

wishing for thunder.

r ~ 9/5/14
\¥/\
  |     •
/ \
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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sundy
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
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Sundays
come in two flavors-
hallelujah
and goody powder

goody powders
go down easier
with flavored water

not the **** variety
but strawberry
or cherry

wall clock
goes ****
****
where's my ****

hallelujah-
FIRE

r ~ 9/7/14
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|   I kid you
/ \
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
Invocation
I was acquainted with a raucous older man while I was still young and as impressionable as plaster-of-paris
Malleable as I was
He left a mark

And now
I watch you wearing baldness with classy elegance
and donning beards with ease, easy on my eyes
Can we fly through space safely?
Touch me
If only it was as easy as "oh, you're the one!"
I swear I saw it in your eyes
Fate wore a disguise
Until I recognized
It was
*You
 Sep 2014 Fake Knees
Aish
Hypnotic

your tongue
slips and skips,

like
the navel
of the sea

salmonswimming
upstream
as it scribes
liquid aums

in
the magnetized silk
of my ****** -
before you
crucify me,

nailing my palms

to undulant dissolution

galaxies
pouring
from my mouth.

© Amber Dawn
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