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I keep wanting to wake up
Thinking this is all a bad dream
You are still with me
Still sleeping in my arms
I must have dosed off
But no
There is no weakening from this
From the queasy stomach
To the erg to run to you
To hold you again
And now that everything is alright
I know that i might be down
But I am far from out.
My bones are on fire
flashes from a casket
all the words have sprouted wings
a hint of something working
I'm lost in a thought
but my chains are bleeding
and I'm pinned to the wall
and it's getting harder to keep pulling.
You put me in a cage

You locked me away

You cut my wings

So I couldn’t fly



You put me by the window

So I could see everything

I had left behind.



You thought you could own me.

You thought you could cage my spirit

But soon it started to fade.

I stopped fighting my gilded bars



I stopped looking longingly

At the world I had left behind

The bright blue sky with the

Clouds that lazily swam across it.



The sun that rose, lighting everything

With it’s golden haze. And it’s nightly

Companion that would light the

World in its ghostly sheen.



The way I could fly all night with the pale

Light glittering off my jet black wings

The feel of air underneath my wings

Used to make me ruffle my feathers



My soul welling up with past excitement

Seeing everything from so high up

Dwarfing the world that always

Threatened to swallow me up.



But now you have gobbled me up

Taken me from my home and locked

Me here in this gilded cage. You claim

It’s to protect me, give me a longer life



But it’s for your own selfish desires

You want me as a trophy, but I feel

My spirit writhing away inside of me



And soon I’ll only be a husk

Of what I once was

You have killed

My spirit and my life



And I will become like my

Gilded cage. Beautiful on

The outside but once the

Surface is gone, nothing but

Coal remains.
 Jan 2013 Simon G Tehle
J Ericson
I water a wound that won't grow.
Hide away what people show.
All  my diamonds turned to coal.
When in Rome, I moved so slow.

Her infinite heart and sheds of rusted skins,
is flying in on concave wings.
Makes my clouds...
...just...
...drip away.
I believe all her lies...
I believe all she says...

The sequel to a sound goodbye.
Mapped dead ends and empty wells.

Syringe,
syringe,
syringe.

I love the way the concrete sing.
My infinity
Reaching – It’s beyond my grasp
What a waste of time
We love to chase the wind through streaks of blinding bliss,
Tagging the glorious ideals of love, peace, friendship, even
The meaning of life, to weeping willows and pensive pebbles.

We admire the monochrome sky in all its barren blue or pregnant purple;
Hues of burple and plue are dismissed as being tedious, or just confused.
Fear not, photoshop will rectify this pigmented aberration.

We giggle at clouds that resemble kitchen utensils or mystical creatures;
“Hey look a teddy bear in a spacesuit with a flowerpot on his head wielding the Sword of Gryffindor!”
We declare sagely, with the acumen of a legendary bird watcher.

We resurrect grass angels by launching into horizontal jumping-jacks, and,
Just as a disclaimer, no flower was harmed in the process. Not that it matters,
As long as we did not soil our Lacoste and Burberry.

We spin a mixtape out of the torrential downpour, our tracks pitting
The pitter of regularity against the patter of inconstancy, synchronizing
The symphony of splashes to an undercurrent of nostalgia.

We kiss against the bark of an elm, and if a tree is not available in the vicinity,
We throw ourselves down a nearby hill, tumbling into a ball of moist romance,
Panting, as we bask in the studio lighting of the approving sun.

Every still is captured by a Lomo,
Every scene arrested in sepia motion,
Every moment ravished by the chichi Bohemian in us.
Charcoal grey expressions,
And a stark white slate.
Paper people pondering,
How to template fate.

Their lives are all drawn out,
In a linear direction.
Nothing ever changes,
When stencils draw perfection.

Calculate the angles,
And paste a paper house.
Everything falls so easy,
Living in a Paper Town.
 Jan 2013 Simon G Tehle
Elizabeth
I pretend it's still last summer, when you painted my room electric blue, and
talked to me the way one talks to a friend
because I still have things to talk about with you.
I pretend it was completely an accident, that time my leg brushed against yours
during another of our card-game-nights lasting 'til twelve
because I should have no reason for wanting to brush even closer to you.
I pretend I never noticed the shape your fingers made
as you flicked your hair away from your grey eyes
because if I knew too much about your hands, I might want to hold them.
I pretend I'm not in love with you
because your girlfriend's too perfect for anyone to ignore
because so many people know you, and her, and they'd call me crazy
because what do I know about love at my age, anyways?
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