I'll Find My Way Without Consent

Difference is indispensable
Duplicating becomes negligible

Shadows are never cookie-cutter
Sparse light refracts in your eyes

I have changed tonight
It is not something explained

But if we stand here
If we merely stand here

Our thoughts will begin intermingling
Over simplicity in verses

Thoughts full of rhyme
To plainly see what we became

Shot in the dark here
Surely we have become more important

But if we haven't
It won't be the end, dear

Endings will come nonetheless
Everything fading into a dingy mess

Pick up the pieces they tell me
Plan your cessation

Choose your dreams
Catch yourself before you fall

Rambles of texts and lines
Regurgitation of mouth

I stop here knowing not what else
It's not as if I have finished

Worry not about my independence
Worry not about my wellbeing

I will be fine on my own.

Heart, We Will Forget Him-Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.

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When you have done pray tell me,

Then I, my thoughts, will dim.

Haste! ‘lest while you’re lagging

I may remember him!

My Fitted Façade

I wish I had someone to converse with
To get my thoughts from the paper
Out of my head, and into your mind.

I have been told we become cameo views
Silhouetted against the wallpaper
Passed down through generations
Of people who no longer understand it.

A sheer commodity would be nice for a change
To be something more than an anachronism
To be something more than what you've seen.

Vices can only be misunderstandings
Finding dependence in our downfall
Aspiration in our imperfection
Rapture in such vulnerability.

Sure I find an accomplishment
My regret is only for your reflected mortality
It only goes so far as the ocean.

The effervescence has washed away
Our light became discolored
Bleached memories through window panes
Glassy likenesses beginning to fade.

My amended façade is changing
Becoming something less adapted
Maybe better
At least that's what 'they' say.