alan pieterse

mirror, mirror

on the wall,
...

Had enough,
but not quite enough.
Tell me to leave,
if you so please.
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emotions seeth underneath
under a calm exterionr,
like rip currents
under a placid ocean.
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a Cemetary full
of skeletons,
crashing down out my closet,
my very own Hiroshima,
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Peacefull nightmares
Terror-filled dreams,
But where am I,
if not in space,
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Dull faces,
slack-jawed and overweight.
Obesity,
the new 'thin'.
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My safe place,
my panic room...
there,
I let go,
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So you had to look,
so you had a peep.
Words, stillborn
on my tongue
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Like a leper
cast into an emotional desert
I wear my sins,
scab encrusted over my body
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Spiders, spiders
in my head,
crawling, watching...
spinning their webs
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so, give me a reason to write,

give me a reason to fight.
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Who are you sleeping with tonight?

with your memories?
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Tie the noose,

tie it tight..
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A warm crimson tide,
like a faithful puppy
follows the gleaming blade
as it parts the soft skin.
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Invisible i am,
Inaudibly i speak,
Masses of people,
A crush of humanity,
...

I sad,
I cry,
Inside slowly,
listening to the
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...let me see,

the ways i love thee, , ,
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In my little pocketbook
full of dreams,
I scribble your name
and draw your smile.
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still my fingers lie
over the keyboard,
mute witnesses to
the carnage in my mind.
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jagged, fractured shards,

the fragile crystal mind,
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