Undead?
Sitting up, I shake myself free of the dirt that owns me. The carnal miseries of past lives; the tired carnival rides. The empty eyes which once met mine, now look curiously away... leaving me furious. I tend, these rancorous wounds, with barbed wire and hot ash's boon. Pull each rotten tooth from this stiffened jaw; smile victorious. Stretching, these skeletal limbs, I seek the sun once again. Dusty bones clanking in harmonious candor. I step, out from the grave, the home I had saved; to walk in the sin of forgetting to lie down and die.
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Lunar Leviathan
A lover of literature, language, music, and art. Much of my poems have accompanying art... unfortunately unable to be displayed here. A link to my AP page with art is below. I am a philosopher, dreamer, and hopeless romantic unashamed. Love me or...
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