tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91739903918029681462024-03-08T02:56:53.092-08:00AllTheWrongQuestionz... because real therapy is expensive...Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-10849476918045814872019-04-07T01:47:00.000-07:002020-06-05T18:11:27.406-07:00Written For Spoken #4: A Legend of a Smile<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I saw her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the insides of my eyelids where she resides on her throne of brightness; she’s a sun in a dark room, and I sat there charging in her radiance like a Kryptonian. Every ray, a soft stroke telling me it’s ok to love again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her skin is velvet. Silk strands merged with my fingers. As I held her hand, her gaze tore through my fallen generations and handpicked me to award this smile to. It’s magic, but it’s fire... keeps you warm. Especially when you rub your hands over her, or MARSHMALLOWS, You could fry marshmallows on her soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every time I looked at her, my being shook, like opening a new book where the first few lines got you hooked. The silent alarm, telling Neo to wake up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The way her face lit up; the sparkle in her eye like a torch on a Tamagochi. Her cheeks running away from each other, kept together by that cute nose, eyes collapsing in an explosion of happiness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Was that a giggle or is Olympus falling? Is she a goddess come to grant me a laugh so fluffy I’m gonna die? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sound echoes into my eternity and brightens my futures. A beautiful horizon in my soul’s wilderness. A smile unrehearsed and filterless. Bliss, begging for a kiss. Divine sexuality oozing from her lips, so out of reach, it's the recipe of myth. Legend. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But right in front of me, offering absolution. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A spectacle shaped and polished by humor and intellect. An open mind as ancient as Egyptian. Queen. Her ancestors are proud. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This, mixed with the way lights hit her face at these angles. acute. reflections. complexion, golden bronze with chips of chocolate. I say lights because from within I see her glow as well. like.. I wonder if we switched these lights off...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it's a galaxy, this smile, and when I wake up, I wanna be an astronaut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~Ziz</span>
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Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-80761998478364179662019-02-12T02:24:00.000-08:002019-02-12T12:23:40.880-08:00Esthetic Arrest Prt I: Beautiful
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<span lang="EN-GB">The human mind fascinates me so. Have you
ever landed your gaze on something or someone beautiful? It was like the act in
itself rendered you paralyzed. Completely against your will but strangely
voluntary. The stare. I do that shxt all the time. <br />
<br />
If creativity says Let God Speak. Then Beauty says Look at God. To deny the
magnificence of life and thus being alive, is to take the sand from the
desert.. To rid the ocean of salt. You are denying the fire its flame, you
remove oxygen from air. You are seeing things in black and white. You are
racist. :) <br />
<br />
Beauty when experienced in such raw awe, makes us feel good; studies have
shown. Makes you wonder doesn't it? Could we clear the clutter the system has
overloaded us with? Will we then, as a people go on the craziest adventure to
find Beauty in everything?<br />
<br />
I'm down if you are. Shxt, when I saw you, I felt threatened and intrigued at
the same time. Why are you even talking to me? Laughing at my lame jokes. Can't
you see everybody in the spot be looking at you?<br />
<br />
Beauty can be so aspris sometimes. You've seen it.. The sugar daddy phenomenon.
And now the blesser situation. Prostitution. Promiscuity. But surely this is
not the beauty of which I speak? That seems to me like surface beauty, parlor
tricks with monetary incentives. My beauty is naked. Uncensored and crooked in
the smile. I see you and I see beyond. A work of art. Poetry. The Dance and the
Music you Are.<br />
<br />
I hereby vow to look upon you like a statue that hands gold in the day and
silver in the night. Let's see that smile again...? <br />
<br />
Fxcking Beautiful.<br />
<br />
Z</span></div>
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<![endif]-->Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-75661890082333069292014-05-16T02:32:00.001-07:002019-04-07T01:47:13.633-07:00Emergency. A series by Cereus<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What you are about to see is a series of close up portraits of girls, drawn with the idea of having them <i>emerge</i> or disappear into the page. Some were digitally reworked. The logo sports a butterfly resting on barbed wire which is spun to make an infinity symbol. I know, its <i>all</i> fucked up. Posted under my Artist alias, Cereus. enjoy and follow the link below for more of my work on Behance.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail fs_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648075/hd/786623ae1db8fcbd195242c9e4c24029.jpg" height="427" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648075/disp/786623ae1db8fcbd195242c9e4c24029.jpg" width="600" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Where do we go from here</i></span>?" </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail fs_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648077/hd/8fb2d35f27a35d2a94ccd244ad5f0cdf.jpg" height="807" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648077/disp/8fb2d35f27a35d2a94ccd244ad5f0cdf.jpg" width="600" /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>Somewhat Innocent</i></span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail fs_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648079/hd/feaacfb478629567c5e77e8badc5234a.jpg" height="456" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648079/disp/feaacfb478629567c5e77e8badc5234a.jpg" width="600" /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Immortal</i></span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648085/hd/574c2902d05d7d0ebbbbe225dc63cd16.jpg" height="373" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648085/disp/574c2902d05d7d0ebbbbe225dc63cd16.jpg" width="600" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Homage</i></span>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail fs_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648081/hd/c3c92c319458494f6c2d5336e16aac31.jpg" height="420" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648081/disp/c3c92c319458494f6c2d5336e16aac31.jpg" width="600" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"<i>Kitara"</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img class="orig_avail fs_avail hd_avail" data-hd-src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648083/hd/6163d072dd321990e707b37ced70ec8d.jpg" height="942" src="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111648083/disp/6163d072dd321990e707b37ced70ec8d.jpg" width="600" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shani fan art</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Thank You</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">follow more of my work on Behance at: www.behance.net/Cereus</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-27349868826809670512014-05-06T02:38:00.001-07:002019-04-07T01:45:55.962-07:00Written For Spoken #3: Defeated Victor by Glen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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us, and this is not me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There are no spoils of war,
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there can never be freedom. It has been a long and arduous road. Nobody said it
would be easy and it hasn’t been. I’ll never forgot her, and I don’t want to.
She is now no more than a lesson learned. I’m finally free.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Call me."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">~Glen </span></span></span></div>
Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-4682187554693905462014-04-09T04:05:00.001-07:002019-04-07T01:43:42.182-07:00Written for Spoken #2: See You In Heaven by Raandjua<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Like a rose in full bloom, life's thorns and flowers prickle and pierce the veins to my heart</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />My tear glands have dried up like a once delicate flower in the Namib Dessert on a cold cold winter night<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mya's white pearls intertwined between my fingers remind me of our time together and how we used to make each other smile<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Summer rain-red robots-screeching tires...the ear-piercing sound of ambulance sirens in the dark of the night, came as if, from the mouth of the angel of death<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Summer rain-red robots-screeching tires…and just like that, the love of my life was gone<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fallen autumn pebbles on the sidewalk awaken visions of blood-drenched leaves<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Memories of song and dance are ever-present realities, in a reality, devoid of life<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those mourning lost loved ones and lost love are the subjects of my envy<br />Tears run down their cheeks and I reach over to wipe them away, as I pray, that their tears, never run away<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For once they do, then they too will one day be standing here, before you, enveloped by regret and anguish at the words that remain unsaid<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three little words are all it takes.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each word on its own is an empty vessel, but as a trio they have the power to un-break and heal the most broken of hearts and move mountains twice the size of Kilimanjaro.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I Am.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unmoving, unmoved, numb...as the vowels begin to form on my lips, I welcome the sight of the onrushing bus…as I slowly mouth the words: "I love you"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like the petals upon a dying rose I know the end is near<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She may have never received an invite, but she can never accuse me of not having been a gracious host<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My soul is your home. Your home is my soul.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The act of being alive is but a continuation of breaths<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That which intercepts the breaths is living<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not remember when last a meaningful event intercepted these breaths-DO YOU?<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Few ever consider it, even less follow through<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most look down upon those who do it and never care to just ask "WHY?"<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sure, it may not be the perfect solution.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, who cares about perfection?<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perfection, is an illusion that will remain unfulfilled many a tomorrow.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fuck perfection.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I need TODAY, what I need NOW, is not the perfect solution.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All I need is a means to an end.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I Stand.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unmoving, unmoved, numb...as the vowels begin to form on my lips I welcome the sight of the onrushing bus and I whisper softly, slowly, quietly: Till We Meet Again, Goodbye"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Raandjua "Ra"</span></span></span></span>Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-26710764103712480422014-04-09T00:55:00.000-07:002020-06-05T17:58:00.286-07:00WTF #6477968: I Can Only Hope<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Honestly, I’d just have to stare out the window, or even at
anything in this room. Anything besides my skin. Actually, you have touched
basically all of me so even my body leaves my mind wandering endlessly,
tirelessly toward the thought of you. With nothing but slideshows of memories, we have made together. Memories I’d have to give up for there to be any sort of
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My family would have to go. Which, would be terrible, but if
they stick around I’d have to survive many counts of their favorite question.
”How are things with you and what’s-her-name?” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Off course they know your name, so even now I’m sparing your
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All my bad habits. They were not so bad when we were
destroying ourselves together. And you’ve been bugging me to quit smoking weed
for the longest time, so if I do quit now, you would still win. You cannot be
the reason for anything if I would have to erase you from my mind.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Movies, books, music, art, etc. The way our minds had identical
reactions to beautiful pieces of art across countless platforms, always amazed
me. Tailor-made. One of us the body, the other the suit. One the canvas, the
other the paint. God the painter, the singer, the director and the writer. Music
especially had an uncanny talent for unlocking chambers that we meant to stay
imprisoned forever. But since this parting of ways, that has become my new
addiction. I have come to enjoy the ache, blood cells deliberately denying
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breathing. I remember how we would lay next to each other and
sync the rhythmic rise and fall of our chests. How we would hold onto each
other by the wrists and “meditate” until our pulses would resonate. Stare down
contests and thumb wars. Silly things like career, education, nutrition (food
and liquor), sex, cuddling, and kissing. Everything would have to go. There is
nothing left in this world without your omnificent influence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The thing is; you let me see beneath your beautiful, only to
expose an earthquake which you <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>claim was caused by me allowing
you to express yourself. A labyrinth crafted by your amazing train of dirty
thoughts which so excellently coincides with mine. And our trains would
inevitably crash in the middle. Leaving a crash site so bizarre I am perplexed
by the fact that it hasn’t been written of before. For it formed the shape of a
heart. Our heart. A heart now broken. “Our egos fed on each other and died overweight.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">And so. If I really wanted to start over, I’d really just
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</span></span>Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-5917109272138998412013-11-18T16:21:00.001-08:002019-04-07T01:41:08.890-07:00WTF #7673: She Left <span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"She left me last night, don't even know what I did. <br />
Said she's going to find herself and whatever she may need.<br />
Where? Anybody's guess to tell the truth.<br />
She mentioned staying by Becky or Stacy or Ruth.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She did however talk about her mother and going where she lives,<br />
Or out by the country side where there's a nice little cliff.<br />
Not quite where she was born and not nearly as rural,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the place of her people that she left to go to boarding school</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suburbia, good grades and better communication, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">then she mos found a rich boyfriend so she left her education.<br />
Left her family, left her virginity, and lost her religion. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She was a tainted soul haunted by all these wrong decisions.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She found her problems where she left them last, in her past, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">pretense getting her through the present but will it last?! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Echoes into eternity, the test of time, will she pass?! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You're right, its a little judgmental to ask</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As tears race each other down each cheek, and her pain threshold has reached its peak, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on her knees, weak, she remembers the baby she left in an alley or a bin, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">shaking her head, smiling, thinking if she had a dollar for every sin.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who is she? You know her. She's at least one fairer sex individual in your life. Sister mother friend colleague girlfriend or wife. The ones who make us tear to salt the seas. The ones that; if she stayed, how much better our lives would be.."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Zeez</span></span></span>Zeezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06470754577872745801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173990391802968146.post-2401521122769322372010-11-16T17:00:00.001-08:002019-04-07T01:36:56.805-07:00WTF #2: Impure Thoughtz<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Impure thoughts</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">On my pedastole in my underground crib, where they quantify my impure thoughts</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">as a bottomless abyss. Smoking this cancer for a chance ta meet my lord quicker,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> drink liquor and picture all things divine intertwine, your eyes free from the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">blindness, because the world is a blind nest. So vexed that my quest is to </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">ask all the wrong questions. It seems like everyone is robbed of their liberties,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">miniature lovers ripped like new born baby from their mothers. Look at the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">stranger like he's not you brother, so y bother opening your eyes now? you'll </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">be shocked by what you see, in a world where you have to pay for your inbred dreams, where</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">numbers define you, and your path is predetermined by unexplained traditions, and </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">we never ask questions so we're trapped in a recurring system of</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">mass-hypnotism, and honest to the dude upstairs, I hope I'm wrong,but check</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">this, you cant concentrate in class but u know all the lyrics to popular songs,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">never miss a movie, so you postpone your passions, then u look back look like</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">what happened? Think about it, is the life you living looking anything at all</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">like God's image? so what is it that we're missing? Like we got the right </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">ingredients but we're stuck in the wrong kitchen! Life is suppose to be fun, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">so when you're lying on your death bed,all the doctors and medicine fail and it </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">hurts like hell, what's the story you'd wanna tell? got born,went to pre-primary</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">went to primary, went to high school, went to college, got a job, got married, got kids,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">told them to do the same,nice house, nice car,and now I'm here...wow, just </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">like everybody else,huh... </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I cant handle this, watching my wonderful world vanish like the smoke from this </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">cannabis. looking so tainted now, the entertainers take their bows, as the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">ending approaches,earth tilts out of focus and life becomes atrocious,just </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #38761d;">take me now!!</span></span></div>
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