Press the ejectA Poem by gram linskiMy heart beats like a broken Walkman in the callous, eternal night - night of how many million lost demons, lurking, escaping, crawling through tense silently sleeping muscles and tendons, knotted in unknown anguish and almost forgotten childhood treacheries - numbed panic - alert and wired alive, rollercoasting over legions of unmanned bodies ethereal spectre of the common thread binding the mass of inwardly, outwardly scarred dead passing through this almost life, The waking and wounded martyrs of themselves, not even realised in the shattered mirror of morning not even noticed in the hair of breath between Genius and Insanity's vibrant call not even wanted between the unexpected cradle and ever present shadow of grinning, shining grave, not even rejecting the bitter taste of everyday disillusionment dragging weariness through millenia of work, love and pain, awaiting crippling old age without tasting or realising further than ancient, wisened eye allows, trampled insects scattered unnoticed through voids and voids of colours, harrowed by migrating emotions and ever changing landscape phantoms, A ghost in the wind - untouchable to senses that never sense and ears smiling reversible secrets beneath blankets of fog, and fog thicker than lunar imagined mountains - a false sea of hope, drowning homosapiens meagre mark on the indifferent planet of abode, correcting and erasing inflicted damage, with scant regard for us, the antz
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Added on June 2, 2019Last Updated on June 2, 2019 Authorgram linskiAboutCaged In An Animal's Mind Caged in an animal's mind; No wish to be more or else Than I am; a smile and a grief Of breath that thinks with its blood, Yet straining despite; unsure In my stir .. more..Writing
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