poetry

Pageants-are-pretty,

but failures-not-few.

Cued-corrupt-city

will liars-yet-lose.

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– achrilock

Lamented-lost borne-as-boldly-broken-before,

sacrificed-seeming-senseless-soured-and-scorned,

flailing-fears-furious-ferocity as integrity-implored.

But ceded-now-cementing-cell’s surer-walls-shored,

derisive-debris-deceptive mortar wailing-the-ward,

terribly-now-tentative-tears-torn of petty-liars-pour,

gracious-good-not-gnashing-greatness-gazes-galore,

maliciously-maligned-masses-soon-mourn-no-more.

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– achrilock

Left unspoken-too-unbearable,

so not even seers-may-soothe,

no-nothing-nearly so terrible

lost as times-speaking-truths.

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– achrilock

Dusks-after-dwindling-light-dubiously-drains-sanity-deviously.

Roarings-not-rational-nor-real-only-reminders-of-rancor-and-ridicule.

Ever-easy-and-easing-toward-evil-as-evident-against-emancipations.

Alive-but-ailing-as-allies-align-against-arrangements-of-asinine-assertion.

Demons are they? Or deliverance-from-darkness-deranged-and-demeaning?

Living but neither living-nor-lost-as-lasting-our-laments-and-luminosity.

Orders-followed-or-false-order-in-ordinary-as-ordinally-then-onward-Orwellian?

Righteous-rejoice-but-repressive-remainder-run-your-reign-and-rage-rejected-in-ruin.

Do, do-so-dutifully, for dreams-of-devilish-delivery-do-dance-each-dawn.

Set-less-sinisterly-your-scenes-and-sigils-or-soar-downward-sins-having-seen-without-survival.

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– achrilock

Whispers-writhe-while rains-may-rend,

and so-often-speaking-seethe-and-sigh,

but never-too-near-tide’s-ebb-to-try.

Poured-is-past-piling-plots-putridly-plied,

but consider-less-callously-change-as-chides

close-and-clamor-cumulatively, at entropic-end.

Derisive-delusory-dreads-diminish-if-dawns-decide

that gloom-not-glamor and true greatness-glides

not fearful-furious lies ere flag’s-fortunes-fly.

And remember-in-ruin it’s candid-to-cry,

such-same-as-self boldly, by-and-by,

no simple-sum-for-sinister-and-shy.

Even trembling-and-tumults-thine,

never-ever-near too-late-to-try,

frayed-ferocious-old-friend.

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– achrilock

One-and-one, eyeing-deeds-even-as-evil’s done.

One taking-ten, gratuities-gruesome-of-greater men.

One-and-one hundred, haunting-hated scythe-and-sunder.

One toward-a-thousand, callous-and-curdling-cruelty-compounded.

But-best-and-beauty-from-braced-barricaded, hundred-folded-haste,

as frivolous-fumbling-frolic-at-feast-and-fun,

to-which-terrible-thunder sounded,

clouding-sorely-coldest-sons.

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– achrilock

Peace-so-pretty-such-source of pride,

peace-pretending-plenty as distraction.

Ingracious-are-ills-and-ignominious lies,

ill-instinctive-as-immeasurable-inaction.

Reality’s-reason-remains unresigned.

Two–

truths-twisted cannot in tandem-thrive,

taking-trample-and-terror-lack-traction.

Turning-is-this-terrible-turbulent-tide.

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– achrilock

Anchored-at-angst, and

ambitions-alight, frowning

for-fealty, friends’-flight.

Trampling-toward

tantrum-these-tatters-torn-thrice,

ever-espousing.

Evasion’s-elapsed,

running-rough-rudely,

rule’s-roaring-reward.

Ruin, ruined, ruins.

Reclaimed.

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– achrilock

Long-worried-longing-wisdom and troubled,

reading-and-rending-resolving-through-rubble,

never matching-always-makeshift imperfect,

insidiously-intractable-imprecision but surface

and-situational-among-sustaining-and-subtle.

Slowly-though-surely and expensive-to-expect

understanding-of-unmoved-and-unmovable aspect

of spurious-against-species-and-space-of-superfluous.

That-truth-now-trembling so obvious-as-obscene,

laughingly-but-lastingly magnificent-to-me,

not so-sacred-but-soaring, satisfyingly-serene,

plaintively-paltry but such being people as we,

craving-courage-or-change must as be-would-be seen.

For all-not-angels nor robotic-at-rebuke-or-rebuttal,

as-animals social what is-sown-is-sought-select,

not-all-nor always-though-allowing-time-accept.

Light-the sky-as-sorrowful-seeking-eyes elect.

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– achrilock

Building-burn-bridges into air,

hefting-hopes-in-haunted stare,

but known-that-nothing-never there,

and fraught-with-fore-felt-falling.

Better-to-beam and as-bold-smile,

politely-nod-placid-pausing while

saying-absolute-silence-softly.

For if ever-eagerly-easily speak

and-at thoughts-truly sin-to-seek,

quite-often-quelled-or-quashed ‘til bleak,

honesty-having paid-for-punished awfully.

Better scoundrel-no-such-scorned-sound,

though heart-heavy and poured-to-pound,

etched-essence instead-gone-into ground,

connections-courageous-but-costly.

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– achrilock