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Brynn Castro

Please let me run free in the rain behind your eyes,
You would have run the other way if you noticed I had started to cry.
My tears are heavy with the memories we left behind.
I am consumed by the things I can’t do and the thoughts in my mind.
I can’t make you mine and I know I’m wasting time.
But I just can’t let go and I can’t rewind.
I wish I could go back to the finger paintings on your wall,
You were asleep late one night and didn’t see it fall.
It fell behind your shelf with the spiders and the dust,
It fell to shame with my bleeding heart and unsatisfied trust.
I still have your fingerprints here enclosed in my hand,
But like your love it has been tired, washed and just can’t stand.
This is the saddest love song in my mind at this point,
I just remind myself to breathe so I don’t continue to be hurt.
I wish you could dance with me in the clouds tonight,
But you are far too blind to see anything but the brightest light.
You never wrote that sonnet about a boy who loved a girl,
I know a string busted and the music was torn.
We were music always playing in the back of my head,
My fantasy is you running through the woods and you find me dead.
The music still plays as you bend to kiss my cheek,
I open my eyes in heaven and notice its bitter sweet.
Except, my heavens not in the sky,
It’s right there in your embrace.
There is so much I want to say but you claim to see it in my face.
As the wind blows through my hair you begin to drift away.
I’m torn and broken “please don’t leave me this way”.
You obviously didn’t care enough to turn and say something,
All you did was leave so I’m giving up on everything.
Goodbye to you I’m finally letting go of “us”,
It’s been too long anyway this year and six months.

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Into The Pause

by Scott Ruhmann

Time is a cascade, choose your delay.
See speed for what it is, breaths away...
Breathes away today.

Into the pause, we're eluding.
Into the claws, we're diluting...
Our DNA.

Strands fuse as they fold together, and
Soft sings the light as it lands the feather...
Of futures in a foreign letter.

Into the pause, we're evading.
Into the claws, we're fast-fall-fading...
Our prism array.

Into the web, we're mending.
Into the bed, we're break-bending...
Our natural waves!

Don't receive without cause,
No reason to spiralfall.
Into the jaws,
We're shifting,
Interexisting,
Into the pause,
We're missing,
Why we're here.

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Freedom

by: Jacqui Cruz

Thunder in my head,
It’s accompanied by fire.
Lightning makes it worse,
Even more feeding my desire
 
I want to know what causes it,
I’m trying to find the answer that’s right
Stumbling across what’s only pure crap
Not finding whatever it is that I have to fight.
 
I figure out it’s not just one thing,
It’s many things that bother me.
I know I’m not ready for total independence,
but it doesn’t stop me from wanting to be free.
 
I don’t feel comfortable knowing this
It really tears my head apart,
But knowledge also means feeling,
So the greatest knowledge is to my heart.
 
I try to make connections,
Attempting to find in me what’s best.
I want to know me so that I can feel me too,
And until I do that, I simply won’t rest.

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Here Come I
By Jeff Rouse 

Bound but binding, Binding bound
See some sights, hear some sounds
What was lost, now is found
Bound but binding, binding bound.
Band to band we heartily stand
Heart to heart and hand to hand.
From far off east comes the beast,
It cannot be ceased, not in the least.
From out of the Mists comes the One
To stop the threat once time has begun.
From wooshing wind to sloshing sea
Where Earth meets Water and Air, may Fire be.
Crackling fire frames the sky
And Earth does quake and while I
I walk the shores ‘neath stars and moon
While they look down and start to swoon.
But I am chased by flame so bright
In light of day and darksome night.
East then South, West then North,
Here come I to call ye forth.
By all the power of land and sea,
As I do will, so shall it be.

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