Cooper Gilliland

This is a strength born of misery
A focused cut of my insanity
And I scream as the darkness
Surrounds me!
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On impulse drown your sorrow
and misery, behind the bottle
of pills you stash beneath your pillow
calling out for no tomorrow.
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Through endless days I hide behind
A row of masks of make-believe
While hiding, trying not to find
The me that no one likes.
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The darkness that binds
this heart in my chest
is living and breathing,
evil at rest.
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What darkness closes in to steal your breath?
In anger, when love's sweet refrain is gone
And talk turns from lightheartedness to death
As Time, that cleaver thief, robs our years to pawn.
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Decaying towers of steel
Reach with crooked spires for the heavens.
A hollow and broken shell
Of bones, torn wide for the scavengers.
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Horrible smile spot-welded in place
Beneath the cowl that hides his face.
Searing eyes peer out of the dark,
As in your heart ignites a spark.
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The reddest rose is the sharpest thorn
Beauty hides a blackened heart.
In this forever I'm deeply torn
While false memories fall apart.
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Whisper Secrets- morbidly-
Believe you tell them true
The Lies were never yours to tell-
And yet you tell them still
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They say home is where the heart is,
But I'm locked inside a prison of stone
I already know that I am heartless,
So walk away, just leave me alone.
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On an average august day, I spied a summer flower
So beautiful and elegant, yet somehow dour.
When reaching out to pluck it some thought
Stayed my hand, I knew that I must not.
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The pagan fire 'round burns bright,
Driving back the dark, chill night,
Writhing with demonic light,
Prepare the sacrificial right.
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Before me a field lies covered in blood,
And scattered corpses that rot in the sun
As it sets behind a bank of clouds
Lowering a misty shroud.
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With my closing breath, ragged and broken,
I whisper to you my love's final token,
There's only five words I want you to hear:
'I love you so much, ' I breath in your ear.
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