Jack Dylan

In the distance

A familiar whistle blows
Calling me home
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A challenge followed by invitation leads to a trap
Carefully prepared by a cunning wolf disguised as a rabbit
But who is the predator and who is the prey…
Some things are not always what they seem, and someone’s in for a surprise
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Consume me, and end this pain
Remember none of life’s strain
Cover my skin with numbness
Depression will succumb to us
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Dancing little soldiers in a vigil against the howl of her soul
Sparsely scattered throughout this cluttered dusty fortress of solitude

We wait,
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I wasn’t me
And you weren’t you
Pretending to be
Through this fog, what’s really true
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She arrived late one fall
Held together by classic charm
Plenty of love for me to install
Cleansing of steel could do no harm.
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For pleasure, relief, struggle, challenge, and comfort.
I come to you, with velvet skin, flawless, simple yet markedly intricate.

Few will truly understand your complexity or appreciate you simplicity.
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Lifeless cold lovers,
and full-bodied scotch.
A false sense of warmth,
and painful to watch.
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Do you know how I just felt
A notch in your belt
A name on your list
To Hell with it all, now I’m just pissed
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Am I too much for you?
Oh, so now you have to think and feel and understand the chaos of the world.
Does it hurt?
Can’t you deal with the pain, now that I’ve opened your eyes?
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Rarely in life are we blessed with peace, full and true
With a time warp of altering moments
Embracing new lovers, with delicate touch
We escape bodies leaving mental torments.
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There have always been
Those who say they understand
I share your light, and I know
Sharing fear is not the comfort I wish to land
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It started in the basement
A cold and dark mildew cave
With exit blocked and candle lit
Exists primal seclusion
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Tonight I am the keeper of the light.
Surrounded by a circle of candles and wit.
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Beneath a blanket of frosty snow,
Silently sleeping below icy green,
Slowly swimming under black ice,
But only as winter did you know.
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Restricted, repressed, chained to complacency
Under house arrest without companionship, without love.
Like the coo of a morning dove we sigh a long deep breath
As the sun rises and brings in a bright new day
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Now

Is all that we have
Did you fight
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All the way down as the smoke pours out blue
This cold hard steel replaces my feelings of you.
Floating sideways all twisted and bent
I’m in control of this ride and ready to vent.
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Yellow brick road
Gilded by lust
Escorted to heaven
Walls reduced to dust
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Echoing observations
Boiled to insults
Heed your opinion
Stop projecting results
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