James Trotter

I see your silky skin
Draped about your face
As a toga around the finest of Greek noble women
Draped in beauty
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An eye with no pupil has no need to blink
'Instill in me light', one eye might scream
And the other sits in anguish
Anguish of no birds to compose a morning musical
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Trapped in the infinite sorrow
Of a life distraught with peril
I surround myself with drugs and alcohol
Many cocktails before extravagant joyrides
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A cloud looms overhead
Lightning strikes and all is lost
Sparks and embers flying
And one crashes into my eye
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The streets of Venice are engulfed in it
Girls are attracted by it
It stretches like a mile on the sea
But will it be the defining factor
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A fallen tree 
And a broken mind 
Have seen the heartache 
In the world's weathering
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I can hear your whistling in the next room
It has a beautiful echo that persists in my ears
I don't want it to go
But soon you'll run out of breath
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Staring at the dawn sky
I see hope
Not to overcome disaster
Or to come out of a slump
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I'm trying to inhale the world
Understand it, know it, and live in it
so, with constant struggles, I wonder the streets
In search of the crazed, the demented
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My stomach lurches
I vomit my last meal
I fall to the ground
Relinquish My hold on life
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Alone in a damp alleyway
A young blonde woman sobs
Her warm tears smearing her makeup
Bare feet and crouched against a sweating concrete wall
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The Wind sweeps around the world in one gust
Two spirits are joined
They feel one another as they move
Smoothly gliding past each other
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I remember the burn of a warm liquid
Descending my throat
And there, endless, heat in my chest
And another shot, followed by yet another ten
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On the couch
Wafting in the fumes of 190 proofs
The tooter was in hand
We all did a line
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I spend my days staring out the window
And my nights staring in
It's cold and damp outside
I'm sinking into the mud and can't get out
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