The Confounder

Traversing through the midnight squallor
Standing firm and growing taller
I met a worker, nay, a scholar
To be my night's best caller

Her eyes were pools of glistened water
Bruised like life had beat and fought her
This was someone's sister, daughter
Now only canon fodder

I tried to love her, true I did
I gave my heart and cast my bid
When I looked, I found she hid
So I made myself be rid

I won't forget this one encounter
Each night I look but haven't found her
Writher, writher, suffer, flounder
I must find my confounder

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There's but one place
To treat this wound
Inside my mind
I am cocooned
Rroots and branches
Rarely pruned
Reveal a corpse
With blood festooned

And here inside
My capsuled soul
Is where I now
Fulfill my role
Myriad thoughts
I make my cull
In torment now
I thus am whole

Regret not but
That I am late
I've left my dearest
Ones to wait
Spurning ever
After fate
With thoughts my mind
Can never sate

Tripwire

"Tripwire" by Nathan Langford

I said that I love you
You called me a liar
I told you I hate you
But oh I admire
Your sudden restraint
The heartbeat is faint
I fell on the tripwire

You changed your number
And went back to sleep
In some wicked slumber
You made not a peep
You set the trap
And started to clap
When I fell on the tripwire

And you won't say where you've been
And you won't say what you've done
You didn't fall for all of it again
This time you said the battle's been won

My thoughts fade to black
When I step in the fire
An ambush attack
Stuck in this quagmire
I'm a sitting duck
I ran out of luck
I fell on the tripwire

And you won't say where you've been
And you won't say what you've done
You didn't fall for all of it again
This time you said the battle's been won

A victorious defeat
I retreat, I retreat
I'm bloody and bruised
I was tortured, beat, abused

I'm just so fucking tired

So I fell on the tripwire

Blue Devils

I have but just one soul to sell
I dither in the mire
Transaction made, a trip to Hell
The merchant was a liar

Reeling in these desperate blues
The devil he hath shaken
Consummation of his brews
The devil he hath waken

Drink until your bile's strewn
And splattered on your face
Soiled, soaking, pantaloon
A heavy heart's disgrace

Know to stop but never will
The heart aches to endure
Raise thy glass and take a swill
And pour, and pour some more

Hush little baby
Don't say a word
Keep your mouth shut
Like it never occurred
Plug your ears
Nothing was heard
Big brother is watching
Like fucking Big Bird

Keep your eyes glued
On Sesame Street
Modified food
Soylent meat
Don't mean to be rude
On the government teet
The people subdued
Too slow on their feet

Pray to your God
And cling to your guns
A tip and a nod
To the Atheist ones
A reason for reason
The rest take the blame
And answer for treason
What a shame, what a shame

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The ice sheets are melting
Don't know what to do
Frozen in oil
Frozen by fear
Hush little baby
Don't shed a tear

I'm living the past
Through your hologram
Damn girl
I thought it would last
But the image you cast

Was haunting me
Taunting me
Like the bullies at school
So fucking cruel
Calling me fat
Like I didn't know that

Your words fucking hurt
Like listening to poison
Can't take the noise in
But I don't have a choice
When you speak in that voice

Because I'm obsessed
Like a man on a mission
To cling to your words
Like a man with a vision
Because I'm possessed
Like a robot with feeling
And I'm fucking reeling
Sleep on the floor
With my head in the ceiling
Can't take anymore
I showed you the door
Now just wait for the healing

I don't stalk you on Facebook
You blocked me, I looked
But even with that second account
I don't look because I'm pushing you out
But you kept me on MySpace
What's that about?
You still use it too
What's wrong with you?

You're just a disease
A parasite, a leach
A mite, a tick or fleas
You breeze through my blood
Like a hurricane of cocaine
Numbing my heart
Driving me insane
Ripping apart the veins
I used to play like a violin
With a knife on my wrist
Like a violent violinist
Playing his tune
To himself in his room
Until the blood disease orchestra
Gathered in puddles
Like seas on the ground
And piled up around him

The Canyon

Sleeping on the Canyon's edge
Dreaming of the fall
Twisting, flailing toward the ledge
And waking from it all

What was this that I had dreamt
The soulless lover's fate
The spurning and the body's lept
This unrequited hate

Cast me into model; stone
The breathing of the sand
And let me be so quite alone
In this unforgiving land

Deep ravine, the river Blood
Flowing from mine heart
Trickle, splashing, flowing, flood
The canyon it does part

Where hath now my lover gone
The silent echo screams
To whence my body was so drawn
Upon thy gilded beams

Sleepless body, get thee rest
Upon the canyon floor
Lonely, lover's light moon crests
For one night, one night more