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TITLE (EDIT)
Twisted Figures
DESCRIPTION
Just wrote it down as it came to mind.. no sense or anything :)
[294 words]
AUTHOR
Rae
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scars were her poison
always ugly in day
ripped her own heart out
as if to say:
sing not to me
I care not at all
I am who I'll be
or I'll be not at all
[May 2006]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (66)
A World With You (Poetry) - [49 words]
After Dark (Poetry) I used to really like the nighttime... [74 words]
As Bad As I Make It (Poetry) - [51 words]
Bad Answers (Poetry) It's ok on the surface. [60 words]
Beauty Of Horror (Poetry) - [87 words]
Begging Forgiveness (Poetry) - [60 words]
Broken Tears (Songs) Had a weird afternoon... inspired a song... I hope this one is less confusing to everyone than the last one I posted! [279 words]
Canyon (Poetry) More adventures in cutting. [18 words]
Caress (Poetry) Took excerpts from In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan and The Knife by Richard Selzer and made them into a poem. really focused on style in this one... [76 words]
Comfort (Poetry) - [120 words]
Coming Together (Poetry) For now I am calling it a work in progress, but would appreciate feedback on whether it sounds incomplete or not. [109 words]
Daybreak (Poetry) - [75 words]
Devil Screams (Songs) I don't like it. maybe you will. or maybe i'll just delete it tomorrow. [130 words]
Doomed To Be Free And Fanciful (Poetry) - [75 words]
For Leah (Poetry) Because I now know why one isn't sainted until after death. [61 words]
Forcing Eternity (Poetry) I'm so impatient. [93 words]
Getting Ahead (Songs) Well, if you can't get ahead in life, you choose the next best thing, perhaps... [206 words]
Going Down (Poetry) - [224 words]
Hand-In-Hand (Poetry) - [53 words]
I Hate Making Titles 2 (Songs) Song. [128 words]
Identity (Poetry) - [134 words]
In Time (Poetry) A real enough place. [99 words]
Lawrence (Poetry) The [brief] story of a man. [95 words]
Like A Hot Knife Through Butter (Short Stories) - [281 words]
Like Waking (Poetry) - [86 words]
Likely (Poetry) - [62 words]
Losing (Poetry) - [103 words]
Mirror Games (Poetry) - [135 words]
My Lamb (Songs) Not sure what it is... I call it a song only because I sang it while I wrote it... but it could quite possibly be a poem, too. The way it's sung, it's sweet and smooth when it starts, then gets faster... [71 words]
My Last Night With Her (Short Stories) A quick story. [448 words]
My Soul Is A Hole (Poetry) - [92 words]
Needless (Poetry) - [60 words]
Never Let Me Go (Songs) - [311 words]
Nothing But Touch (Short Stories) Haven't had inspiration lately, so I picked ten random words and wrote around them. [239 words]
Ode To Losing Late Nights (Poetry) Stupid ramblings about losing stuff ... like the love of your life ... [90 words]
Once I Hit The Ground (Poetry) - [99 words]
Passion's Ruins (Poetry) - [56 words]
People (Poetry) A little mindlessness. [41 words]
Please Every Night (Poetry) Don't wake me up. [72 words]
Raven (Poetry) - [83 words]
Released (Poetry) - [37 words]
Ringing Of War (Songs) Just a song... [204 words]
Rodents And Reptiles (Poetry) - [68 words]
Schism (Songs) I posted this before, but it disappeared somehow... it's a song kind of like "not my god" which I wrote a while ago.. I suppose you could call it part 2. [269 words]
Silent Stalker (Poetry) - [59 words]
Sisters (Poetry) - [80 words]
Slave (Poetry) You decide who/what it's about... [58 words]
Smooth White Plastic (Poetry) - [113 words]
So Bold A Man (Poetry) Inspired by one of the many amazing paintings by Zdislaw Beksinski who just recently passed away. (http://www.novumgallery.pl/beksinski/bex4.html) [72 words]
Soft (Poetry) - [115 words]
Someone Without You (Poetry) I despise trying to do this. [84 words]
Summer Song (Poetry) It comes and goes on its own accord... [120 words]
Take Me Home (Songs) I dunno about this one... it sounded good when I sang it, but the chorus might be too long, making it too repetitive... and besides that, it might just suck. tell me what you think. [179 words]
Taking Control Of What Is Mine (Poetry) - [32 words]
That Bed (Poetry) Was at my parents' place this weekend and it felt so weird... [24 words]
The Best Of Me (Poetry) - [202 words]
The Novel China Doll (Poetry) Seen too many things like it. [52 words]
The Wild Flee (Short Stories) An ode to imaginary friends. [471 words]
The Worst Thing (Poetry) - [83 words]
Think Of Me (Poetry) I cry so often over him lately... [169 words]
This Heart (Poetry) - [60 words]
To Warm Me (Poetry) I guess it's a poem. [147 words]
Tool Of The Gods (Poetry) - [104 words]
Ultimately At Your Service (Poetry) - [82 words]
Unrest (Poetry) Another short one. [28 words]
Wschod Slonca Krwawy (Poetry) - [95 words]
Twisted Figures
Rae

 There's a song in my head. I don't know if I made it up or if I heard it somewhere before. Either way, a good deal of time has passed since the tune hummed its own in my mind. And with the shivers that ran down my spine, I knew there was a good reason for that.
 I walked the streets alone. Brisk winds swirled about my face, rustling my hair. Twisted figures made love before my tired eyes in the dark. They did ritualistic dances and dissolved into the night, giving way to a more distant figure.
 A beckoning.
 It falls into ten fragments.
 My sweet
 My love
 My precious
 My jewel
 Love me
 Touch me
 Can you feel me?
 Can you want me?
 Give to me
 Can you give to me?
 The sweet question poised before me, sitting in the night to be looked over, considered. Who was I to answer?
 But it already knew.
 What can you give to me?
 Smokey fingers wrap themselves in my flowing hair while translucent palms run along my body and close around nothing. I walk through their bodies with each step.
 Your flesh
 Your love
 Your soul
 I shook my head. None were enough.
 Your devotion
 Your loyalty
 Your fire
 They moaned. They swam through my head and between my thighs. They tugged at my clothes, impatience near.
 Your faith
 Your life
 Your mind
 One article after another.
 Your purity
 They swept in as one and my legs stopped walking. My body surged and my eyes went blank. My mind knotted and my mouth went numb.
 And out they swam and again I hummed. The song echoed through the dark as I walked the streets nude, having given myself to the night.

 

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