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How I’ve sat along this shelf for decades Listening to the world around When they say one door opens, I’ve yet to find the key way To where I belong Hold the bow now while I bite My turn taking won’t get anywhere In care of the right hands I unlock a world to be…
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Back when we would wander around, Feeling the wind against us – Running through midnight alleys In hopes of never getting caught Where dead men’s legends never fade (The legends never, they never fade away) I wish the world could have solved for the battles, Lead us back to the start – And age us…
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Terra spins wildly around On the surface, the tension feels normal And out there in space, we heard no sound Just so it could all feel formal Terra holds it all together somehow Below the surface, a breaking core Our only chance to fill cracks is now Just as the pressure gets to us like…
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After hours, Cool breezes push past our shoulders Along the boardwalk, where we walk tonight Under the moonlight sky Hands wondering if they should be held When it’s where we’ve been before, Uncertain certainties And the rush of silence they shine brings We rest tonight on the bedroom floor After longing, The sounds of the…
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Watch as I stand still, Chasing my dreams I can’t catch the mountainside While breaking down on the mitten The wilderness As seen in my wildest dreams Clothes strewn across the floor And patterns of pitter patter And the raindrops on my sleeve Says being bright doesn’t matter Shards of glass spraying Crowds em masse…
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Glowing, your shadow kept away the clouds that cast them Shouldn’t it be the most ironic of fates; to be right here? A fatal misstep, and the ones holding open doors. We tripped where we stood, dear. Shining, like the whiskers shaved to give way to new flesh Wouldn’t it be the most ironic of…
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Easily rise, my sun For now the hour has gotten golden Early rise, my hun For now the setting ease is begun Where wires trip they whom don’t belong, The songbirds singing has been strung Chirping through open windows And mirrors who seem to find me Early rise, my love For now the songbirds have…
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Every once in a while, I feel my veins bracing for the flood of you rushing in, and I can hardly breathe. When you say— It’s enough of a distance, I swear it couldn’t matter. Every once in a while, I go to war with myself, fighting the ache that lingers, and my heart forgets…
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What would you do if someone else told you not to stay? Would you share how fantastic it felt, or simply walk away? Were you under the impression that it was never real in the first place? Or did you always have faith in this face? What would you do if the world starts falling…
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How bold was it to say hello? In the line I write, I convey the words needed to set a spark And we will blow away the night Like wind, undercover How much did you lean into? I’d say it softer if the lines I spoke could be said at all And we hide from…
Words into Waves
Shane the Poet | Only Anthem