Just a bunch of poem-like thingies with no names. They're all together, since they're so short. I don't know why I wrote these. I was really tired, and I didn't want to go to bed. So, all thanks to lovely, sleep-induced stupors, we have four nameless poems and... a pointless really-close-to-being-a-paragraph thing that I'm not sure why I started. Have fun.

Moments between reality
For hours that pass by as an instant, cheating life
Consuming days on end
Unpredictable and lawless
Free, for as long as you can savor the present
Sinful and delicate
Almost living
And somehow, closer to death
Dreams
Explaining the future
Uncovering the hidden
And then shattering all hope
With a jolt of energy each morning
Dreaming
Holding onto reality
Unafraid to let go
Too bad
That's only when I dream

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Blood-shot eyes and open mouth
Cracking skin, dirty fingernails search for a pen
Uncap it, unfold white paper
Move emotion from mind to sight
Rhythms drive and fail, until a single one forces all others away
Words drown all thought
They pour into vision and drip down through bleeding tears
Author has no pain
Only passion

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Down on the trapeze
With an audience
Catching your breath from another trick
But this time, it's not simply of light
Feet parade in single file, further and faster toward the ends of the rope
Toward the ends of life
Arms spread in perfect balance
Perfected, as always, by repetition
The crowd is hushed, though only for a moment
Screams rush through the tent
They're here
Again
You turn swiftly to see the danger
Body sways and earth pulls
Wind sifts angrily through tangled hair
Falling with grace
On two feet, you land
In a net
Alone in a dark circus tent
Your audience is gone
You are forsaken
And in this empty world, your act is perfect
Shame
It may never be perfect again

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Dripping wings of wax and feather
Liar
That's what you get
Trading prison for death
Is it fair?
Only in your eyes
Swing your arms and move
Aim for water
There are no angels
And if there were, none would be willing to catch you
Never you
Only the innocent
Sway forth and back
Losing control
Fall slowly at first, and then surrender to air
Consider all that life has offered you
Shake your head and turn away from sickening thoughts
You never asked to live
Only to die
For a moment, the world understands
And in a moment, the world has forgotten
They need not remember you, traitor
But someone will