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  November 2022     3 months ago

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Let Them Eat Cake

Left splintered beneath
Heavy sheets of grief you bequeathed
A never ending sleet of torment
Torrential in its fervor
I can hold no further
Swallowed all the pain you gave
Spat it back and baked a cake
You wonder what it'd take to break
A...

by Brooke

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I Sold My Soul

Sell your soul
To the pen
So I did
Red knuckled
Over porcelain skin
Transparent enough to count each vein
Pumping blood to a fractured heart
To a brain, both mad and sane
The spindly appendages move over each letter
But every sentence...

by Brooke

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Hallelujah

Beauty
Divinity
All that made you
All you were
I couldn’t attempt to
Can time change the timeless
You stand prophetic proof
Yet I raise you and you quell me
Turned your head but saw past me
Is this cold crass crucifixion
Part of your...

by Brooke Rigsby

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added 1 year ago
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