A.J. McKinley Poems

Purple suns and glyphs obscure
In a dream we met
Swirling, enticing, esoteric I'm blue
Yearning for conscience
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You don't know me
Alone I break
Falling from my heartache
From the choices I have made
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I am the winter storm
I am a moonless night
I am a soul that's torn
I am a broken light
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Oppression, repression, obsession
Where I find myself within

Intention, attention, retention
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Shimmering orb of mystic light
Flowing energy into me
My earthly spirit to take flight
Earth, wind, flame and sea.
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The silence within dares to dream.
My beauty is spent.
Nothing is me.
I grasp at nothing to find my hands full.
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What is the night's remorse if not the regret of your lips gone from mine?
Is it the moon mocking the sun in its endless game of chase?
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I wept for the dying of my innocence
Hanging precariously from a broken moon
I swirled in the dance of the spiraled flame
Connections dripping, dangling…teasing
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Rambling on in discontented bliss
Eagerly I await this wanton kiss
How many times I have dreamed of you.
Only to awake lonely and blue
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There is a gentleness to sorrow that tames the savage soul.
Where fear is only an illusion and time is forever on hold.

There is a wildness to pain that pierces the hungry heart.
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