A.J. McKinley Poems

If we were all like fence posts…
We would be uniform and plain.
Standing in alignment and keeping others out.
We would hinder sight for all who pass.
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I found you.
In my heart.
Buried.
Obsolete.
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I am trapped, but I will not bow
I am a prisoner, but you will not break me
Your sorrows are not mine nor your insecurities
You cast stones upon houses when yours is transparent
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I will close my eyes to wake within my nightmare.
It is the inevitable fate that is called my destiny.
I will sleep and they will rob me of my consciousness.
They will rob me of my precious control.
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I fell in love
Once
Oh fair friend I should deny
Of wanton words and passion delight
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Sometimes a flame burns so hot it consumes itself.
Just as breath gives life; so yours fuels my soul.
I would go to you with reckless abandon…
But stuck I am.
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There is no light in this frozen heart.
No refractions of love to heat my soul.
I am absent from my own thoughts.
Inconclusive though they may be.
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A city lost in a cavernous rage.
A moment turned in a blank page.
Heat is hidden within this icy room.
A door without hinges.  A handless broom.
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I walked a road of confusion
That winded through my tears
It forked with a disillusion
That spread between my fears
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My beast has been awakened.
I shiver from its reverie.
My desire raised in a breath.
The beast hungers for you.
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