James Grengs Poems

I stood, for an instant, at the edge of the world,
And leapt- into nothing, but vacuum.
When I leapt, I expected in my foolish mind
That I would fall for miles, until I came to the end,
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Spinning,
Twisting,
Falling.
My heart,
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Look at me, in me-
Do you feel the pain
Burning within?
Can you tell me you know,
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The motion of the dance beckons:
Will you surrender?
Principle falls away,
The bite of love draws heart's blood.
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coldness and chill,
ending of memory
and time-ending in peace
or fire, yet ending.
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burning consuming
emotion of fire:
destroyer of life,
end of love
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i am no longer alive as i was in you.
there i was closer to you;
there i was in you.
i was close to your heart, once:
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I break.
My fragile porcelain being,
Made up of so many
Frail dreams,
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Today I am in pensive mood.
I walk about my day, drifting.
I do not know, or understand,
The circumstance that has brought me to this point.
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Nightmare-
Me, alone, eternity.
Darkness, like that which
Haunts my waking hours,
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