Joyce Rugg

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Voices whisper, promising sweet sleep
I look, but see nothing in the deep
Nothing different from where I am now
The only change, it doesn’t bow
...

Spare me your lies
And your transparent tears 
You grieve not your crimes,
You've lost track of your sins
...

You're chasing immortality,
But it's not in fleeting fame,
Nor in works of art
As we forget the masters' names
...

Temperatures rise as morals fall
We've created a living hell
We pretend our decay's a lie,
It's easy, perfume masks the smell
...

They claim their halos
But deny the horns below
Adorned with bats' dark wings
Yet claiming the right of seraphim
...

Human weaklings now walk
Where dinosaurs once tread
Now an outline in chalk
Their reign long-since dead
...

7.

My eyes are open, but everything's blurred
I hear the screams, but can't believe they're mine
See the blood and bruises, but feel nothing
Everything once familiar now twisted, strange
...

Hello, hello, remember me
I’m everything you can’t control
My demise you’ll never see
Far away from your grasping hold
...

It’s been said that love is blind,
An understatement, I’ve lost my mind
To care for you, after all you’ve done,
Burning alive, still I reach for the sun
...

It's like a drug, an all-consuming obsession
Not injected but expelled
Numbing, pushing away the depression
As i explode, my demons are felled
...

Hush now baby, don't you cry
Even one whine and you'll fry
In the fires of hell, a dark, scary place
But far better than the life you'll face
...

Hiding in ancient excuses
We justify our fallacy
An undeserved arrogance
That we call supremacy
...

happiness can't be bought
But everything else is for sale 
Oppression, misery, even death
For the right price, it's all yours
...

A phantom affection, a thing of the past
What you care for, made of glass
Living a pathetic, poisoned, parody,
Your love, a screaming melody
...

cement your thoughts
inked words from a trembling hand
...

I’ve reached the point of no return,
Stop trying to bring me back
I’ll fight you the entire way
I don’t cut any slack
...

when you're young you believe every fairytale      
you view the world through a gently blurring veil
it is paradise, a lovely, peaceful place.
As you get older, you see the horrors you face      
...

18.

Their eyes are open, but they don't see
They have a heart, but it's of stone
A mouth that never closes
A brain that never thinks
...

the perfect life, no piece out of place
to the world, just another pretty face
i was nowhere in your scheme
a child in the party scene
...

20.

The closest of twins
Grown apart just as completely
Bitten by others sins
They whispered, like we couldn’t see
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Joyce Rugg Biography

I'm a 16-year old straightedge vegetarian-going-vegan who loves symphonic/black/death metal. (I love the agonist, & I'm a shadow soldier for life!) I've been writing poetry since I was 13 & stories since i was 10. My dream job would be as lead vocalist of a melodic death metal band.)

The Best Poem Of Joyce Rugg

Freefall

Voices whisper, promising sweet sleep
I look, but see nothing in the deep
Nothing different from where I am now
The only change, it doesn’t bow

To the joy that pulls me to the sky
That leaves me giddy, too breathless to ask why
Like someone has a gun to my head
A false cheery voice, “be happy or you’re dead”

No choice, though I’d much rather die
They see the surface, believe the lie
When the skeleton shows, they call it an act
Blind to the broken bones, to the impact

Like a star falling to the sea
The end of all I’ll ever be
The light that was so clear
Will suddenly disappear

If I don’t drown, I hit land
The jagged rocks, not sand
Able only to lie on red-stained stone
A macabre painting, but it’s my own

A sign that I had really been there
That I wasn’t just someone’s nightmare
Everlasting, till swept away by a flood
A marker, a monument in blood

Life, trapped in a sepulcher
Now, a blessed departure
Away from all the judging eyes
In falling, I rise

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