Daniel Brown

I am someone being no one,
A singular purpose of vision brought me here,
I have flayed away the surface,
Self-inflicted torture to leave myself behind,
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Here we are,
Back in the land of the living...
Grey and materialistic,
Unraveled by the depth of the dead,
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Built upon my broken back,
Upon a broken shore.
Stretching out beyond the sea,
And past the open door.
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Stuck inside a shell,
Transmutated memories of living in a waking hell...
I left you all behind,
Or maybe i got lost inside the forest,
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More bad news today…
Nothing more to say,
Nothing more to do but look for a clue…
How to cure such a sickness?
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What i sought to see and did not know,
Echos of betrayal framed in red and yellow afterglow.

Embers fall from crested waves of apocalypse,
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The events as they occurred,
Distinctions made between the clarity of vision when it doubled from a singleness of purpose into non-sequential blurs.

Tried to make it clearer through the chaos of the once more two way mirror,
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Of course i have seen the writing on the wall,
The intertwining interest in the symmetry of pitfalls.
Piquing interest,
Peering thoughts,
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I will never belong to you, again...
I'm not sure I ever did,
But I know you're under my skin,
Constantly seeping deeper,
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What makes a clock work?
The ticking of the hands,
Moving of the time,
Forward, never backward,
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If I could I'd just remove you,
Pull you from my mind,
Kill the dreams and the illusion,
All the moments left behind...
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Made a promise to myself i couldn't keep,
A doubtful disposition,
And a thought left on repeat...
I turned away with time again to tell
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God, break down the door
And find the resting dead,
Set upon the burning altar
Burnt to ash...
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Romanticized roboticism,
Looking for a way to find...
An exit from the long decay,
Of tunnels burrowed through my mind.
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An inch to move you forward,
A foot to drag you back,
Distance measured,
Lost and gained,
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As I pondered this pious position,
Of peeling back the skin,
Revealing bone and tendons,
A bare heart and organs in...
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Something happened in the corner of my eye,
Like something I remembered from the corner of my mind...
Barely caught, but I'm reminded of the time,
Of recollections framed in passing past mistakes,
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Sometimes I think,
there's a part of me so broken,
That it's beyond repair.
A section built from atrophy,
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Pondering my strength of vision,
Questioning my outward, awkward, lack of state in my position...
Between the buried and the dead...
Existential questions,
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Cutting flesh to bone,
The pain a warm embracing hug,
A distant memory of home...
In spite of what's been said,
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