Joyce Rugg Poems

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
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Spare me your lies
And your transparent tears 
You grieve not your crimes,
You've lost track of your sins
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You're chasing immortality,
But it's not in fleeting fame,
Nor in works of art
As we forget the masters' names
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They claim their halos
But deny the horns below
Adorned with bats' dark wings
Yet claiming the right of seraphim
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Human weaklings now walk
Where dinosaurs once tread
Now an outline in chalk
Their reign long-since dead
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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
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Hello, hello, remember me
I’m everything you can’t control
My demise you’ll never see
Far away from your grasping hold
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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
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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
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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
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