Shiraz Bautista Poems

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1.
Words That Kill

We are like two planes bound to collide
Tinting the sky with hues of blood-red desire
Our embers, a tapestry woven with grace
From threads of doleful devotion
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2.
Far From Lost

Our wine existed before what you all call the grape and the vine
our rivers flowed before what you knew as rain and water
our gardens bloomed before you ever stepped foot into our oasis
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3.
Maya

This unconscious mind
my holiest of weapons
the sharpest of blades
piercing through this veiled illusion
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4.
Spiritual Prisoner

This temporal self
anchored by a pulsating vigor
distorting my limited perceptions
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5.
A Second Chance

Here I am,
my spirit compromised
here I am,
the devil in disguise
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6.
Footprints In The Sand

I hear you laughing
you feel my passion
you feel my grip
in your hands
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7.
Walking With The Dead

Although I am here before you, as a man put on trial, I feel anything but blessed.

I stand before your kingdom, guilty of defiling your sacred temple.
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8.
Among The Anointed

Oh beneficent one

Drew me closer to your divinity,
help me shed my mortal skin
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9.
Grace Your Crown

Oh supreme one

As I tread your divine path,
I sense the deceiver's presence
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10.
Brick By Brick

Relinquish me from lustful intent
let me not survive on bread alone
let my belief perpetually bloom
from the mustards seeds that I have sown
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