Tanner Herndon

Rich with insanity,
Thick with hate,
Drunk with love,
Stinking of confusion,
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Eyelashes stuck in time,
Falling like leaves,
Stuck to our faces, they cling to safety,
Never wanting to let go,
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I left the door to my heart cracked open,
I lured you in with curiosity,
But what you saw, shocked you to the core,
You must have cried lava, when you saw what was in this heart,
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Come forth to write, leave not a thought,
To rot,
But a common enemy, in my mind,
Is set to stone, as the gargoyle,
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I have an inside joke
With Death-
'Knock, Knock, '
Who's there?
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I can ask nevermore,
That you seek comfort from these limbs,
I am rooted in a soil far more damning than,
Anything you have ever seen,
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Nobody dies alone,
Death, will not allow this,
Death will be right there waiting,
His black crow's wings spread open wide,
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I walked into the Barbershop
Dressed in all black;
The barber sat me down in a
Leather chair that swiveled
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The silk after taste, of drinking
Your eyes, the texture of dreams,
As you make them arise:
I am far from forbidding elation, with you
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Love.
And, how can you be in
Something in which you know
Nothing about?
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Manageable death
Manageable life
Manageable secrets
And laughter that the
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Out of cigarettes,
What will I do?
I am out of cigarettes:
Cancer sticks, bogies, ciggies,
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With bones like old
Furniture and flesh
Dusty and cracked,
We start to look like our
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Topaz eyes,
Cleaned thoroughly from crying,
Shined for the occasion,
And her hair is in onyx curls,
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Why do people want to come back to life
After death?
Death is the best part of living;
The treat after the trick,
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Hoarfrost coats all white, as if the world was sprinkled with cocaine,
In nature, the snow remains clean and untouched,
In cities and towns alike, we turn it a decaying black,
Nothing is safe from our ugly touch,
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Leave behind you cold memories, frozen in time,
And let not revivification, let them thaw,
Do not eviscerate yourself of simple pleasures,
For these will keep you company,
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