• Taedium Vitae 

    Is it possible to suffer in bliss?To be rosy in health, To have not a single burden weighing heavy on your shoulders, But still feel as though your chest is constrained in thorns? To still dread waking in the morn? To fill your empty mind with worry after worry, Just to keep it occupied? To…

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  • Leaving

    You didn’t have to say a word,You didn’t even have to look.I knew it when you left,Knew it in my bonesYou were here,But you had already left. – Arsh

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  • The Real Monsters Remain

    Fret not, little child,The monsters under your bed are long gone,The next monsters you must fearLurk within the minds of men.It enslaves their heart,And lives off their soul,Construing their figures beyond recognition.Turning them into a shell of their former person.Fret not, little child,Such monsters are a part of life,They live within us all and live…

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  • Hoping

    Some things shatter,Some things bloom,Some things die all too soon.And yet we stay till we’re disproven,Stay till we’re broken,Stay till we have lost ourselvesHoping for something different.What did we stay for? – Arsh

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  • If Ghosts are Real

    If ghosts are real,Then they haunt me.Ghosts from times I wasn’tAnd ghosts from times I could have been.And saddest of all,Ghosts who would never be.They haunt me through good times and badAnd yet,Through all the highs and lows,They are mine. – Arsh

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  • The Legacy of Man 

    For what can Man do, Except follow its predecessors today? Regardless of the path, It all ends with the grave. Till the heart ceases to beat And the hand ceases to move, Till the corpse has no heat And the mind achieves no feat. Yet even beyond the grave All men are remembered in some…

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  • The tongue of the PeasantBecame the tongue of the Noble,The Noble tongue was then madeThe tongue of the Ruler.Yet when the Tongue was tetheredAnd the Head was severed,The language remains,Still without chains. – Maya Desdemona

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  • An Ode To The Stars

    Star light, Star bright,Could you be a heavenly delight?Antipodal to the cumbersome day,The righteous Sun, and the adroit way.Detached from this world you may be,Yet you shine for us to see,Oh star light, star bright,Never lose your shine tonight. – Maya Desdemona

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  • Remember you must die,No matter how hard you tryYou must swallow your prideAnd simply enjoy your life.Remember you must live,In spite of your imminent deathThe Soul has not left the body yetSo celebrate every day before death. – Maya Desdemona

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  • Success?

    You’ve conquered the world,Yet all your power combined couldn’tYellow the pages of history.Died for your craft,Doing the same thing over and over again:Dwelling on your innumerable failures.Do you remember now?You have never been the hero of this story.You failed. – Arsh

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