From “The New Servant”
Beauty’s worth lies in the beholder’s pride
in it. A prize it is at its peak, but
spoiled it is after its beholder’s use.
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Excerpt from “Voiceless”
A king’s voice gets the king what he wants and what
a servant can afford to pay, whether
that be in gold or a live sacrifice.
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Excerpt:
From “The Decree”
Revelations from secrets’ past blinds the
sight in the present, as the mind shifts the
blame to soothe the past for the present’s use.
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Excerpt:
From “The Eternal Sacrifice”
Truths presented cloaked in one’s omission
rarely remain hazy, but a puzzle
for the recipient to unlock, as
truth for the bearer recedes, clarity
in fragments will always surface in time.
Excerpt:
From “Love Story”
True love is felt not in the rush of warmth,
but in the coldness of sorrow, fear of
losing love, that empty heart no one wants.
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Excerpt:
But, the tree grew anyway,
healing from the switches
taken to its base,
growing during the rainy seasons
when we nourished it.
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Excerpt:
I dug deeper into the earth,
severing roots that were never fully connected,
ones that I thought that were a part of me.
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Excerpt:
my side of the garden endured,
as I scraped back bare soil:
the earth I once remembered,
the remnants of what I started with.
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Excerpt:
Matter weathered
by the elements,
crumbling like us,
to the ground,
where we both originated.
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Excerpt:
Alone,
a prisoner of my own making,
I allow you to keep me hostage…
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J.L. Smith 