How about holding you through quiet days,
And through the hurricanes too?
Like boarding your ship when the wind is fair,
And staying when stormy woes ensnare.
To be your anchor when the tide pulls strong,
Your sail when hope feels gone.
Not just for sunshine or skies of blue
But for every shade your soul drifts through.
How about you and I,
through perfections and flaws alike?
@Stranja_depoet

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I romanticize the stars,
Never forgetting it's darkness
that made them twinkle.
I smile a little too wide sometimes,
'cause I remember the many nights I couldn't.

@Stranja_depoet

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Is that all you got?
Is it how it all ends? 
Come on now!
Hurt me in a new way,
For this style is time-worn.

Try something different,
Your punches no longer sting.
Bruise me with surprise,
Give me scars that speak
For the old ones have gone numb.

Pick up your gavel 
And call for my silence.
Cut off my tongue
Shut me up for good.

Hurt me a new way, love,
Your cruelty has grown too familiar.
I refuse to cry for the pain
That's already been memorized.
@Stranja_depoet 

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|BLIND HEARTS|
We were two unseeing hearts
cruising on a carousel.
Two pairs of pastel eyes poisoned by looks
and imbued in roguish desire.
Behind blindfolds of lust,
we trailed routes of amorous curse.

Our artless minds leaned on oblivion
surmising we were perfect halves.
Drowned in unseen depth of emotions,
we died for what was to us an eternal bliss
feeding on illusions,
with the hunger pressed between our lips.

How weak we were,
to be pushed into a colossal pit of deceit,
led by the instinct that this was true love.

       @Stranja_depoet

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“Exchange your fire for bread,” they say,
But what is bread without flame?

Feed the body, but starve the soul,
Is that really the way to go?

Tell me if comfort will ever kindle a name,
Are fleeting gains worth the spark we tame?

Some fires burn not to destroy,
but to define.

To trade passion for crumbs
is no divine design.

@Stranja_depoet

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Poetry is how I escape reality.

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If the word gift can be spelt from fight,
Then your darkness can hold some light.
Inasmuch as there's pain,  
Pure joy never ceases to reign.

Gleam! Glow!
Oh! Let your beauty show.
From my lips to your ears,
These are words to curb your fears.

Should the day give you screams,
While you expect calm,
Know, that the night has dreams
And its secrets are full of balm.

Flower, gleam!
Flower, glow!
Unleash your blinding beam,
Oh! Let your beauty show.
@Stranja_depoet

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   They say “Love conquers all”,
But in this quest to find forever with you,
  Ego won.

                      @stranja_depoet



                      

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Meet me,
when the sky touches the ocean.
Stay close,
when moonlight sleeps on the midnight lake.

If there comes a tomorrow, 
That my tongue loses its voice,
Tune your ears to my sweet nothings.  

      @Stranja_depoet

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Drape not my tomb with roses 
When my lungs sigh their last
For they will wither and die.
Put them in my hand while I live
I could build in my heart a garden of peace.

         @Stranja_depoet

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