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	<title>brokenpoet.org &#187; purgatory</title>
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		<title>rebuild</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20030308-rebuild</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[piece by piece I bring it home in these cold hours with thoughts alone construct a life fill in the holes with trinkets (memories to hold) I rebuild the process without your hand make these things mine in hopes to stand (tall, not to fall)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>piece by piece<br />
I bring it home<br />
in these cold hours<br />
with thoughts alone<br />
construct a life<br />
fill in the holes<br />
with trinkets<br />
(memories to hold)</p>
<p>I rebuild the process<br />
without your hand<br />
make these things mine<br />
in hopes to stand<br />
(tall,<br />
not to fall)</p>
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		<title>random thoughts</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20030308-random-thoughts</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenpoet.org/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve stripped myself of my art the tools discarded to collect so many emotional voids - if i tell myself it doesn&#8217;t hurt it shouldn&#8217;t - hearing your voice on tape recorded so far back when things were happy brings me closer to the farther away shows me everywhere i went wrong and how you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i&#8217;ve stripped myself of my art<br />
the tools discarded<br />
to collect so many<br />
emotional voids</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>if i tell myself it doesn&#8217;t hurt<br />
it shouldn&#8217;t</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>hearing your voice on tape<br />
recorded so far back<br />
when things were happy<br />
brings me closer to the farther away<br />
shows me everywhere i went wrong<br />
and how you must have hated me<br />
then<br />
for needing you SO much<br />
and how now you don&#8217;t know what to<br />
feel<br />
when i look past my tears into your<br />
eyes<br />
saying, &#8220;everything can change&#8230;<br />
all i want<br />
is for things to be<br />
the same&#8221;</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>So long ago i became Me of Me &amp; You<br />
that now i cannot find myself<br />
while you never really lost yourself in Us<br />
and just existed as You accompanied by Me</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>my thought wheels spin beyond reason<br />
i ache to have your arms around me<br />
you lie next to me, indifferent in sleep<br />
i keep the watch of the rising sun<br />
hoping soon to find peace<br />
to stop these electric pulses<br />
which hold me from sleep<br />
to stay this fear<br />
which racks my body</p>
<p>shivering<br />
scared by ghosts of thoughts<br />
would wake you<br />
but would feel ashamed<br />
grown men should not be haunted<br />
by words<br />
should not be kept awake<br />
by anxiety and loneliness</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>never having had choice before<br />
what was made may not be wise<br />
a simple utterance of instinct<br />
an attempt to relive these things<br />
to find myself within you again<br />
but at what cost?<br />
at whose expense?</p>
<p>everyones&#8230;</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>sleeping beside me<br />
goddess of night unfolds her thoughts<br />
in complacent sighs she whispers eternities<br />
i lay beside her and wait &#8217;til day<br />
brings her about again to talk to<br />
to laugh with</p>
<p>but for now she has regained her innocence</p>
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		<title>words from a box</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20030308-words-from-a-box</link>
		<comments>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20030308-words-from-a-box#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenpoet.org/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[your beauty strikes me, slowly - as the silence lays between us like a stillborn child we created in our twisted copulation we both regret our actions not yet committed - hide inside, try not to wonder slide on by, world torn asunder hold the ground to keep from drifting kill the sound now souls [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your beauty strikes me, slowly</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>as the silence lays between us<br />
like a stillborn child<br />
we created in our<br />
twisted copulation<br />
we both regret our actions<br />
not yet committed</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>hide inside,<br />
try not to wonder<br />
slide on by,<br />
world torn asunder<br />
hold the ground<br />
to keep from drifting<br />
kill the sound<br />
now souls are shifting</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>pressure changes<br />
vision strays from focus<br />
fluctuation, blur and bend<br />
floating soul, can&#8217;t touch<br />
the ground<br />
internal waves pixelate<br />
towards edges<br />
where they dissipate</p>
<p>i swear, it feels like<br />
the end of the world</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>withdrawn<br />
without hope of<br />
wonder<br />
withered words<br />
woebegone<br />
waiting while<br />
weeping</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>folding things back<br />
upon themselves<br />
we find a shorter path of travel<br />
a way to connect<br />
without the cause of effect<br />
the Kronal Ojeckal demon slain<br />
we walk through the invisible gates<br />
of eternal light to come out<br />
- indeterminate spacial<br />
occupation, half in the<br />
pool of flesh . . . remainder<br />
still floating on thoughts<br />
of greater nothing, still<br />
burning in &#8216;void of form&#8217;,<br />
blissful slow burn</p>
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		<title>america the beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[buildings spread like cancer across the horizon line strip mall temples monetary sacrifice to the gods materialism as diety bow down before unnecessity before retched excess]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>buildings spread like cancer<br />
across the horizon line<br />
strip mall temples<br />
monetary sacrifice to the gods<br />
materialism as diety<br />
bow down before unnecessity<br />
before retched excess</p>
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		<title>trust</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20030308-trust</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenpoet.org/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[when trust has blown away like so many fractured moments leaving me fragmented and stillborn in my ignorance i tremble at your thoughts and dream of placid certainty of my place in your life i long for days when i will be much more than this bright and sparkling nothing which fades when overcome by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when trust has blown away<br />
like so many fractured moments<br />
leaving me fragmented and stillborn<br />
in my ignorance<br />
i tremble at your thoughts<br />
and dream of placid certainty<br />
of my place in your life<br />
i long for days when i will be much more<br />
than this bright and sparkling nothing<br />
which fades when overcome by darkened<br />
tortures hidden deep within my mind<br />
how i wish for vibrant stillness in the<br />
knowledge that i will never hurt you<br />
again</p>
<p>at night i lay awake in fear that<br />
i have broken this precious gift,<br />
your trust, into pieces too small<br />
to reassemble</p>
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		<title>a few words on skin</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20020308-a-few-words-on-skin</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenpoet.org/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[spacial beauty inert, lifeless time finds hold and rots the skin pure heart cannot protect sustain no will can stop decay - momentary flux ascension kills gravity&#8217;s weight shreds astral skin]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>spacial beauty<br />
inert, lifeless<br />
time finds hold<br />
and rots the skin<br />
pure heart cannot protect<br />
sustain<br />
no will can stop<br />
decay</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>momentary flux<br />
ascension kills<br />
gravity&#8217;s weight<br />
shreds astral skin</p>
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		<title>the day the sun god walked away</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20020308-the-day-the-sun-god-walked-away</link>
		<comments>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20020308-the-day-the-sun-god-walked-away#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[out like a light eclipsed by darker moons around the corner out the door of existence my sun is gone no more to pierce the clouds celestial drifting breaks the fabric of my certainty can&#8217;t see or feel the warmth on my cheek cold biting tender skin emotionally frozen frigid frostbitten feelings forgotten finally forever]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>out<br />
like a light<br />
eclipsed by darker moons<br />
around the corner<br />
out the door<br />
of existence</p>
<p>my sun is gone<br />
no more to pierce the clouds<br />
celestial drifting<br />
breaks the fabric<br />
of my certainty</p>
<p>can&#8217;t see<br />
or feel the warmth<br />
on my cheek<br />
cold biting tender skin<br />
emotionally frozen<br />
frigid<br />
frostbitten<br />
feelings forgotten</p>
<p>finally</p>
<p>forever</p>
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		<title>ocular delight</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20010308-ocular-delight</link>
		<comments>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20010308-ocular-delight#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[delicate eyes framed by her smoldering locks brought forth through haze of memory (redefined) the newly exposed retinal glow draws me nearer holds my mind in silent stillness tendrils of perception caress me in ocular delight]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>delicate eyes<br />
framed by her<br />
smoldering locks<br />
brought forth<br />
through haze of memory<br />
(redefined)<br />
the newly exposed<br />
retinal glow<br />
draws me nearer<br />
holds my mind<br />
in silent stillness<br />
tendrils of perception<br />
caress me in<br />
ocular delight</p>
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		<title>a simple wish</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20010308-a-simple-wish</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenpoet.org/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wasted years inside this institutional mind, trapped by matter&#8217;s meager persistence, I wish to regain. Balance the tables, with solid uncertainty, touch time without the haunt of fate. remember the dream Regain the moment Relive the life]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wasted years inside this<br />
institutional mind,<br />
trapped by matter&#8217;s meager<br />
persistence,<br />
I wish to regain.<br />
Balance the tables,<br />
with solid uncertainty,<br />
touch time without<br />
the haunt of fate.</p>
<p>remember the dream<br />
Regain the moment<br />
Relive the life</p>
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		<title>pulse</title>
		<link>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20010308-pulse</link>
		<comments>http://brokenpoet.org/poetry/purgatory/20010308-pulse#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[purgatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[shallow sunlight drains the day forgives this malevolence dreams of crushing renewal ancient paths will follow &#8217;round the circle (dance a distant past) relent and flow into the deepest waters pulse within it&#8217;s heart entwine and feel the truths within our rhythm hide from general knowledge create a newer past free from the horrid dream&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shallow sunlight drains the day<br />
forgives this malevolence<br />
dreams of crushing renewal<br />
ancient paths will follow<br />
&#8217;round the circle<br />
(dance a distant past)<br />
relent and flow<br />
into the deepest waters<br />
pulse within it&#8217;s heart<br />
entwine and feel the<br />
truths within our rhythm<br />
hide from general knowledge<br />
create a newer past<br />
free from<br />
the horrid dream&#8217;s persistence</p>
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