Zillah Solis

Poems:

The End
Heart
This is the Time
The Broken Rose
The Plight
Mortality
A Brutal Reality
Life

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The Endless succumb one by one
Into the realm of Destiny’s Keep.
Free-will estranged from substantial form
As Desire alters to Destruction
Mutating into Despair.
Rebirth follows Hope,
Lost in an erstwhile Dream.
Reawakening, Hope bestrewn
To the dead.
And Rebirth and Destruction
Fuse into Despair.
Death follows,
As must be told,
Leaving scattered ashes
In its wake.

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I see you standing there
(My throat is screaming)
You act as if unaware
(My heart is bleeding)
You turn your back to me
(My eyes are crying)
It wasn't meant to be
(My heart is dying)
I see you walk away
(My arms are grasping)
And this is where I stay
(My heart is gasping)
You are now out of view
(My body's falling)
All you said was never true
(My heart is bawling)

My face now sets in stone
(My heart was red)
I am now all alone
(My heart is dead)

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Grant me the power of revolution
To change this world in absolution
I cannot stand this destitution
Of this so-called evolution
I have my resolution
Goddess, witness my retribution
Witness this execution.

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Before me is a red rose
Vital in life
It literally glows
Not knowing strife

I must possess
Its radiant shine
And feel its caress;
This rose is all mine

A snap is heard
A thorn slides in
A hard lesson learned
Stained broken skin

The beautiful glimmer
Now tainted with blood
Flickers ever dimmer
Black in a flood

From life to death
From dusk to dawn
In just a breath
Life is gone

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Lace the corset up nice and tight
Lost the will to put up the fight
On goes the skirt fitting just right
Away goes my soul lost in the night
Pull on the platforms to add on the height
Love is now lost, now out of sight
Pucker the lips for the shade of twilight
Out goes my hope, out goes my night
Black around the eyes and the skin is white
Racing away
Run from the plight
The stilled form now a deathly sight
As it sinks to the ground, out like a light

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Such a sleepy face
But something so out of place
A waxen form -
No heat, nothing warm
Death has whispered in his ear
His death was all that I did fear
But my beautiful boy is gone -
Golden ashes glistening in the dawn
But I can never move on!

I want to scream and rage
Rip out this page
I want to sob and wail
At such a betrayal
Mortality -
Such a brutal reality
I gasp out a choked plea
As all that was ever me
Soon ceases to ever be.

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I glare
I stare
Caught unaware

I pale
Turn frail
At this betrayal

In sane
In pain
How to explain?

I now know
The agonizing woe
Of the ones that let go

Such a finality
A brutal reality
This thing called mortality

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Walking through a doorway
A new life ahead
An old life thrown away

Old daemons kept at bay -
For the time being
But they will repay -

All the hurt and pain
From many a yesterday
Filled with tearstain

These fiends that reign
Filled with cold blood and callousness -
The only seers through memory lane

The imps truly do show
That life is but a brief candle
And hurt can drag you down below

My judgement already came
I met the challenge
A new life I now claim

I now shed this used-up shell
And leave behind this old life
Now is the time for my last farewell
So I leave you all with a piece of advice -
Be true to yourself and that will suffice.

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