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Storybook EndingHer ink-stained lips have kissed too many a forgotten page,

[dragon's blood
and phoenix down]

And her Prince Charming has yet to come,

[glass slippers
shattering like stars]

So all she can do is gaze out her tower window,

[enchanted forests
concealing poisoned apples]

Clutch that corroded and timeworn blade,

[cursed beasts
tearing down castle walls]

Toss her childhood fables to the waltzing of the moon,

Time Is The Cure

Time Is The Cure

Right hand of destruction
Left hand of creation

It's a never ending cycle
A fatal revival caught in a downward spiral

I tear down reality’s mask
As I build up a truth to give hope a chance

The veiled darkness decays
The guiding light fades

I let go of an old pain
As new tears wash it away
-
The sun always rises
The moon always sets

The rain subsides
The storm is put to rest

Clouds confide / Memories detest
Skies collide / Cries confessed

Light shines / Dark regrets
Pain hides / Peace professed

A new day awaits
An old night forgotten

Tomorrow I shall awake
To cradle what remains unbroken
-
I can't erase my mista

Tired, Exhausted, DrainedTired, Exhausted, Drained:

I am bloody exhausted! Drained to the core of my soul.

I wake up every morning with bags; burning ever deeper into my eyes.

Sunken masses of flesh, reminding me that the dreamscape -

One in which I sought refuge; is now buried where it lies.

Yet still I force myself to trudge through this wilderness.

Forever caught in a moon drenched, delusory twilight.

An endless cycle of failure and renewed hope;

Giving rise to the very stubbornness that defines me.

-Chen Yuan Wen, 5th February 2013

I'm Falling Down

I'm Falling Down

Pain just seemed to pass me by
Swift as tsunami waves touching the sky

Reality was nothing but a mirror
Melting away like frozen water on fading fire

I closed my sorrowful eyes
As if it was going to be the last time

And sparked images of my past that I don't want to remember
I was deceived every time I was told that it was going to get better
-
Flashes of agony
Infected my mind
And stinging anxiety
Shoots up my spine

Breathe/Breathe/Breathe

While despair wraps around my heart
I want to let it all go
This life was just too hard
I don't want it anymore

Please/Please/Please

There was no way out of this
I so

Faces Of Mine

Faces Of Mine

A smile once so true
It changed direction over time
I knew it was there because of you
But it was just belief based from a lie

Hope cannot be granted
And then stripped away
You have left my core tainted
With these wicked games that you play

May it be a lesson
Or turn it into fact and truth
Love won't be as important
As I use these scars as my proof
-
These eyes were once so hopeful
It was considered the rise after the fall

But my tears became unfaithful
As pain plunged out of my skull

No passion for the heart / No light for the dark
No love for the liars / No guilt for the defilers
No truth for the corrupted / No solace for

Questions.Questions.

Nobody has the answers
But everybody has the Y’s.

Speculations of a faultless green pasture,
Based on a line of best fit that was drawn to lie.

The solution is a sequence of random numbers and dates.
In addition to a complicated sum of love, grief, fear and hate.

Which form a unique equation that can never be revealed.
It’s the only bit of ignorance that still remains concealed.

Even though we may feel defenseless.

The possibilities are endless.

The opportunities are relentless.

Opinions become senseless

And still we lie restless.

Attempting to solve the unsolvable

And control the uncontrollable.

To know th

My Darkest Hour

My Darkest Hour

I've become lost
In my sundered reflection

I've finally crossed
The line of desperation

I sense something sinister
Something that is beyond cruel

My tears seem to hinder
Ready to break down soon
-
The darkness is always waiting

To rule / To conquer
To swallow / To devour
To return / To overpower

The shadows are always lurking

As I cry / As I weep
As I beg / As I plead
As I fall / As I grieve

The blinding fear is consuming
-
My anxiety-infected veins pour
I'm beyond weak

I don't want to be afraid anymore
Let me bleed

This is the only way out
A perfect exit for a coward

No longer am I bound
I couldn't survive my dark

Chasing Shadows of You...Chasing Shadows of You...

No matter the years that pass me by,

It seems I am forever trapped.

For when it comes to deceiving myself,

I'm afraid I'm rather apt.

In the end the truth which I sought to avoid, is now knocking at my door...

A rabid rat that chews at me; one I can't ignore.

And though I might have grown this body, from the lonely years I've seen.

I'm afraid I can only chase the shadow, of my dearest Angeline.

- Chen Yuan Wen, 14th January 2012

You'll Never DieHear me read it!

They say that if a writer falls in love with you then you never really die.

Instead your body is laid out in its funerial shrouds and moulds are made. Soft impressions of you to be pressed onto the blank faces of future loves.

Every time I write of taking comfort in a safe place in a storm, it will be your forearm. Every half-made smile will be on your lips, and every touch will be constructed from the residue beneath your fingernails.

When I metaphise of trees' blood, the leaves that give the energy so that a willow can provide shade for those in need, it will be your blood, it will be your light drenched kisses.

Every

Maiden By The Bay“Maiden By The Bay”

Every now and then across the water at night
A lady can be seen dressed in long silky white
She dances along the water as elusive as a bird
Her beauty so astounding I can not put into words
Her movements so graceful they shift the moon’s release
On the gravity of the earth; every crevice and crease
If the world were to fall apart around her piece by piece
Her dancing would never cease but only increase

And I wait for every day to end so I can say
I have seen this great maiden by the bay

The flowers enveloping her sing in harmony with the bees
The trees bend their barks and their branches tease
The ne

In absence of a poem.I chewed my pen to the nib
and swallowed the ink thoughtlessly,
but no matter how long I thought,
I couldn't say what you mean to me.

I tried, I tried and I tested,
every word in my diminutive range,
but I screwed up more pieces of paper
and happened upon something strange;

I noticed words, which have served me,
for all of my formative years,
had no power to convey my gratitude
for the times that you dried my tears.

Whenever I doubt myself (often),
You're the one who tells me I'm wrong
You lift up my chin and remind me, wait
for the good things that will come along.

I can't find a way to express how
you are the saving grace in my head.
So

Sorry is the hardest word ...Sorry was the hardest word for you
You never knew how to put it in the use
Being harsh, angry and absolutely rude
That was you, that's all you actually knew

You've changed a lot and so did I
But my memories are still quiet clear
I still remember all of your stupid lies
And all of those things you did to me

I let you go long time ago
And left my pain somewhere behind
I locked securely my tired soul
Trying to forget your deceiving eyes

And here you are standing right next to me
So real but yet too distant to believe
Time seem to slow down as I start to fall apart
Cause you're like an old drug for my thirsty heart

It was only few seconds,

Stronger"Stronger"

How does it feel to be erased?
How does it feel to be replaced?
Consumed by your inborn hate
You've made your grave in a lonesome fate

How does it feel to feel nothing at all?
How does it feel to stumble and crawl?
Not such a nice feeling now, is it?
Others may deem you as quite pathetic

I don't need your filth, your shame, your lies
And I found in time I did survive
I'm stronger now because I don't allow
People to walk over or break me down somehow

I don't need your trust, your eyes, your games
And in the end it was really such a shame
But I refuse to relate to the same mistakes
I don't allow myself to ache or break

I feel s

Drowning Out The World

Drowning Out The World

I find myself in the sounds
I release my pain in the lyrics
Enveloping peace is found
The vibes calm my spirit

But when silence falls
Reality and time stop
And then my mind floods
With ever-consuming thoughts
-
The walls in my head break down
The serenity within goes silent
And every regret cries out
My memories become violent

I get this sensation
That my soul is too damaged

A dreadful realization
There's nothing left of me to salvage

Music is just a distraction
To blind myself from the carnage

I remain behind the destruction
Where darkness has the advantage

Remnants of rhyme hinder
Calling out to me once more
Ne

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Shade Of Blue

From a deep slumber...
I have awoken
To this cruel color...
That leaves me haunted

My eyes scream
As I opened the door to my soul
Those thoughts of you start to bleed
Reminding me that you're just a person I used to know
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A dark ocean blue that I once knew
Leaked through my window
It matched this mood
Amplifying the sorrow

Sparking negative energy
It's the secret source of my core
The only element allowing me-
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Without a care
I can endure
Without a prayer
I push forward

So let this hue shower
With extreme hatred
Force the nostalgia to devour
And let my heart remain powerless
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The Unwanted Dove

My transformation could not be stopped
A weakened heart is to blame

Remnants of tears are left
I will never be the same again

So tired of everything / These memories of suffering
This is my dark reincarnation / Oh thou have forsaken

I am not your messenger anymore
I'm blind from keeping faith

I no longer recognize a savior
There's no more numbing the pain away
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Destroy the key

I'm not strong enough
To ever be free

So please clip my wings tonight / Never again will I take flight
Allow me to be useless / I yearn to be powerless

It won't be wrong
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I am done
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Nightmare: The Only Cure

My insides burn-

Like swallowing acid

Reality slows down-

Smiling is therapeutic
-
Health is a virtue / Strength is torture
Alive again tomorrow / Enduring the horror

It's excruciating
To keep on breathing

Every reflection
Mirrors are left sickened

Grinning back at myself
You must be enjoying this hell

Perfect possession / Muffled suffocation
Heart is racing / Sight is darkening

In these hallucinations
My skin is melting

Oh how I wish I was dreaming
Of when I finally start recovering

It's only hopeful thinking
A cure for me is a delusion

Quarantined tears / Reality's nightmare
I am beyond repair / All were

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Behind Hollowed Eyes

Day after day
I tried continuing on to live this way

With damaged veins made of concrete
I am the undone suicide that was kept a secret

But I can no longer exist
Inside of this pretentious skin

There is a past that I wish I didn't remember
There is a future that just looks too painful

There is nothing you can say or do that'll help
Because there is no turning back now
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I drag everything down with my endless lies
I smother the remnants of hope until it dies
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I am a maelstrom of deceit
I am a darkness that you cannot defeat
I am the awaiting fate of this pathet

True Despair

True Despair

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“How the strongest have fallen.”

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Unseen by many

A barrier to hide away
Covering up my damaged sanity

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So there is no restoring me
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My wounds will never heal
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I'm Soaring Now

by ~HollowfiedLife, Feb 17, 2013, 3:04:21 PM
Literature / Poetry / Emotional / Free Verse

I'm Soaring Now

I'm feeling a different level of fear
It's twisting my truth and morality

It's the reason that brought me here
On the edge of life, peering over to serenity

It's not impossible to grasp
Even though it's typical to assume

The last breath is the fact
That after death- peace will follow soon
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_{Bright flashing memories
Crossover swiftly
Ready to be set free
From this skin of treachery

Fade/Fade/Fade

My scars peel off
They're being left behind
The remains become soft
So this is what innocence feels like

Wake/Wake/Wake

Destiny is somehow connected
Fate deems to be natural
The circle of the two is perfected
The beginning to the end is peaceful

Raise/Raise/Raise}
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I accept and then banish-
The mistakes before they vanish

Splitting and fusing energies-
In the end I believe I am worthy

There always comes a time-
To live the last moments of life

And when my eyes finally close-
I won't feel the pain anymore

I'm Soaring Nowby ~HollowfiedLife

Literature / Poetry / Emotional / Free Verse

It all drizzles down to the very last moments
It's peaceful...knowing there's always an ending
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Critique by !TheLunarDragon Feb 17, 2013, 4:12:14 PM

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Vision: 5/5

When I read the description and realized that this was a part of a series, I thought to myself "What a wonderful idea." I never really see people posting a series of poetry. Very clever, and for that I gave you a full five stars in this category.

Originality: 4/5

This score is more a reflection of the subject matter more than you abilities as a writer. Typically when I see subject matter that I find commonplace, I dock a point. Nothing personal.

Technique: 5/5

We are back to five here because you are clearly able to properly operate a metaphor, you kept the piece clean and concise, and allowed it to flow together almost seamlessly.

Impact: 5/5

All things considered this is a piece that I believe will resonate well with the majority of your readers. This piece certainly did so for me! Keep up the good work!

(Bonus: I loved that this piece almost sounded lyrical in my head, it could easily be made into a song)

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Critique by ~fantasylover103 Feb 17, 2013, 3:53:30 PM

Okay, I am the worlds worst critique writer, but hey, I'll give it a shot.

The meaning of this poem was very powerful and it hit me like THUD the beauty of it. Honestly it was beautiful, I have no idea how else to describe it.

The font differences was a very clever move on your part I really enjoyed it. Besides the fact that it really made your poem shine I felt like it added to the meaning. I don't know if that was just me or what but it was beautiful. I don't know if this is just a coincidence but I also noticed that you grouped the words a bit differently, and that was very enjoyable too.

I also see a bit of near rhyming in a bit of the parts, which I found to be very creative. :3 The last part really struck me,

And when my eyes finally close
I won't feel pain anymore

I found that part to be absolutely beautiful, the perfect way to end a wonderful poem. I loved this. Keep up the great work!!!