Tag Archives: struggle

star crush open chest

By TheFallout | Published: May 11, 2010

I had you old,over and over against things in me you’d missed, I’d missed; a hand in mine that I had kissed. So against me you hold your slow; a cold pulse where love should go. as I break what oath should have never broke. My tongues then lack grace for days; sullen heart, a [...]

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Joab’s Stratagem

By TheFallout | Published: January 12, 2010

When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians. The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites. And he said, [...]

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Spire

By TheFallout | Published: June 4, 2009

Clouds are scrawled across something that once was like the moon, flitting on the edges of evening; and playing there with the sun. So I climbed here, miles high to drag back the clouds that have covered both your eyes only to find that even here, out on a mountain’s height I couldn’t reach you. [...]

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Flight From Chain, Tower, and Hole

By TheFallout | Published: March 12, 2009

Must I be a man made of such low and earth that all I am is betrayal and sold down to the curse? I have fought cage, and cage fought me to bend soul ’round bars and break what longs breaking free. If I rest in shadowed tower, I shall fling myself from the height. [...]

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Small Evening

By TheFallout | Published: February 24, 2009

Sometimes I am smaller and oh so much harder to love and sometimes I am stronger than I ever could have hoped. But more often, more often I am nothing when something is all I want to be. I come close to being and run away afraid because they’ll all hate the real me. What [...]

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