Shaun M. Wilkinson

Riga, Latvia

I had the recent pleasure of visiting Riga.

-SMW-

Read!

From “Off Magazine Street” by Ronald Everett Capps.

I’m actually posting this late; this was my Saturday read.

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Light scatters
Running from the horizon
Highlighting my every flaw and sin
Blinding all in its wake

Look down and see the loathsome
Lusting for the love
Craving the satisfaction
That only soul compatibility can provide

The world burns around me
Destroying the innocent
And innocence
Until the darkness prevails.

Passions lying dormant
Peer into the approach
As the twilight dissipates
And depth ceases at plane.

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…and like the wind, her hands were gone,
but the burning on my chest persists
from that final caress.

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Night pulses.
Shivers are concealed
Behind the darkest corners,
Where only drops of pink reveal you.
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My heart shutters,
Stutters, and Breathes-
Screams of Silence!
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I run to hide

Always one step behind

Chasing my own shadow

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Violent breath
Short bursts
My heart’s bound to explode

Pressure build
and body aches
Brain waves idled in panic

Sweat stains
and the sound drains
Save for the beating in my skull

Muscle twitch
and psyche itch
My lungs burn in revulsion

No use
Self abuse
Drink to bring the ebb

Relief is slow
Nor does it stop the flow
Of my enthralled mind’s worry

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As crippling as my attempt to describe it.

I’m at a loss; yet, it consumes me.

Fuck.

I’ll find a way.

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