Return to Center

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Steam

the aura hissing with negative energy

it rises from my back and scalp, hands retract

no affection touches me

no niceness do I attract

evaporating upon near-contact

I am scattered by duress

seeping out of myself under a boulder of stress

This enduring dream

sell-out and garner adoration

fame and following, applause

roses at my feet and signs of appreciation

I want nothing from you, I write for my own cause

and as always if I ever reach one person in need

I have met the pinnacle of all I could achieve

that is the highest of my duty; my only deed

fill my paperwork in with whatever they need to believe

All the nastiness in the air like gnats

I direct it with my hands, focus on the flow

gather these foul winds fanned from my chest

and force the currents to retreat from whence they've blown

all gusts of bile spilled across my brain

absorbed back into the cracks

with a brief and painful refrain

I survey the wake of an ambitionless life, for all the luster it lacks.