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Why do you wear that stupid man suit? *

Take it off and peek within

You might find the heart of a brute

Beating underneath your skin.

A ray of sunlight like a border

Hell and Heaven's wary truce

Come the night you sense disorder

Feel your rage come bursting loose.

You sneer at meaningless convention

Artifice in every face

Laughing off absurd pretension

Leaving you without a place

You've pared your life down to the bone

Are you afraid to die alone?

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Ella's Edge, Movie Quotes

* actual line is "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" but I took some liberties to better fit the poem. from Donnie Darko, a most awesome, thought provoking movie with an adolescent Jake Gyllenhaal.

Dreams of Earth and Heaven

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When ink stained twilight descends

I search for you, my divine succubus

Black lace angel

Guardian of my secrets

Wrap me tight in your raven feathers

that I wear the veins in your wings

like those of my own skin

We will fly later

Now is the time

for earthbound delights

The night is dying

and the moon fades in the sky

like milk into morning coffee

Before you leave

Please lay a feather

silken and jet

upon my pillow

and I promise to dream

of heaven.

submitted for dVerse Poets Pub, Open Link Night, Week 27