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LSD

By Gabriel Lyra

 

Lucid sweet dreams staring at me through my bathroom’s misty blurred mirror
soft dreadful lips kiss my epidermis, nerves feel electric discharges all over my
disorganized long spine, rounded hips guide my lower back like a mentor
lecturing symphonies designed by Mozart’s own fingers, a beautiful lie
sings dark lyrics to my ears while my conscience is lost in a play of
desirable lustful sex, nails claw my chest like wolves devouring canines
licking some death more from the remaining bones and flesh from a dove.

Sharp dopamine lifts my spirit as my limbs are being carried by vines
durable like snake’s second skin, loud moans give my neck hair goosebumps
lively satisfying delusional sensations, my mind is flying through the dense pink
skies dilapidating lights from the beautiful end of the world when an intense flash jumps
dazzling lavender sirens in front of my eyes as they involuntarily blink
love suddenly dies as I am back to reality and face a ghost looking at me in the glass
scared despairing lonely man he is indeed, now that his imagination has come to pass.

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