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    Lacrimosa: Tales of Human Bondage
    Lacrimosa: Tales of Human Bondage
    Lacrimosa: Tales of Human Bondage
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    Lacrimosa: Tales of Human Bondage

    By Phyksios

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    A compilation of verse by award-winning poet and writer Phyksios. Having been in print for over 15 years, this wordsmith has finally released his magnum opus! Revolving, for the most part, around the central them of the emotional bonds which sometimes hold us back in life, his words touch the soul and pull at the heartstrings. Sometimes uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking, Phyksios' work can run the emotional gamut. True to a poet once featured as one of the best of 2000, though, it is always insightful and intelligent. From the haunting "The Delicate Art of Being Large When You're Small," to the besmitten "Shadow on the Sun," Phyksios will have you hooked page after page.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhyksios
    Release dateAug 29, 2015
    ISBN9781310382154
    Lacrimosa: Tales of Human Bondage
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    Phyksios

    Published under different names since 1999, Phyksios is an award-winning poet and writer. Having been presented with editor's choice and poet of the year awards by the International Society of Poetry and the International Library of Poetry, he was featured in the ILP's "America at the Millennium: The Best Poets and Poetry of the Twentieth Century," in 2000. He now writes and publishes for himself from his home in Mesa, AZ. He lives with his two children and three dogs.

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      Lacrimosa - Phyksios

      A Note from the Author

      Lacrimosa (n) latin: tearful, weeping, causing tears

      This book is a collection of stories which are, for the most part, about the emotional bonds we place upon ourselves. Far too often, we tie ourselves in knots over things which we cannot change. I write this with the hope that someone who is lost out there will realize that they are not alone.

      Many of these stories are about people I have met and who have waded through their sufferings to come out alive. Others are simply inspired by words they have spoken. For Kourtney, Sandi, Tammy and others who have shared their lives with me, this is for you and all you have brought into my life.

      For Kourtney, you inspired more than one of these. For that, I thank you. As I have said before: You are a doll. Granted, that doll is the Bride of Chucky, but a doll still.

      Phyksios

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      The Delicate Art of Being Large When You're Small

      Shelter me

      Someone please shelter me

      I have lost myself inside of me

      Universe

      I am a universe

      There are a hundred thousand places I could be

      I set out to explore the places

      I have never been, these spaces

      Where I hide darkest parts of me

      And when I turned around I found that

      The path was overgrown with regrets

      Morbid thoughts, and this deep hatred of being

      Don't leave me here, inside my fear

      Please, just take me somewhere, anywhere

      I'm the bastard who has mastered

      The delicate art of being large when you're small

      Sylvan fields

      And streets of steel

      The senselessness inside has got no end

      A spider's web

      Inside my head

      In which I'm left a-trembling in the wind

      I've run and run and run for ages

      And still I can't escape these cages

      My every thought has welded around me

      Across the sea and through the desert

      I still can find no end to this hurt

      Lost in myself, I'm never to be freed

      The shame is real and made of steel

      It binds my hands and holds me in its thrall

      Both great and meek, I'm strong and weak

      The delicate art of being large when you're small

      ﬗ

      The Mystery

      I. In the Arms of Christ

      Ten P.M., blood boiling in the rain

      Young Tania lies in the arms of Christ

      Running fast from all the pain

      "Mother, Father. why do you fight each night?

      Did I bring on this angry war?

      How can I make it right?

      What is this Mystery that others call God?

      Could he move you to spare the staff and rod?

      These feelings are choking

      Desperate and vengeful, they're beating on me

      Oh, help me, I'm dying, I'd give my life just to finally be free"

      Hands on her head

      He held her safe from the cold

      To have and to hold

      This Mystery...

      Then came a shot out of the night...

      ﬗ

      II. Behind Folding Door

      Desperate and scared

      She hid away from it all

      Just behind folding door

      Was a world which would not let her fall

      To see the blood upon the walls

      Was just too much to bear

      To flee to the closet and the dark

      Was all that she could dare

      She wandered about inside her head

      Away from all the blood and things that were said

      She took her repose from the world outside

      Until she couldn’t go on and then she cried

      When the man in blue came and took her away

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