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Narciss-Ick!

Posted in on February 15, 2026 by rhymemosaic
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Disgusted by your decadence I’m retching at your wretchedness Your gluttony, a tragedy Your selfishness is gagging me Excess expressed perpetually Protect assets so fretfully Expect the best, reject the rest

Psychological Autopsy

Posted in on February 15, 2026 by rhymemosaic
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I'm becoming quite familiar with my pain - Carefully, and intimately inspecting it Observing it closely, from all angles Learning every curve, crevice and crease Calculating its dimensions with precision Quantifying its characteristics with acuity and acumen Estimating exactitudes of extremity Analytically assessing stressors

TruthSeekerFounder's Canon

Posted in Faith & Spirituality with tags faith, salvation, purpose on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Anchor my roots in Your dirt by the river The Savior’s pursuit mends the hurts at my center Amazing that You seek the worst of all sinners And blatantly prove You’re a perfect forgiver I’m certain You heal and bind up all my hurting That You will improve how I feel; lighten burdens Observing Your Word, as I’m still finding purpose

So Much More To GainFounder's Canon

Posted in Hope & Resilience with tags hope, struggle, gratitude, growth on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Earth’s built at a tilt that I am not aligned to It’s certain I should work in a way I’m not designed to To wit: this must be it, and all there is that I’m confined to But if you think like this, then shit, they’ve been able to blind you! Have you longed to be so lost that one could never ever find you? Or to go so far into the dark you don’t know what’s behind you? Wondered how’d life be without your thoughts there to remind you

Pink SerpentFounder's Canon

Posted in Heartbreak & Loss with tags heartbreak, grief, pain, rejection on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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There’s a hole in my heart the size of your love Try to keep it below but it’s rising above And it’s spreading and snaking its way through enough That I’m sitting here saying this stuff is too much And I’m wishing and praying that you’d disappear Wanna be left alone, but I look, you’re still here And the unknown you know, is my life’s biggest fear

Inverted IndifferenceFounder's Canon

Posted in Heartbreak & Loss with tags heartbreak, grief, pain, longing on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Your memory’s attached to all that I know Your essence is with me wherever I go The pain that I feel’s getting hard not to show I want it to end but it’s fading so slow And I know that your love I don’t even deserve And that fact seems to touch such a sensitive nerve Though I wish we could try again, making “us” work

Period (End of a Sentence)Founder's Canon

Posted in Life & Philosophy with tags mortality, meaning, growth, transformation on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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You just resist me to make me stronger You hurry me so it can last a little longer And now you’ll see the grief you reap and place upon me And we’ll look back and see all of this quite fondly And oddly I’m out for the first go-around But I’m struck by the fact that your kindness abounds I’ve unwound, and I’ve found that the Light in the tunnel

SuperBlueFounder's Canon

Posted in Mental Health & Struggle with tags suicide, pain, mental-illness, struggle on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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I cut my feet so that every step will be a reminder of who I am Voices in my head talk me off to sleep, as tears fall down my cheek I am nothing without the Beauty that lives in the sky Diamonds can’t be broken, so why even try It’s a lie that belies the greatest of fears I’m talking tears, spheres, and a few beers That’s right, I’m yelling, excelling and telling that I’m failing Laugh about it for sure, you perv, this is what you deserve

PsychoLogically NakedFounder's Canon

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Come with me! Leave your body behind The time for the unlocking of your mind has arrived No use blocking, your eyes must defy the sunshine You will find stopping so bright but realize There’s no use trying to stop it, take our lives Pop it, close your eyes tight and get ready to fight For your life, what sun would burn your eyes lifted to flight?

Open Your EyesFounder's Canon

Posted in Life & Philosophy with tags meaning on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Something sang to me a song of inconsistency And so I questioned what it really meant to me And I decided that it was just meant to be and felt the pain release quite instantly Like myself falling on my face flat against me and spinning into space so freely and simply So empty and hollow, yet still do I follow

MasqueradeFounder's Canon

Posted in Social Commentary with tags reflection on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Our life is a luxury we don’t enjoy And sadness the worker we often employ Our attitudes negative day after day Instead of enjoying we wish life away Our mouths they are laughing to hide our malaise And put on a front for each eye that may gaze They’re curving on upward and forming a grin Our lips they are smiling to hide what’s within

The Truth of the MatterFounder's Canon

Posted in Heartbreak & Loss with tags heartbreak, grief, forgiveness, healing +1 more on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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When the only good thing in your life leaves you And you know you are to blame It becomes difficult to swallow The truth of the matter It becomes difficult to push it deep Down into the dark recesses of your heart And to hopefully forget it was ever there And you do, for a while, forget

BlinkFounder's Canon

Posted in Social Commentary with tags mortality on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Homogeneous mechanical melting pot Fluorescence blinking a thousand times per second One blink for every person that walks by One by one, all in a line they go by But in the blink of an eye They’re gone All of this Destroyed

The Chauffeur (Driving Myself Crazy)Founder's Canon

Posted in Mental Health & Struggle with tags struggle, anxiety on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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The road is crooked and the streets are wavy I’m the chauffeur that is driving myself crazy The wheel’s hard to turn and my hands get lazy But still I just keep on drivin myself crazy People may suck and the world may hate me But only I have the power to drive myself crazy The depths of hell, they impatiently await me

LeavesFounder's Canon

Posted in Nature & Seasons with tags nature, longing on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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The leaves paint pictures on my walls For me to see as they sway back and forth In the breeze, calmly casting complex Shadows for me to appreciate The same wind that moves these trees Also carries away clouds, dreams, and loose paper Quietly, away and out of reach they go

Natural SelectionFounder's Canon

Posted in Mental Health & Struggle with tags suicide, loneliness, struggle on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Help me, I’m coming apart at the wrists How can my yelling and screaming be missed? Am I invisible or does nobody care? I’ve done all I can to make people aware That I need their help, or I’ll surely backslide And this time I’m not sure that I will survive It’s survival of the fittest, I’m not fit enough

SustenanceFounder's Canon

Posted in Love & Relationships with tags love, loyalty, struggle, vulnerability on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Some days I sit and wonder how I ended up this way, And why just when I feel that Peace, it so soon fades away, It seems that all things crumble, never left instead to stay, And when I reach my end, you lift your head, look up and say: “This world can be your kingdom, if you want, then take it all, The power’s in your hands to make your problems all be solved, And if your heart decides to answer to a different call,

TogetherFounder's Canon

Posted in Life & Philosophy with tags nature on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Everything’s mechanical these days But no one seems to notice Even the trees rise above us Like some kind of clouds That are perhaps running Towards the sky Or entrapping the ground all around you But we never know

AbrogationFounder's Canon

Posted in Life & Philosophy with tags mortality, vulnerability on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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If I could, I would choose life for two Life for her, yes, and even life for you As much as you like life, she’d like it too But, that choice is not right for you You think it’d be easier to divide by two Minus one, and end the life inside of you Even though you do have the right to choose

Maternal AsphyxiationFounder's Canon

Posted in Mental Health & Struggle with tags abuse, struggle, family, healing +1 more on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Gasping for breath, for truth, to be free Struggling to break your hold over me Your hands on my throat is not love, it’s not fair Must be dumb, after all my brain’s not getting air I know in your mind air is evil, no good I can’t see, I don’t listen, but you think that I should

StupidityFounder's Canon

Posted in Social Commentary with tags anger on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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Ignorance lifted up, high on a pedestal The dumb are treated as gods, I may not be that popular, But I’m glad to be what they’re not. The happiest fools the whole world over, For ignorance is bliss, All things valued greatly by them

FutureFounder's Canon

Posted in Love & Relationships with tags love, longing, desire, future +1 more on January 19, 2026 by Brandon WordSmith
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In the gentle depth of introspection I concede, That in the wreck of my defects in you I find a need. My constant thoughts that center on a future filled with you, Are nothing next to the effects of finding out they’re true. My love for you, try as I might, just cannot be expressed, Caught in the wind of love again, you are my one request. I yearn for days ahead when I instead can hold you close,

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