Ryan Muddiman - Singer-songwriter-poet
  • birth.
  • words.
    • poems-anchored to song >
      • Lover Goodbye
      • Damn
      • Strange And Beautiful
      • Never Let
      • Burden
      • Novel
      • Don't Forget To Feel
      • Silent Blue
      • Song For Tyler
      • Humble Resolve
      • God III
      • He Said, She Said
      • In Spite Of All
      • Forever's Too Long
      • Scab
      • Lying
    • on writing >
      • Burial of Self-Delusion
      • Every One of Us
      • Letter to Self 9-1-15
      • Filthy Whore of Demand
      • Music is
      • In This Moment
  • music.
  • elements of truth / press.
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview be Ezra Waller
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview by C.A. MacConnell
  • images-moving and still.
  • reaching out
  • death (BUY ME).
  • New Page
  • In This Moment
Skin Prison Suffering

Acid tongue
The swollen taste buds
the biting-the-cheek-screams
of "damn it, again?"

We languish at the hands of
our own desire
We return for 
the comfort of
our own convenient respite

To know and not resign from
the butchery of our compulsion 
To visit, again
that Place of Suffering

To willfully return to
A thing rife with pain and,
to find our home in
A place of rote confines
​
Our skin, a complacent prison 
for an easy reply
Our drive to reside in
a place that might comply with
All with which we've come to terms...
with truths we might deny
while the flavors of
our "might have been"
are cast easily aside

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