Author Steven Ross

It was the choice
Of the choiceless
Open mouth screams
With no sound
Just the voice
Of the voiceless
Broken-dreams
Remained silent
Broke & noiseless
No way to avoid
No avoidance
Just #Pale faced & displaced
Pawns on a board
Defaced & replaced
We erased...

#vss365
Art: Kevin Lee

Many thanks, my friend!

When it's cold outside (and at 30° below, it's got-damn cold), crank the heat. 🖤🤍

#GoodMorning

Another spoken version of the last couple of #vss365's - #wound & #blood - hope you enjoy:

Thank you so much 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Earned my scars
Spilt my #blood
#Wounds run deep
I cannot speak
A man? a freak?
A Frankenstein?
Stitched-up creature
By design
To die, resigned
I feel the flame
Just I, maligned
Bereft of name
No fault, no blame
What is, will be
Hated, feared
This monster...me

#vss365

Limned in light
Though flame's
Now guttered
Watching as it
Spat & sputtered
Heart still fluttered
Down below
Warmed within
The #lambent glow
Formed by kin
Perhaps, may grow
In fallow field
This final yield
And all was left
A seed to sow

#vss365

Thank you so much, my friend! 🙏🖤

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #ghost

The moon flashed me
A #ghost of a smile
Sleep, sweet child
Your work is done
No more to see
Brother Sun
The stars burn black
We can't turn back
Feet on track
The ferry waits
Pay your fare
A pittance, see?
A pence for you
And one for me
Now all is silent
We are free

#vss365

Thank you for listening, Daniel!

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #pain

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Press your lips
Upon my brow
The sweetest kiss
I yearn for bliss
But what is this
To feel no touch
Perhaps was asking
Far too much
Relapse, was masking
#Pain - a crutch
I have no trust
For love or lust
In strain, I clutch
My breast & weep
Insane, to cry
Myself to sleep

#vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #soul

I never had the #soul
To grow old
My soul's on ice
Frigid pips on the dice
And the game
It's always been too cold
The lies were sold:
Be all you can be
See all you can see
But all I ever see is me
Small & insignificant
Derivative
So I'd rather be a
Primitive
Acquisitive

#vss365

Perhaps we'll dance again
In #shadows cast
By an unspent Sun
Donning hemlock wreaths
We'll sing nightshade songs
And crush Death Cap mushrooms
Beneath our feet
Screaming with the laughter
Of the newly insane:

We're all fun-guys

#vss365

Thank you, my friend! I used the voice recorder on my phone, then an online audio to video converter to turn it into a video:

www.onlineconverter.com/audio-to-video

I got a lot of wonderful feedback from from the spoken version I did for one of the #vss365 pieces I did yesterday, and now I'm thinking of making it a regular thing, so...um... here's another:

#soothe

Thank you, Daniel! 🙏🖤

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Thank you! 🙏🖤🖤

Goodnight, goodbye
I've spoke my last
Fell down the rabbit hole
Too fast
The cries are gone
Screams are past
Perhaps 'tis why
My voice is gone
No one to #soothe
I'm all alone
I wonder why
My eyes are dry
All that remains
A single moan
We die together
Me & I
And in the darkness...
Wonder why

#vss365

I decided to do a spoken version of today's #vss365 - let me know what you think. 🖤

Kiss my wounds
& #Soothe my fears
The war is done
I have no fight
No sweet succor
No peace, nor light
Release me from
Unending tears
These screams ever
Assault my ears
Echoing in metronome
Please don't let me
Die alone
Lamenting all
These wasted years

#vss365

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The raven stared
With grinning glee
(Life for you
Death for me)
#Obfuscate
The truth you see
(I hide beneath
His prying eyes)
And all that's born
From Winter dies
(Perhaps we'll see
Sweet Spring my friend)
'Pon ebon wing
I spy the end
(Sing with me
These final cries)

#vss365

Sat beneath
The #waning moon
It's light I basked
So cold and clear
The chill I felt
A taming boon
My flesh it #quivered
Death drew near
The hand 'twas dealt
A gift delivered
All was silent
Nothing left
& From the vine
I swiftly withered
Bade farewell
With my last breath

#vss365

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