http://slow.writerscafe.org/Denberg The original writings of author Dennis Shanaberg en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775995390 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 And now I find that my indecisive mindjust tries to hide what lies insidefrom the world. The serpent curledwith wings still furled -just waiting to lash out,thrash loud,fly high,and crash down. Just wanna bring an endto all you see -Everything that makes me besomeone wh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2781007/ I’ve had visions of my demiseDisplayed across the night skyHolo-projected around the roomBy the space light that shines next to you. Lustrous stars shootingthrough my troubled heart. Constellations write myfaults into the dark.The great cosmos calls meto oblivion... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2776342/ Shut doors and shielded screens Somehow it seems Like you’re hiding something from meTerse words and alibis Am I a fool?What do ya hide behind those eyes?Oh I gotta askAm I’m going insaneFlickering falsehoodsOr just quivering gas fueled flamesIs it my awful anxiet.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2776250/ ...(or How Many Cliched Lines Can You Fit In One Song, You Talentless Hack) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2776209/ Late night musings in a cold and quiet bedHazily perusing tired thoughts inside my headLifeless melancholy meets lightless ennuiA constant reckoningwith what it is that’s meThe streetlights flickeroutside blinded window panesEach night, left to wondermust we do this yet.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2773418/ I bought you a bouquet today to show you how I felt,But on the way to your place, I got overwhelmed.Started picking petals to find out how you feel -But before your door, just stems left to try to seal the deal.She loves me...She loves me not.She might like me,But not a lot.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2772124/ I’ve been etching memories In the frost on window panes.I keep on recallingThe ardor of warmer days.Sat by the ocean,Lulled to sleep by lapping waves....In tender ‘memberance,I tend to hide away. Please, don’t let it grow cold. Do.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2767970/ Am I your vending machine ?Gathering dustCold in the cornerTill you remember Something you want That I might providePaying up tillI feel something inside And it’ll be love If it’s what you like But if it comes out wrong Then, you will strike MeAnd you will sha.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2479905/ Implodingentombed inmy personal Hell.I’ve been booked for a long term stay. Self loathingconsumingmy sense of self. Who was i before these days?I was oh - so wrong!I’ve been holding on way too long,thinking that my life would changesome day.I just had to wait,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2479350/ Parasitic pipe dreams Are worn out waking schemes. Restless entitiesAll daydream, sleep walking. My focus always falters. Nightmares ever loom. End this itchy insomnia,So I might waken to my doom.Indecipherable symbology And shadows of suns consuming me. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2479223/ Rise up, oh deadly Serpent!The Strings stir you awake.Please, sing your fiery harmony,And satiate my wanton hate.Demon, take to trebled wings!Tempest winds, percussive beats. Strumming claws striking notes,As my foes fall beneath your heat. The melody becomes menacing As cresce.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2466424/ I tried to be existential.It didn't matter.I wrote something consequential.I shouldn't have dared.I revealed my personality.Shouldn't have bothered.They said to try vulnerability.And no one cared.Why, oh,Why do I keep doing this?I only disappoint.Must beOpportunities missed.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2464446/ Crucify me in this chrysalis.I never want to come back again.I've been reborn and never better.I would rather I just stay dead.We all have different versionsOf who we think we are.That's never what the world sees.They only look from afar.I've been tested.I've only failed.I am.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2464443/ Perhaps, I'm possessed.Probably,Oh, I should confess,Sinfully,That I'm the worst man That I've ever known.I'm sorry.Honestly,Oh, I kinda love it.You can strike me down.While I'm down here,Send kicks to the crown.Oh, I have no fear.Now, that I'm brokenYou can do nothing more.Oh, you've awokenMy demon.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2464435/ This one’s a bit different http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2464043/ You’ve got it all at your fingertipsBut you’d never pass the Turing testYour humanity’s just junk inside the codeWe are ghosts lost in cyberspaceNetworks scream loud without a faceSave avatars just to link with other nodesI was downloaded into the machineOnes and ze.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2462533/ I wish that I could give youThe heartI hadA decade or soAgoBefore it got torn apart.I wish that I had met you Back thenOr justThat I had not madeThose sameMistakesAgain and again.You deserve something so muchBetter than thisWithout the hesitationIn every kiss.I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2354541/ Sometimes storms rumble through cerebrumRolling across hills and valleys thereinThunder cracks across corpus callosumAnd rends my senses of self in twain. Fighting to fight themBut these are acts of godThe lightningIt’s sparkingFaulty neurons aflameSmoking dopamine Ti.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2313281/ All thats left to doIs to give up, oh we’re throughTheresynothing left that s trueWhen we’ve livedsuch liesAll that I can sayIs I dont have much to sayThat’s why ive been hiding awayAnd biding my timeNow, the danger is hereLet’s all dance in the fearThe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2166191/ May I weld all those wires in your brainSo they can’t shock you with the pain? Let me carve those shards from your skullSo they can’t stab forth anymore.I will return to school if I mustAnd major in whatever would help. Patience, my dear. The Doctor’s en route.I shall tend to your .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2153702/ **the title may or may not be a lie http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2153594/ We’ve been burning the candle at both ends.Maybe I will melt away with you.Waxing in love limned by moonlight,Warm bodies suffused with a morning dew.With summer days looming longer, we languish,Sometimes singed to a shorter fuse.Seared threads threatening to extinguish,But the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2139581/ Hi...Hello.How are you?I am doing fine.Now,Might IRun away and hide?Or elseI fearThat I will surely die.I amNot sure Really at all why.It’s justSomething’sWrong inside my mind.Why’s this conversationMake me wanna run?And every invitationFee.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2139578/ Hunched back at the pulpit,Heads bowed down in shame.The Spotlight’s shining on you.Cassocks cover up the blame.You’re preaching to the demons Who read between the linesOf the ever changing WordTo make hatred justified.Cathedral’s burning,And my faith’s go.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2106548/ The sunshine hurts my eyes,So just keep me in the dark.You might see that I'm cryingIf you look really hard.I don't wanna know.I don't wanna knowAnything.I don't wanna go.I don't wanna goAnywhere.I am a shadow in the pitch black.I am a drop fallen in the mud.I'm the failu.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2050174/ Meh... A thing I wrote http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2017000/ Let me calculate your trajectoryAs you fly away from me,Sitting here looking at this screenWhile yet another departure leaves.Criss-crossing lines trace the globeTo lands I've never been.Come to think, this view I've knownIs the only one I'll ever see.So, I'm going to pack a bagA.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2012506/ Just justify your entitlement.Responsibilities removed,Stripped of wasted youth,You have everything to prove.Establish your sense of innocenceAs you tell yourself your truth.It's really nothing new.It's just you being you.Your personalities ill-rememberedFor not having one at all.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/2003273/ Recently, I have developed a nearly crippling fear ofcreating.As a creative, that could pose kind of a problem.Picture a painter without their brush.  A singer with no voice.  An actor who fails to find a stage.For the artist, such impotence is a stranglehold.  Oxygen cu.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1974998/ Confusion eats my brain.I cannot wash away the stains,The world leaves me behind.What have I done with my mind?I cannot escape this cage. What is love in the modern age?We swipe away the pain.I've only got myself to blame.Time to forget your dreams.Every night you're losing sleep.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1953575/ I'm praying on bended knees, Please just give me some peace--Sweet release--Even if it leaves me deceased. Just one moment of respiteFor this sorry despotDesperate Unto the end. Oh kingdom come;This kingdom's done. The farse and the follyThat I oft embodyFaltering step .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1920122/ I am the problem. I am disease. Every thing I see as wrong with youIs everything that's wrong with me. I am a failure. I am the worst.Karma calls that time is come, But I claim that I am cursed. The despicable bleedWhen their obscenity's seen.Holes in fickle hearts feedFull.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1920107/ Break me out.Shut it down.My heartbeat ceased.I'm screaming loud.I've tried so longTo feel it more.But nothingnessYou just can't cure.All I wantIs to feel again--The touch of love,The company of friends.Just one momentOf sweet clarityWhere I remember whatIt's like to be me.I don't knowWhat I want.Wi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1903163/ When I was little, I thought all our lives were infiniteThat all of us were either hellbound or hopeful heaven sent.The life you lead decides the endlessness you get,But now I know, every breath's nothing more than blood-let rent.We are temporaryThe end is scaryAnd we'll fight it, like it's for our .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1870542/ Let me entwineWith your mindAnd lift you upTo the skies. Shining bright, We alight the night.Immortal flameTell me your nameIf it is not love?Coalesce,Constellate,The vesper we become.Shooting starsIn the darkWith one burning heart.Mi amour,Fall with meTo empy.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1858394/ Time and toil might break me down Till mind and muscles become unwound. Might find my end beneath the ground But until then, my heart will pound For you.Your love is in my veins, Crimson that can't be drained. The yearning will never wane. I could not sustain the pain Without you.My love grows only .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1846102/ It feels like the world is coming apart at the seams,Stitched together with the blood of young men's dreams.It feels like we're losing; we're throwing the fight,And in the end, with all we've done, we'll never get it right.The world is against us.Life isn't real.There's no one to pray to--No one to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1846089/ This, here, is another post-apocalyptic Sunday;Gather your kids and kneel to the fallen gods.Here's the second coming of great fabled floods.Gather the kings to pray that the flames may stop.Ripped from the headlines of the centuries,The worst moments of mankind's mad depravity.This week's been a po.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1835505/ They've been stretching out the thin blue lineA mallet o' justice for our crimesLike smoking weed or being BlackOr being poor.  The whip gets cracked.There's no turning back.The charges are getting stacked.Serving, protectingAll their own.With wire tapsOn your phone.We are occupied.There's nowh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1829861/ Damnit Daniel, she's falling for you man Taking dabs as you are the running manChange the world as it is growing hotterIcy showers beneath the satellites.All the worlds your stage.Now's your time to shine.I wanna be as seen on TVBroadcast ContractAn international internet sensationI wanna live that .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1829852/ There's a bullet trainInside by my brainThat has so quickly gone off the rails.The cars did breakAnd the ground did shake,And debris fell like metallic hail.Twas rushing to destinationsAt great break neck speedsIronically, such injuries I gainedAs to my death I did careen.Freefalls begin as a falter.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1824145/ We've created a system of oppression where we pay people to oppress us.We feed the insatiable too full while fare for the hungry seems superfluous. We go all in in a futile game where the decks are ever stacked against us. If we feel the drive to revolt, we're taken for a ride beneath the camp.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1717218/ Bleeding hearts can never be independent of the page Or else we're left to scrawl on walls to tell that we're deranged InsaneOur brains They can't be tamed. Taking turns in the game As they are passing fameOh who's to blameThey finally sayI hope to f**k they are naming my name. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1715832/ The skylines hid behind curtains of fog.The sun's stayed dark for far too long,But frozen lakes boil with coming dawn,And the pall falls back like shades undrawn.Light floods planes of lost landscapesRevealing fields of green and flowered lace.Colour creeps into oppressive greys.Rebo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1499681/ I'm feelin' crazyLike Kim Jong Un.And all the dumb s**tI've doneIs gonna catch up soon.If anything gets off the groundIt'll be a fluke.It's blowin' up on meLike a ten kiloton nuke.I've been lookin' through my mind's eyeAnd all in there's just a pigsty.So unfocusedCausin' .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1499270/ The wretched rich shall reap what we've sewnGarnishing grossly garish bank vaultsWith the green that we've grown.They shall inherit the earthWhile we're buried beneath it-Fallen to fertilize their finances-Wasting away with the watershed s**t.The American DreamIs a Pyramid Scheme.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1498765/ I see you thereAnd want to reach and touch you,But it’s all too cold,And my breath fogs up the glass.I hash a markJust to beg for your attention,But it’s now too lateThe moment’s ‘lready passed.Reflection bycamera lensTo lose ourselvesIn the lo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1475127/ Humanity has a historyOf heralding hereticsWho’ve got the language downWhile the best of us all drown.Hoping for Him to say your nameOr look your way in the crowd,As he dresses up his dire dealingsWith five billion dollar wordsThat he prays you’ve never le.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1466872/ We've lived such livesAs labyrinthsLit by elusive dreams.We've longed to findLiberationWith lovely, lusty schemes.My heart beats strangeWhen you're away.It feels like breaking down.My voice is strainedMore everydayAs I scream your name so loud.Don't go!Don't go.I could never part from you.Don't go.N.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1450522/ ChangeOn the horizon.So needed as the present falls to piecesEverything breaks.Every thing.Nothing is safe.All that man has ever made will one day crumble.All that I have ever done will sooner stand for naught.The present is purgatory.A place of solemn disaffection.And I stand to whine, to moan, to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Denberg/1426530/