SOJOURN SEVILLA-BANKS

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SOJOURN   SEVILLA-BANKS
SOJOURN SEVILLA-BANKS

Sojourm Sevilla also known as Octavion is an aspired poet , author, and comedian. In a recent interview he mentions his poems describes who he was . He wants to remember where he never wants to be, a darkness with no way out.

He is now a first time published author of Poetic-Dysfunction

POETIC-DYSFUNCTION

Proem
Am I too young and naïve to live the life I so desire? Just because when you look in my direction what’s overheard are jokes followed by laughter and smiles. Assumptions accumulate that I haven’t lived a troubling or stressful life. I’m way too reserved, so I’m continuously lied to and manipulated into a twisted trivia that triggers the...

Other Writing

1. In 2014 I secretly started my transition, stopped because my mom didn't know and I wanted her to be on board with it. So offically started back...

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The man walks emotionally blind

But the shadow of time doesn't reveal how he's slowly dying

No one helps as he gasps for air… begging for prayers

Drugged is he as the audience laughs

The right road home but he’s already mentally gone

Nothing like your own

Hopelessness and alone is felt in his home

He sleeps the same way he wakes; nor more or less ashamed

So he keeps his head held down and his mind in the clouds

Hoping the snickering and stares withers away as he walks past

Dilemmas' race through time...

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Problems grow founder as days get longer but the vision is to finish

The ability to release tension becomes dreadfully stressful

Just wish someone will listen

But instead my brain is tricked to believe they understand my condition

Currently searching for what can’t be retrieved in the ‘Lost and Found’

But what doesn’t appear was never had

Beginnings crash when stability seizes vital feeling

Something has to give for I can’t keep asking for permission to start the continuation of healing

New...

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Accusations on many occasions creates undesirable statements

Entitlement reflects impatience lacking common sense

Communicative competence took longer than sought

It labels and renames entangled thoughts

Impossible embraces cancel out the repetitive unexplained distortion

Generating unpleasant nights and unbearable days

Raging disasters knows no mercy with minimum breaks

Resources running low on fumes...

The logic behind acts of kindness gets discombobulated

When the cloud I lay and sleep on meets...

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