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Become an Emerald Author
We just released our new monetization features with the soft launch of our paid subscription Portal, The Emerald Lounge. So, authors in the lounge can have paid subscribers for their content, be it poems, stories, or books, you know, the works you've been holding back until it's ready to shine like it should. Become an Emerald author by submitting your best work, or work you like. If you think you can out-drink, or even hang until closing time with Hemingway or Hank, we want to meet you. Accepted authors will receive a code for "Become an Emerald Author," which you will find in your settings. Go get it.
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MissRiddle

No Resuscitation Allowed

I tried to give myself to you

I thought that you could follow through

Left me with your condescending alcoholic blues

Always contingent on your connectivity

With your shining narcissistic personality

Throwing round gaslighting tendencies

All we had was going round and round

Silently screaming, gasping for sound

You held my heart completely underground

Frankensteins undead, keep your eyes down

Why can’t we play nice

It’s just torment to fatigue

Hopeless consideration

With apprehensive empathy

I tried to bring it back to life

My electric current can’t be found

Flatline with a smile across your face,

Whispering “No resuscitation allowed”

Purgatory’s parade would make Dante proud

Excruciating masks in every crowd

We all have our limits, some in the clouds

Being human was all I ever had asked

Reciprocation was never basked

Was it that hard to just live unmasked

You flew me high with your angel wings

Then let me fall from 10,000 feet

Self preservation the name of your game

I could never compete, can’t take all the blame

No resuscitation allowed