Sober reminder
Through calloused fingers
Sand slipping
Existence leaking
Falling gently
Violently
A gentle cascade
A violent stop
A sudden ending
No warning
Just reality
All these years
Just wasted life…
Category Archives: Poetry
Fragile
Fragile soul
Barren
Wasteland
Vast expanse
Empty
Endless
Crying out
Calling your name
Beckoning
Whispering
Then hearing…
Only silence…
Nothing different
Nothing has changed
Same thing
Different day…
Pardon
Excuse me
Pardon me
Ok fine then
Just ignore me
Excuse me
Pardon me
Ok fine then
I will speak my mind anyway
Deny
Deny
Deny the truth
Even though you see every word of it laid squarely at your feet
Keep believing
Believing in your own wretched lies
A tangled truth
A web of deception
Layer upon layer
Word after word
No longer any lines
Everything blurry
Hazy
Out of focus
Can no longer tell a truth from a lie
Excuse me
Pardon me
Careful of the deceit you weave
For karma’s a bitch
And soon I hope she will pay you a visit…
Drowned
Breaking the surface
A hand from above
Demanding a fight
Not letting me drown
Wings of hope
Soaring down
Grabbing my arm
Pulling me up
To the light
Towards the sun
From the depths
Away from the blackness
Up Up Up
Soaring to new heights
Then suddenly
Letting go
Cold a callous
Just watching me fall
On twisted wings
Soaring away
Gone without mercy
A short moment in my time
Now reflecting…
Last gasping breath…
Drowning…
Alone…
If I
If I were not a man
I would tear you from my womb
Erase the tears from my shoulders
The smiling scars inside my desolate heart
I would erase them
Erase them all
Letting the relentless ache slowly fade away
Leaving not a single trace
That there ever was a you or I…
Where?
Where have you gone?
All these years flying by
Yet never forgetting
You
What could have been
What never was
Different words?
More or less aggressive?
The pendulum of fate never quite swinging in our direction
So where have you gone after all these years?
You have gone to memory
Gone to mildew and yellow
Gone to age gracefully
Fused forever into the fabric of my being…
Faded
The time has passed
The sun has set
Long gone now
Those day’s of youth
Only faint memories
Remembering
A smile creeping
Then like time
Quickly fading away
The time has passed
The sun has set
Eye sight fades
Skin once taught
Glowing
Vibrant
Now aged
Weathered like an old boot
And just as tough
But my time is now passed…
My hour-glass has run out…
My sun has set…
These words…
My Last…
Vomit
Cheer up
Please I don’t want to hear it
Your words ring hollow
They don’t mean a thing
They just create a hollow thumping
An insane banging inside my brain
I would if I could
But I can’t
Not because I won’t
But for the reason that I am broken
My wires are crossed
My circuits are fried
All I carry inside is darkness
A lonely that never goes
How many times can I explain I can’t just wish this away?
All this anxiety
Overflowing
Nowhere to go
A future uncertain
A past hiding around every corner
Insanity
So close
Yet somehow just out of reach
Ready to go crazy
Yet never crossing the threshold
So for sanity’s sake
I write
Every night emptying the bucket
Purging myself of the day almost past
Only knowing tomorrow it will fill itself full again
And I
Will be
As always
Same time
Same place
Pen
Paper
Just more meaningless vomit upon a once clean page…
Burdened
Roots
Deep and tangled
Stretching
Reaching
Yearning
Always the foundation
Never seeing the sun
Supporting the weight
Carrying the load
Forgotten until they are gone
Quiet
Unseen
Shouldering the world
Tangled roots
Bound and buried
Like me
In the dark
Unable to run…
I Don’t
I don’t want to hurt anymore
I don’t want to cry
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to die
Can’t stand to be busy
Can’t stand to be idle
Just stuck watching time pass
The clock moving backwards
Life unraveling
Waking up the next day
Wondering where the last 25 years went
I don’t want to hurt anymore
I don’t want to cry
But tonight as I think back
I can’t feel anything more than totally helpless…
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