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once this was the miracle elixir it was the draught of life once this was the fountain from which all things sprang forth now so dark, so sweet the drink that keeps me gasping venomous addiction stealing my light now this desiccated waterway runs with rust and the blood of the life it once begot. |
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so small in the face of your past and pain so helpless I'd give you my life to live again things I saw in your eyes never needed explained without knowing you I know who you are I can't give you a miracle. I can't keep you alive. I will not forget this. You'll stay with me for a long time. |
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what i see in you i see in myself and it's dark like a room where you're not listening to the lights telling you where to go and what not to bang into what i see in you i see in myself and i smash the mirror because i can't face it not in myself and not in you what i see in you i see in myself and want to hurt you because you're supposed to be wiser than i am so where are you leading me? what i see in you i see in myself the reversal hurts i can't look at you disgusted by it guilty of it what i see in you i don't see in myself nor in my future i'll learn from you i won't let this become me. |
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a feeling of futility: I, behind the glass wall not really a part of the bright lights but separate viewing from here the warmth and the colour I, within the glass globe here inside my bubble present but isolated safe but alone I float in my lonely way out and over the vast bay preferring observation over any involvement I see you below me down there in the mist and come down from my clouds to be near you if I knew how I'd like to let you in but I don't want to come out. not touching, not blending not part of anything unwilling to risk it we embrace and the glass wall molds to my shape and if you drop me I'll break but the glass wall remains. |
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I'm not in your photographs, living it up. I don't appear. I'm not in your outbox or inbox, as you never sent me a word. I'm not in your thoughts; you erase what goes wrong. I'm not part of you - amputated, alienated and lied to. I'm not your friend and I let you down leave me behind so I won't find out. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, love. Hope I'm there to hold you when the boat goes down. |
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I will draw you a map - a topography of suffering; geography of pain. I'll write you a memoir of what passed; write headlines on headstones: I am here; won't let anything hurt you. I will protect you. you're not alone. |
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It always stays the same. For a change. I'm not in the basement, stay the fuck away. Had my music playing on Random. Isn't strange how a song can mirror your every thought. Or perhaps its just your subconsious that snuggles the peices together like a childs floor puzzle. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ... 1...2...3 Fuck. I am tired. Too many things that need my thoughts, or intentions. I would like to whisked off my feet, anytime now, really. Someday my Prince will come? Perhaps not. Someday my bills will be paid. More likely, yes. |
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immortalize this: waking in sunlight your breath on my skin before this glow fades feeling like we are one breathe together you are holding me not only in memory but all around keep this forever beyond all that falls between now and onward I belong to your skin now I am here we are one this is a moment that I will never allow to pass. |
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There is something you should know about me. I like to chew hard candies. I do so everytime I get one sucked between my pretty pearly whites... I had a self revelation today. I popped a big white mint between my front teeth, and it did something unusual. Instead of splitting nicely down the middle, thusly exposing the delicious chewy center... It exploded. There was no delicious center. Just hard shattered splinters of mintyness filling my mouth with edible shrapnel. What was my revelation you ask. That much like the hollow mint, I have no delicious inside. I am cold, white and if you get to personal, I shatter and break into thousands of parts. --- I am a truly horrific person. I dreamt about running away this morning and reinventing myself as some sort of better person. Happier person. With looser morals. Lord have mercy. |
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I'll be here to listen to your silence I'll wait as long as it takes I have words enough for us both and you can't hear me anyway. |
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get attention. no. shut your mouth. don't be pretentious. smile, look pretty and keep your thoughts between your pretty ears - don't say it out loud. polish 'til you shine, and show them all in photographs. do not tell them in words. fabricate intrigue. you may notice that no one cares how tortured an artist you really are. steal spotlights. no, don't let them see you. shut up; you're not playing hard-to-get. and you're really not that hard to get. you look good on paper. but it's all liquid crystal high definition online television. generally not flattering. you didn't make the cut this time. |
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this is the first time I wake without you after the long sleep and bitterness of winter as wind and sunlight stir new things into being you should be thawing and turning to the sky unfurling delicate green and open arms embracing this is the first spring that comes without you the tug of beginning on my spirit is less now my skyline is empty as you stand tall no longer my roots are no longer so deep in this ground this is the first time that I wake without you and, from this season I will grow alone. |
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remember how the fragile words would rush from thought to paper until I would overflow and build something solid and more real than I had before me remember when you didn't have to have me around but you wanted me anyway we walked on the grass at dusk and let it be what it was remember how it felt before colours became formulae before lines became boundaries when I wanted only to make beautiful things I forgot how good these things could be yet I find it all comes back to me. |
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so I fail and I face my fate so I learned a lot about myself and I gave a lot that I'd rather have kept but was unwilling to give it all and I fail as a result and there is nothing in my life that I do especially well nothing except write poetry that no one reads and I don't know what I want but I need a new me. |
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I've loved you then, I've loved you before, and I love you now. A part of myself will always love you, as a friend and as something much deeper. You will always, have a piece of my heart. This is hard for me. I feel stupid. I know that our lives have changed and that we have yet to rebuild our friendship that we had before. And I'm grateful for our friendship. But something in my heart, in that stupid little heart will always yearn and want to be something more with you. Even if that doesn't cross your mind at all. I'll always love you. |
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trying to remember why I gave this up draw a blank voices echo empty room where my life was all my poetry in boxes packed and ready going nowhere no one here where I used to be so they finally took this away from me? |
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I had last year off. I did nothing with my time. I took some drugs, I struggled to get up every morning, I worked full time as a kitchenslave. I came out the other side, but only barely. I nearly lost myself in the haze of sedation, I had to push myself away and my only motivation was that of wanting to know. Sure, I had the family, I had the public pressure, I had the girlfriend (for the start and the end), but it all means nothing when you don't care about your mind. You don't need a mind to communicate, you only need a brain. Perhaps this is why I suddenly felt the urge to write. To say something I actually care about, to feel something that makes me want to write. I'm still trying to become completely human again but perhaps I'm missing certain human qualities now. I don't need other people the way I did in high school. I only socialise if I really want to, I lock myself away and read my university texts instead of going drinking or taking drugs. And I don't fear failure in university, I know I won't but I don't need to study as much as I do, I just find my solace is that of knowledge. Am I a bad person for this? No one would think so, they simply think I am studious. If anybody did worry about this, they'd ask me to have a drink. I don't like drinking all that much, it's such a predictable and wasteful activity. This isn't to say it's not fun, I just wouldn't be the one to suggest it, unless I was feeling sociable. I suppose I haven't been here for a while, I hope to be back soon. I hope I'll have something to say. - N/A |
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So it is exceptionally cold here at my desk this morning. The boiler is struggling to meet our overbearing expectations, and so I am sitting with a space heater wrapped around my legs, and fancy magic mitts on my hands. They are purple. Life has been somewhat fanciful as of late. With babies, and grown-ups, and this insessant cold. It hit -1'F on the weekend. I am pretty well thinking that even Siberia would be warmer... I was reading an article today oddly enough about Chernobyl. It made me smile and think of the empty and barreness of it. To think, that there is a place is this ever expanding world of ours that isn't sought after, and doesn't reek of overpopulation. And the only reason it escapes humanity is because it so heavily radiated. Nature has moved on however... The grass is green, the wildlife lives happily... Its as close to peace as this world will see... ...I hear though, you can book guided tours. |
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Mmm... It has been so long. |
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It's gunna take alot to get this girl to be herself, to find her true self and then be able to feel able to be her true self around. |