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I beg youDo not take the time To think about the wasted days Seconds, minutes, hours Slipped away For what is it of them to say That your time has already come What has not been has not been done And there is more yet to be won So when they say Take it with a pinch of Something else they say You do not know just what it means Try so hard to make it seem Something light Find me somewhere In-b...
Rebirth.
From the comfort of the potter’s hearth, to the place of my birth,I was taught... you never really escape death,Rather, do your best to embrace the mirth.At least then, your life would glisten,like the sweetest dessert.
Covert at first, It slowly began to tighten.As I traversed the earth,the more life seemed a belt.Or, dare I say, a girth!
Eventually, As I aged in years,knowledge emerged…conver...
Foundation
“I’m molting!”“I’m molting!”Says the caterpillar.It sounds gleeful, but transformation is also tough and requires going into the dark.The dark is the world inside. Where all the bones are buried and some (maybe not-so-old) garbage festers.The thought of being trapped in a cave. Running in circles to get out and sometimes just stopping to weep on the floor.One day, there is a spark. Then another...
No Rest
I went to sleep so tiredof the world-destroying comfort,cloying like a drumbeat by the ever-looming sun,while the roaring stream and vicious gustsswallow up the I, the We—whispered hoarsely,bloodied by years of repetition.I was met with restless blacknessswaddling me, formless,before falling like a cloakoff the finely muscled shouldersof a naked, gray-skinned giant.He rose, a towering visionof...
Lazarus: An Anatomical Study
I've cheated you a thousand times A thousand by thousand ways In a thousand by thousand by thousand eternities With an eternal cavalcade of soft lipped suitors whose silken syllables Drip Drip An agonising drip of honeyed dreams Whose hook-laced tongues remain by day Who sing lullabies of a blissful infinity Words you feel within a thundering silence whose violence, whose defiance Deafens Dea...