writing my coda

the sentence broke offat the slightest quiverI can’t help but watch the shiverthis you can’t take, can’t shrug asideit didn’t mean to be an attackbut the barbs sink deep and latch onthere’s not a kiss, not a songthat can change this moment nowI try to notice the shadow behind your facebut there’s no use in […]

meaning

watershed of emotionsindifferent onlookers suddenly morphmelodious puppets on invisible stringbowing and weeping, they mourn the actof crossing the river Styxarchetype as old as metamorphic rockas prevalent as the water vapor in my lungsand as momentous as godsgiving humans the power of fireyou may not be able to see the victorybut can you feel it? taste […]

types

I am one typeand a type that gets tiredtired of being triedtried and trippedtriggered, sometimesthis world is honestly sadand I’ve tried to ignore itbut the older I getthe more I realize I have no typethere’s nothing I’d rather not trythan trip over someonewho thinks they love meor thinks that I careI tried to let people […]

today is just yesterday recovered from the hangover

I’m not saying it doesn’t burn today is just simply, today sure, I’ve had warmer moments the sky can always be bluer and I can tune out the outside world a little harder but today I just don’t feel like breathing can I be suspended in time when I’m not moving forward or backward where […]

the love to give

maybe I am not who I thought I am what if I’m just a fiend desperate for thrill a predator who strikes just to see the kill struggle for air in the waning moments what if I’m no better than my father itching to feel something child abuse stripped me of nerves so I don’t […]

awaiting the punishment

I feel no heatI see no lightI hold no loveI sing no songI believe no truthI desire no tomorrowThere is bitterness withinI butter my bread with itevery time I take a breathThere is sickness deepinside my marrowBreak my neck and ingest itMy heart is always collapsedSo drink the blood and be filledWith everything I’ve tried […]

alien or old school

you can tellby the way the wind blowshow it curves and shudderseach mile traveled is additional uncertaintyyou can tellhow the ground moves when I breatheon edge, willing, and cautiouseach beat is a white flag unveiledyou can tellby the way humanity is so quick to partwhen with any other they would stand firmthat I was not […]

slipping away

go ahead, lay it outupon the stars I have cemented my painstill, no answerI slam the phone done in anguishthere is slowness in my musclescreaking in the bolts of my mindand jitters in my eyelidsI just don’t work anymorebroken once, broken forevernever to fit in, never to be completedmy curse is being seen at all!can […]

passive vengeance

memories droolall over my present statethe exit woundsstain what could bewhat wasis goneI try not to reanimatethe monsterchaos magic temptsI’d like to think I was powerfulinstead I am silentpassivetoo oftenrather than the absence of courageI suffer from the absence of carethey watched me sufferprolonged my tormentwhy should I save themthey’d let me dieso shall I

Justice Isn’t Always Just

one man is convicted of murder a crooked officer maintains the curse of a sin sick law a country that is backwards and brute full of people that are ignorant and vain too many people claim to know the way yet bow to every governor and mayor no man has the authority to rule others […]