It’s always something about these nights
A fire neath a naked canopy
Laughter and conversations I don’t know how to entertain
Shots of liquor and the tired eyes that follow
The camaraderie that leaves me hollow,
The familiar drive home, listening to music alone
To dream of past loves
While my body reverberates like a church.
Something about the smell of stale smoke on my clothes
Remembering our first kiss
Hands clasped and you mouthing the word “don’t”.
I wonder if they could love me now?
Who I am becoming,
Or are these just echoes of the person
That you used to know?
Drowning in the four white walls,
silent from morning
Til darkness falls.
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Memories of you
Scar the warmth of spring,
Every breeze congeals
With moguls of harrowed flesh.
The fluttering of love
Turned adversary,
Pin pricks burrowing
Deeper under broken skin.
The morning darkness
Hangs heavy as a pall,
Silent mouthed evening
Brings emptiness to my halls.
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The stream of spiritual awareness, limitless, shining,
issuing forth from the ocean of cosmic intelligence,
comes onward with a tempestuous roar.
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HAYEZ, Francesco
The Kiss
1859
Oil on canvas, 112 x 88 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Sometimes I miss depression
Not the sadness
Not the nothingness of it
But the way survival wore a target on its back
The way that light at the end of the tunnel
was something to chase.
Catching glimpses of the colors of life
And it’s prismatic echo,
Saying “someday it will have been worth it”.
There is a certain hope
You can only experience in hopelessness.
The kind of hope that makes you talk to god.
The kind of hope that makes you fall in love.
The kind of hope that drags you through the shit
And tells you, keep pushing.
A singleminded focus on just staying alive one more day.
It’s a war, where everything else falls away
And living through its bitter baptism
Becomes the first and last desire;
Becomes a binary decision
Simplifies.
Now I’m blind with possibility,
Deaf to color,
Senseless to life.
The world’s darkness feels foreign
At least my darkness felt familiar.
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I am a dead thing
Made of silent scales
Swaying with creaking boughs
and my legs are long
I am a dead thing
With sunken eyes and flesh too taut
Hollow teeth and violence in my face
I am a dead thing
Spectral as a worn dish rag
Bleached by time and
Full of ancient songs
I am a dead thing
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