Pain
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Inversion (Part 1 of 3)
A lament I see cold stars In dark skies Their blue light No warmth provides A black sun rises Radiant dark Light flees into cracks Night is about to start Blue flames lock me Into a pillar of ice Water shoots upwards The ground by clouds dried An inverted worldSets its mightTo stop my journeyTo… Continue reading
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Echoes
Why did the people Trying to help me Sound like the voices Depression sent me? I went to them To be released But they tightened the straps And added a leash The condemnation, the shame The endless berating Why did they echo My internal narration? They thought I was weak And they did not hide… Continue reading
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Thief (repost)
There is a thief Who raids my mind Steals my thoughts My ideas, my time Locks my knowledge away Rips it from my reach Feeds on my files Like a ravenous leech When I try to transmit Expressions of emotions The signal is jammed My throat becomes frozen It even blocks My ability to write… Continue reading
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It’s Not Complicated
A lament There’s nothing complicated here It’s not hard to understand There’s no need to speculate This is not hard to grasp Take a person Work him to the bone Strip him of what he loves And leave him on his own He will dwindle and fade Fall into an abyss Be consumed by exhaustion… Continue reading
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Bleak Landscape (repost)
My mind is a bleak landscape Not by design Scattered with corpses Once dreams of mine A famine came one day It never left It dried my rivers Left me for dead Dust storms roam The sunlight, they cloakI am stalked by fear On hopelessness, I choke I laid my bleakness Before the Lord And… Continue reading
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Treadmill
A lament I am on a treadmill And I dare not stop For a bed of spikes wait If I were to fall off I am in a cruel game A wicked trap Holding a boulder over my toes Until my arms crack If I stop my efforts My mood will fall If I continue… Continue reading
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Capsized
Raging stormsWith fiery wingsSwept down uponMy naive dreams Small sailing boatWeak and untestedDipped under the swellAnd never crested My hands clasped crude rockInstead of goldSnagged seaweedIn the crippling cold But in the armsOf the raging seaWas where I finallyLearned to swim Continue reading
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Dead Dreams
It seems my heart Is actually a graveyard With overgrown grassAnd headstones that are scarred Here I laidMy dreams to restAfter failing for so longTo make any progress I sealed these tombsWith walls of stoneAnd tried to forgetThis tragic mausoleum But when I buriedMy aspirationsThere was no roomFor my pain to fit in So I… Continue reading
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Mourning
A lament Everyone tries toCheer me upBut I have no oneTo mourn my loss I must swallow the darknessHold it in my throatSmile politelyWhile I silently choke My pains are my ownThey cannot be sharedThey are too muchEven for those who care So they build upIn the centre of my chestAnd spill out onto paperThe… Continue reading
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Mood Drop (repost)
A lament Why does my mood drop Like a stone in a lake? Like a dead bird from the sky Or a beast bitten by a snake? Why does my mood drop Like a foolish climber off a cliff? Like an elevator gone rogue That is descending too quick? There is a gravitational force Working… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 