Rumination
-
Distortion
I once livedIn an alternate realityWhere a strange haze distortedEverything around me Kind facesGlitched into sneersAnd hearty laughterMorphed into jeers Innocuous glancesBecame looks of disdainBeautiful landscapesBecame drab and mundane I heard whispers of derisionIn blanket silenceAnd sustained terrible woundsIn the absence of violence This endless anguishI tirelessly foughtUntil I learned to uprootThe dark, deceptive thoughts Continue reading
-
Broken Trust
A lament My trust in people Has been eroded For when I needed help I instead was scolded I was branded with The mark of incompetence Derided for my Lack of resilience I opened up Exposed my emotions They stabbed my heart With a black poison Now their voices are Inscribed in my mind And… Continue reading
-
The Words They Chose to Say
They wrote their words On my skull Now under the waves My head, they pull They judged me When they didn’t even know me Ruled me out When they didn’t know my story Words they threw With little thought Like poisoned darts In my mind, were caught Now I hear them Every single day The… Continue reading
-
Dark Waterfall
I was drowning Under a black torrent Clinging to a cliff Of misfortune and torment I tried to grasp On to higher handholds But my bony fingers Had grown ice-cold I cried for help From those above They berated me Rather than pull me up Their toxic words Spewed like bile Adding to the flow… Continue reading
-
Shadow Birds
A lament Shadow birdsPerch on lanternsMigrating dailyFrom their home in the mountains Their dispiriting criesPierce the glassAnd make their homesIn people’s hearts They spread outTheir gloomy wingsAnd summon miseryFrom hidden springs Winged sorrowsOf times gone byReturn each nightTo make people cry Continue reading
-
The Machinations of Crows
Crooked crows With beady eyes Whisper and croak As they strategize In their frenzy Their feathers they shred As they scheme and plot Their misdeeds of dread They orchestrate the downfallOf my kings and queens Gathering ever more influence Under their wings Their crafty counsel Deposes my thoughts And their dark murmurings Form their own… Continue reading
-
Don’t Wake the Monster
Don’t wake the monster That sleeps in his mind It broods in its fortress Of a thousand whispered lies With bared teeth, it snarls Accusing with its claws It thrashes in hysterics Screaming at his flaws The struggle is brutal To put it back in its box On the darkest days The fight never stops… Continue reading
-
Lava
A lament My stomach is filled With molten lava And always it threatens To spill over A tirade of fury Spews from my mouth Like sewage water From a poisoned fount It turns my insides Into congealed mush My skeleton warps As it is slowly crushed The pain I holdThat I cannot share Has blackened… Continue reading
-
The Decay of Silence
A lament Moss grows On unused tongues And damp builds up In wordless lungs Silence heralds A cruel winter And suppressed emotions Will eventually splinter I held in my words To avoid the painBut that wretched painFound me all the same Continue reading
-
Self Sabotage
A caustic emotion Muddies the water Like a belch of octopus ink Before it is slaughtered A desperate squirt In vain protection Leaves the animal In disorientation And in this swirl Of black catastrophe The octopus becomes Its worst enemy And so it swims Right into the trap As jaws thud closed With a thunderous… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 