Lungs breathe in, a hopeless fountain of wisdom
But we're stuck in the black oil of our misfortune
Stung by blue electric currents
Rivers effortlessly flowing into distant places
Our strength is our weakness
Kindness is our biggest fault, it often backfires
You feed on me like a disease
And I crave your love like nothing else
Just a receptor, glittering in light
You wash your hands, but you're not anymore pure
Innocence was stolen and I'm drowning in sins
A bag of bones in this sea of mistakes
Nothing can protect you from the outside world
When the virus desires flesh
You dismiss that cesspool, the weight of the rhetoric
And the blemishes delicately placed like seashells on a beach
You're a feral being in the wilderness of life
Not modest at all, just filtered
I revel in freedom, just how I like breaking things
Tearing them apart into little disintegrations
Little pieces of infections infecting things
Discord in a pool of fishes
There's no place for me to grow
When we used to breathe in fungus spores
We were water in the forest of childhood romance
But now there's no room in this house for my thoughts anymore
I pretend I'm not here, I'm searching for rainbows
In the windy silence of echoing pain
Lashes flicker like bats in a computer screen
The earth possesses so much eternal and strange beauty
The moon and the dark night sky
The 4th dimension holds my tears in its palms
And takes care of them like a nurse tending to a broken heart
Kiss my wounds, surrender thyself
Like someone engaged, but to whom
The darkness consuming?
The silhouette of a ghost when you wake
And my bones are heavy leaving behind my dreams
Follow me on this escapade to the nucleus
The most heart-breaking hour, I turn the phone off
Just to hear silence, I black out the windows
Everything is so immaterial, so fleeting
I tried to be you, but it never worked out
And I had to learn the hard way
There's no meaning in talking to him
He punched a hole in the door in a stupor
It's not the first time he's punched holes in things either
But now I know there's no immunity
I soliloquize
Maybe I catastrophize
It's as if I'm seeing stars
Seeing stars.
- Author: Jordan Cash (Pseudonym) ( Offline)
- Published: November 30th, 2021 18:31
- Category: Unclassified
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Comments1
Your lines are like lashes that cut deep! Awesome! Reeling at the end, "I see stars..."
I hear you.👍
Thank you! I almost didn't publish this piece, but I'd be lying to myself if I didn't. I love raw poems and the more I read it the more it grows on me.
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