Street lamps glow,
Stained orange landscape.
Glitter rests,
Fluttering and swirling stills.
A breath of magic,
Living in the clouds.
Layered and stacked,
Statuesque proportions.
Stormy in moments,
Tranquil in others.
Pretty pictures deceive,
Lethal exposure.
Foolish thoughts escape,
Tender heart aches acutely.
Blood staining sleeves,
Chest hole gaping.
Proffer my affections,
Spurned quite soundly.
Nursing the hurt,
Return for a pounding.
Stupid courage perhaps,
Plunge blind into battle.
Wounded yet bandaged,
Our unrequited lover.
Aspirin bottle,
Prophetic appearance.
Fifty or sixty,
Last sleep.
Best efforts given,
Futility proven.
Future a void,
Stretching suffering.
Promises of better,
Echo stifled by lies.
Hopes ringing falsely,
Imprisoned in perpetual misery.
Walking corpses,
Envy the resting.
Trudge on a treadmill,
Pulling the plug.
My clearest clues,
You cannot decipher.
Burning feelings,
My heart’s desire.
Absorbed in doubt,
Blind to my eye.
Visions flow freely,
Caged in numb skulls.
Dreams unfulfilled,
Promises broken.
Listless in the closet,
Costume ball draperies.
Cat stalking prey,
Turned back undefended.
Pounce on him with love,
My silly bad guesser.
Get the most,
Give the least.
Scarce resources protected.
Trapped a paw,
Chew it off.
Survival of the leanest.
Mounting piles grow tall,
Sinking ever deeper.
Love is not a competition.
Existential dread
Tighten and paralyze
Compulsive soothing
Fear of unknown
Embrace darkness
Lean into terror
Mere mosquito bites
Perspective rendering
Many realities
One death
Ego dissolution
Loss and gain
Flow forward
Pack up this life
Leave the extra
Drop the pain
Choose wisely
Only love
Can be carried off
Into the afterlife
These outbursts bore me.
Typical patterns emerge.
Jigsaw puzzles of pathology.
Frankenstein’s disgrace.
Crudely constructed imitations.
Burning effigies grotesque.
A mob formed against me.
Torches threaten and excite.
Imagined intimidation.
False threat clear as day.
Martyr her corpse.
Paint over her features.
Feed me your hatred.
Transmute in my belly.
Spit fire to spite them.
These dull human creatures.
Thoughts confused,
You’re all mixed up.
Think up lies,
But I stay steady.
Paranoia persists,
Demonic ideas ring true.
Perfunctory perfection,
It’s all an excuse.
Armored walls,
Tear them down.
Though fearful and exposed,
Don’t confine yourself.
Place me high above,
Taller than the rest.
Forget I’m here.
Dust accumulates.
Object not human,
Don’t eat, sleep, or shit.
The air grows stagnant.
Atrophied lungs shrivel.
Just die already,
Useless to the rest.
Immobilized and ignored.
Languish on a shelf.
Foaming mouths,
Bruising wrists.
Homing missile teeth,
Targeting throats of captors.
Locked up,
Chained down.
Pushing on pressure,
Corked bottles in eyeballs.
Broken chains,
Slave masters.
Sleep soundly no longer,
Shackled in a mansion.
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