Nebulas swirl around my head
Like auroras
Like stars
And I am dizzy

Static clouds my imagination
Everything is contracting
Within itself
Yet never implodes

I yearn for that finality
Black holes of my dreams
Mandelas of my eyes
Hopelessness of my heart

I sleep alone

Their hearts beat within my chest
And I
Weep

For I cannot help them
Nor myself

Who will yearn for me
When the universe
The stars
Reside within my own flesh

I lay in a multitude of voids
Comforted by silent noise
And the whispers

They scream at me
The hearts they pound
And leap from my body
Escaping
I release you


Who will weep for me

My heart resides within pixels
Encaged within a screen
For I refuse to see others
When they cannot see me

I delude myself
Indulge myself
Panels, media, fiction
I ruin myself

Outside, I run
Abandon the colors that enrapture me
See another, face to face
Yet I always return inside

Everything seems worse
When its covered in a grey haze
Even when the spikes of evergreen trees glisten
And the typically dull roads shine

When grey clouds shield the stars and the moon
Only artificial light dares seep through your open window
Along with the clean smell of heavy downpour
It seems as if only you are aware

Perhaps, you think, it will never end
The rain, as if ice, frozen in time
Fog shielding you from the light
Forever prohibited from basking in its beauty and splendor

But then, the noises soften
An experience you never dared hope fore
The generous sun rises once again
Cautiously optimistic, you follow the light

You dare step out the open window
Into the grey haze, into the smell of rain
Lightening and thunder crashes and booms above
But you no longer fear it

hop





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                                                    ...ribbit