While soaring ever so close to the sun,
Icarus burned off his wings and scorched—
His skin prickled from the melted wax
That once had carried him above the skies.
He fell from the grace he sought,
Yet in the midst of the chaos of it all,
His eyes remained fixed upon the object—
Of his desire and unbending adoration.
The sun, shining bright in the distant sky,
Offered Icarus no help but patronization.
He stretched his hands, trying to grasp
That radiant sun in his final moments.
Meanwhile, in the distance, his father scurried—
Daedalus, watching his nightmare unfold
Before his very eyes—his own son
Falling to what would become his finality.
He fought the tears welling in his eyes,
Wondering what poor Icarus would become.
Yet in what seemed a scene of lunacy,
Daedalus saw his poor son, Icarus, laughing.
The arid wind swept through Icarus’s hair,
His laugh defying the logic of his plight.
He fell while reaching for the grace he sought—
Yet in the midst of it all, Icarus fell, smiling.
May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM UTC
Left idly standing on a fairly lit junction
As the count for the crosswalk ticks
I, again, met the ghost of my olden days
Dread woven into that familiar scent
As I look back to that certain someone
Hope met disappointment in my eyes
It was unfortunate our paths crossed
Since even years after you fatedly left
Pieces of your ghost littered this city
'Pieces that I perceive now just peripherally'
Before the crosswalk inevitably tick red
I turned and proceeded to the other side
Mentally bracing myself, to meet your ghost—
In every crosswalk of my life, now on
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM UTC
The tomorrow we hoped never came
As I am now been made aware—
With a certain picture of us I found,
Hidden in a rubble of paper stacks
Flimsy paper depicting us on a way
Some people may find enviable—
Arms over each other's shoulders
Smiling, as I remember, every single day
With the silent ticking of the clock,
The picture felt heavier on my hands
And as I regretfully trace your smile,
There I found the few words I said
The several times I told you—
Of all the people in the world,
You looked so perfect, like the sunset
Drawing me nearer to your presence
It felt real in my mind, seeing you again—
Once more, just as before, in my arms
Like three Augusts ago, I found myself
Imagining what things could have been
But just like the sunset, you disappeared
Into the darkness of my life, I search
For someone to replace you, but tell me—
Since when do nights last this long?
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM UTC
Distant are the days of my yearning
Of what things could have been
Now that you stand in front of me
Soon to accept my name as ours
We knew it all before even the stars
A premonition of a happy ending
Together forever with my other half
The X's to my O's, the tic to my toe
Oct 6, 2024
Oct 6, 2024 at 3:58 AM UTC
Before the estrangements of my youth
Were the meaning and colors to everything
Had as many friends as I could and held--
As tight to the hopes of living for eternity
Lost in the euphoria of my early years
Perhaps gravely indulged to even see
That the youth I savored for so much
Has began to slowly erode to a new reality
The friends I had, worked their life around
And as I tried to arrive to the same place
The reality of mediocrity and blandness
Brought me to kneel, fittingly ashamed
My castle of grandeur collapsed as though--
I was not under it's roof, calling aloud
To whom I probably had missed dearly
"Mom, am I still young?" There's no answer
Better to sleep away this terrible dream
Let the calamity of my incessant doubt
Claw away my flesh and bones as it is
Hastily leave me here; older but not wiser
Aug 1, 2024
Aug 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM UTC
I did good, you did good
But I just wish
We could've done better
Dec 8, 2022
Dec 8, 2022 at 8:02 AM UTC
Why is it hard to find
A sanctuary for myself
But it's easy to be one
For somebody else
Nov 21, 2022
Nov 21, 2022 at 9:53 AM UTC
In bliss I found happiness
'Cause in it I found you
And in bliss I caught myself
Smiling through rise and fall
Yes, in bliss I found it all
The joy, the pain, the toll
'Cause in bliss I found you
Then in it I lost you
In bliss we lived our lives
Ignorant as though content
Yes, I thought forever is now
But forever is now until it's a bliss
Nov 7, 2022
Nov 7, 2022 at 9:06 AM UTC
There is an infinity between us
Stretching far beyond my reach
Yet to my heart, this too was close
Not in proximity can my longing
Be tamed but rather knowing
That your heart still holds mine
Left with only the still images
Of that one face that had loved
You the most since infinity
And when this love that knows
No infinity at all brought pain
Then in proximity shall I cease
Return to the infinity between
Back to infinity shall I reside
Knowing no proximity and all
Sep 2, 2022
Sep 2, 2022 at 10:23 AM UTC
Death is what follows through
In moments of weakness where--
Your voice is what the winds blow
Each word they carry to my ears
Was a knife staked to the heart
Then what follows after is a fall
I die once and then another
With each was a gasp for air
Just to suffer a little more longer
My every death is in your hands
And in every death I live again
To die once more in your arms
To die once and for another
Jun 5, 2022
Jun 5, 2022 at 11:08 AM UTC