
saul_bae
28/M/Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Saul Bae (Sungmoo Bae) yearns to grow up and write something that can break the shell surrounding his self―breaking free of the chains binding so as to see the true beauty of the world. / / * You may also visit: litworksaul.wordpress.com
A pile of mud
moving, re-animated:
you watch a trail of stink
—striking everyone's senses—
I'm leaving behind.
A man of mud walks toward you,
sliding smooth
on the façade of a greasy pavement
coming at you
longing, to solicit
your pity
—my body crumbles
at each step I ****** towards you
while watching myself being torn apart.
I stretch my arm, and then my stiff fingers,
each soaked in tears,
to grab whatever I can out of you.
I disintegrate into emptiness
at every attempt I make
—all futile, meaningless.
My muddied lips
set apart to plead,
but only a screeching noise
comes out,
squeaking,
like that of a mouse.
You,
the one with a shovel
—sharp is the blade—
scream at me,
whacking my clay-man body
with your murderous tool
you hold so tight
—this sight of Mudman
must be hideous indeed
to those pupils of innocence,
burning brightly
with consuming hatred.
Lying on the floor
flattened, unaccepted,
the muddied lips
that survived the shattering blow
are squirming still.
You grind them under your heel
merciless.
Aug 28, 2021
Aug 28, 2021 at 8:19 PM UTC
Call me a medicine man,
and yeah, I'll be there for you sure,
dedicated to you only,
to help the one without a cure.
Once I step inside your heart
you'll begin to doze off,
and those shaky hands will be soothed
while letting your head rock to and fro; can't be helped.
You'd be my tiny little sleepyhead
holding that little dose in your palm
and you'll soon wander off
deep into the neverland of your own version,
forgetful of human senses:
the striking smell, the taste to savour,
the sound the music that is ever whimsical,
the bright light and the dim dark.
And I reckon you already like it
all surrounded by the forgetfulness
—the numbing sensations nullifying your will to rise,
and the pleasure finds shelter within you.
Then in your dream
you start to want me more,
not knowing the impending consequences
of forgetting all about yourself,
of drowning
further into the river
that we all call the sorrow,
and of falling faster and farther
until you know nowhere to return.
I call out "Wakey-wakey," then,
prying open your eyes and every doors
that'll lead you outside with haste
—the light shines upon your pupils
still drowned in tears,
bewildered, with your legs wobbling.
Yet you're no longer my sleepyhead anyway,
so walk on, off with you,
carry on with your stiff legs
—though you pretty much look like
you'll need a stick just to stand upright -
and do come see me
if you ever need me again.
Sep 10, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 at 2:51 AM UTC
Come to me, my dearest one.
Let me get inside you more;
naivety is your nature,
thus eager to please
and to be pleased
—time flies like a fleeting bluebird,
a fairy in its blue bright spirit,
and still you’re nearing my presence.
Almost there, so be afraid of me,
and yet fond of me,
for I'll never let you stray off anymore
—stop your wandering, no more—
and ‘tis the proof that I hold you so dear.
I long to relish that imminent moment
where you’ll give me the enjoyable tickles
while struggling in my arms tightly locked,
kept held in my blooming *****
in ominous anticipation.
Alas, I'm much eager to please you so
—and I do expect, you would feel the same;
that is what I know from your eyes
trying to shun my eagerness,
still neglecting my attentive gesture
beckoning you to join me,
but you will hide it no longer,
for all of your struggles, big or small no matter,
fans my fanatic yearning for your soul.
So accept me, my foolish child
(so carefree, but still shuddering)
as the dim evening clouds
would shroud the skies above,
sealing off the passage of light
that was once so brilliant,
but now without a reason to exist.
And you, the courted,
don't just stand there
when I come to embrace you heartily,
so induce me—do ****** me,
and betray your fear
to be accepted by me, and only.
Do me a favor, and this shall work
as a token of passion for me;
the perfection is all yours:
the purification of our intents,
the petrifaction of our conscience,
the completion of our unison,
ceasing the compliance
with the rigid standards
of the unworthy.
Wings of the butterfly collapse
altogether, and you will be
awaken, knowing that, my love,
you are truly a butterfly.
Like a pair of moths,
we fly into the torchlight burning incandescent.
Sep 4, 2020
Sep 4, 2020 at 5:54 AM UTC
The two ol' pals are facing each other.
He passes a glass of poison
to his dear guest, leaning
near the front door, slightly opened;
and he's learning the reason—
why he's standing there,
about to storm out of the stone-cold apartment—
'bout to burst in tears
shedding the vivid droplets
that shouldn't be belonging to a mere ghost.
Yet he's fleeting, escaping the scene still,
while the owner of the kitchenette
is putting back the bottle
to where it belonged;
and he's gone, present no longer.
The drink on the rock—left on the shelf—
is evaporating, following the vaporized guest,
leaving the scent of faint alcohol
that lulls the other friend to regretful sleep.
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 10:20 PM UTC
Blissful art those
that are ignorant.
They know not pain,
for they do not know what pain is;
and I wish
I could join them,
the children of the oblivion.
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 7:04 AM UTC
Batteries of the skies;
booming thunders, and so are you.
You, the whirlwind the most ferocious,
befit such name ever notorious—
ever in a strife of your own
seemingly unending.
The whirlwind strikes hard
and fast, and as such; angels of death
descending, striking from the faint heavens
to accomplish its sole purpose, destructive in nature,
beseeching its everlasting glory
that’d evoke the sun’s jealousy, even.
Alas! You carry out the task
that spares none of the land,
taking away the dearest one from another, weeping,
flipping cars and engines from where they're standing,
while plucking out the road signs once robust
and even the trees once deemed so ancient—
none is spared but wrecked
before the might of the whirlwind
the total annihilation being its sole identity—
the one that destroys in the name of thy honor
and in the very name of glory in vain.
You look around—
only to see none has survived
or has been left alive; spectating
the empty earth and the water
while being dispersed, scattered amidst the air,
lifted by the hands of thy maker
disappearing—joining the void specters,
and thus befitting the word, truly,
the vainglory.
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 6:57 AM UTC
The pleasure is all mine
when I see a nickel on the sidewalk
while on my way to the bus-stop
nearby,
and when I,
the fast traveller,
see a piece of weathered poster
whirled up in the wind
and then laid there
on the roadside forgotten,
yet still retaining
its hue vivid
—the colors are still lively at the least,
nevertheless.
My heart grows into full vivacity
when I see such serendipity so small,
glowing in brilliance yet so lucid,
in a manner ever graceful
—no matter how tiny that is—
from the bottom of my heart
—I'm being accepted
into thy blissfulness, which may hold
the wonders of the world
ever imaginable.
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020 at 5:41 AM UTC
Say it to me, baby,
that you want me—still—
after all that I've done to you,
and only.
I hear you breathing out hot
—lying flattened on the cold floor—
even after the hard bruisin'
you've gone through—swell, sure it was.
And I wrecked such havoc on you
all because I care for you,
nothing more, nothing less.
I beat you up swell
to get you in a better shape
just like a sculptor
beating his stone
into the shape of David—bare naked.
I'm modern Michelangelo, so to say,
and I want you
to whisper to me
that you crave me,
that you desire still
such tyranny of mine
even more. So just say it,
for your perfection
and a sheer thrill that follows
—all these right at our hands—are so close.
Wicked as it is,
my whispering to you demands it.
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020 at 9:38 PM UTC
Lull my body
dull my self,
ye good poet of mine;
I could use some lullaby
at this starry night—starry
stars in heavens, creations
from the comforter;
oblivion now seemingly a synonym of
blissful state of a mind;
countless stars—starry are they,
boundless thoughts—wild, rowdy
thoughts and imaginations
un-checked, stimulating,
eager to be loaded and fired,
and so on, et cetera.
They are crossing the sky
dressed in a hue of midnight.
I think of my late-night coffee
to be some reason for this,
but I'll never be sure, still.
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020 at 10:31 PM UTC
Woe to the being
in its brilliance ever illuminating,
ever since it was brought out to this world
full of wonders
—you might’ve thought as such, at first—
to your initial senses
just born into the earth.
Stellar you are, and they regarded you such at first,
but considered as a constellation baffling,
soon after, thus celestial, irritating
to their perception
—belonging to none
of the earth; heathen you’ve been,
and so that’s why, I see,
you’re deemed a heretic.
Looking around,
you walk on the heaven’s arc
painted in all its auroral glory,
wondering,
ever yearning
for the only answer they might give you someday:
to which stars
the people of the earth
give their praises so pristine.
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020 at 2:12 PM UTC