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536 · Nov 2016
Two-Faced
Kush Nov 2016
You look but do not see
You laugh yet are never truly free
Your tears are surreptitious yet speak loudly
You are shy and wear this introvertism proudly
You say “I’m fine” while collapsing into a pile
You experience ceaseless agony with ever a smile

You look but do not see
**The complexity that is me
534 · Oct 2015
Let the Good Times Roll
Kush Oct 2015
A single hot rod blasting off towards space
Let's ride into the brisk night air
Breeze smacking our faces
Like **** against the fan
Darkness masking the chills
Laughter shared over cheap thrills
Middle fingers flashed generously
Hoping the wind will carry us past imagination land
As it drops a pair of trouble makers off far away
In a twisted reality of our own creation
Transforming us into ghosts of our former selves
Two wraiths celebrating the afterlife
Free from overbearing rules
Laws laden with strife
Forget the stress
Make yourself a ******* brick wall of confidence
And let them just try to tear you down
Hand in hand, we'll walk away from society
And don't you worry about the silence of solitude
Your adorable giggle will do all the talking
508 · Oct 2015
The Spellbound Hypocrite
Kush Oct 2015
Her luscious lips sing without moving
Those eyes have got me tongue-tied
I’m stuck entranced by headlights, becoming the roadkill of desire
Weak knees stepping close to an angel with a dark streak
Glossy hair hanging behind the curves of each cheek
Dainty hands clasped around some other guy
Constricting my heart with the most melancholy grief
For my look catches hers many times past coincidence
And the smile when she talks stretches further than “just friends”
I have seen the seasons of love consistently missed
My chance of a fairy-tale ending
Is just begging for a tryst
I’m no mouthpiece for cheating and dishonesty
I’ve had my fill of tragedy
But would it be so sordid
If I grabbed her by the hips
Stared at those puckering lips
And gave her a tender little kiss?
503 · Apr 2016
The King of Crows
Kush Apr 2016
Who’s there waiting when wickedness grips you by the nose?
It is I, a fluid shadow, the King of Crows
I sniff the air for errors to rectify
Meet them head on with casual discernment and a nebulous sigh
My pitch-black wings swing to all the towering views
They allow me to see the innocent spread too far and too few
You vermin, your hearts are tattered and filthy
Time, once again, to deck the halls with bowels of the guilty
An inky body is smeared with various coats made from innards
I relish the chances to wear these pulpy suits of sinners
It is my name, Corvus, that prompts sickly trembling
In my image, death is the sole figure resembling
With tinges of rote, I descended to the city not-so-sublime
Flitted past sights of iniquity and people of grime
In an alley, I crushed your skull
Chalked up the mesmerizing mess as a sloppy miracle
500 · Jan 2016
2 AM Bloodbath
Kush Jan 2016
Oh, how the alarm clock goes
I flex my arms and curl my toes
The night air creeps through an open window
I feel the chill of it funnel into my room and grow
I am the harvester of vitality
Reaping the seeds of death that I sow
They lie on their beds with unignited fright
They are a disease to my crops, an unwelcome blight
I strike them off this field of light
Seeing the gore drip, I just have to laugh
This is my yield
A 2 AM bloodbath
495 · Oct 2015
A Serpent of Psychopathy
Kush Oct 2015
Cheerful smiles and hearty laughs belie a monster's presence
False stories and impressions of grandeur contribute to an energy
A crackling spark of incandescence
For this beast is not one of tooth or claw
But something far more deliberate and precise
Ready with sarcasm dripping from the maw

A creature of charisma skilled in manipulation
Jaws primed to spew caustic venom
With a malicious intent for social *******
Its bright eyes quickly scan the room
Sorting the sheep and deciding on which's weaknesses to feed
Trusting this monster assures certain doom

It's a slithering fiend flexing predatory instinct
Composed of façades that are cleverly distinct
Thriving in thoughts of darkness and demise
Hissing lies from midnight to sunrise
Whose only desires are simply to make you bleed
The Psychopath is a snake indeed
The poem that got me in here
492 · Dec 2016
Automoral
Kush Dec 2016
People always complain that an awful individual won’t their habits
that a human being’s moral wheel, if lodged into the dirt, shall remain there
This may be the most monumental of misconceptions

What if they really are trying to change?
What if they’ve already replaced the wheel?
Chose to go forwards on a new path?

Perhaps, the reason it seems that people don’t change
is that society is cynically unaware of forks in the road
unaware that everyone is just driving past each other
492 · Nov 2016
Disarray
Kush Nov 2016
I had a gift for heartache
Kept it imprisoned between stanza breaks
For a treat, life is sweet
popped cherries and blown raspberries

No need to bleed out gold on bearskin rugs
No desire for strutting around as soft-serve thugs
We’re different than all the ****** and tools
We’re the ones that shock electricity and frighten ghouls

Complete trust is a must
loyalty too
I ask for a lot
I give you my all

*like kisses beneath the blue
title says it all
489 · Jun 2016
A Stranger
Kush Jun 2016
I am unseen
Existing on the outer rim of this place
One body among the astros of cosmic space

I am a listener
Absorbing every ounce of knowledge I can find
Reserved in a space of my mind

I am a shadow
Lurking among the halls
Seeking solace wherever the light falls

I am a serpent
Calm when at rest
Sorting through prey like a confetti fest

I am a visitor
Fresh new faces glaze over my eyes
Oversaturated smiles are met with shy sighs

I am distant from every peer
Bitten by the fangs of fear
Unrecognized by anyone
Stuck watching from a one-way mirror
I'm not someone who belongs

I am a Stranger
484 · Nov 2015
The Silk-Grey Specter
Kush Nov 2015
Say hello, say goodbye
I’ll make you bleed, I’ll make you cry
Gonna smile and laugh while you shriek and die
You’re afraid…Don’t you dare lie
See the evil reflecting my eyes? He lurks inside
You’re just petty prey, broken and petrified
I become the hungry shark, swimming beneath the waves
Tracking you from the depths, fear’s ******* guide
The monster of which every frightened child raves
I glide alongside my friends Bundy and Lecter
Serrated jaws pierce through the blue
All thanks to Death
The silk-grey specter
The Great White Fright
475 · Oct 2015
Manifesto
Kush Oct 2015
A glint of midnight’s light catches a dagger
In crimson, he etched tales of wicked horror
Undertones of his usual demented swagger
Admissions, not of guilt, but rather of passion
Crimes rendered reality in gory fashion
Frantic strokes punctuate sobs of rage
Guilt sealed with blood from the blade
So that those evening massacres would never fade
474 · Nov 2015
Blood is Thicker Than Paint
Kush Nov 2015
I want to fold origami from the ***** of your skin
I want to spread rivulets of your blood in a lucid spray
I’ll etch my mind onto the bleached bones of your shin
I’m going to snicker when you shriek, your face in flimsy pieces
My wicked humor is black-hearted: subversive and oh so facetious
Can you feel your tummy split in two?
Those entrails will make an excellent noose
Your growls of agony serve as my cue
How easily the intestines begin to come loose!
I will discard your humanity with methodical prejudice
Your repugnant form will be an artist’s crimson kiss
I will return you to an easel of decay
To my gallery of dirt, flies, and fleas
You will hang in the decadence of quietus
A pendulum of rot, swinging death’s aroma into the breeze
Credits to my friend Ummie for helping with the name
460 · Feb 2017
Echelon
Kush Feb 2017
Let’s go down to La La Land, ladies and gents
There are quite a few dangers to circumvent
zombified crowds of unimpassioned creeps
we’ll start spilling their lipstick-shaded blood just to watch it seep

We’ve given away our hearts calling out these fake, sons-of-*******
They’re vicious and pernicious, held together by skin deep stitches
It’s about time that artificial apathy is dusted off society’s seat
We will have our glory on the throne, it doesn’t matter how fleet

Let’s go down to La La Land ladies and gents
For there, our smiles may forever be slightly bent
It’s the disarray we crave, chaos letting us contemplate
dancing out woozy blues with flaws on our faces and sealed fates
459 · Feb 2016
Predator
Kush Feb 2016
I have gory portraits hanging on my walls, collecting grime
I have polaroids to record my cleansing efforts, scenes of crime
Limbs drape my abode like a ghastly ******* of antlers
Trophies encompass my home: glass-eyed raptors and the skins of panthers
Nonetheless, I sit upon a throne of men for they are always the greatest prey
I stalk their numbers through all moon cycles of the night and solar shifts of the day
I happily silence a man’s hubris to collect his humerus
I engage in a scrap to seize a scapula- a theft, I hope, didn’t leave its owner too furious
Hide in packs, in swarms, and in flocks you pretty beasts, I must implore
Face a fate that all creatures must surrender to
Chills of fear racing in the bones and the great hunter tearing down your door
456 · Jan 2016
Frost Wolves
Kush Jan 2016
Through a frozen forest, translucent terrors dash
Claws of cold fury dig into the brittle earth below
Their eyes are an absolute red, mirroring the blood spilled on snow
Conical canines hang like icicles adorning jaws that shred and slash
Harrowing howls instill upon the villagers a thin layer of chilled fear
The hounds of frost descend into the homes of men, women, and children
Cutting short monotonous lives the so-called “innocents” held so dear
Kush Mar 2021
You come with doubt
with a knack for disparaging

You come with ego
with a conviction of having seen it all

You come to the foot of the solar system
with your cosmic disregard for virtue

You leave as you should
with a singed tongue
with eyes dripping ashes
454 · Oct 2015
Fsociety
Kush Oct 2015
It took me awhile to get my head back together
There was always enough time to give up hope
Depressed episodes of emptiness playing forever
My Mission. My Friends. They were there too
Funny thing is, I was even more afraid ‘cuz of that
A voice argued with me to “try”
Try because no one will forget the day everything changed
The moment they were able to fly
Another argued “why bother?” Reality didn’t exist anyway
That society would cover up our work
I really never was some kinda hero
“Then why do this? What did you hope to accomplish?”
I don’t know…
I guess I just wanted to save the world.
Based on Mr. Robot
449 · Oct 2015
Theatricality and Deception
Kush Oct 2015
Ah, yes I forgot how easy it is to deconstruct people
Like watches and clocks, they all have their own intricate gears shifting and turning
Still, a precise instrument is able to take apart those intricacies and expose that inherent layer of vulnerability
I very much enjoy exposing these facades and their artificial substance
I choose to be that precise instrument
Gratification comes in droves when the opportunity to reveal the truth presents itself
I can see it all around me…These masks
Feebly attempting to cover up for shortcomings while detracting from those around them
I laugh! I rave! How could I not?
So much drama and bluster amounts to nothing more significant than the cream atop a warm apple pie
It amuses me! It defines me! These performances to a non-existent audiences
I could not survive without the chance to tear down these fakes
To rip off that mask and clear their vision
So they could finally cease their endless whines
So they could open their eyes and see
They’re just as ugly as you and me
445 · Mar 2016
The Charmer
Kush Mar 2016
There’s a certain sweetheart I find to be on my mind
She confuses my feigned confusion with a heart’s protruding contusion
I’m simply a puppet master pulling strings
A singular audience for whom the Devil’s opera sings

I’m sick of the “hold on’s” and “baby, wait’s”
Spent too much time sorting through prospective bunk mates
I’ve started to dine in rooms lined with fright
Looking behind fate’s telescope to admire love from hindsight

I’ll dance in ****** subways for the pay checks of a busk
Bathe slickly and solely in bottled, manly musk
She avoids I with eye sockets that turn sharper than most crotch rockets
Our naughty escapade’s prequel simmers for its pending sequel

No earthly fawn will ever string this cold-hearted man along
I’ll make a splendid entrance in the home of my prey
Oh hey, cue the gong!
For the lucky gal on my mind:

You’ll get your head lopped off free of charge
Just as long as my ship’s able to enter the barge
I’m a wild thing chock to the teeth with bling
A diamond ring, golden chain, my favorite knife encrusted with pain

You’ll see the error of lengthy relationships
Become the chalice of lust from which true romance sips
******* lips now for they’re best served chilled
Feel the smeared screams of all the dames I’ve killed
443 · Aug 2017
The Sleeping King
Kush Aug 2017
In halls of dust-speckled relics
In labyrinths filled with prehistory
There is a room where scarabs still creep
Where the Great Pharaoh forever sleeps

Books of the Dead are affixed to the walls
Ankhs are clutched tightly by sculpted Gods
There is a room where mysticism yet seeps
Where the Great Pharaoh forever sleeps

Watchful falcons seem to soar overhead
The Sands of Time are forced to retread
There is a room where one body lays deep
Where the Great Pharaoh ends an eternal sleep
Not based on any specific mummy.
442 · Feb 2016
Affluenza
Kush Feb 2016
Pleasure to finally meet you ladies and gentlemen
How about we make a couple million? 6, 7, maybe even 10!
You people make me laugh with your fancy cars and shallow smiles- a gluttony embellished with diamonds
Thank goodness I’m here to stop all this *******…Tonight your rule ends
1-percenters be ******; they constrain our wills and throw the innocents to roast
Go on, show me the chalice of greed, raise your cup
Speak a final taunt, an exiting boast
My gun drawn, shooting from the waist up
439 · Oct 2015
A Dish Best Served Cold
Kush Oct 2015
Gurgled belches of blood echo through the night
All thanks to a dagger
Hilt-deep in a freak's right cheek
Severed flesh makes a truly stunning sight
Streams of crimson cake the ice
Roars of chilled hatred reach the skies
My blade forever poised to slice
435 · Jun 2016
Ticker
Kush Jun 2016
“Tick Tock!” proclaims the clock
My closet opens up a crack
A shadow whisks out, my eyes losing track
He’s back, that frightful little fellow
I clench the sheets as my skin turns yellow
I soon hear a peculiar wet rip
And at about that time, I’m wondering about acid trips
Half-past 3 AM, a red, leathery hand grips my calf
My eyes shut tight as he starts to laugh
I wake up nose to nose with the scrawny thing called Ticker
He gnaws on my lips, wearing a favorite snicker
433 · Nov 2016
A Most Frightful Forest
Kush Nov 2016
The trees are monsters
The shadows are spectral
The electricity belongs to Wisps
The sun is a Great Dragon’s egg
The moss is Troll skin
The wind is Banshee breath

The girl is a victim for the forest to tear
**and I am her swift, merciful death
433 · Jun 2017
Milk
Kush Jun 2017
A fierce tug awakens me from drunken stupor
My sheets tumble off the edge of the bed
He’s come, once again, for His meal

It is my sworn duty to tend to Him and his arcane needs
a result of purchasing Alveus Manor, my current home
Strangely, it has been many decades since
Yet, I do not age but for my mind

To maintain a sense of control on things, I ponder
Many hours have been spent toiling in reflection
forgotten lovers, forgotten names
They mean precious little now

There is a singular memory that screeches loudest
some deal sealed with incantations and blood
scars adorn my wrists in confirmation
This memory is certainly true

I set the bowl out near the darkest part of my manor
From the floor, a trapdoor creaks upwards
I see the sharp glint of some child’s eyes
They dart around on an elderly face

He snatches the bowl with pale claws and blinks expectantly
It is then that I remember the burning whims of my duty
With a dagger and a prayer, my wrist spurts
Red nutrition cakes into the container

Prize in hand, He scurries back underneath the floor
sounds of primal content slither along the walls
He clambers back up with satisfaction
I am to be rewarded

He holds the bowl as if praising Old Gods across our universe
Elixir jets past teeth that resemble those of an infant
Creamy white substance settles in the bowl
It seems the result of melted moons

I do as I have done since first moving into this cursed place
I drink the ghostly elixir without any extrinsic cause
He flashes blood-stained teeth and hobbles away
Instantly, my eyes brighten and my skin tightens

My name has long been struck from history as well
My purpose remains free of doubt or suspicion
I return to bed in morbid anticipation
Drifting into madness, I fall asleep

A fierce tug awakens me from drunken stupor
My sheets tumble off the edge of the bed
He’s come, once again, for his meal
loosely based on personal events
Alveus roughly means "teapot" in Latin
433 · Apr 2016
LSDemon
Kush Apr 2016
I have a damning devil inside
A fearsome force with plenty of time to bide
Its flaming tongue laps up tears like milk
It’s an addiction born from the pyro pits of its ilk
Happiness and freedom now lie in the past-they are dust covered relics
All thanks to the beast on my palm, not found in any Psalm
A square-shaped psychedelic
427 · Oct 2015
The Monochrome Man
Kush Oct 2015
All I see is a split
There is no common ground, no shared views, and no similar perspectives
I observe the blackest of nights when the sun shines for others
The coldest winters are melted by the heat of my anger
Gray morality doesn’t play well in my head
Let this scorched Earth be touched by the caress of rainfall
Because I believe in Black and White
A complete and assured absolution
No quarter; No mercy
No false talks of peace and hallow threats of war
No ugly truths or two-headed lies
A divide separating darkness from light
I believe in Black and White
The difference between falling and flight
I tire of compromises and endless debate
I need a clear-cut yes or no
No more ambiguity
I desire unequivocal justice or unconditional anarchy
I wish to rid the world of its confusion and simplify its sight
Call me the monochrome man
Because I believe in only Black and White
426 · Oct 2015
Fangs
Kush Oct 2015
Be silent little one
For your end will be swift
Your naive eyes hold no sway
Over the frozen mass beating in my chest
And as I drain the happiness from your veins
I will put you to rest
422 · Apr 2016
The Look of (False) Love
Kush Apr 2016
She had the sweetest little eyes
Cheeks that, when kissed, tasted like dual apple pies
She’d reach into your heart for some love to “borrow”
Leaving you half-empty and ensconced with sorrow
She was unseen-had a blacklisted history
Wrapped up foolish lovers with enticing mystery
She gave out the absolute greatest of kisses
Alas, love charms fail, Cupid’s bow misses
I was able to see through the veil, past her charade
I suppose this was punishment for my reckless serenade
She had the sweetest little eyes
Ones which would coldly watch on if the world ever dies
420 · Sep 2016
Squishie
Kush Sep 2016
A little egg begins to roll
Her light yellow body jiggles above pink cushions
Like a volcano, her form is on the verge of eruption
Our poor little egg closes her eyes and realizes a sense of primal futility
Molten tears burn her plump cheeks as they fall
They burn with frustration’s poisonous touch

Outside, the sky hums its smooth, silky night
In stark contrast, of course, to our poor little egg

Her screams seize attention and demand nourishment,
be it edible or otherwise
Her feathery hair, shining blackish brown, is nowhere near as lengthy as it is now
Her tiny little feet have grown to a size 8 and a half but are still adorable to me
Her ocular chocolates, orbs of pure warmth, look straight into the camera with matured defiance

A look my girlfriend hypnotizes me with even today
For my girlfriend, Azka Khan
415 · Oct 2015
Too Busy Being Yours
Kush Oct 2015
I don’t feel any haste when I’m with your smile
But you seem to be in such a rush
Cuddles and kisses stringing me on awhile
As my bruised heart turns into purple mush
Footsteps echo through the corridors of my sorrow
Silly old me still optimistic for tomorrow
Hopes riding on good luck charms and fingers crossed
Looking for love, only to get lost
I simply cannot move on
For I’m stuck in the muck
The quicksand of your allure
There is no cure for the poisonous caress of those lips
And uncertainty is all I know for sure
You tell me that I’m wrong
You whisper that you care
But out of all our tender passion
You always get the greater share
And my dearest darling
That’s really just not fair
412 · Apr 2016
Razor Haze
Kush Apr 2016
Bite your tongue, swallow your fright
Hush the voice, blind the sight
See through vapor, peer through smoke
Cry from pain, the killing poke
404 · Mar 2019
Standstill
Kush Mar 2019
and may all the demons lie unknown
and all the beasts roam untamed
so that the Earth may swallow them whole
at the halting of time, the end of days
402 · Feb 2019
The Whirlwind
Kush Feb 2019
Alas, here ends thy monotone passion
and as fiery tongues lash, so you ignite
trembling hands, eyes of crimson fashion
whipping across the land with monstrous might

Let them all clutch silence, gather around
marry their nightmares with its horrid call
for it gleefully saunters, the howling sound
and pounces perfervidly upon their thrall

Pain is as air, light and fleeting
a placid kiss to the farmer's yield
much unlike that whirlwind in one's bones-
that immutable suffering of journeys sealed
400 · Mar 2016
My Legacy
Kush Mar 2016
This is my monument
My body of work
My Legacy
You are the fleshy materials through which my design is fulfilled
Your bones are the structures upon which my palace resides
Your hearts are pulverized into crimson paste
The walls are smeared in this grotesque essence
The ceiling drips with remnants of your soul
Feel the foundations shake and the rafters shudder
They tremble with the radiance of my power, of my sheer magnitude
I am the architect of demise
The carpenter of unequivocal destruction
I bathe in blood and mark my creations similarly
There is no escape from the Pandora’s Box that is my psyche
I will transform and transcend this world from its shriveled forerunners
Bricks of sinew are lain-held together by tendon
They reflect the solidity of my resolve
They are reminders of my Legacy
For after all
Genocide is my Magnum Opus
This builder works with interesting materials
396 · Sep 2015
A Man of Morals
Kush Sep 2015
He stood at the beginning of an empty street
Teeming with the hustle and bustle of decomposing memories
A spectator huddled in the shroud of uncertainty
The figure is purposeless: A destitute husk of paper skin and aching bones
Yet, he always walks down this road
A path of righteousness and pure evil
Going neither left nor right
But somewhere in the middle
394 · Oct 2015
Ravus
Kush Oct 2015
They can call us whatever they want
Because it's our actions that define us
There's no good and evil
Just a simple gray
Living inside of you and me
Hanging overhead, spreading confusion and deceit
A deep cloud close, but yet, still far away
It's difficult to trust people
In a world filled with violence and hate
Fighting all your life makes you strong
But bitter all the same
Still, no matter the odds, do not give in
Because it's up to us to pick up the pieces
To heal this broken place
Maybe someday we'll be able to trust others, come what may
Until then, here I'll stay
Peering into the dark
Piercing through the grey
394 · Jul 2016
Little Azkee
Kush Jul 2016
The world is a big, grey soup and I was the soggy ******* half-submerged
My path was broken up like a puzzle and my feet trudged along a "destiny" often diverged

I visited the cinema of tattered memories
Silently watched the hasty retreats of ex-lovers on repeat

That is, until I met you
The sole ingredient spicing up my depression stew

You're a raven haired darling uplifted by breeze
The hiccup in my mopey hippocampus, a psychedelic sneeze

You said you're drowning-****** in by the ocean's whims
Well then honey, I'll help you to shore, teach you how to swim

Together, we'll dredge up the anchor of doubt
Shower each other with kisses like a pair of sculpted water spouts
Continue the raging storm over all dry patches left in life's drought

I'm done with trotting down a path quite wayward
Humming tunes of happiness that life never heard

I'm sick of haters with their pathetic aesthetics
Leave that mess behind and call it frenzied, frenetic

You're a firebird raining down ****** on my frozen heart
The Phoenix lifting this guy's affection levels off the charts

Let's hold hands down the yellow brick road and leap into the future's maw
You can be the Dorothy to my lovestruck Wizard of Awe

I'll slay the dragon and build a castle so we're able to share smiles as we should
Life life so fully that, if separate, we never could

I want to gently drag down your pants and plant snowflake kisses on the scars
Pull you out of the woods and proclaim "Darling, I adore you from the Moon to the stars!"
For my girlfriend, Azka Khan
393 · Sep 2015
Cerulean Sensuality
Kush Sep 2015
I like it when you dance in the blue shades of desire
The brightness of my eyes bouncing off those shiny, silver bracelets
As they flow gracefully through the air
While I start to serenade your heart
With tales of gushing romance
And a melody of rhythmic woes
391 · May 2016
Cogitatio
Kush May 2016
I remember when the worst thing around were these shadows that dance on my wall
Open windows served as music, for the wind’s rhythm drove specters to sway
Standing in the doorway, with the lazy hum of bees outside, my eyes panicked

That was years ago

The shadows were just glimpses of the realms that resided in my head
From the cavernous depths sprang a Panther colored like silky ink
It prowls both my mind and waking reality with an equal vibe of eeriness
Recently, a quiet day of class turned gruesome within seconds
Caught up in a cold fit of hatred, I saw my classmates’ bodies slumped over
Their blood formed a massive pool reeking of crimson
I saw that **** cat stare at me with liquid eyes while it lapped it up
A few blinks later, Geometry class was back to its usual dull droning

I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore
I’m not crazy, I’m not crazy, I’m not ******* crazy!

Or am I?

Every time things go back to normal, there’s a tinge of sickliness in my gut
The grim expectation of more horror and gore
Every time things go back to normal, I think of buzzing bugs and melodic wind
I think of phantomous felines and shadows waltzing across my wal
Kush May 2016
"You Did This"
              -Son
389 · Jan 2017
To Undo Death
Kush Jan 2017
I was beyond time, beyond space and, even then, I saw myself marginalized and confined by some unseen limit, an invisible force

It was the hand of reality snaking through the cosmos, eager to reclaim the wayward child that eluded its grasp

Despite this realization, I defied the so-called “natural order” for I, a being of flesh and blood, was not to be confused as organically pure

The opinions of a world around me had melded into my own inner monologues and construed a stardust born infant towards a less diluted path

I walk this path and, paradoxically, I propagate the path itself

Calling me pure would imbue myself with a divinatory regard, one which I had not earned and would not earn for millennia

Regardless, I was still a fragment of the universe as, no matter how minuscule a fragment may be, it is integral to constitute a whole

The smallest of fragments feel the touch and limitations imposed by Great Death

Impure as I was, I recognized that Death was inconsequential in the grand scheme

Death inspired either fear or reverence amongst mortals of every civilization but these were unnecessary reactions

Blackness or light, whichever consumes us, is simply a biological interpretation

We refer to Death as “the end” even when we haven’t had the opportunity to test this theory, to see past Death

Our skin rots, our organs and bones corrode into dust, but that is simply what we observe through our narrow scope of understanding

What logic is there in judging flesh by flesh?

Still, there is no present alternative

For now, I shall continue to soar through existence while searching for an answer

An answer to Death
387 · Sep 2018
Unflinching
Kush Sep 2018
So swift to burn second chances
but casual cruelties do not equal honesty

Strength at the expense of others
is not strength at all

I've walked into the dark woods
It lies obliterated, charred
never as damaged as the ones who are scarred

Wells of patience are not frequently found
steadiness is rare and grows from the heart
judgement has been bled from my veins

And treading the path of truth, my art
Do not falter
382 · Jun 2016
Accepting the End
Kush Jun 2016
She stood there disposed and steady
I sweated anxiety, surely not ready
Her soft eyes were brim-filled with the dark
Her cloaked smile contained neither malice nor spark
I sensed little use in a bargain or petition
My gaze sadly descended in submission
I went up and kissed Lady Death
Putrid decay hung heavily on her breath
Her chalky arms poured me a glass of scarlet wine
Her silky lips whispered seductively
"Baby, you're mine"
382 · Mar 2016
The Last War
Kush Mar 2016
I looked through the window and saw bellowing fires

******-soaked remains of my city choke the air-victims of new empires

During all conflicts of human history, death is the favored solution

Lead chiefly by ruthless automatons immune to moral dissolution

This vestige of a world is one born from dust and brimstone

I am now merely memories made of ash, agonizing the past with bitter groans

In this state of reflection, I thanked Him, for my sense of hope never retires

That is, until I looked through the window and saw bellowing fires
381 · May 2016
Veils
Kush May 2016
Come now, my friends, let us all be wrapped up
This cloak of lies smothers us so pleasantly
Our eyes are always closed and yet they see everything so clear
The moon shines bright on the thoughts ruminating in our minds
Sometimes our sight is free of the cloak long enough to get a glimpse
A small look at the façade we inhabit so eagerly
Trapped in a cage, with smiles on our faces, we watch the world carry on
**Waiting to escape
379 · Jun 2016
Angel Egg
Kush Jun 2016
I sliced open her heart

It's a sparkling sculpture

*Pure Art
378 · Feb 2016
A Visit from Death
Kush Feb 2016
There was a great gust of wind accompanied by blackness
Snoozing breaths ****** in the tainted air of medicine and wasted prayers
The specter took its perch at the foot of my bed
Soulless eyes swallowed moonlight and reflected a pair of voids
Its form was illusory; sentient darkness stretched out across the room and into the pits of my fear
“Open your eyes,” the specter’s wispy mouth sighed
I did as I was told and recoiled in horror at the fright seated near my resting place
There was pure terror swimming in my blood but, even then, I dare not look away
I finally rambled, “What are yo-“

“I am truly Nameless…Breathless. I am the silent oracle to eons of demise. The cloud of fate that hangs above all"

My paralyzed physical form was privy to this ancient force-one uncorrupted by the vestiges of time
In one graceful motion, the being stood and glided to my bedside
Its hand rested on mine, hovering near the cusp of contact; a shadow suspended on dust
Phantomous lips reached near my ears and whispered

“You are but a hollow construct of flesh. Your presence is akin to an ant’s among the stars…”
“…From nothingness you were built and unto nothingness your vessel will become…”

With that, the thing that mortals call Death withdrew to my open window and peered out
There was a great gust of wind accompanied by blackness
377 · Nov 2016
Astrophysical
Kush Nov 2016
Me and some friends got high and took a night out on the town
Ducking between seedy spots and screeching cars,
we saw **** like talking dogs and bears in wedding gowns,
sipped down galaxies and chugged cups of stars

They pass around powdered sin, taking a sniff
I’m in the corner, blasting away the clock with guitar riffs
They howl, “buddy, grow some *****”
The Devil tells me to give into their calls

My eyelids randomly decide to droop
My muscles give out and the whole world seems to stoop
Booming speakers submerge my cries
so I simply watch my friends drop like flies

Every pained breath whispers the stench of sweat
I touch my ravaged nose
It’s red and wet
That’s how the story goes

What can I say?
It’s my game to play
Even the purest need a break
I’ll **** up my life for fun’s sake
373 · Oct 2015
Plastic-Face
Kush Oct 2015
It was the iridescent shine that first revealed the truth
That beneath the unnatural glimmer was something ghastly
The next thing I saw was my forehead starting to peel off
I took the edge of artificial flesh and tugged in horror
Akin to a serpent shedding dead skin
There was a faint smacking sound
As my eyelids were hastily ripped off
Right before passing a smile made of clay
It was done
I opened up to take a look
Staring at the figure reflected
Into the face of a stranger
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