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Josh Jul 2017
I exist
What am I?
I am conditional
I change
By company
By environment
Communication
Day, always
I change
I am everything
I might be something
I am nothing
I might not be
Humanity
Josh Jul 2017
Strangers at the bus stop
Always moving, a microcosm
Life in miniature
All convinced they need to get somewhere
When it doesn't really matter
They wait, impatiently
And i wait with them
But when my bus comes
I do not wish away the journey
I know that the destination, and time
Are unimportant
Yet, I hope
Someone might speak to me
Fill, however briefly
This silent time existing
With a flicker, of humanity
We will see
Josh Jul 2017
I live in, a quiet house
Arguments are quiet
Everything subdued
As if a blanket has settled
A weariness, almost
They will not, who knows why
It is like, not building a fire
Because the wood won't last forever
Pointless
I need a shout
Life, shrug off this stillness
Be rid of this lethargy
I would shoot myself
Or someone else
To have, to feel
Even to see
Feeling, an argument above a whisper
Somebody light me on fire
Josh Jul 2017
Oh little trickle, babbling brook
On your quest, to meet the sea
You pass through a little town
And passing through, do pass by me
Your minute falls, your rippling
The chatter of your endless flow
How sweet it is to hear it, sweeter even to know
Your noble quest, destination
Where you go and where you are from
See the rain make ripples on your ever moving surface
Increasing your magnitude
Indeed, it is a sweet service
See you pass around and over
All your obstacles
You are the calm before the storm
Soft ripples and gurgling
Like slowly marching soldiers
To reinforce and strengthen, those waves you go to meet
And crash harder upon the besieged shore
You soldiers of the endless sea
Josh Jul 2017
You might have passed me
Sitting, on a bench
Maybe with a stranger, smoking a cigarette
Or writing, maybe reading a book
I question, did you wonder?
Who I am, or maybe you thought I had a distinctive feature
For a brief moment, I existed, in the periphery of your own, and you in mine
A meeting, however brief, of our existences
Josh Jul 2017
Stargazing is a strange act
Or wishing upon those self same things
They aren't even corpses, they are shadows
Shadows of ghosts of long dead giants
But we ****** upon them
Our wishes, our hopes
This hillside is damp
With late summer dew
But I don't move
As I feel it soak my shirt
Maybe this is part of the experience
I do not know, I do not pin my hopes
On long dead, once burning gases
So I lay, and look, not really seeing
Unsure, uncertain of my role
Josh Jul 2017
I told a girl, I loved her, once
And have since I was ten
For though life has no meaning
It does not mean there should be no knowing
Indeed, I would never wish ignorance upon anyone
She knew, she said, it was no real secret
A flurry of messages, confession, acceptance
Maybe even an inkling of understanding
And then, my shame
It doesn't matter
That small exchange
Of letters, and periods and pauses
Will be forgotten when we die
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