winter

winter Nov 2023

the world will never know brilliance
now that you are no longer in it

i, however, am all too used to change,
and impermanence,
and disaster

your strength gave way to me
i'll do it all
the pieces you left
shall stir and shatter
this earthly globe
and scar
to make
invincible

winter Nov 2023

child's eyes

low to the ground
i can't see it all
but i can see what matters

your soul is screaming through me

on quiet days

winter Nov 2023

protection

by my heart, may i be fierce
in rounding up you nihilistic
prey to destruction
mother's arms will strangle you
from dropping past the black horizon
squeeze and break you from
falling leaving bruises leaving
life

winter Nov 2023

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i warm up cool down forever
even you couldn't reach
that absolute zero
we are cursed with eternal warmth
that is life
the heaven the absence of hell the final
cold nothing

winter Nov 2023

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i feel my mouth in my soul
muscles in my cheeks
teeth, cosmic, prophetic
they'll outlast me

winter Nov 2023

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death, my puppeteer, even in life
remember i, too, must die
even you, even soon, even i

winter Aug 2023

dear curator

I'm on a list of things that look dead
at a distance
think of an existence
like an oil painting peeled