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 Oct 2021 Ave Maria
Nobody
Joy
 Oct 2021 Ave Maria
Nobody
Joy
My mind is lofty
wound up in the sound
of joys heaven sent
a recompence of dancing in the clouds

I've come and gone
and all those marooned feelings that arise
seem ethereal as the winter moon
reflected in the summers tide.
running away
into
a maladaptive dream
impulsively
searching for more
dopamine

forgetting to
mourn
the losses and
discarding
all the old
belongings

playing pretend
ignoring
heart and soul
shredded
to pieces once
again
my arm is numb
my fingers tingly

i think this must be
a friendly reminder of my
mortality

gently, i respond
"no need, sir
i am a walking
existential crisis

fear of death
and i are well
acquainted"
"Good Morning,"
says the heart to me
already in a race
"Is it?" I ask,
adrenaline presenting
a very different case
 Oct 2021 Ave Maria
My Dear Poet
My dreams recognise me no more
and therefore,
I no longer sleep in a strangers bed
instead,
beneath a foreign faceless moon
I now lay my head

I visit the nameless night by noon
and soon,
by a lake where none know my name
flames,
at candlelit dinners lined to an unfamiliar tune
Shadows dance insane
on walls of my mind and moon

Like black cloth cloaks hidden eyes beneath a hood,
I brood
fire that flickers contours of your face,
grace
the distant chants beyond the unseen hills
It wills, another world, in another time,
and another place
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