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Jan 2015 · 356
It's The End, Ad Infinitum
Jay G Jan 2015
I suppose this is goodbye, everything was real nice
Falling from the heavens, a shooting star
Burning up in the atmosphere, forgetting where we were heading

I suppose this is the end, of the era of halcyon
Everything we held so dear, climbing up into the stratosphere
I suppose this is what you want, this is the part where you’re supposed
to scream no

Letting your true intentions pierce my armor
The blade slipped through the kinks, got straight into my heart
I suppose this wasn’t meant to last forever
Quite a rough couple of months / Work in progress
Jan 2015 · 234
In The Beginning
Jay G Jan 2015
In the beginning, it was already the end
Ash fell from the fire of creation, and covered us whole
When the ash touched the earth, we were born from mud and stone
To gaze in wonder upon gaia, before we must go

It’s a sad story, that ends before it begins.
The last page is already written, in blood soaked pulp
The rest is up to you, to define what’s bound within
To carry your own head to your personal guillotine

Grit your teeth and endure, the unendurable
The obstacles that are meant to break you
Take the lashings with a smile, hell ask for more
That last page is already written, why not enjoy it all

Even the horrid, unspeakable acts that destroy eyes
Making oaks wilt like dying flowers, bringing on drought
Smile, and take it in stride with dirt stained toes
That smile can make impossibilities arise.
Lazy days writing poetry, it's not all so bad after all.
Jay G Jan 2015
It's all just a breeze, as a leaf I'll follow along
By sunrise it's here, at sunset everything is lost
The cement of life will fade away, corroding while retaining semblance of structure
It'll retain beauty, but is burnt within. Struggling to maintain smiles
With broken teeth

Taking out loans, with negative balances swarming like flies
Dreaming of forever, when tonight is all that's left or that will be
Can you believe we thought it would last until greener pastures
Oh, please just last

These cigarettes are all that ask
For my time, others just seem to laugh it all goodbye
I'm really trying, my knuckles are bruised and the time's going by like a waterfall
Thrashing down, crashing around, and we believed that it would all be okay
That this is the world, this is the way it toils

*******, I’m running out of my own mind

Could you call out? Could you sing with the tune of beautiful destruction
I know it's over, and the worst part is the denial that it's all so gorgeous
When it's rotten, inside and out, born of plaque
I could go for days, for nights singing anthems for the alienated
The stars sing my song, and the moon mourns along with my loss

Carrying my own weight where there was once two
To offset the burden of lingering life until my knees buckle and I, I finally die
It’s so cold, even the sun is hiding somewhere up above
Just like when you’re here, you’re miles away
In a life where you don’t believe I belong anymore
Jan 2015 · 355
Shall We Pretend
Jay G Jan 2015
Let’s say that I am what I think myself to be. Brilliant and eternal, not in flesh but in my poetry.
Let’s pretend for a small moment, that I’m as great as I see myself to be, that my words will carry a weight throughout all history.
Let’s say that the day I was created, something divine touched my soul, lit it with a fiery blaze.
That the halls of Orion rang gloriously with bells clammering heralding my arrival.
Can’t we just pretend for one moment, that I was forged for greatness, the sun hides from my light and the moon can’t look away.
That glory trembles within my veins, that each word that leaves my lips shakes up the human inside of you.
You’ll lose your breathe with a frigid reserve and ecstasy will trickle down your spine. Something will grab you and force a crescendo to rise from your gut, spilling out your throat. That mountains will move when I tell them to, the great space will shine as never before. Playing off my notes, carrying the bass line right along.
Singing out my songs, for the lost ones that have never known, the beauty of home, the calling of love, pressurizing the insurmountable loneliness that lingers deeply within us all, knowing we all die alone.
Perchance these words will lessen the blow, and make us all, yes even you feel less alone.

Here I stand, let me flow in and I’ll help you carry onward to the never ending sea and the galaxies above. Shooting through the heavens bound for eternal wisdom that the moon and the wine are offering.

Can’t we just pretend?
Jan 2015 · 525
Abysmal Fate
Jay G Jan 2015
When it’s full blossom, the primordial abyss will open
To swallow us whole, to purge itself of insatiable appetite
Quenching a desire that has lingered for eons
All will tumble into the abyss, blind and frightened

In the abyss, shadow men wander to feed from unsuspecting humanity
Feet heavy with repose, eyes straining in the darkness
They’ve been here so long, the hunger gnawing at their insides
Soon you will become one with the beasts, the abyss demands it

Words will slip from your tongue and never return
Thoughts will be fleeting, as you desperately grasp on
Where am I, and why is it so black?
All I know is this madness will create men of us all
Jan 2015 · 377
Ancient Chinese Scholar
Jay G Jan 2015
I’m laughing to my grave
everything’s worth less than I paid
I’m getting old behind my own shadow
The bleak cold future doesn't hold any room for anybody

My place is already taken
I’m being pushed out quicker than I got here
Being told, this is the dream
Missing meals and sleeping on the street

I’ll call out, to whomever will listen
That’s the problem
Ears seem to be dormant
I've got no home, or anyone to love

It’s brimming over the edge
Foaming madly from the teeth
Li-Po would laugh along with me
Though he’s already in the grave

One foot in, and I can see the beauty
Is in the blackness
One more foot in, and I can see
I could call this place home

I think Li-Po would agree
Oh the ancient Chinese scholar
Who followed his shadow around
Who drank wine with the moon

The only home I have, is millions of miles away
Deep in the forest, meditating in thought
Of mountains, creeks, and trees
With spirits stronger than those alive

Oh ancient Chinese scholar
Could you whisper what I need to do
I've got one ear to your grave
Please sing out, and I'll sing along
Jan 2015 · 216
I Need Someone.
Jay G Jan 2015
I need a friend, who will run the black alleys with ecstasies and delight
Under the pale moonlight, livid tales of life and together we'll achieve enlightenment
We will scream at the top of ours lungs with dessert sand between our toes not to be heard
We will touch the tip of McKinley and brew tea from the freshest waters of Earth
We will be under the stars wrapped tightly with cold kissing our skin
Believing there must be a god, just not the one we've read of
oh there will be everlasting joy and the days will run wild as wolves.
I need a friend, with morally tough skin, to sing along with the nightingale, to place a goodness in my heart where once was only sin,
to make beautiful dreams that come to fruition, who will say let's travel until we're done until our legs buckle under our own bone,
who does away with dogma, prejudice and then revelations will be held in the palm of my hands, and I'll hold them dearly as pearls of gold. Yes, you are a dear friend.
Jan 2015 · 415
Dragons Do Exist
Jay G Jan 2015
Talking to myself
blackbirds aren't listening well
ribbons are running red
smoke pours from nostrils

fire spewing with each breathe
afraid it'll be the last
fingernails peeling back maple
bleeding, though curious what's underneath

Now the clock is striking 13
It seems to have forgotten to count
liquid courage to say I love you
to say I hate you

skies all around grow with animosity
blazing blue, the ever watchful eye
flesh on flesh, the stink
fateful impulses bearing child
Jay G Dec 2014
the days are drying away, it seems they're all the same. plagued complacency sending yellow bolts of light in my head. turn on the sprinkler, and lets get a little wet, before the drought that comes carrying with it waves of death. carrying on with the carrion of my mother, with the lost ashes of my father. Drying out with the desert before grim calls my name. to meet my mother and father in the sand, when bone shakes bone, we'll smile and say hello to one another in a language that only the wind knows.
Nov 2014 · 390
Cinquain
Jay G Nov 2014
Death,
Cease being,
Falling from sky,
Everything seems so tranquil,
End.
Nov 2014 · 987
The Sun, The Shade
Jay G Nov 2014
The sun's in it's own shade
and it's getting cold down on the soil
Where my feet are firmly planted
as I watch all the birds fly up toward the heat
The trees are doing the same, and even the giraffes
grew out their necks so they could still eat
laughing all the while at us mopey land dwellers
feet stuck to the soil
so i smoke cigarettes, and watch the time pass
it's all growing in a direction i cannot follow
the sun's in it's own shade
to change the way of the world.
Oct 2014 · 594
Doctor Dog
Jay G Oct 2014
Dr. Dog taught me love, and also
pain.
Dr. Dog taught me sincerity and also,
to lie through my teeth.
Dr. Dog taught me that cigarettes ****, and also
taste so **** good.
Dr. Dog taught me to stay asleep and also
to wake up, wake up, wake up.
Dr. Dog taught me that rivers run best with bourbon,
that dreams are best done deaf, dumb and blind.
Dr. Dog taught me that we are the warriors of the
ancient, the warriors of the tin can.
Oct 2014 · 737
Small Black Keyboard.
Jay G Oct 2014
So it's been awhile,
dear keyboard of mine.
Wait,
I suppose you aren't mine.
Just a little piece of plastic,
that takes up my time.
Do you even understand the words that come out?
I know I don't, but the bottles uncapped.
I give up all the worrying,
the shame.
I give up wondering, if any one will know my name.

Dear keyboard are you playing the same game.
You're in this as much as I am.
You're half as responsible,
and you don't seem to care.

Keyboard, I love you.
For something that has no feelings,
I feel you love me too.
Oct 2014 · 346
God?
Jay G Oct 2014
I'm drunk.
Not from intoxication, the lingering inebriation of love.
I'll choke.
Not from asphyxiation, but from the smoke.

I call out, but He never answers.
I hear his thundering drums in the black of night,
Who is he speaking to?
Why is it not me?
Oct 2014 · 292
Empty Space
Jay G Oct 2014
We'll fly to space, just to see who can hold their breath longest.
Throw away our lives as if there was ever a chance,

disperse our thoughts and dismiss others, cold grows powerful in an
everlasting winter, and heat dwindles with the frost.

Our hearts grow rigid, and men grow sour.
Life turns grey, color joins the fray.
Such a mad, mad plane.
Oct 2014 · 325
Snow No More
Jay G Oct 2014
What meaning do I wish to portray?
What ideas can I concisely convey?
To a mass who sees no benefit in abstract fidelity.
To a god with no pity
For rulers whose prime concerns lay not with the city
(only in wealth)

These days are a dormant tree
So powerful, rich with meaning.
Yet dormant and still.

A blank page with streaks of black,
enough I hope to mend a world's breaking back
Oh, I'm seeing stars.....
Oct 2014 · 282
Broken Machine
Jay G Oct 2014
Anarchy boils beneath the porcelain veneer,
the flames lick at the feet of the iron heel,
it is left untainted, but it's hot as hell within,
the breath's coming out cloudy and black,
we're all coughing up slime
it isn't ours,
but the premise is something we've
all thought up.
So say your pledge and dream it all up,
for the day of reckoning that's yet to come,
the day that doesn't exist.
Praying to the god none of us believe in,
but we still beg of it.
Give us something more, the days the
the devil abhors.
Oct 2014 · 455
Ain't it all hilarious
Jay G Oct 2014
i'm broke, and it's funny
success is weighed in stones
i'm insane, at least that's what
i'm told
pinning my coffin for works of literature
and it's funny who it's coming from
the ones hammering the nails in the boards.
Oct 2014 · 430
Why Not Call It Quits
Jay G Oct 2014
you;re already ahead, you are alive
nothing is clawing for your eyes and your heart still beats
all with eternal time
but yours is so, so short.
a simile for a sunrise
so why not call it quits, smile with the sun dear child

because money isn't what the world is about
in fact
it scoffs at the idea.
don't give an inch to the grabbers, the thief's who don't give you
the inch

they all play for keeps, and nothing is worth keeping
why not call it quits
and smile with the sun, it wont be there forever
even though it may burn long while you're past.
call it quits and live ******, there's nothing else to do.

You can fight
You can scratch,
and for ***** sake you can bleed for it.
but it wont bleed for you, and sometimes you need to bleed
for the idol, to feel the empathy for all the souls, that run amok.
It's all about the fight, life always has been.
sincerity is all that bleeds for you,
so if you want to bleed, let us bleed for each other.
Call it quits ******, and think what few have dared to think.
run wild with the wolves, you're instinct is what we need.
not another lawyer, not another marketer, not another politician.
God knows there are too many, and maybe the world doesn't need another poet.

The words just feel too good to pass up.
At least we're all dreamers, in an unsolicited land.  
If I failed to convey a point, all I mean is how beautiful we are in our absurdity, running amok, to portray serenity.
j.g
Jay G Sep 2014
It's a velvet underground, sprouted with sunflowers.
The dirt ground between my toes, the sensation of flying with the clouds.
It's on the rise, growing inside

Vines root around this vessel I call life, clinging to the moment where all dreams come to die.
To time infinite color subsides, oneness is on the rise, growing, flourishing inside.
Sep 2014 · 641
Today, I Found Myself
Jay G Sep 2014
Not long ago, I felt lost.
Lingering in clouds of so much star dust.
The rain was coming down.
The cloud was only over my own head.

It took me so long to finally see.
That star dust I thought I was lingering in
is me.
So today, I found myself,

*It's feels quite serene.
So caught up in all this around us, the only villain in our lives is typically us.
Sep 2014 · 268
hope in a bottle
Jay G Sep 2014
hope in a bottle,
only 9.99
could you imagine
being happy all the time

hope in a bottle
yeah that's right
only 9.99
pay up while there's still time.
Sep 2014 · 249
Hope In The Air
Jay G Sep 2014
The dogs days are dreaming of staying awake,
Barking at the singers, lulling them back to dream state.
The leaves are falling from the trees,
trying to climb back up to where they belong.
A Cathedrals bells are ringing,
but nobody seems to be home.

The roads are empty and the wind is silent,
Trees are dying and the cold is rising.
Lies are finding ears and taking root in minds,
My puppet strings are cut,
but someone's still tugging my hope.

*Oh, have you seen my hope around?
Sep 2014 · 296
The Age of the Circuit
Jay G Sep 2014
I'm on my knees, and they are sinking deeply into the mud.
My hands clasped tight, my knuckles bruised and chalk white
This prayer is not for the god I do not believe in,
but for man, that exists so clearly.

For the seas of corporate depression.
My own, weary bones.
Corrupt with the stories the television has told.
Our minds are no longer our own. Confusing ourselves for an image to be upheld.

Placing weight in feathers instead of stones.

Please heed my words, and take the time to figure you out.

Born where money is king over our own dying trees.
Greed is the only color green we even see anymore.
We place our love and loyalty into a system that is loveless.
Because we were told to.

I pray that some of us wake from this induced slumber,
we shake our a coma and become the giants we are.
To live among the air without taking from it.
To make strides to just get better, and expect nothing for it.

*To be human...
In a time of machines
Aug 2014 · 277
Inhibiting Blackness
Jay G Aug 2014
Today I change with the atmosphere,
I'll swell up with infinite different pressures pushing.
I'll sprout out of my head,
Like the daring oak, just to see how close

I get to the sun.

To touch it with my own hands,
to burn with the celestial star in the heavens.
To drown out the blackness,
That goes on forever...

To see the light just one time
*before I die.
Aug 2014 · 442
so far, so good.
Jay G Aug 2014
i am drunk
and that doesn't make
me a poet
the cockroaches are
callin'
cause they know
they cant
die
the cigarette ash is
burning too close to
the ****
i'm snuffing
the heart
outta my own
soul
burning my own finger
tips
and the mountains are callin'
their own code
i cant smoke marijuana
but the dream is
dead free
the landslide is
callin'
draggin' my dreams with
the land
Jay G Aug 2014
There's hope for the end,
the singing black canary said
As this fog fades away
The canary is singing my name
There's hope for the end
The singing black canary said
Green pastures endlessly beyond me
if there is god this must be him
The canary sets off toward the sunset
singing down below
Maybe one will listen in
There is hope for the end
Aug 2014 · 556
Pendulum.
Jay G Aug 2014
I am directionless
Obscured
and
magnetic
compass spinning

I am hopeless
My dreams fly high
the future does not
and
neither does time

I am god
before my power
I am satan
without my fire
and

I am nothing.
Aug 2014 · 280
Such A Small Talk
Jay G Aug 2014
We use and we use,
It doesn't carry us far,
and typically our boat is abused.

This boat won't carry us far

We shoot and we shoot,
killing whatever we're told,
For country for freedom and whatever to boot.

The gun won't shoot

My dreams are dreaming of being sober,
It's making my blackness feel so much older,
It's the same as I told her.

I'm young, feeling much older.
I love drunk improv.
Aug 2014 · 317
Pulling teeth.
Jay G Aug 2014
We played for waste,
everyone spitting our their toxic distaste.
It grew beyond it's natural state.
Manifested into abysmal collaborated fate.

Our heartbeats broke the tape, ******* our heads on
all just falling like flies, and my cigarettes are all gone.
My souls stapled on the leaves, so the wind can carry me on home.
It'll take me through time, *beauty of nothing will make all smile.
Aug 2014 · 253
Mountains.
Jay G Aug 2014
And the mountains called your name
You spoke to them in your dreams
They screamed, and thrashed and begged with all their might

To be uplifted, from stationary existence
to see the horizon they always ponder on
but nobody could hear their calls
The foreign language of the wind

Though they were calling your name
in your dreams
oh, they screamed
thrashed
and begged

The sun burned beyond and the mountains
Pulled themselves from the ground
**And The Mountains Came Running.
Jul 2014 · 249
Well, isn't this nice.
Jay G Jul 2014
Complaining, oh my.
Seems everyday is a lullaby.
Jesus Christ ain't singing much,
go on, ******* I've had enough.

ha
ha

Well what would you know?
Dreaming all day everyday.
Believing in something...
That your mouth will never say!

Go on, throw your mouth at me,
Everyday is severance pay.
I control entropy
and the sun will cease to be...
ha....ha.
May 2014 · 229
Beauty.
Jay G May 2014
We're born to live
Now we wither to die
The golden sun always rises
Upon them always falls the dark, dark night
Apr 2014 · 222
Forget My Name
Jay G Apr 2014
When I go
Don’t remember me
When I slow
Don’t tell me to hold still

When I grey
Please, don’t say
I was great
like’s it’s no longer inside me

When I die, unmarked, unalive
don’t throw flowers by my side
don’t console those for whom i died
the hearts that I broke, for my bride

When I go though
Please, don’t remember me
The soul of a bending bow
the sun that let me be

Laugh like you never lost
for you didn’t
Sing like the chorus continues eternally
For it does, just believe
Apr 2014 · 443
Moonlight Wolves Dance
Jay G Apr 2014
' I woke.



I slept.

I dreamt of nothing.

Stars littered the sky as I rose.

The moon poised it’s deep, sorrow face.

Over the valleys a hungry wolf howled melancholy with the sad moon.

“Why are we so alone, in a world of encumberance?” The wolf asked of the moon.

The moon just wallowed, and did not speak, the moon never did.

The wolf languished near the stream, cautiously perking up at the sounds coming from the dark wood behind.

Hope was far from the wolf’s weighted mind. His life had been filled with loneliness. Raised from birth by the Earth alone, none other called him as their own. He hunted alone, he ate alone, he slept alone, and he was doomed to die alone as all others.

Deep in the dark wood, a pack of ferocity lingered in the shadows, prowling on the lone wolf.
The black horror claimed this land as his own, and he allowed no trespassers. His pack was equally relentless, and they would spill the blood of all who opposed this challenge.


The wolf continued to howl, prickles of black fur sprang up on his neck as the scent of a foe approached.

The pack moved in on him, six snarling snouts, and twelve yellow eyes gleamed at him.
They were hungry.
We’re all hungry.
We’re all starving.

The moon watched unflinchingly, as the water ran red past the bellowing frogs, chirping crickets, the oaks branches that sunk low into the river, casting swaying shadows from the heavy moon.
He watched with his same sad face, how can anything constantly watching us ever have another emotion? The wolf lay, mangled and torn. The others attacked him in a contempt savagery, hunger tearing at their shallow bellies.
Spasms of fleeting feeling went through the wolf, the whites and greys of his once illecebrous and divine fur, now soaked with his own blood. His tongue lolled out of his snout, and his teeth were all shattered.
He hadn’t put up a fight.
The pack shredded him. The black wolf treated all outside wolves as threats. He had no interest of letting a stray wolf get into his pack and challenge his authority. So he killed, before he was challenged. It seemed ideal to him, and his pack was fed joyously. They licked their chops, grinned like a hyena, and barked laughter all at another, while the great black wolf, looked to the moon, and howled heinously in it’s direction.



The dark moon watches from above
So sad at what he must see
The good sun wished with him
To disperse light over the seas

They wept and cried
laughed; and died
The light was put in place
Dark doesn’t surrender to grace
It's unconventional, and what started as a short story seems more of a poem to me, however you may decide.
Jay G Oct 2013
it's the knifes edge that's got me on edge
i smoke cigarettes it's what keeps me breathing some
it's the reason i jump off the bridge
keeps me clinging on
keeping me clinging on

the hopes got me hoping for more
the drinking has me singing the chorus
i'm playing the joke, seems im just a bore.
keeps me singing on
keeps me singing along

A part of me just not quite up to score
breathing on breathing on.
just to make sure
keep on breathing along
keeping on keeping along

the sun rises
and the birds are singing
its song
keep on keeping on
please keep on keeping on...
Sep 2013 · 665
Signs of a Saturday.
Jay G Sep 2013
Stranded in a white room, white light,
Strained with conversation so light

Holding my soul in a fish tank,
Half empty, and expressions so blank

Laughing along the chorus,
good-bye sweet, sweet seclusion of my pores

Songs that mean nothing,
Words that carry no weight

We're lonely despite another,
Ego's vacating with with summer

Nothing is to me, as it is to you
Grasp the concepts, that make nothing true

The snow's falling, on this summer day,
As men with convictions kneel to pray

In a room filled with vacuous smiles,
Even happy go lucky dreams of dying
Jay G Jul 2013
The illusion is that you are simply reading this poem.
The reality is that this is more than a poem.
This is a beggar's knife, a blooming tulip.

This is a soldier marching through war torn fields of wheat.

You on your deathbed.

This is Li Po laughing madly underground.
This is not a ******* poem.
This is a horse asleep, a butterfly fluttering in your mind.

This is the devil's circus.

You are not reading this text.
The text is reading you.
Feel it?
It's a cobra coiled to attack, an eagle circling the sky.

This is not a poem, poems are dull, they make you sleep.

These words are for your ailing madness, the one that makes you walk the streets.

— The End —