completely repleted
undulations
stake their claim
to hold this form
with puppet strings
that run beneath

a fevered storm
only just encompassed
struggles to escape
the will to deconstruct
and replace the missing parts

thunder shakes
the earth
both lullaby and curse
something sleeps
and something stirs

the metaphor
within my eyes
slithers like a worm
disquieting surprise
mildly disturbed

infantile arms
grasping towards
the sun
endeavor to dissever
all the light
and see what it becomes

emaciated fingers
reach into my eye
drag the key out from behind
and touch it to the sky

strings like water
from the heavens pour
now to weave the web
and forge the other door

from the mist
ascends the opening
where hands of chaos
play with broken things

the skin i'm in
then ruptures
and the captive
staggers forth
to disestablish
all i am

let the fragments
be woven in the fabric
to stretch forever more

removed
restraints
detained
complaints
numb
sustains

cataclysmic­ chain
anchored in my brain
convulsing
in my spine

destiny designed
to terminate
sensation

existence
is a crime
when your lost
traversing universes
in search of solid
ground

dissolution
seems a perfect
summation
of the postulates
that compose
the posture
of this empty shell

like a mismatched
skeleton

floating away
on the wings
of the wind
extraneous
and wrapped
in a sun-ray

the shadows
seem still
in a moment
now held
but they soon
envelope
the hill

somewhere a soul
denies the foretold
and cries
to a page
in a book

darkness supplying
tastes of solemnity
and glimpses
of unity
all bathed
in obscurity

iridescence
ascended
to a world
beyond view

for dreams
to unfold
and life
to renew

unscrupulous
candescence
disconsecrated
by designable
conspiratory mimes

self-reverent
desultory
and disguised
between
horizons

an infinite
regression
is a step to take
so leap beyond the edge

the fractal dendrites
of earth-bound aspirations
upend themselves
upon the heavens
to symbolize a revelation
of
the rain
a verdant gesture
in the endless grey
the symbol
of an instant
within eternity
reaching out
into the bleak

i was drinking moonlight
while you were bullshitting
and perpetuating nothing
naming me strange
half-lighted and deranged
talking to voices
i shouldn't name
because the behave
like they transcend
the mundane

i care
truly
but i don't think
the way you do
and you think me
insane, fumbling for
embers in a cold place
chasing echoes
wishing i was someplace
different

wishing someone else
could drink the moonlight

leave me alone
to be
lonely enough
to gaze
through the keyhole
and touch the other side

momentarily blinded
as i again resign

a shadow stirring
restless in the night

and ever stretching
as i approach the light