Ciel Noir

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

Adrift

Even in the strangest sea
I know I can float
Adrift on uncertainty
I am full of hope

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

Castle

I try to build
a castle
out of diamonds

flashing in the Sun

but they are smooth and sharp
and do not hold together

tzak
tzak
tzak

the castle falls apart

a dangerous sky
it is raining stars

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

Like Everybody

I am just like everybody
I will also fall

to find my way around that
I'd do anything at all

including telling this big lie
if only to myself

"I am different than the others"

just like everybody else

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

Listening

love is not a thing
it is a living creature
fang and claw and wing
always listening
though it knows no words
it stirs deep in the night
to sing

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

Needles

weave a letter from needles
and hope only the words will stick
I would have to be made of steel
to write a poem about this

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

The Great Machine

we are all
equally
a part of the great machine
creating
destroying
all the time
everything

to destroy
to create
these are really the same thing
both of them
are to change
recombine
rearrange

Ciel Noir Aug 2020

(-7)

What language does the Devil speak?
He whispers in my ear...
And sings to me so quietly
That no one else can hear...

His speech is so insidious
He doesn't need to shout...
Knowing the most dangerous words
Are the ones we leave out...