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359 · May 2022
In the Beginning
Ciel Noir May 2022
all alone
in the infinite darkness
I reach out my hand
358 · Apr 2019
Projection
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
What if all you see is a
Projection of your mind?
I am just a part of you
Like all of humankind

When you see your enemy
What path do they follow?
How far will you go from the light
To chase your own shadow?
358 · Jul 2018
Money
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
I wonder if our money's worth
What we are doing to the Earth
But all that paper painted green
Is a pale spectre of a tree
The ones who gave us
Food and clothing
Shade and shelter
Hands and feet
We cut them, burn them wantonly
And fill the atmosphere with heat
And gas and dust and ash and smoke
Enough to make the creatures choke
There used to be a lot of them
The trees that gave us oxygen
Our tangled shuttles break the loom
Carbon born and carbon doomed
We'll find that trees are what we need
When we find money cannot breathe
356 · Jul 2018
Star Crossed
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
There was a little weaver long ago
Who wove her warp and weft upon the shore
Upon the other side a love long lost
The river was too deep for her to cross

Upon the seventh day, the seventh Moon
The little weaver stepped back from her loom
She ran to the river to meet her love
Where black and white birds circled up above

She saw him waiting on the other shore
So close to her, and yet so very far
There was no bridge, and she began to cry
She wished upon the stars that she could fly

The circling birds took notice of her prayer
And one by one they came down from the air
Row upon row, the black-white rustling wings
Over the river softly whispering

The moment she believed her blurry eyes
She ran upon light feet into the sky
Higher and ever higher did she ride
Over the bridge and down the other side

At last she and her lost love could be near
On feathered feet she flitted without fear
Across the sky she ran the narrow way
To meet the one she loved for just one day

She floated gently to the starry shore
And there she saw the man who she adored
Her heart was whole, her love no longer lost
Her stars fell from the sky no longer crossed

She ran into his arms and wept with joy
An endless love which time could not destroy
For still we tell the story of their love
Where the world turns on the wing of the dove
354 · Jul 2018
*
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
*
I am
        the only
one who can
pass judgment on
myself and perhaps I
shall choose to suspend
judgment for the time being

they may judge my shadow
I am an illegible book
with many covers
I am lightning
in the dark
I am the
mind
*
353 · Apr 2023
Duality
Ciel Noir Apr 2023
if there were no violence
we'd have no word for peace

if there were no tension
then there would be no release

if there were no stars
there would be no name for night

only in the darkness
can we understand the light
351 · Mar 2022
More Than A Word
Ciel Noir Mar 2022
woman is a noun
not a verb

a woman is more than a word
more than you heard

a woman is more than a shape
more than a face

a woman is a person
not a thing
or an idea
or a place
350 · Mar 2019
Sharp Places
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Sometimes a poem
Sparkles like a broken mirror
And you can see reflections
Scattered like blood diamonds
Of the sharp places
In someone else's soul
349 · Mar 2019
Red Rainbow
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I saw a rainbow
Just before sunset
So high
If it were whole
It would have crossed the sky
It was green
Yellow and orange
Red
Red and red
348 · Jan 2021
Sign
Ciel Noir Jan 2021
our inner light
woven
across the sky

the hidden constellation
of the mind

when we connect the stars
in our eyes

wonder if everyone
can see the sign
348 · Jan 2024
To Be
Ciel Noir Jan 2024
I am not ashamed
to still be alive

I asked myself the question
and I chose to be

I held on
I was strong
and I survived

every new year
every sunrise
every single time I open my eyes

is another victory
347 · Jul 2018
Electron
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
We are all one shining soul
Made of shining stars
We are all so beautiful
Exactly how we are

The cosmos flowers and unfolds
An ever branching thyrse
Where each electron holds, enfolds
A little Universe
347 · Mar 2019
Cygnus
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
there are poems
I do not share
with the world
many of them
are songs

I do not sing them
for anyone
I hold them in my heart
like a swan
345 · Sep 2023
Alive
Ciel Noir Sep 2023
they told us you were lost forever
never to come back
I prayed to all the gods to bring you back
I never knew which one to thank

or maybe no one answered
as you crossed over the night
and inch by inch
built your own bridge to life

I am just glad you are alive
345 · Jan 2021
Ambivalence
Ciel Noir Jan 2021
love and hate
pushing the heart back and forth
like a pendulum
344 · Jan 2021
Mask
Ciel Noir Jan 2021
don't know what I want
don't know what's real and
my mind is reeling
too many feelings

paint a smile
on every mask
for all my friends
pretend
I'm dealing

but deep inside
I want to hide
I want to scream
burn down everything

and yet instead
I keep the fire in my head
and I smile through the flames

so they can't feel my pain
343 · Oct 2018
Far Away
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Far away we dream of you
In a sunbeam, in the blue
Far away we seem as one
How deep you dream
Beyond the Sun
340 · Jun 2018
Monsters
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
We were one
Now we are two
All of us
And all of you
We all say
"You people are monsters"
No one can say
It's not true
The only thing
That we can say
Is "I am less monstrous
than you"
I guess that's why
We all take sides
The only place
Where we can hide
The shadow of our enemy
Too dark to see
Our monstrous side
337 · Aug 2021
Well
Ciel Noir Aug 2021
you are like a well
when I fall into you
my sky becomes so narrow
I can only see one sign
336 · Aug 2019
...
Ciel Noir Aug 2019
...
two paths                                      cross
at the edge of the darkness
that is where I stand
I am lost
I cannot read the compass
hidden in                                  my hand
336 · Aug 2018
Silence
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
If just for a moment
We could all just stop
And breathe
And let the world go on

If just for a moment
We could all be still
Our silence would
Be like a love song
335 · Jun 2018
( 12 )
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
O
Let go
It's OK
O
Take a breath
Take a trip
Ride into the wave
O
Let it take you back
To the starting place
You were gone so long
Maybe you were wrong
Maybe you were never gone
O                            1                              ­O
Here and gone, zero and one
Where has one ended
And the next begun
It's all the same wave
It's all the same place
O
It's all the same ride
Take a trip
Take a breath
O
It's OK
Let go
O
334 · Jul 2022
Lesson
Ciel Noir Jul 2022
all the rage I could engage
has never made me strong

and all the shame at being strange
has not made me belong

all my fear of bombardiers
has not resolved their quarrels

and all the guilt that I have felt
has not made me more moral

what was the point of all that pain?
it didn't fix a thing

I can't take back the past
but now I can take back the reins

time to stop spiraling
self sabotaging
second guessing

after years of cruel punishment
I've finally learned my lesson
333 · May 2019
Swan
Ciel Noir May 2019
silently
the soul of the dragon sails
down the smooth river
332 · Mar 2021
Someday
Ciel Noir Mar 2021
hey hey
it will be OK

someday
you will find your way

it might
not seem
like that tonight

it will be alright
just not today
332 · Nov 2018
Sundown
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
Shining bright
Sun writes fire on the horizon
Sparkling lights
Diamonds chase the golden dragon
Starry night
330 · Apr 2021
Ciel Noir Apr 2021
there are infinite
different translations

and together they add up to one

one same story
in all different nations

one same Earth
one same Moon
one same Sun

in our infinite ways
we describe

knowledge
deeper than words
in the soul

in our languages
peoples and tribes

we remember the sky
as our home
326 · Mar 2019
Brave
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Sometimes it is brave
To fly away
Sometimes it is brave
To stay
323 · Jan 2023
Night Light
Ciel Noir Jan 2023
maybe I am drawn to darkness
so that I can be a light

the small feather that tips the scales
between "I cannot" and "I might"

a strange encounter that resets you
just enough to stay and fight
for one more night

maybe enough time to decide
to stay alive

I know that door
I've been locked in before
but now I have the keys

I hope that I can help you heal
or keep you safe from harm at least

I wish that I could be that voice
that you could follow back to peace

I walk at night
carry my light
and call to you

come walk with me
323 · Jul 2018
Infinity Repeating
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
who are we but  
shattered    s t a r s    bleeding
the             universe  breathing
illusion              and       feeling
concealing        and   revealing
truth                 and knowledge
of good
and       evil
good of
knowledge and                truth
revealing     and      concealing
feeling         and            illusion
breathing    universe            the
bleeding     s t a r s     shattered
but we are who
?
322 · Feb 2021
Miles
Ciel Noir Feb 2021
almost morning
eerie quiet
nervous eyes past
shady alleys
sleepy silence
drenched in dewdrops
waiting for the Sun to spark

stone cold storefront
streetlight
bus stop
miles and miles and
just beginning
try to walk past

my thoughts spinning

webs of madness
in the dark
321 · Oct 2019
Mask
Ciel Noir Oct 2019
I don’t understand your mask
Only the darkness underneath
I don’t understand your smile
I only understand your teeth
320 · Apr 2019
Mind
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
My heart is dark
But my mind is
Bright lightning
320 · May 2022
Different
Ciel Noir May 2022
I was always different
in my own infinite little ways
and though I am still very strange
the way I live my life has changed

now I have many different friends
who like me how I really am
and do not ask me to pretend
they listen and they understand

but often even now
I am around people who aren't like that
and every now and then
I feel like I am that weird kid again

but then with my real friends
I am so happy to come back
I hope I never will forget
how much it matters to have friends like that
319 · Dec 2018
Forever
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
Forever goodnight
Forever goodbye
Dream your dreams
Upon the sky

Forever speak
Forever sing
Beyond the blue
And graceful wing

And light the way
Our secrets told
Forever known
Forever gold

Sing your songs
In heaven above
Forever hope
Forever love
318 · Mar 2019
Virtue
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There may be someone who is hard and cruel
But their one virtue is a brilliant mind
And also there may be a total fool
Whose only virtue is that they are kind

There may be somebody who lacks mercy
Their virtue is that they have won a war
And someone wrapped up in controversy
Whose virtue is that they know who they are

Our history is full of crooks and churls
Who did the only great deed that they could
You may have just one thing to give the world
You only need one virtue to be good
318 · Aug 2018
Electric Visions
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Filaments
Fine and thin
The more of them
The thicker the stem
Branching connections
Point back to their source
Laid out in ley lines of force
Everywhere the lines converge
They canonize a demiurge
And so delineate, unfurl
Electric visions
Of their world
318 · May 2018
Alright
Ciel Noir May 2018
It's OK
It's alright
Just calm down
Everything is fine
Alright?
You're alright
You're OK
Just relax
Relax and breathe
OK?
It's OK
It's alright
Just calm down
Everything is fine
It's going to be alright
OK?
I've got you
Alright?
I've got you
You are always safe with me
Just breathe
Just breathe
Alright
Alright

Alright.
317 · Jun 2019
Fire
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
light a fire
and you will see
you are not alone
in this darkness
316 · Jan 2023
reflection
Ciel Noir Jan 2023
I am what I call I
and I am limited
bilateral
a labyrinth of memories
a galaxy of minerals

I am what I call I
infinitesimal
ephemeral
a dream of being separate
from all the other chemicals

I am what I call I
and I am living
biological
a symphony
of static electricity and molecules

but when I look behind
the many mirrors of my mind
I am the world
I am the sky
I am more than what I call I
316 · Apr 2024
Terror
Ciel Noir Apr 2024
there is danger all around
but we have not been destroyed

bound to this
most perfect stone

we look down
into the void

we know there must be
something more than
what we see

what are we?

an anomaly
a rounding error

we look up

in awe
and terror
314 · Jul 2018
O
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
O
Bright goddess
O! We reach out and touch you
With our ****** hands
314 · Aug 2018
Evenstar
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Evenstar
Did your valley
Bloom?
Did you blush in
Spring?

Evenstar
Did your forest
Dream?
Did your ocean
Sing?
313 · Apr 2018
?
Ciel Noir Apr 2018
?
If I believed in God
I would write him a poem
Ask him where he came from
To help me to know him

If I believed in God
I would write her a song
I'd walk in the garden
And sing it at dawn

If I believed in God
It would be an obsession
I would pray every day
I have so many questions

To whom do I address my awe,
My thanks, my love?

Where are you, God?
313 · Jun 2019
Demons
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
what happens to the parts of you
that you hide from the light
and what do all your demons do
in that concealing night

kept locked up in a secret place
with scarcely space to play
did you think they would disappear
if you just looked away

do they destroy each other
until only one survives
or join and grow into one being
very much alive

amalgamated madness
with no reason left to run
in your own innermost darkness
where the shadows fall as one
305 · Apr 2022
Self Determination
Ciel Noir Apr 2022
I taught myself to read
to understand other people
to feel empathy

I taught myself to see how they feel
to understand why they believe
what they believe

I taught myself to dream
a world where I could be free

I taught myself to be me

I taught myself that
it's OK to learn
OK to burn
OK to scream

I taught myself that it's OK to curse
OK to be worse than someone else on the team

I taught myself to forgive monsters
and the hard world that sharpened their teeth

I taught myself that
everyone cries
everyone lies
everyone dies
everyone deserves to be alive
even me

but the idea that I deserve to be loved
completely
is still just out of reach
for some reason
that's the hardest idea for me to teach

like Heaven
it's something I wish
I could just close my eyes and believe

it's not that easy

but I WILL find a way
one day

you'll see
305 · May 2018
The Wheel
Ciel Noir May 2018
so turns the world  
so turns                the wheel
as one is born             another killed
one wheels and deals and steals his fill
and falls beneath               another's heel
another turns                      upon his heel
to feel the life            that he has stilled
and still he feels      but still he stills
and turns                     again
to turn the wheel
303 · Jul 2018
Message
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
Everything sends its own message
Even if we cannot hear
Light and sound and information
Even if it seems unclear

Everything sends its own message
Even if it says nothing
Nothing is a message too
It says "I have nothing to say"

Everything sends its own message
I am no exception
If you think that I have said nothing
That's a misperception

Everything sends its own message
Writ in flesh and blood and fire
Even a lie is information
Tells the world "I am a liar"

Everything sends its own message
And of this you can be sure
Behind every single message
Is at least one messenger

Everything sends its own message
Waves that move from place to place
We are all part of the message
We are made of the same waves
300 · Mar 2019
3 Tage Regen
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Filling with hope
Like the spring tomorrow
When the rain
Washes away my sorrow

Peace fills my wings
And the fear disappears
When the rain
Washes away my tears
299 · Mar 2024
auch in dich hinein
Ciel Noir Mar 2024
the fear of the unknown
is visceral and real for me

unending
cold and empty

I want to understand
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