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Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Every time I trip and fall
Or do a really stupid thing
Over my shoulder I can feel
The shadow of the angel's wing
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
if you listen closely
we all sing the same song
the Nameless weaves the melody
and we all sing along
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Harmony
Between synchronicity
And tranquility
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
this is my thought, this is my prayer
if you are real, if you are there
protect the ones who love you true
and make it safe to worship you

they call you God, Allah, Hashem
you light the way for all of them
they follow you
what's in a name?
they all believe you just the same

how many voices sing your songs
together where many belong
and through the terror and the flames
how many voices called your name?

reward the ones who keep the faith
make all the holy places safe
if you can hear me
if you care
this is my thought, this is my prayer
Ciel Noir Feb 2022
you hate people
with your whole heart
for what they say
not what they do

you say
I have to hate them too

why is hatred so important to you?
Ciel Noir Aug 2021
just this once
can I not run
from a safe haven
full of hope
into a den of beasts?

why do I look for that?
am I afraid of peace?
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If you try to fill your heart
With hearts
It will never be full
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If I went to heaven
I would believe
It was a dream

Maybe dreams
Make heaven
Real
Ciel Noir Oct 2020
if heaven is just
a dream that we dream
a final escape
from reality

a place that we go
in the mind
>  >  nowhere  <  <
in the lightning storm

will I meet you there?
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
We all drink
From the same well
Hope or fear
Time will tell
What's in the water?
Heaven knows
This is the way
Our garden grows

We all fall
Into the well
Some fall fast
Some fall slow
Some together
Some on their own
What's in the well?
Heaven knows
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
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Ciel Noir Aug 2024
I try so hard
but it's not enough

I don't know how to do anything right

I'm afraid to admit
how hard I try

I'm ashamed
I can't do it
all by myself

I'm afraid to tell you
that I failed

when someone else
would have done so well

I'm afraid to rely
on someone else

I'm afraid to tell you
that I need help
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
We have seen a great hexagon
On the sixth planet from our Sun

Silent those frozen razor bright rings sparkle crystalline

They say there are a million moons
They say that it rains diamonds
There is still much more
To know


Than what this world has seen
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Soft sunlight sweetens the fruit
Stirs the leaves and makes them shiver
Million little reaching roots
Slowly seek the hidden river
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
words have feelings hidden within
they can crash and clang like cymbals
glitter and twinkle like crystals
tingle and prickle like thistles
whisper and hiss like the wind
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
When the truth                                                            ­    
shines too bright                          
and to see                              
   blurs our eyes
                      we weave a
                               veil of lies
                                   and we hide
                                                            ­     from the light.
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
I have forgotten who I really am
While trying to find out who I should
Be
I think it's time that I take a step back
Find myself in the music, in a
Tree
Always searching but too busy to look
It's time I take a moment just to
Be
And maybe lose myself in a good book
I think that this is where I will find
Me
Ciel Noir Jul 2020
if I could fly
upon the sky

into the silence and the cold

I'd write your name across the Moon
as it is written on my soul

held by the tide
that does not turn
showing the same side
day by day

no wind to blow

no fire to burn

no ocean to
wash you
away
Ciel Noir Feb 2023
when I wear the shoes you want
I can't walk very far

when I wear the shoes you want
I can't walk quietly at all

when I wear the shoes you want
I can't outrun you anymore

someone that you can control

I think that is what you want
Ciel Noir May 2018
Standing on a highwire
Can't even see the ground
Some people try so hard
Not to look down

Some people push others
Out of their way
Not even looking
When they fall away

Some people take
Small careful steps
They never look up
At anyone else

Some sway with the highwire
Dance to the beat
They never even
Look at their feet
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
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H☉♆ m₳n¥ wonδeπ how ₳nδ why¿
Aπε wε a⋮l maδe ☉f thε s₳me s☨ars?
Aπε wε a⋮l paπt ☉f thε s₳me sκy?

H☉♆ m₳n¥ dimεn∮ion∮ aπe thεre?
H☉♆ m₳n¥ theη m₳y we ☨r₳ver∮e?
I∮ ☨hεrε ano☨hεr Eaπt⊩ somεwhere¿
I∮ ☨hεrε ano☨hεr Un↑vεrse¿

W⊩₳t δo ♆e kn☉w ♭ut w⊩a☨ we fεel?
W⊩₳t ⋮iςht pπo♩ect∮ t⊩is s⊩adow s⊩o♆?
H☉♆ d☉ wε kno♆ t⊩at t⊩i∮ is rεal?
H☉♆ d☉ wε kno♆ wε'll e∇eπ kno♆?
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Where does my mind go
When I sleep
And what company
Does it keep
Down in the deep
Who holds its shape
What creatures haunt
That strange landscape

Follow the shadow
Through the night
Hollow the halo
Only light
And weave my mind up
When I wake
A dark form rising
From a lake
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
So many years
My people wandered
Far and long and wide
They roamed

On foot and wheel
And wing and sail
There always was
Somewhere to go

They knew the wind
They knew the way
They knew the sky
The stars
I know

I look up the same way
Today in my new place
And I am home
Ciel Noir Apr 2021
I am so afraid
to leave

the only place I know

to let you
lead me to the light

The darkness is my home
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
Sun is my father
He brings me light
Earth is my mother
I speak with her voice
Moon is my other
We keep the balance
Sky is the ancestor
From whence we have come
They light my way
Home
Ciel Noir Jun 3
some say
the opposite of hope is
fear

but I think
the opposite of hope is
despair

hope and fear
are connected
a bird with two wings

but despair is what's left
after hope flies away
Ciel Noir Feb 2023
you didn't break my heart
you made me hope

hope like a knife
that opened up my soul

hope warmed me like a fire
and made me feel again

I feel the cold

I feel the weight of being so alone

hope drove me though
I was afraid to start

hope shared with you my fears
my dreams
my art

hope brighter than the Sun
that burned my eyes
till there were no more stars

and now
alone
I truly know the dark
Ciel Noir Mar 2020
I will still run
but not after you
I'll go to the forest
and fly

and I'll hang my hope
on the horn of the Moon
and leave it for you
in the sky
Ciel Noir Mar 2021
I want to hold your soul
together
keep you warm
and help you cope

but truthfully
for all my hope
I am a feather
in your storm
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
If you don’t know
There is still hope
She lives in shadow
The unknown
Shadow of faith
Shadow of fear
She turns to joy
When you are near
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
There is hope and there is fear
Can't have one without the second
If you don't know but you care
Then hope and fear both loudly beckon

There is hope and there is fear
Both of them are always here
One helps you run, one helps you cope
But if you have a choice, choose hope
Ciel Noir Nov 2021
scorched earth
battle scarred
annihilation
holy war

I thought nothing could grow here
anymore

but I was wrong
Ciel Noir Apr 2018
East
Graceful
Light gathers
At the horizon
A cloud like a soft grey dove

A slowly growing symbol of dawning peace

Whole with hope and full with light
Shimmers like a rose
At the horizon
A new tree
The Moon
West
Ciel Noir Jun 2023
behold
the Sun is ours again
here where the stars that never set
light up the way back from the West
horizon---with---no---end---in---sight
here where the twilight lasts all night
we stand and watch that eerie light
wander across the northern sky
into the East to rise again
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
tick tock tick tock                                 second hand
just another                                       grain of sand
tick tock tick tock                       seconds pass
which grain                                   of sand
will be                                   the last?
spilling                    falling
like a fountain
sand
turns
    back    
   into a mountain
  all until  the glass is filled
and there is     nothing left to spill
tick tock tick tock                 seconds pass
like a river                               smooth as glass
tick tock tick tock                             second hand
where the water                                meets the sand
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
here

a word

there

a thing

here a feeling
there a scale

here a thought
there a tail

here a whisper
there a wing

O how deep that dragon sings

here a letter
there a number

page by page
it takes shape

sharpening
in its sleep

waking

from its

dreamless

slumber
Ciel Noir Aug 2023
I know where you came from
and I'm not here to judge
I know sometimes the road was hard
sometimes there was no road at all

when you kept walking through that storm
I know how much that took
just take a breath
lay down your head
I see how far you've come
Ciel Noir Jul 2022
how long
until I pull myself together
and rise up

how many years
until I realize

I deserve the same respect
the same compassion

as any other being
on the face of the Earth

all I need to do
is open my hand

how long will it take
to find the strength
to do that
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
life    is     like    a    tall      tree                    we    see       other     trees
     growing         high                                   above      the      water  
              in a          rising          river           and     we    wonder
                    so            deep        that       our    questions            
                            no           one       has dared   to ask              
                               found the roots below the water
                               now we know it is the same tree
                              changing growing new branches
                              as others are lost within the river
when the great storm           from the sky                                 rise
                                comes down              and makes the river
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
How would you react
If you saw a UFO?
That is how you would react
If you should see my soul

Sometimes I feel so alien
I don't know what I'm doing
The irony is this is what
Makes me so very human
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
I truly believe that everyone
Is pretty much the same
We all share ninety-nine point nine
Percent of our DNA

We love to look through those old books
And say how much we've changed
But take away the new veneer
Reveal an ancient face

We all say those people are bad
And these people are good
We all think
I am too strange to be ever understood

Oh how we cling to anything
Which sets ourselves apart
As if that naught point one percent
Is who we really are

If we had no identity
Beyond humanity
I wonder who we would become
If we were really 'we'

Maybe one day we'll join as one
We'll all stop keeping score
On that day I'm not sure if we'll be
Human anymore
Ciel Noir May 2018
Humans are humans
Forget this
Take someone's
Humanity away
And forget
Your own
Humanity
Ciel Noir Feb 28
when our number's up
we go where souls find slumber
in a run-on run of none and not and nothing

where the sky is broad and high
and deep and humbling
where the tumbleweeds
come dumb and drunk and stumbling

and the pick-up trucks are rusted
done and dusted
in the dusty sun
that stuns dunes and drumlins

stone strewn with rubble
some forgotten struggle
where the temples have crumbled
and the gods have been humbled

wind grumbles and mumbles
like some drunken slumlord
at the gutter rats that huddle
in his muddled penumbra

and the threads that time is woven of
are tangled and jumbled
like vines in a jungle
and rhyme and reason teeter and tumble

and the stunning starry sky
falls down and stumbles
lays a stone on the tomb
of the lost and forgotten

when our blood is dust
no us and no other

no struggle
no trouble

just a lot of nothing
Ciel Noir Sep 2020
Pretending it didn't hurt
didn't sting

Did you know I would have done
anything?

I would rather feel alright
than be yours

I don't want to hurt myself
anymore
Ciel Noir Sep 2022
I am made of energy
evolving into light

I am a wave
a galaxy

revolving in the night
Ciel Noir Jan 2022
I read a poem called God Apparition

and it made me think of this question

Have you ever encountered God?

And what can you tell me about that experience?
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
I look and see God far away
I look and           see God near
I look and see                      God everywhere
       Its shape is                            a perfect sphere  
And though I do                            believe in God      
And though                      in God I trust
I believe we don't        understand God      
And God does not understand us
Ice
Ciel Noir May 2024
Ice
my soul was sealed in ice

was I
the ice?

FIRE

I broke
escaped

what am I?
who am I?

without the cage
that gave my soul its shape
Ciel Noir Aug 2024
my identity
labyrinth that I construct
to imprison me
Ciel Noir Sep 2020
I don't need comparison to categorize me with clarity
a singularity not predicated on duality
I don't need anybody to validate my identity
when my identity is validated by reality
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