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 Mar 2016
Andrew Kerklaan
The worst part about it is I'm still not even 100% certain that this dream will not come to fruition

And it scares me to think that every time it starts to breech the horizon I still wonder if I will see the light of dawn...
 Nov 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
...would it be too much to ask that you leave me here?

I need some time alone to reconsider myself...

I want to be reclusive.  Or least to be left alone

I want to keep my saturated infestation inside myself and not allow it to carry on in you.

I need to grow cobwebs in my hair and feel I've become harder then stone.

Need to dehumanise

To slip from grace just one last time and fall from love's watchful eye

With the hopes and dreams that I may float away from here 

 -one day

 and never return
I will never let this go .
it is my resolution


This dream of mine that can only harm.
It is of no worth.
But somehow still...  I need it
 Nov 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
Don't expect a call this year

Or the next one or even the one that follows...

I'm hanging up

My phone is disconnected


(and I am too)


Good riddance
 Aug 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
Sometimes...

I don't know where I am

                                                             ­                                       Sometimes...

I laugh until I cry and then laugh some more

 Sometimes...

I wonder when or if I will find new direction

                                                      ­                                                 Sometimes...

I help out a complete stranger for no good reason at all
                                                             ­                                 
Sometimes...

I contemplate how much I value my own life
 
                                                         ­                                             Sometimes...

I make someone else's day significantly better
                                                      ­      
Sometimes...

I don't feel the light inside of myself

                                                         ­                                           Sometimes...

I day dream for what seems like hours on end with absolutely no consequence what so ever
                                                            ­                                  
Sometimes...

I forget important things easily and as a result don't always follow through with what I say and what I do...
                                                           ­                                  Sometimes...

I arrive in the nick of time to save the day
                                                           ­                                 
Sometimes...

I don't show up to somebody's final event and as a result miss the opportunity entirely
                                                        ­                                     Sometimes...

I reach out to people who need it

                                                             ­                               
Sometimes...


I let myself go






But no matter how the time weathers my bones I MUST NOT allow this sickness to entomb my vessel. I was born FREE--a child of the earth and sun. I take flight upon the crest of the dawn and fade ethereally with the passing of dusk.




                                              Sometimes...­








**I Float Away
Do NOT allow depression to take over you.

It's important that you allow yourself to be reached as well as reaching out for yourself. But don't be afraid to let someone else in.
They may just be trying to help...




and
Love thy family
Especially the ones we choose.
 Mar 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
I don't even need an answer to
the question

... I just want to know you'll all be right when I'm gone.
Does solution ever come?
Do we carry these burdens with us forever?
And beyond??
Will I ever be free to float away from here?
Will I fade away?
Or do I have to go out in flames?

All questions I am without the means to answer.
But ALL meaning is meaningless without  absolution.
I need this certainty or surely I will waste away.
 Jan 2015
Andrew Kerklaan
It's right there

In a perfect little bow tie but my own desperate, clambering need to be the first to get there leaves me with nothing

All that's left now is the shredded remains..

Scraps -- from which no nourishment can be salvaged.

No morsel contained.

(It is in this moment I realise the terror that resides within myself)

Haunting my endeavours, creeping up and into my personal life...

Weaving it's sickness as a woven quilt to my very skin!

Exposed for all to see

Somehow mortally wounding.

My need for absolution is blinding in a frantic and overwhelming kind of way...   I try to fight it but this weakness is unyielding in it's quiet persistent insistence

Like subliminal messages at times it stems seemingly from nowhere-- Polluting the hopes and dreams of those who love me

I feel that I am always improving. (Or at least trying to...)

Striving for a better life

But I feel faulted inside...

A mistake or flaw now too deeply buried to bring to cessation...

It's unresolved conflicts still taking toll on my personal affairs

Still feeding it's sickness back into me...

I feel weak but somehow complete

Lost but not yet alone...

And I think for just a moment before it passes that maybe things are not so fleeting?

But come the end of the day

I know

It must just be me...

Why wouldn't it be?

I ruin it for myself...
 Nov 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
I can't help but wonder if this sensation will pull through the rest of my life or if it will drop off at some point like discarded dissonance...

-This feeling of temporary misplacement-

As though comfort itself were only possible for a time... Not actually meant to sustain...
 Sep 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
Pining romantically for tragedy, my frustration paints a full colour  portrait of guilt and spite and shame...

Looking directly at me...

This snide look all over his face and just the shambles of an unfinished sentence barely even audible saying

Well, what can I say? Sorrow just suits you better...
A bitter muse I just can't seem to let go of... Maybe one day..
 Jun 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
Steady the relation between us

For now...

But what of then and now?

When my loss and salvation lie in hand

A pendulums swing from collision

Speeding up as we approach impact

Preemptive...

Too eager to just let me go

I fear upon my flight's return roost's sanctuary will house me no longer

I will fly away, pausing restlessly...

Wonder is all I am

Until again we feed

*Will I ever be free?
The only way to silence a beautiful bird is in a cage. Take from this statement what you will...
 Jun 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
With eyes wide open the world spins lucidly out of control  
  
Moving faster and faster, the Earth is growing...  
  
White blonde hair whipped passed her face would seem so far away  
  
Like a forgotten lover's name it is so surreal...  
  
Ideas of flight abstractly toying with the corners of her mind  
  
Her wings are pressed flat...  
  
A final escape from a dream which you could never wake  
  
This is her ecstasy.  
  
Her final curtain...  
  
Perhaps it would seem odd that her last thoughts would be of her mother  
  
So soft and warm...  
  
They never did agree on anything...  
  
Perhaps in another life they could finally see eye to eye but there would be no such luck this time around...  
  
Her head tossed in a backwards roll  
  
The last ten or fifteen feet seemed to disintegrate away...  
  
A dream's sad ending could never be so uplifting  
  
She opened her eyes for the last time to find her dream had given way to the real  
  
She had been set free  
  
...and had finally embraced the unknown
 Jun 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
While this is happening you will be my secret
Until this is finished nobody will hear you crying out
And unless I let you go then the moon will fall


You must know I do this for you...

Clawing at the eyes that must see
Feel this release around you.
Intimate... Soothing... Embrace...


I need this


Empowering me, I become weightless in it's magnificence and soon I may float away
To watch from below
Knowing exactly what has to happen...


and dreading the day they call upon my return
Sometimes I feel as though I'm bound to this place.
Perhaps by someone elses will.. But until I let this go I will never be truly free.
"I will float away"
 Jun 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
She's right there... --My friend I mean

She doesn't have much to say but I can hear you now

Grey innocents in lieu of child-hearted tragedy...

I'm sorry.

I never knew you had made these plans for me now

Could you find it in your heart to condemn your love for me?

Just this once?

Fading white I feel we may never stray past this point...

As though when I turn the page the story you had tried to show me will be lost

Alas...

What have I now but a passing traveller's blessing??

Running down... Behind the curtain and onto the floor. Coming in from the cold and into the shimmering light...

She's beautiful isn't she?

With an outstretched hand taking mine in your own

This soothing embrace is cooling me, bringing me down -- Taking me in

I never meant to hurt you this way

Can you ever forgive these black thoughts of mine??

Pulling away I must disband these beliefs I had once held sacred

I must cast them aside!

Moving forward.  To grow.    Be free.

...Or just float away
Writing on one of my own selfish hates and paying homage to the fallen legends that made me who I am today
 Jun 2014
Andrew Kerklaan
I feel somehow that they have mislabelled you

Perhaps just penned you in the wrong ink...

I'm not sure

It seems when I try to describe you, the idea goes sailing away and never anchors home

Slippery one might say...

As the man crawling out from beneath the wreckage of a rolled-over vehicle, slathered face to shins, in blood and *****

And the words that had beckoned to him
Now thoroughly lost...

Nothing more then a few gruelling moments in agony before it was just a memory and a phrase that didn't quite seem to fit...

Unreal. What did that word even mean?

It felt insulting.

As though the momentary terror that had consumed your reality was nothing more then a passing storm -- No more then a ghost or a Flying Dutchman...

But could the same not be said for it all?

Is any of this really what we came here for?

The choice alone is too much for me not to waste it and I fear if I leave it for too long that the choice will inevitably make itself...

But perhaps maybe that in turn is the choice

--The freedom to be or not...
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