EJ Aghassi

EJ Aghassi Mar 2014

awake

life has its own kind of humor

but it brings you
far from
laughter

the way things just happen
& take you closer to madness

but sanity is so boring, anyway
and so is sleep
and so are people
and so is peace

and the way it all ties together
in the end

& if time is made up
then we don't exist

as every second
is devoted to the way you move

in which case

every sip
is slowing down
nothingness in
it's purest form

lavender tinting
all my wildest dreams

"that's life", they say

and I'm still trying
to figure out what that means

EJ Aghassi Mar 2014

waves

the ship has sailed

it has been met
with unfavorable conditions

and it has sunk

scarred ruins scattered
about the floor of the ocean

wood & fabrics
fragile things
making a place
for scavengers to lay

and the world will keep turning

the waters will still completely

the oceans will evaporate

and an underwater grave
will be visible from space

EJ Aghassi Mar 2014

smiles

it's probably the weather
and the
question of whether

or not I want to see you again

weathering on sanity
or what idea of it
I believe

rationale evaporated from my brain

but if this is the cost
of the smiles

energy expended
coming back again
sapping more than
I can give

then I will make those memories worth it

EJ Aghassi Feb 2014

paw prints

I burned my tongue
while looking out the window

I couldn't help but find irony
in the juxtaposition of hot
and terrible cold

I see a familiar gray figure

the notion of feeling like
your stomach is splitting in two
in the good way

but it's just my mind playing tricks on me

I wish so strongly
to find you out there in stormy weather

cold
shaking

so I could take you inside
dry you off
and hold you until
the shivering subsides

EJ Aghassi Feb 2014

high d(owntown)

mermaid far from sea
from dreams, it would seem

how is it that the odds
are in my favor for once?

not only can you walk
the ground in
warm welcome
of your pretty step

you can talk

but above all else

you talk to me
you walk beside me

sea legs I see legs
they're there
so elegant
the way they
rest upon one
another

and time is the enemy
the one time it seems to be on my side
for once i want
it to stop completely

gravitational
sensation
pulls with
enchanted
verbalization

you smile
i can't help but to fixate on
that tender arch in your lips
i long for them

and i think that smile could be for me

for once i think it could be for me

EJ Aghassi Feb 2014

purgatory

I can't stomach the thought
of you being with me

but also
I can't live with knowing
you've gone on without

EJ Aghassi Feb 2014

I swear I do appreciate you

nana gave me cash
for gas

bless her heart

& I still spent half
on Pabst