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Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
in the future we will... I promise
seeking control in chaotic times
close we hold the hardest parts
denying the wind rides endless
that rumors ride Amongst night
her breath, leaving pleasantness
scenes so genuine in their fictions
fighting whispers as the hunt and haunt
alarming the quickness ones name
rhythm and random design, brilliant
blame consumes and never plays fair
so much for champions and ever after
daybreak of one's life is bitter and unfair
to learn that you're hardly ever right
only a price that is layered, leaning
combining to the pile around it all
madmen urge us to repent before we fall
smaller and smaller we begin to feel
as indeed we are, little less than nothing
time collects all, and everything else forgets
Jul 2014 · 422
Funny Little Faces
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
So much of the day,
countless faces never witnessed
some heavy and full of resentment
others too childish to get far
all of their quarks and complexities
but they are not all dark and mean
Not every face is too busy to grin
if you watch closely you see the humor in
the smiling ones, and the ones that are laughing
all of those funny little faces.
Jul 2014 · 391
believe believe
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
To look into the pretend lenses
crystal clear but far off those places
where the light-footed chase the fool-hearted
And angels play at games with minor demons
Those games of heavenly disarrangement
Unbelievers do fall, and land in rough waters
believe, believe
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
This life of sugar sweet hopes and dreams
blanketing, shading, betraying what hazards lay beneath
things like failure, ridicule, backstabbing, self loathing
real things that our padded quilts of denial never reveal
until you fall, or suddenly the blanket is pulled
and all together we forgot to want this.
Jul 2014 · 1.1k
what it is to feel alright
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
My mood again a steady constant
still low, always low but constant
so I seek the solutions, search for normal
I approach and offer myself over
to those, the better minds, the doctors
they are wise and educated and have magic
in the form of pills that I consume
reporting back the basics, this didn't work
that isn't helping so they raise and lower doses
prescribing cures in pills and always asking questions
writing this and that factual results down
they see errors in my mind and I feel restless
again and again changing their minds
as I consume and return the effectiveness or lack therein
all I ;want is the sky that felt light and tasted fragrant
yet so goes my search for my cure as each is different
seeking that fabled equalibrium, that balance
aiming for the land of sunshine and
the state known once as happiness
again, always where life is
and emotions can be steady,  ups and downs
continuously changing in workable highs and lows
but alas, I am unable, and I continue only to try
the new, the stronger the most documented cure alls
of more pill to be taken with water day or night
forever dosing, hoping and trying to find my life
chasing that notion of what it is to feel alright


by
Jack Fehlmann
2013
Jul 2014 · 234
whatever this dose gives me
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
Click!.. And enhance quickly there after
when puddles cracked and broken
melting, tingging the air with addiction
breathe it in deeply this my motivation
long lost and nearly forgotten
longed for, sought after, bartered and traded
the motivation and the woes we will cause
this time, day or night no longer matter
I fly, and believe again, and create and try
this time and every time before desire burned brightly
to be up again, to contribute, to create and try
seeing again reasons to want these things
busy doing all and everything it let's me
whatever this does gives me this time
Jul 2014 · 320
above always is the sky
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2014
There, is the Sun
Always bright, forever moving
at times it seems to hide
beyond the horizon
this sets the moon wondering
wandering at times full,
often not at all
stars fall, thin trails in the night
across my world so quickly
a blink of an eye measures time
and that eye, that eye is watching
always earthbound, grounded here beneath
oh that heaven above us,
the endless sky that is our blanket
forever above us and beautiful
the ever changing sky
I know... blah,.  not even so so... creative juices not panning out today I suppose.  sharing anyhow.
Jun 2014 · 499
trembling hands
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2014
Sand spills, passed trembling hands
And the hourglass is too alike a broken mirror
A counter to an image of us, showing us
light hits glass in right and wrong angles
so good, your attempts, just to falter
Oh, to free a Cindered and forgotten
over a bridge so fully burnt and broken
no more, no route to those shores
something funny in this, the feel of forgotten
stars number in the countless, billions
And alone, we all are but the sum of one
staring back, hands trembling
Jun 2014 · 297
Another Sense of New
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2014
Lighting my way, this the New
brought from hidden reaches
to be good, to feel good
And She, She is another wonder
One that makes me smile,
Catches the eyes,
Her voice like cherubs cries
to touch is to be renewed
another sense of new
There is me, this guy,
the type to quietly Die inside
this loss is familiar
but you promise, you do,
remember? I do.
blah... Out of practice....  work n progress
Apr 2014 · 228
breath it in
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
It was the first time,
I'd ever gone on alone
just to see, to learn, to know
what's gone wrong
and what's missing
Oh, I ****** up
through and through
when at the edge of this world
I saw fog, rising from the oceans
puddles that burn
with smoke that makes one want
motivation in the wind
breathe it in, breathe it in.
Apr 2014 · 188
I Know; You Know
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
you know that I know
You,  turn it off
You pretend
Or You say differently
Words we both avoid
Or at least I do,..
What do you know
that I don't also understand
but do I?
I deserve the truth
so, when you said you wouldn't
couldn't, did not want it,... No
I know, You know
you won't cause you don't
Why don't we learn
relax and enjoy our time here
as moments they slip
they fade away
we will also, one day fade
one day when I arrive looking
my mind having focused
committed to the decision
with out tools, guessing
inaccurate and elementary
words don't come so easily
All the time, but maybe
this note will bring up images
of you, and of the past
how things have changed
for the better, for the worst
you know I know you
I knew you
work in progress
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
Such a Thing

To see that face everyday
But my wants keep consuming
the games fate plays are abrasive
taking layers and vital parts
and my heart feels several shades
that fall up to sink apart
and multiple layers that all bleed grey
like too much soup in the wicked heat
believe me it is a special ache
Universal to those that know and do
owned only by the honey like memory
and ice storms of simple missing
Thats it, just the lack of them, of it
As I do, caught and caged this fool
Other men, that man I was that man
he knows you and that knowledge is caustic
my insides falling to pieces as you lift him up
I was, and I most likely shall only had been
a film developed before the picture shot
had you and me in it
Apr 2014 · 526
Reality Unwanted
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
This is the quiet of reality
felt and believed
Seconds bleed,
minutes are everything
Inside the dark plum color of silence
a steady hum of detachment
more thoughts, more questions
punctuate my willingness to believe
emphasize it as weakness
Me, I am not worth it
You see this and all I cannot
Parts are missing
and we, we will not work
All is quiet, reality does this
Reality Unwanted
Apr 2014 · 262
Cannot Move You
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
You,... know who You are
And still I cannot move you...
As if the sum of this is nothing...
All of these dreams
Supporting just the one...
So many words written
To move o my the One
Outside this fraction of another...
Just pleading to be whole.
A gift, a promise, one for another...
From this one sided vision
Is it too unique for You to want it?
Does it matter I care
This is forever as promised...
And yet that as a thought
Truly moves only me.
Alone with my thoughts
Now that my words
cannot move you
Apr 2014 · 162
Had Lived It
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
outside this dream

I'm reeling,  feet failing,
Falling,  fumbling.
To watch that dream
Outside,  out of reach
Taken from me.  
No warning.
To have had a dream,
Lived it,  felt it,
Realizing how right,
the fit so perfect.
Outside of this dream
Where I only  get to dream
but that once
I had lived it.
How badly I want it
back as none other
So I can live my life as I planned it
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
Look up, I force my gaze up
I face that unwanted reflection
The hated man, the other half
Still addicted, Dependent on ****
The realization hits again
That I and Him, The same man
Night and Day difference
Pros and Cons I weigh
His motivation beats me to it
It is a sickness and I am sick
Of it of not wanting only to want again
Of being unable to manage
Everyday tasks and hobbies I loved
Creativity seems to visit
When it’s the good ****…
Again, That man before me now
******* this ******* mirror
He knows how badly I hate him,
He feels no where near the same
Content with his poison
But I can see it in his eyes,
He knows that it isn’t right
Will he help me quit this time?
Apr 2014 · 366
That Time of Night
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
this time of night

Still up, amongst the rabble,
and the insects
as they swarm in the cool,
and relish the moonlit
I rummage through thoughts,
I reflect, I haunt,.. ever caught
a thought as circles about
around and throughout your head
or flown in the placid purple twilight
of heaven's ocean in the sky?
Quality time, quietly appreciating
silience as it is but for the crickets,
far off car tires against the cooling asphalt
automated sprinklers hissing new moisture to alien lawns
No pressing appointments
to nail down uncertain morrows
the moon, her stars, their perch and ours
I love this time,
though I am often at my lonliest,
overcome with rerun moments
of my life
as it once was
hypothetical questions
unvocalized to the universe
Am I ever thought about
is it time and time again?
Why do I do this?  
Will I ever stop?
another question...
Apr 2014 · 279
That Side of Leaving
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2014
The Other Side of Leaving

Never had it that way...
Never felt that side of leaving.
Haven't heard pain,
Never heard pleading
for me to please,
please not leave...
Baby please stay...
Haven't made the choice to stop feeling...
On the other side of leaving
its always been me on the damaged end
Not to be, must be something.
Or is it more difficult?
How would I explain?
When I don't fully understand...
Hearts change?
Could I let you down just to walk away?
All while knowing...
Having myself felt that pain,..
I've never had it that way.
The other side of leaving
Mar 2014 · 227
know you. only to know
Jack R Fehlmann Mar 2014
to be there right now
And all that separates
feet And inches
and right now is right now
too often I forget this
in a dark room down
devoted curled up next to me
but my thoughts are of you
standing above growing without
this life the next and another
I'll know you and wish I said so
what am i doing now I and this
standing up seeking out
and to know only to know you
Blah...  Unfinished
Mar 2014 · 411
got it all wrong... a rant
Jack R Fehlmann Mar 2014
here we have these hands
appendeges that have untold abilities
when paired up to the whole of the mind
Hands, Heads, and then there are our ways
the ways that we hand burdens down
a legacy since the first IOU was wrote
inheriting more and more and more
each parent buried a little less than their son's
heir daughters, and grandchildren
and for what?  In pursuit of money we have
accomplished amazing feats, as well we have
killed untold millions for far far less reasons
all for personal gains, no choices given
its the way that it is, "always been this way"
But people, we have stood on the MOON...
We've built from nothing, our need to know
to grow, but adopted these natural gifts to bad reasons
money motivates, but survival of our species matters more
We are only as valuable, worth measured in generations
we've done things all wrong, and we are almost found wanting
and starved, diseased, washed, burned, or frozen
to the point of no return, its the sum of our reasons
they are wrong, and selfish, and misthought about
we do the good, for the good and no other reason.
Mar 2014 · 531
Another Awkward
Jack R Fehlmann Mar 2014
what is it in me
that makes,..

creates me?,..

so uncomfortable,  

everybody sees less
Then pretend,  as I,
it's okay smiles quickly fade
I know it's my fault,
unacceptable and forgettable .
awkward, uncomfortable.
look at it, transparent,
The faint outline,  
my weakest image
nervous I tremble.
goodbye, hellos...
No eyes to be held,
Floors and skiess...
no its like,
Something not like
New material and different mediums
Resembling briefly
visually
I look just like them.
Awkward social
insecure moments
I'm another. Awkward
Feb 2014 · 251
Even If & Ever After
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2014
Even If & Ever After

Even if...
we don't last.
I know I will,
love you
Clear through,..
ever after.
Even after,
ever isn't in you.
I know this
about myself,
even if...
I struggle to understand
my gift, curse,...
the way
of my nature.  
Ever after...
with or with out...
My thoughts are on you.
Feb 2014 · 309
Bartering Me,... I Think.
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2014
Bartering to simply remember
little pieces that matter most
All have been allotted
given to those I owe
for energy, or ******, or wild and crazy
even lazy if that was my mood
I didn't see, what I was paying from
Young and foolish, chemically dependant
Oh, then it was just hand me release
just want this party to never end
in love with this music, beautiful movement
And the pretty girls, the heavens they were off to
Sure I'll give more to the dealers, more moments
I forget that I've given, nothing missing,
my O' What a deal, to feel so special and needed
bothered less and less by the cost
maybe later I'll rebarter for my life back
they can do that, can't they?
so now, I'll lose the milestones,
first smile, favorite game, the little things
now I'm flying baby
at the price of the pride my parents held
but that has vanished like myself
Fragmented, puzzling and pathetic
Feb 2014 · 448
countless
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2014
You,... flew away
tempted but one day after
to ruin,... less solid ground
crumbling to leave me
then this labrynth
all of its walls, memories
Vinegar and wine, salt and water
rain from cloudless heights
desert vistas, tear drops
forgiveness
what of you and I?
Over, gone, done, forgotten
why can't i?
asked in lonesome reflection
countless times.
Feb 2014 · 297
Daylight in the Night
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2014
Once I tried, lost twice
thus two times too many
witnessed just one lie
with that all fell down,
apart, away, like you and I
front row, eyes wide knowing
A memory still lives
and there I still see you
I hear you, those wicked promises
Don't like the way they echo
endless, in life, without
How must it be to feel nothing
numb throughout, No joy, No sorrow
only tired of my voice,  of crying
so you chose, and here the result
The broken version of what else
Daylight in the night, dreams, decisions
real, yet, cast no seen shadows
only burn the outlines into eyes
found open, left blind and shut tight
once I tried, and once... once...
Out of thoughts, out of words to discribe
daylight in the night,  outlines
saying goodbye and knowing the result
work in progresss
Feb 2014 · 889
Smoking Puddles
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2014
Breathe brought in, with it sickness
Cause enough, it can all crumble
two pieces, more, four exponential
Onto the ruined floor of morrows
There they get ground down finer
by the ones that through words like love around
So very, very off are the scenes
Of a life, of first tries, of smoking puddles
Far off now is that guy, that person,
just but now only a reminder of poor choices
And it can and will crumble
cracking and falling away, into voids
much like the need, and want of breathing
sitting so close to the smoke that rises
each breath feeding and igniting
Foolish are the eyes that believe and abuse
salty water, vinegar for the wine we waste
when all of life crumbles around you
and you find the endless, unlit labrynth
fed by bridges burnt down just after your crossing
until no exit, No route, No saviors are found
the sickness comes in shards that turn to puddles
and this then burns to smoke, and ruins
work in progress
Jan 2014 · 1.2k
Hearts I Gamble With
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
Laying naked
Just beside, intertwined
Panting,  smiling,  lieing
another accomplishment of mine
To have it,  take it, ruin
Something so precious as a body
Another meat machine with needs
Deseases,  urges, weakness
Wanting only the fleshy salts and juices
I ****** you,  now you are...
Unless,...
So now if i grab your hair
I, confess these dark lustful urges
Beg, coherse, guilt work
Saddness then there is anger
Hurt,  and insecurity
Childish fear is that as is darwin's
To *******,  filling the vessel
To do as promised,  programmed,  built
So that when i am caught,
My life over and the gurney beneath
Shall an invisible piece remain.
But honestly,  right now...
I am arroused and you can feel it
Open your mouth,  i too gladly taste your fluids
I promise,  our secret,  just one time...
Penetrated and found it lacking
Spine,  self control,  or courage not to trade morals
right then, right there
I had you.
Jan 2014 · 289
You... And I See It
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
You, in this world
of lesser interests
muted colors,
polluted bases
Of gray, safe neutral shades
Then there comes You...
Change, dramatic and effective
This, your pallet
bright and vivid
Now beautiful, fragrant
to eyes, mine
I devote time in wonder
To You, and your ways
Your world, shared
Both from as well as for You
But for me,
As I see You
Jan 2014 · 810
You... Regardless
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
And there you are,
that look, those eyes
A ghost too long haunting
And then there is me,
Still held by them
A fool that dreams of yesterday
Every time, each time,
Caught regardless, breath taken
And the fool chases the madman
In endless cycles of recognition
One coaches the way of acceptance
I remind myself that things change
But there you are,
And I am drawn up, quartered
The madman has his day
That look, those eyes

there you are
regardless
Jan 2014 · 639
An Essential Moment
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
Sorry...
Feel the crushing weight of it?

Beyond this the wasted,  
the fake, wasted.

The sensation
of darkened moments awaiting
daybreak and understanding

our past is playing
Cords of silk,
strung to be strummed,
a gentle note.

The price is living,
cast out, caught up,  
Knowing it was you...

You blew it.
Images played out every evening

Bitter sweet
the rotten misperception

Each scene you,  
And suffered through to numbness

To hold this,  
my happiest of moments
Without being able to know it

I find myself lonely,  
My heart weighted...

Seeing the end,

Noticing it to be...
an essential moment
Jan 2014 · 952
A Gift To Those
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
words are tools
some are blind
off guard and unready
caught in unwavering
beautiful green eyes
sunshine smiles
willing they, the fools
visually taken by you
as lovely as you are
barter away my protection
believe the words
spoken from full and practiced lips
as my lust consumes
ability to recognise truth from fiction
what's mine is foreign
apparition of such belied intentions
as lovely as you are
take as few or leave none
interested in pleasing
forgetting my own
cause for you i care too greatly
to doubt the sincerity
care not when you lie
the world is a gift to those
amazing green eyes
Jan 2014 · 261
Only Going,... One Day
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
only goes it's one way
only goes,.. only goes,..
so pointless the routine

only goes,.. Only goes,..
never wanders, only goes,..
never strays,.. pointless,..

Only goes...
Going... always going,.. Away.
towards something,

only goes,..

Until it breaks...
This pointless thing...

never knows,..

What is waiting,..
Never goes, away,..

Never coming,..

only knows, it is not okay...
only knows, there is an end...

and the routine,...

Only knows,.. of not knowing,..
going only the one way...

until only one day,..

Only the end...
And then going

"Only going"
By:(jfehlmann
Jan 2014 · 627
then it seems
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
it isn't right
the way you tease
much about and inside
me isn't right
and I believe you can
why,...You must
see right through
the downward destinations
inside Where I hide
exactly what is felt
And one heart is caught
is then this trap forgotten
the less than savory,
The nothing special
the ignorant laugh
And the wise understand
this cannot be easy
What is yet that may be
might bear much wrong beneath
Some beyond, buried, unlikely
your pieces are much less deep
These then are mine, my secrets,
My own unlikable qualities, proud moments
Terrible wants, disturbing fantasies
Awful enough that they must stay down
Down is where demons go,
But I think you've seen them
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2014
shouldn't you know
couldn't you see
wouldn't I think
shouldn't believe
would if maybe
I couldn't see the angles
I wouldn't have controlled

what's done is all been foolishly over done
you occupy that unforgettable place
where all you become is my ruin
what to believe,
to what choice is left to turn on

shouldn't you know
couldn't you see
wouldn't I think
shouldn't believe
would if maybe
I couldn't see the angles
I wouldn't have controlled

what's done is all been foolishly over done
you occupy that unforgettable place
where all you become is my ruin
what to believe,
to what choice is left to turn on

fearing life's end is mute
what if to fear the suns sinking
then have the same scene each evening
you know the sun will return
what side do you choose to see
Dec 2013 · 225
Minds Eyes Like Mine
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
Those that have not will never see
These things people are going through
Some old and a half off the ground
Hours ago on a paid version of this
and they, a half hour or so ago didn't know
What to get in my work and play
Some more of an old friend and would be
A great way of saying that I have nothing
Else if the user can be the best of the loveless
I Have a lot of distance to get my work
and I still don't understand
Why you should have a lot to want after that
I'll never fit in with the monster
So proud and so much
Too long to respond to your life
Strife to get my hands on the pitch
The end, but I love the idea that you can
Literally hundreds and the other hand I am in love
With the monster and the blue
Bright side and a lot more to do
Something about the presents the world was
Supposed I am so sorry I missed you
So so so so much
For sharing this with yourself
Father of, and the good people
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
Yes I know
how damaged I am inside,
How evasive my heart may be
I know about
those three words
how I believed
And the last time
the last person who used them
I know I believed
I Bought into the promise they bring
I thought Unconditional,
Foolishly open,
Three little words
the dreams they can bring
I know how they ruined me
these little words
that can mean too much
to someone such as myself
see I want and I need,
True love,
timeless and transparent
genuinly honest and unconditional
the world I see around me now
doesn't hold these things
I am old fashioned as
with old fashioned beliefs,
tired and worn out
Nothing is forever any more
everything, even love is thrown away
I can't change
so until four heartbeats,
one moment between,
the three words I spoke aloud
stunning myself as I stared at you
staring at me in silent disbelief
but i won't retract,
I will not joke or demean
I will not make excuses
or down play this
because I do
I honestly Love You.
Dec 2013 · 585
I Disappear
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
To this mistaken face,
O' to know
about this... these,..
all of my confused moments
some of my questions...

Those misread smiles
innocent smiles,
and about contact
between eyes, and hands
and a few of the ways
that fate appears to be aimed,..
the hours I've spent, minutes waiting,
the seconds wasted in chase
following after a misread word
an error of epic scale
I mean, to imagine me,
imagine you,...
Now I disappear.
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
crooked steps
just a seconds glimpse behind
perfect trail before me, each step a gift
Then in the distance I  caught sight
of something
I saw you kiss the lips of the sinking Sun
locked embrace
and O' how completely I struggled
that entire night
and O' how the next and the next
and then the  next I tasted
betrayal O' how vivid I
I relived the scene in visions,
questioning my eyes,
wondering your motives
I focused, I tried more and more
O' I dug deep, i closed the miles,,
then much closer I witnessed
then, you whispering to the sky
then you reached up your hands
upon the full moon's face
Pulling her down from heaven,
 to your promises as you smiled
to deny us, O' I obsessed
You....
Kissing the sun, Promising the moon,
As I watched O' I glared
O' as did I wilt
I withdraw to obscurity
Beneath cover of your growing shadow

a silouhette to follow
making chase of the impossible
I can't give up
all i do is follow,
and look , and press on ,
just to get close enough
To tell you
You are still my sun,
Though you have another
and you are my setting moon,
my unobtainable,...
and my reasoning for every step,
every mile...  
Now besought by the breadth
The severity of those betrayals
I hope you knew,
i followed and still do
coming to apprehend
my little tease,
my treasure, my liar
I give chase,
to how completely
how very far I would go
just to prove once and for all
I love you.
I shall, one day...
If and when the stars let me
they decide...
Even they see plainly my envy
As I have no mask
One motive,
Several unknown labels.
I contrast the brilliant
Silk strewn beauty once mine
Falling once, am I choosing
Leg by foot, by will and love
Outshine the sun and by this
Luna will turn it's attention
Perhaps this test of time
Practiced, lonesome patience
May one day return the gaze
Embrace in arms my desire
The only one I want and follow
My world.
UNFINISHED... but closer
Dec 2013 · 340
Two Lives, One Little Boy
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
Eyes of a little child
with the smile I live for
full of light, right and why
we endure the cycle
Another goodbye
I emphasize how much I love you
every time, i know you know I do
I see one side of a life
behind the glass of the door you close
the in between is watching you walking
while I struggle with too much pride
the Tiny strides are getting bigger
with every trip we make
between a life with mine
and the life with Hers
towards the other world
My headlights add to the tragic scene
We do this over, and over, and over
week after week after week
Owning the rights to my everything
Showing again why we breathe
why I try, but do I couldn't I do better
Goodbyes that preside over our shared tomorrows
This did not play out like believed
entitled, promised, guaranteed
My life is so much better
Your smile warms the ice inside
but each goodbye brings me back below
And the drive back gives me time
That smile from you is the fulcrum
balancing the unbalanced
Two lives, one little boy
One  child,
so vital to us both
Dec 2013 · 408
falling out of bed
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2013
What if beds weren't for falling into
What if instead, we kick off the ground
Start to rise, lifting ourselves,
We glide and fly up to slumber on a cloud.
From the noise, and the demands of life
The very results of the choices we've summoned
We no longer fall from exhaustion
At the end of our ropes, drained and uninspired
to toss and turn and hate the world itself

Imagine away, now imagine the way
From here to reflection,
Nothing undone is not worth attempting
Undreamed, only once
Envisioned and visited by this cloud


In a world that consumes
RewaRd is its own retribution
Abuse can forgotten
Close you eyes and liberate oneself
Nov 2013 · 492
After this Job I Don't Like
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
It just sits there
Out place, in its secret place
tucked down, beneath, within
and that is a fault of my own
I know, I should be but prey
do something much like and about that
before it is ruined, or not
Neglected and broken, rusted
blueprinted and assumed tested
Maybe tomorrow
after work
a job i don't like
It kills me
Flourecent light leaching
Teathered to a short cord
Eyes that wont blink
Watching
As i slowly wilt
So maybe come morning
Ill finaly find time
If i can remember
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Its early,
far too early
never built this way
i am a child of dreams
to wake is natural
but
before the first rays
the sun
still warming the east
yet
the buzzing clock
forces away my dreams
a sigh
Another day...  another day.
Nov 2013 · 773
Once Loved, Once Tested
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Always is the problem word
too easily misinterpreted,
Right now that is the issue we're facing
Read the words once written
My words, yeah, honest, genuine
Sincere and borne from emotion
At that time, In those moments
Lessons, each day, every decision
choices, reactions, retrebutions
With out them, this, that moment
those emotions, that heartbreak
I'll always own them,
I am who you know today as result
they taught me about this world,
about love, how it feels to hurt
missing out, longing after, loneliness,
moving on, accepting my own thoughts
learning to live and love myself
You,.. Now,... Here,.. in the present
This lesson, what I know I want
I'll always love what I once loved,
but the decision to devote time, thought
myself over to?... That is mine to choose
I choose you...
Nov 2013 · 885
People Pleasing
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
You spread yourself so very thin,
Leaving nothing for yourself, nothing for just you
Too busy pleasing, bringing others their smile
The open hands and needful faces, they multiply
Reaching, clawing, begging you,
Asking, calling, demanding, yelling
Taking, Always taking, Never helping
At the cost of who you are
This house of cards will fall
You, you will break into two parts
Then Two into Four
More, and more, smaller and smaller
And every little piece will shatter
Until they number in the millions
All that will be left, dust
Upon the dreams, covering the longing
the unanswered calling,
Dust and what if's...
No One around to care for you.
Nov 2013 · 407
Demonstration of Loss
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
All these words,
every one place with purpose,
patterned upon a need,
a want, some way in which to serve
to supplement or contain,
to hold, both within,
without.
owned by losing all that is,
will be, has come
or once was is gone
another demonstration of loss
like she is,..  gone...
I have not, still, not...
but breathing,
lost in thought.
Nov 2013 · 536
A Well Placed Whisper
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
A well placed whisper,...
Almost like,..
As if never intended
Made lighter, thinner,
whispered...
will seem to shimmer,
much like heat at distance
Sunlight bends,
Glimpses of what lay beyond
dances out of reach,
enticing, inviting,
denying...
random and impossible,
thirsting for promised water
whispers can ruin you
leaving you lost,
walking in circles
Nov 2013 · 576
What To Do About Without Me
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
These are for You,
My works through it seems
framed,  on the wall, smiling
What to do about without me moments passed make up life
Deep, like the hours in a day
That we had, we did, before
As it has, it will cycling,
continuous, predictable as all but
our last breath,  to ashes then
if I cared, goodbyes
if I worried,  I'm sorry's
If given the chance,  i might linger
To catch final glimpses
Reflecting, on all the right things
To forgive myself,  my follies
Then let my shell feed the earth,
as life,  and love,  and time go on
So too will those that will without
If they feel lessened,  disheartened
Then talk so i may listen
What to do about without,  
Remember, talk,  go on living
They watch,  they listen.
Nov 2013 · 829
World Far Too Crowded
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Little things can keep me
Eye to eye to
when I knew that silhouette
this time dispite my compromising
Goodbye's really go nowhere
When we do, You do
Goodbye's remain, vivid, real...
The rest of your life
So I don't meet most
I'm no observer, nor outgoing
Far too nervous, introverted
I just walk on alone,
In a world far too crowded
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
So, where now?
Where do we go from here?
When so much mistrust you've earned.
I want to know, need to know you are sincere.
And I to feel your love is real after all.
Don't speak, cause it won't happen with your voice.
It will not be words, woven into fantastic stories.
Because those lies, I've already heard them.
You are going to have to show it,
I'll feel it in your actions.
I'll know when it happens.
I'll taste the honesty of your tears.
If it ever happens,... I will.
And you will be happy, and content again,
I'll fell it in your intentions.
Nov 2013 · 366
Little Boy Lost
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Everything about him,
suggests that he is lonely,
he is misunderstood and lost inside.
Yet even at distance
you know so much about him,
the way that he walks,
hands in his pockets and head hung low,
slinking around like a dog,
waiting for a home

    Little Boy Lost.  
       Little Boy Lost.

When he talks he stammers,
then pauses uncertain.
of what should be said.
And when he listens,
he seems filled with endless energy
restless he stretches, looks around
leaning and pacing,
Like a small boy, impatient with elders voices

    Little Boy Lost
        Little Boy Lost

He has the awkwardness of adolescence
blurting out tremendous questions crudely.
On occasion he smiles, unaccountably
as if told a dark joke known only to himself
You can sense it, the badness inside
but you like him,...

    Little Boy Lost
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