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Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Answers are curious things
When you don't know, you want to
Sometimes the questions they belong to are poisoned
Then there are the answers that cause more questions
cancerous, they multiply and the answers hurt you
Designed exponential
An endless cycle that will break and manipulate you
To no good end... never good
The wrong kind of questions
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2021
Reading thoughts owned and placed for hidden purpose
I begin to notice a pattern that is one of searching
travels and sought after views, of seeking and wanting
another life, or, appreciative reflection
of places I have never been, or that elude
when in truth, I have been no where, seen nothing
other than my day to day, my place of living.
I only know of here.  Have not laid an eye on a place
that haunts these writings.  Where must that be I wonder
as I post this pondering.
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2021
If, familiarity and formal views choose
Why not Me?  Over your petty pretty portrayal.
May it might be that my graceless train wreck
chain of always pleasing those, and these, we fools
As lovely and well practiced a beauty spinning
pole-struck, thighs, eyes, dizzyingly ****
as the version before, this one knew to do
Or use any, every, curve, as lustful and,  oh.
Let the vibes and lights try to chase that
which I know only in fantasized thoughts
cause though I know, you know I do want
I'm well passed given up and chasing new
trading being treated well, for the hell you
do your unknowing best to sell the fool that
knew you so well.
Jack R Fehlmann Mar 2021
Fable is ever after
At least for one such
One day a split
A separation of body
And the one inside.
The two at odds
As ageless passengers
Within mortal matter
To live through the signs
As our fleshly prisons
Fall apart, until it carries no more.  
What lessons must be so cruel.
When ones body falls to pieces
Around you.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Tangerine-tinged recollections
upon a soft field of purposeful blue
Perceptively gentle this hue
seems to bleed to somewhere
This canvas keeps from view
Beyond the edges lay uncertainty
Masterful direction ques or glance
To the nearly too contrasted
Aligned shapes that represent
Every sensation blending into feeling
Too personal, we look upon what
Inwardly lay hidden, as if off edges
The attachments best expresses in colors
It makes us pause, want, recall what was
Fall, take in breath, shed a tear or confessed appreciation of our own inability to be true.

Reds melt and seep, against my the monochromatic, reality.
Whites force back the muted tones if unwashed brushes
Every shade, shape and conceptualized
Intentention t go at only artists can pull from those that pass by such

List my point and considering this a rough work in progress.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2021
This began as so many have
Before, when I lived out loud
Never fumbling from a lack of
Owning only the possible
Too willing to do or say the hurtful words
As now we stride no shared mile
As many this too has ended
Damaged collateral exceedingly one sided.
And life, goes on, choices find you.
Then and now are tools used and I lose
This mind puzzled and cycles to return to
Nothing, no other shares the hollow person I've made of myself as I love nothing as I loved you.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
Oh, to view our world,
the way I do,
Through my eyes,
dulled and darkened
to the grey and shadowed
and you hide yourself away,
draw tight the blinds and shades
to the pitch black room,
the place of detached distraction
and you become a shade of shadow
a shadow of yourself
as the day, another precious day
fades to the west
and night pours on once more,
the world outside doesn't miss
doesn't attempt to find you
self imposed prison of depression
inside looking out,
view my world, the way I do.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2014
Upon imaginary wings,
Three beats beneath
Creation's favor
As lovely as You are
Truest green, your eyes,
Armoring
the secrets,
unique reasons
Your smile, isn't for me
As lovely as I let you be
As lovely as I allow
Given wings.
You above, Me?,.
Behind, beneath.
these eyes for once
See what I can find.
what needs belief
I believe,
because its you.
you can be something.
little or as grand,
As I want from you.
Someone pure.
Unique to a world,
offered up.
To You,
your beautiful face.
As I gaze up
to you,
my new heaven.
As lovely as I will never be,
As lovely as I Let you be.
I see her in ways she doesn't
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2022
Passing pendulum's;
Whispered sweeping, movement
Marks singular a moment;
Touches a greater
plural; Other's
In time / One
Mine; Life
Half lived / Measured
Two; Yours and yet
More views from;
Moment One
I, never learn of;
One only Prior / Goes
hopeful though
Swinging moment passes
what Into; another
One Ended / One without
Yet, Not when chosen
Viewed as Another may have
A misunderstood; half-lived life
Passed; Present
My own having known
You in it
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Unremarkable, therein lays the unresolved.
I long after special, treasured, vaguely memorable.
Perhaps this is a folly on my part, wanting
As here I sit, hesitant, gazing out of the window.
Same as the last, the one before, prior, after.
This routine spoils the hungry fire and dims the brilliant light within.
Colors seem different, shaded, washed in grey.
Opening the door I dutifully commit myself,.. once more
The beginning, here at another day.
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2021
The birth of a thought
Made to play
On my mind's eye screen
Always private showings
Has gray matter paints the scene
Of a life less alone
Kissing smiles and so much sunshine
Lives another version of me
He is counterweighted balanced
Though she remains faceless
This only compliments
And they are so trusting
One always lifting one always holding
Accepting and content such Bliss
My missing picture perfect
Inside weeping I admit I want this
Even when this is longing
A foolish thought forbidden wish
Lost and thought found damaged
A thought played then it ended and then it ended
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
Jack R Fehlmann May 2015
in love with going on,
Moving moments i barter,
to remember little pieces
ones that matter
most lay open
there is a lesson in this
a world of less and less,
for all I own there
is no reservation in heaven
friends, unfamiliar faces
I know within,  without,
With all I have not
a way in which to express
The numbness and unnoticed
There is there
In a world of less and less
really really really really quickly written
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2014
If I look at this life,
At today, or tomorrow
Yesterday, I see what is behind me
I see your face, my smile
exactly the way we once were.
Still I wake up tomorrow,
another day of pretending.
This is okay, but inside denial.
more and more hollow,
the way my heart aches,
so I don't look for tomorrows.
I much rather turn around,
and look upon those yesterdays,
because right now, the next day,
they seem less worth while
They are as empty then
as they are now,
yesterday is worth my gaze.
back then was everything.
Another from a low point in life, when looking back held more than getting over it.
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
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2018
The steam it takes me
To reach each 6p.m.
Is unsustainable, exhaustingly so
With knicks and clotted flesh
Bruises aging brown
mix with, overlap the latest
Deep purples and ill hued blues
I am beaten by my own doing
Little to nothing is compensation
But the things i have touched
Broken made new again
From raw to finished, tangible
My hands, rough, scarred,
Talented and beat up
As is my body. Nightly.
By the end of the week i am a sight
Too tired to want morr from life.
Filthy and sore, single, alone
There has got to be more to life
Then the beast of burden i resemble
If not be the ending too soo
See i am beaten at the end
Tired...
Goodnight.
Jack R Fehlmann Apr 2021
It is the peace
Of this moment
It seems to flow
Out, down, along
Familiar creases
Of an aged and worn,
Tired face gazing up
Slight smile playing
A sigh so soft, goes
As colors, every one
I had ever known, rise
And falling, but gently
Floating and growing
Once free those lips
Smiling now, slightly
These shades feel right
Like lightning in a storm,
Waves crashing, the sun rising
Outside of time, I am,
Brilliant and wonderful
I escape, this,
at long last
Reuniting, as
and of now
every color
of this, that, known
Now, this
The way of ending
that thought, so brief
Than, No more
and I am at peace.
I am found.  
Content.
Welcomed Home.
I am returned,
Unto and throughout,
Every rainbow,
all the colors of this world.

I am...

Beautiful.
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2021
It began.
With beautiful reason
Whispered
Her words echoed within
And it began...
The foundation weakened
Little pieces shift
Crumble to break loose
Falling free to fall
Each a tethered memory
Pulling the man
Into the deep despair
Down to an end
Beneath the beautiful lips
That said them.
There those memories
The man keeps
Beautiful reasons beneath.
Jack R Fehlmann Jul 2020
I hope he is better than me
How the difficult choices are made
Learning through my mistakes
Shared the worst to disbelieving eyes
Fell a few rungs that day
To him I would not dull down jagged edges
He needs to see he can be better than me.
Mind your choices in friends
Believe you are above the obvious
Words can't take away when you know the truth.
You don't have to and so what if they do
You're better then me Son
Leave doors open and aim high as you can
See what you can do
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2020
The truths I face
Are better done
When I feel less cruel
Barely enough
To see this through
Take slow breaths
Aye, right
yes, terrified
What that will
Or, I would do.
Jack R Fehlmann Jan 2019
To lay my torn up hands
Upon the porcelain past
Cold against the callouses

All but within my chest

Broken glass is the time we had
Grains of sand falling always
our words shifting too fast

lonesome, knowing approaches

Where hindsight provides
The vastness embued by when
Here in a now unwanted

All but in my chest unnoticed

Borrowing tears from better versions
While choking on the words I use
Dreams hold more weight certainly

These hours I stay tragically on then
Far off and away days feel and echo in

Any but this person I spoil my nights with
Nonfunctioning and spilkjngly incoherent
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 Dec 2021
Cold floor; Dark room prison
So trying the mind can be.
Open door; yet I remain
Nearly motionless; a stone.
Bathed in shades of shadow.
Contemplating the right way
If I can be; If I am willing
Staring at the floor unfocused
Could the answer be beneath
Buried; Hidden
Safe?
Could Be...
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2021
Here I stand with every tool
Equipped and good intentions
Only to find parts broken
Outside of my scope, skills wanting
Unable to make right such wrongs
Choking on the words of promise
But if I could I would I whisper
this is beyond my abilities
I place my tools inside their drawers
I'm sorry.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2015
A goodbye that remains
blameless am I
Another lie,  ugly, transparent
How can I prevent it?
Why am I so easy to love,
They all seem to fall hard
Saying all the nicest words
Painting my mind in far from now
Oh so foolish to inflate ego full of pride
And this ain't my first experience
So how is it that I am far from agreement?
Three times, consecutive, at the very moment
I begin to see a future we could come to see
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2020
These are the days of forever
Background composition plays
Imagine the tint and taste
Know it to the brink
Outlines that bind these wants
Blank mind upon canvas
Hand frozen so intimately
A breath's space from...

Talent my friend gone errant
I miss him, meds dismiss this
Better with out, out when with them
I hold my breath and find
Again... Blank Canvas.
or at least the need
Is hidden behind the spread of time
That alas, this canvas represents.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2020
I want and try so completely
This time to write, to weave
These wishes limited by
words, my words.
hard chosen.
Praying that they will
Fall and wrap lovingly, comfortably,
Forever, and always, around you
As if,.. To be your very own,
Most bestest, favorite blanket.
That they blanket you safe.
And, away.

From the perspective
Eyes like mine
Have come to view...
You.

No longer so nice
Not innocent
Only goodbyes

From the used to
Hold,..
The last, Newest and greatest.
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2020
Blue, the hue, each shade
In, many a way, excites Me.
Or, if deeply true,
Calmness, like that of known
Intimate floating, along
Below, light dancing
Cast rays to fight, shadows
But not as deeply,
As I am, down I go.
Jack R Fehlmann Feb 2021
I
  MOVE
             TO
                 KNOW
                              THE
                                      POI
                                           N
                                            T

                                            I

                                            W
                                             I
                                             L
                                             L

                                            NOT
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
Brave Face
see me now,
Look at my brave face
I can be a charmer
Saying such nice things
Meant to disarm you
See me
I can be a liar
Saying the things
The real me cannot say
See my brave face
So patient and understanding
Hides the real me
I can be so unforgiving
Because I see now
I am not worthy
I am though
I am worthy of forgetting
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Brave Face
see me now,
Look at my brave face
I can be a charmer
Saying such nice things
Meant to disarm you
See me
I can be a liar
Saying the things
The real me cannot say
See my brave face
So patient and understanding
Hides the real me
I can be so unforgiving
Because I see now
I am not worthy
I am though
I am worthy of forgetting
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
In sentences
I leave parts
Pieces pulled from
The one few get to know
To lead to where
He may have gone.
In each word
Every poem
Bread crumbs.
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.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
it wasn't the fickle
and it might have been
the laughable
but much too cold
unfeeling by any
worthy of notice
Or warming
the lemon yellow Sun
Blocked out feeling
and pale of ignorance
I found a broken clock
Its face twice right
Always the same
the gear workings mixed up
corroded and unwound
springs loose and crazy
like my thoughts,
the aged wood scratched, dented
Not much to look at
and I thought to use it,
at least for a while,
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2013
You, in this world...
Every time,..  Any time...
Eyes find time,.. For You.

How You were made...
The way You are,..
Intentionally flawed.

                                A Broken Mould, Post Perfection.

As lovely as You,..
Your imperfections,..
Here they are,... Beautiful.
They fit,... They compliment.

                               A Broken Mould, Post Perfection.

Even at distance,.. I fall...
Each time,.. Every time,...
For the way You can be...

Broken,..
                Perfect to Me.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2021
Laughing; What I might be.
I reserve my right to not be forthcoming
I wish to keep this... It is mine.  Alone.
Besides, to find the humor
One must have use of and you don't
My eyes.  My life choices.  My shortcomings
So, leave the wild eyed man be!
Take not, nor give him reason for not.
He's enjoying himself, though...
you may diagnose him...
a little off.  Certainly crazy.
But stay put!  If you wander off?
He will return to melancholy.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2020
I do not need cherish
Nor fall nostalgic
Life before this present
Remains affixed permanent
As the all too collected
This awful present
Of life memories moments
Emotions combined rise
As my state of mind falls
To clean out out dispose
I can manage if I welcome
The bittersweet sadness of
A life now piled in heaps
Embarrassing and awful
Buried and not wanting
To feel those low chords struck
To some its is hoarding
Me I think I'm hiding from
The past.  Buried beneath it.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2018
I do believe we are even
Even as we balk about *******
The evidence is screaming
And words do little to camouflage
Disrespect as they implicate
This loss of decency is quiet
Abusing the trusting fool
upon the hearts of good men
Just the tender parts are eaten
So scars build in the empty spaces
Scars taste bitter and so too those men
Come upon the realization
In this type of heated conversation
Where voices raised are laced
Disbelief, comprehension, frustration
Weaving into acceptance and loss
Swearing not to be fooled again
Heart won't last, nothing left...
but it's beating
Jack R Fehlmann Jun 2020
Two pools of grey blue envy
Are they, them,
flawed and positioned
Better at false ways
or lessoned

Lovers of the love
that loves me not
Or in her own words
crossed the lips
Perfect and missed,

now differently
Friends,
yes I miss this
so I accept

To listen
to how the others,
them, they
Meant so much
more,
then I will ever

Ever did, will know
though so polarized
are the views, the needs,

my own wants,
and never to be
desires us as
Friends,
co creators,
bound by legacy

But green eyes visions
of my measure
Never were as lofty
as ego whispered

I foolishly wanted,
I thought, I was enough,
to love to keep,
but...

Did she ever, once,
briefly, momentarily,
no... I think not.

I may look but not touch
Love
from distance,

and consider my luck
to be friends
and not lovers

They
fill out that place,
in her wants

What have I not,
that they replace.  
When love is all I know

and hold and so
the reason
I suffer and hurt anew
As friends
so close, but...
Not.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
This life
From the very start of it
I've been told
Brainwashed
Molded
I must fall in love
In love I will be happy
Happiest endings will come if in love
All with their silver linings
Picture perfect
And that's what I wanted
Thought I had found it
Fought so hard
Then lost it
It was after that
This life felt
Less like what I wanted.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013
Her words had
calculated places
in which they were
strategically used
to inflict the worst injuries
possible.  

To take a man
and leave
a lesser shell
of who he’d thought he was.  
Forever
altering the person
that he will become,
compounding fully the inability
in him to trust or feel,
to heal.
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2015
There is a calm
A sort of closeness
That comes after heartbreak.
With nothing else
But acceptance to cling to,
It reigns alone
Controls hope and futures.
In the lack of light
Calm resides in silence.
But one thought
brings with it the knowledge
'it will be Alright '...
Because it will.
Take this and be guided
Back to light and laughter.
To life and happiness.
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
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.
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
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2014
Here we are
Grey waters
Swells heaving
Crashing continuosly
Over, over, sinking
Lost, capsized
In an ocean of feeling
Such bitterness
Cold, grey waters
My world, our ship
Taken, torn,
Slipping in
Capsized, feelings
Going down with a ship
A lost cause
Because of you
Sails lost winds
only to be torn apart
when winds of change hit
breaking masts; match sticks
to the crushing weight
of your caress
the lack therein
Abandon ship
A chance if only
Gaining purchase upon
Or cling to foolishly
a fractured fragment
of the lost
the capsized emotions
gasping, choking, calling out
Washing up on the shores
of an island of confused loss
Capsized in an ocean of feeling
lost.
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2020
Fools are we,
You and I
To dare so close to embers

Glowing
as our wants are

Simple thoughts,
and touch
Heated consequence
within

A pleasant pain,
and breath
Flames fed to this

Oranges made
Devour
Salty reasons not
To, do
What you going
To do here
Encouraging the fire
Into new layers

Flames rage
loosed as they are
Burn to blue,
Violets shifting
blinding
to white inferno

As our senses
bodies
press flesh grinding

lost to all but
wanting
To know, having

yet
Our souls no longer
So innocent
Sacrificed

Offered eager
Unto this
hellish pit

As we fall in
so too
do our truths
melt

Down between
Throughout
Aching intimate
Sacred places
Glisten

Like sweat rolling
From your flesh
Tastes salty
Inviting

Feels right
Being squeezed
While holding
tightly

Trailing lightly
Traced fingers
Create such need
shimmer, moans rising

Lost in yours,
Giving my own
Pushing to
pulling
twisting apart,
spinning swirls into falling
thrusting
and writhing

Fooling
the eyes if found upon

folding in, blending
Out
licking, kissing
Biting

passionate
and
perfect

waving in and out
Our maelstrom
builds

Stretching and I
want more

The pressures howl
erupting unimaginable
delight

To be sated
We
All consumed

No more me,
no more you

only

ashes left
blackish-white

Fall apart

Carbon & Desire
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
Forbidden pulls at me
Demanding fealty,
I hurt, I am in pain.
Full of wishful thoughts,
the empty chest feeling.
I feel at risk,
Holding on to not letting go.
Always, the end is always the same...
Look at what's changed,..
The castle falls apart.
Everyone fades away
What if I gave up?...
As those gave up on me.
Dusting myself off as I get up,...
Wandering off to unknowns,
far from this place.
Deep and away,.. below.
Safely out of place when I fell upon myself...
I found my eyes had sunk in,...
an aura starts to blaze,...
a grey shade of those that mourn.
My rotten wants displayed,
running out from a hole...
What if I gave up?
As they gave up on me?...
I hurt, I hate, I go so far away.
Empty, I waste,...
I will fade as everyone fades
and the castle crumbles.
What if I gave up?...
Even though I am aware,...
of the rules to follow.
For you I will break,...
Everyone, one day fades.
What if I go before you do?
Jack R Fehlmann Sep 2018
Caught Up In The Missing
caught up in the missing

all of the little things

the way that morning treated you

and every conversation

laughter, and that smile

those eyes, the lies

the closeness that i used to feel

your sweet, soft breath matching mine

the way you said my name sometimes

the time that went by to quickly

I even find myself holding out for you

caught up in the missing

it is hard to want anything

having had all that you wanted

and I did I cherished it

never took for granted

all the little things, your soft kisses

the promises and compromises

Every problem we ever faced

getting rent paid,

every goal we set and reached

the future you said that you wanted

caught up in missing

the way you changed

how you chose to leave

the ending and why it happened

the things I shoul've said

caught up in missing
Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013
caught up in the missing
all of the little things
the way that morning treated you
and every conversation
laughter, and that smile
those eyes, the lies
the closeness that i used to feel
your sweet, soft breath matching mine
the way you said my name sometimes
the time that went by to quickly
I even find myself holding out for you
caught up in the missing
it is hard to want anything
having had all that you wanted
and I did I cherished it
never took for granted
all the little things, your soft kisses
the promises and compromises
Every problem we ever faced
getting rent paid,
every goal we set and reached
the future you said that you wanted
caught up in missing
the way you changed
how you chose to leave
the ending and why it happened
the things I shoul've said
caught up in missing
Jack R Fehlmann Dec 2014
To know my own
Thoughts, hopes, wants
To dream myself not caught
Pretending away the one
That would not, will never
Has already come, now over us
Yet here I am
Caught Where She Left
Stuck with my own
Thoughts, hopes, wants
Struggling in full circles
This slavishly special level
Of my own self contained hell
While alone I watch her
In mechanical fantasies of my
Thoughts, hopes, wants
Caught and not capable
Of moving forwards, on,
Getting over all I've lost
Making my peace with those
Thoughts, hopes, wants...
Caught when ever she haunts me
Where she left off.
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