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Jun 2014 · 512
Pantoum to the Living
JN Masolas Jun 2014
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker
As life passed through me
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker
Leaving in this world only my memory

As life passed through me
I can hear my daughters cry
Leaving in this world only my memory
I know she only wonders why

I can hear my daughter’s cry
It hurts her this I know
I know she only wonders why
Her mother, did she have to go

It hurts her this I know
But she will learn to mend her heart
Her mother did she have to go
And soon my absence becomes a part

But she will learn to mend her heart
Blocking out the painful thought
And soon my absence becomes a part
Forgetting what should be forgot

Blocking out the painful thought
Moving on to better things
Forgetting what should be forgot
Finally spreading wide her fixed up wing

Moving on to better things
Sometimes now she will rejoice
Finally spreading her fixed up wing
She did forget the sound of her mother’s voice

Sometimes now she will rejoice
But other times things get sad
She did forget the sound of her mother’s voice
She is strong, just like her mom, and knows that this is just a fad

But other times things get sad
I see my girl and know she’ll grow
She is strong, just like her mom, and knows that this is just a fad
She will survive, so now I must go

I see my girl and know she’ll grow
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker
She will survive, so now I must go
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker*
To nothing
Jun 2014 · 335
Charlie, It Will Be Alright
JN Masolas Jun 2014
Baby girl
With the smile like silver
And eyes like gold
Sprouting up
Wild as a ****
But that’s just how you are
Little one
With a personality all to big
For your
Five foot
Three inch body
With a life stuck on fast forward
Grown before my eyes
Those same eyes that led me to believe that you were happy
You lived through the worst
But
Nothing
No one
Could save you
Everyone always told you that
Fallacious
Rhyme about
Sticks
And Stones
But I know broken bones
Would’ve hurt you less
So everyday
Your severed heart strings
Bled away
The sorrows
So that maybe
Just maybe
You could learn not to care
And even now I wish
Only that you could see
Because my definition of beauty
Starts with you
And if you don’t see anything beautiful about yourself
Get a better mirror
Believe me honey
You are not just backround noise
Marching to someone else’s drum
Baby girl
With a smile like silver
And eyes like gold
Let me build a cast around your open wounds
And be the first to say
They were wrong
Jun 2014 · 306
Untitled
JN Masolas Jun 2014
Black
          Wires stretch
Connections
   M i l e s    and    m i l e s
Connecting
         Lives    with    lives
Voices   to
                  Eager ears
   Longing
             For a
                      Voice
Jun 2014 · 683
Untitled
JN Masolas Jun 2014
CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
I thought it was gone, they had taken my kidney, I thought it was out
     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
"It has made its way to your liver, we've also found some cancerous cells in your brain, I'm sorry", as if a doctor's sympathy makes any difference
     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
There is no real treatment, only drugs that might slow down the growth, "it worked in 28% of patients", it hurts to see my family's pain, 28%
     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
I am not in the 28%, they've stopped treatment. The pain is overwhelming
     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
Soon, soon it will be over, soon the pain will end, soon i will be free     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
Hurts my loved ones more than me. I sleep away most of what I have left
     CANCER
                         Cancer
                                          cancer
And then, it was over.
And then, I was free.
JN Masolas Jun 2014
2: City life is still strong, clubs reek with the boom chee boom chee boom, beats of a forgotten culture. The suburbs are quite now, families of four tucked into their beds, their Streets are post-apocalyptically barren. Snails drape the sidewalks because they believe they're protected under the shadows of night. A few cars on the freeway, search for somewhere to return.
3: In the city, drunken bodies drag themselves to find the nearest form of shelter, throwing shouts of gin and tonic to anyone who would let them be heard. A teenage girl sneaks back into her white house with a picket fence, hopping to God her parents don't wake up. Truck drivers route their way, trying to make it through the night.
4: The world seems to be resting. the distant hum of a car and faint sound of crickets are the only things in the air, but neither of them can be found. Four is my favorite hour. Walking the streets it is only you, it makes the world seem, in a way, that it is especially yours. Reality seems to be frozen, until that one car comes to breaks the trance. A world free from others cannot last.
5: The commuters shuffle into their cars to make their way to a sustainable future. The eyes of the world flicker open, still containing a haze of sleep. The world that was simply yours begins to gain occupants, slowly the sun rises lifting sleep from it followers. We have regained consciousness, the world seems less special. Until the next night my friend, until the next night.
Jun 2014 · 343
Untitled
JN Masolas Jun 2014
Heron, Heron come my way
I hope that you won’t fly away
My dear sweet bird who’s home is mine
Lets sit right here and pass the time
I’ll tell you of this place I knew
A mystic place where dew drops grew
Alluring sun sets everyday
Where winter winds could laugh and play
Heron, I know you know this too
For this is where the currents blew
You from your flock and out to me
So this is where we ought to be
I miss the trees that used to sway
While flowers grew to greet the day
Heron, please, I beg you, stay

I miss the trees that used to sway
And little raindrops brushed away
And little raindrops brushed away
work in progress
Jun 2014 · 1.1k
Ode to Piggy
JN Masolas Jun 2014
Beneath a southern isle doth lie the king of boys
Decomposed was he, as the wit of the world fell to the same solem depths
Alas the ego who stripped  our hero of his power
Innocence, his last living breath
HE was nothing more than a charlatan
The so-called king of all things
The so-called GOD among boys
Knew nothing more than the extent of his own vanity
The prospective leader
Prophesized guide us through this darkness that is our world
Now lays in ruins
        Shattered
And with him all reason
All notions of right and good
Crushed beneath a shadow of ostentation
critique at your leisure

— The End —