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Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
Too
Sorry I was too cold too barren too early too young
Now I've got me an ice gun
Apologies for you being too angry too chaotic too quick too soon
You don’t make sense
Never did the stories but time well spent
Sorry I was too impatient too outspoken
Apologies for you never listening and always understanding
Gratitude for you who learned neither the sun nor the earth was the center much too late
Condolence for you who learned not to share and became too greedy
Sorry I became lonely
Sorry I made fake
Sorry I wasn’t happy
Sorry I’m not very sorry
I keep apologizing but I’m not acting truthfully
Sadness and anger and joyous for wordplay
Too human not enough animal
Too complex not enough basics
Tell me this and I’ll ask you to think about that
You said sorry you’re were too philosophical too sympathetic too much too often
I replied don’t worry you’re exactly who I thought you would be
Too self centered too filthy and too rich
Uncaring and relentless too powerful and never the switch
I asked for equality but you said you were sorry that goal is too out of reach
Too futuristic too immoral never to be enough
That that work be left for God it is too pure and too good
Humans possess all the evil and no just so there can never be peace
So tell me when does torture become too inhumane?
Too much pain and never enough questions or answers to give
Answer me not with black tongue but truth and honesty.
I am not a child once was though still deserving of maturity
But you never gave me any said I was too innocent still blossoming
Fed me lies about people I needed faith to believe in
Sorry I was too smart too witty to follow in your steps
Apologies for putting this burden, these words to your chest
Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
Today wasn’t the day to carry
My head’s weighed down heavy
Pulsing in a burden calling distress
I have mistrust, lust in a love that never was
No, it isn’t what I needed or what I need
Love is a lie my parents couldn’t try to hide
Or any others or even on the greener side
I know I got me, alone I can suffice
Now I’m wandering away, walking
In the blacked out day I’ll be calling out, “don’t you wait”
We’ll never know love if we don’t learn how not to take
And have much more left to give, never hate
I thought I might have been ****** to a hole
A self dug darkness
But I found a way out and
I discovered me, myself, the one I need
Today was yesterday and tomorrow every day
And I’ve got to learn nothing stays the same
Not the heavy
Not the weighed
Nor the burden of a horrible day
Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
V
go ahead,
the seams are starting to rip.


aren't you going to take another bite of this stone?
start devouring away before it heals to the bone.


I felt peace,
I felt the pain,
so keep your persistence.


I've got nowhere to run or shelter.


not like I didn't ask for you,
but you know this feels like burning,
like someone took my heart and left it over the flame.


that someone is you.


you portrayer of heartache and love.


the entity that promises the scorn of a thousand looking people.


and they're all shaking their heads,
pounding their fists in the air,
chanting for the teeth to tear at the threads.


burn him at the stake for he withholds forbidden love in his chest.


and you happily put your lips to kiss the veins.


I held myself in place,
clenching my teeth as my life drained into your mouth.


then you left me empty and breathing.


I closed my eyes to let the bliss flow through arteries tracing to lifeless organs,
and in that moment of peace I finally realized how many times over I'd give myself to you
Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
I dreamt you weren't alive, I didn't mind.
I, I realized you were out of life, out of time,
Of this history from which you have moved on.
Now your ashes in a sacred place, the home you called your peace.
But you know, you're scattered everywhere in my climb.
And maybe this imaginary line will lead me back to you
Is it a circle or does it have four right angles?
Does it remain expanding or can't we cross it?
This universe, are you in it?
Because I wish you were here
And wish I knew where it is that you were
Give me some answers.
Let me know if you're free, unrestricted of a body
This casing it's not built correctly or at least that's what they've got me to believe
Should I be lost without you?
Because everyone's still trying to find a way
And I'm wondering if they're asking their grandmama
Or their papa, or their long lost partner
These same old questions
I wonder if their God understands because mine is nonexistant
He does not listen
Nor does he appear in my dreams
I had a nightmare, and you were there.
You said, don't dream if you don't dream to care
We'll dream anyway, I said, we just have to be forgetful
Because everytime I see you I always remember I love you
Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
Dreaming on his death bed,
Looking like a dead man.
All the mourning faces,
Come to see him; He's vacant.
Had a knack for artists,
Paint something for the supremicists.
Their minds lack imagination.
He can be the one to blame.
Push him into leadership.
He will serve poison dishes,
and **** the competition.
Then he'll be a betraying motivation.
How could he be pure if he is forced to sin?
He is a dead living *****
Waiting for his time to rot
He'll stand still and the world will continue running
He's here
All of you looking down on him
He's inanimate
His eyes shut by shy hands
And multiple hands and lips
close to pray.
Many feet follow in unison.
Pay their respects.
Then leave in scattered steps.
Everything in death.
May be in comparison.
Kiss him goodbye.
Promise him he won't fade from your mind.
Cause senselessly
He fought
He died
Now he wishes his family could forget
Kenneth Fox Sep 2011
Everyone’s jumping
Where’s the wagon?
We must’ve missed it.
Yet we missed it on purpose.
Though we try and try to find the right words
That would make this new,
Make it alive again,
That’ll breathe into us bravery we won’t lose.
There’s a part of us on that train of thought,
Longing for departure
Wanting to get away, away from
Tears and memories of a time we were complete
Now it’s gone, no longer in our grasp
And they’re getting there
The us who took the lion by the fangs,
They’ll get different and won’t be bored
They'll see Paris to Japan and ride under giant sycamores.
Then here is us,
a for sale sign on a home never sold,
two stick figures in the mud and rain,
Watching the black smoke dim us away
We were too shy to take the chance
We couldn't step foot to leave
Like a heavy stone caught in our throats
Like our bodies were turning blue
Here we are to die
Still the last ones to laugh
Still the last ones to cry
Were we ever alive?
Kenneth Fox Aug 2011
He drinks until he knows no more,
until his thoughts are wildly rampant through
broken slurred
words
blurred strangers
sharing shot
after
shot
days through years
different bar every time, sometimes as many
as the drinks in his hands
empty
and refill
like the streets when the bartender gives
confused feet direction to the door
and he's back
to fighting the world
in a metal death machine
the darkness
the tired eyes of a late night
fixated on song and sleep
with no seat belt to keep
him secure
and as the stars come closer
he doesn't realize
he's behind the wheel
and not driving in the black
space
glittering stars
but in a swarm of red and white lights
the squeal of rubber
the screeching of vocal
cords
slipping into the destruction
turning it all to a construction of
symphony
a family of three
a young couple
a bus full of 2nd shift workers
the drunk
the driver
death was in what order?
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