30/M/California “Cogitation. A distant fragment. Separate me from the whole. My thoughts...are now unchained.”
-A Wolf Amongst Ravens 144 followers / 71.5k words
Then I’m back in the lab Like the ghost Of Ahab As the coast Is consumed In the gloom Fog of mad And out from it emerges Convergence In form Of the soon Be forgotten Undying Reborn From the torn More asunder Than plausibly Posed Like the posies In bloom Where no sign of life Grows
The war The war It’s always the war Determines how the map Gets redrawn By the board So reform it all Storm the hall Normalize gore And procure its Pervasive Inflation’s Reward
Take apart Of me And what do you get Just the heart Of a recluse Awaiting regret An excuse For why I On my failures Rely Justify My abhorrent Transgressions Deny
No flag No anthem No country Remains In the aftermath Rapturous History stains We will just be Statistics An unfulfilled Wish list Accords And concurrent Perfidious Pacts Like a carbon offset In the form of an axe No more acts We need action Not actors And stages For theaters of war’s All our avarice Wages
Every night is cold, It eats my soul, It lets me go And though unknown to you Embitters As it withers Me in woe A freezing rain, Unceasing pain, An endless Friendless Winter day An empty space, Estranged embrace Encased In icy Psyche Wastes
As dark as I am I am still But a man Understand There’s a line I must draw In the sand Of abandonment Cast To the castles Ashore To the pages Adorned In my love Nevermore
Every night since It’s subliminal Hints It’s the criminal Underworld’s Underling Prince That evinces His regal Enfeebled ambition With pride His exile Erstwhile form’s Normal disguise Circumscribed To confined To confide in himself For how could they relate Even less Could they help