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I walked away
I left behind everything and fled
There was nothing I could carry
I didn't walk towards
I walked away
My heart was black
I would not die for you
No thoughts of anything except to fly away
I waited for the moment when I could go
No other thought
Nothing else to do
There was no going back
I do like being loved by Batcat
Her purr is so lovely and sweet
She wakes me on time in the morning
When I give her something to eat.

There are moments when I am sleeping
When I wake in sort of a crush
And Batcat is sitting upon me
With a smile on her face of pure mush

Her sweet little face isn't pretty
But her love lights it up like the stars
She plays with all of my trinkets
So I keep all the best ones in jars

She sits by my side when I'm gaming
On catnip decidedly high
I yell as she walks on the keyboard
Then she looks at me wondering why

It's nice to be loved by Batcat
When I'm weary from working all day
But I wish in her frenzied attention
That she'd put her sharp claws away
Calligraphy of geese
against the sky--
    the moon seals it.
  May 2015 Saparonia Holliday
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It's been a long time, can't tell since when.
It's been a long time, since I felt whole,
but I do feel it every now and then.
To pick up a pen and write down my soul.

To sing a mumble, this sad rumble.
Pretending I have a greater goal.
but under the truth of it, I crumble
and again, in weakness, I pay the toll.
Maybe next time it'll be a happier song.
I heard a loud pelting of rain at the door
Like as if I had never heard rain fall before,
Curious then I had to go see
But no sense could I make of what waited for me
They were frogs in a circle, a mound and a heap
Dark damp shapes all squirming  and some of them leaped
I stood and I wondered then the lady next door
Came to see why I looked and she told me some more
“Where could they have come from?” I asked in surprise
“From up there, they come often” she raised up her eyes
And I saw that she meant they had come from the skies
In time there was a moment when I saw god and loved
In time there was a moment when I saw the other and died
I walked in the otherness and in the grey formed again a world around us
I hope it isn't all my fault.
Outside of time there was time
Outside of space there was space
Rolling out my scroll the other
Selecting access point
I pushing forwards, to see
The other tutted.
Inside the eye
In greyness I
Pushing inwards to know
I was ejected
To find my own way home.
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