#illustrate
You thought I was falling apart before
But at that point I still had my feet on the floor
Now, I don't even see the ground anymore
No clues on what I'm in store for
For now or for forever more
Did I drift or swim out far to far from the shore?
I'm far further than a metaphor can illustrate, further than ever before
Memories so distant they've been redesignated as basic lore
What more can you do when you've lost your core
And it was you who held open the door...
...once more
©2024
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC
a ************* story does no good
"illustrate the pangs of loss"
why don't you illustrate my pangs of knowing you
stories only serve to accentuate
my failures I resent it
I resent you
my father, he was good
but not
exceptionally great
poetry was his forte
and even the poems
were not that interesting.
instead of being a genius-freak
he was a freak-freak
& with a beer in his hand, he would deny that
he drank because he was afraid of life
and said he was
disgusted with people like you
he was a walking catastrophe
rather like me actually
as I grow older I'm turning into him
I wish to vanish
he will never
there is nothing more that I can do
but wait I can wait
if hell is this chair what is heaven
I wish to be free but i
have no idea what freedom is
a shadow of an idea that our
fathers fought for mistakenly
sitting down is much easier than standing
though it does not allow movement
I wish to burn the books of my panic
see me reach for the stars but come back
empty handed
my hands are stained
with the blood of my consciousness
but so are yours
and so, so much more than mine
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 at 8:47 AM UTC
i use poetry to describe
a vast array of things
but
it has occurred to me
there are no individual words
i could possibly string together
to illustrate you.
Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 2:30 PM UTC
It's hard to illustrate
this essence in frames
some love is easily lost
but some love, it stays.
You draw outlines
With precision and care
And still gets smudged
in pain and despair.
You try to illustrate
take every right step
still, leave enough room for silly mistakes.
Some love, it just stays.
You try to erase
those sloppy details.
nevertheless, can't escape
but some love, it just stays.
Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 12:31 PM UTC
If I could find the words to speak
and say them without getting weak,
it's all right there inside my head
thoughts just jumbled up instead.
Give me a chance to write them down
and I'll describe my world without a sound.
Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 11:04 AM UTC
Without an authority, you are your own authority. But yet what do you perceive? Right and wrong? Truth and false?
So can you observe within yourself?
Did you observe anything before ever observing what is inside of yourself, or was it afterwards? what floats inside of you is only what floats outside of you:
is this not how you come to being? Are you truly finding yourself? Or what are you finding about yourself?
(Your opinion is only a reflection of the exterior from yourself; But that is beyond the point.)
If there truly is not an authority, and if you are the authority; how can anything exist from you alone?
know that what you perceive isn’t from you. It is only within your consciousness.
Truly you only know that you exist because of what exists outside of your existence; although you are not proven to exist without the absence of your existence.
Whatever you trust in isn’t from you; and only faith can be what you believe in. So whatever you put your faith in
it can only be of your own knowings, but you cannot have faith in yourself alone.
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 2:44 AM UTC
Inspiration sparks
It flows and bursts into flame
I am overcome.
Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 12:35 AM UTC