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Nothing is real Compact disk simulator When you first peeled back the seal Like Edward the eighth abdicating Born into money emulator **** it the colour schemes phthalo green I’ll arrange it with one of my team Skin to skin contact and small plates I’ll eat anything if I don’t have to wait Brand activation open bar I hate to be the bearer of bad news No one wants to spend time with you Least I get quality time with my bestie Treat yourself to a matcha **** isn’t that grassy? Norman Bates soul Take a look at that chassis Nobody got a body like you lassie Maybe pop a cork and pretend we’re classy. Are you gonna let me trauma dump? It’s the new form of public indecency You like visiting beautiful places I like to visit beautiful people Difference is the beauty comes to me You gotta fly to find your beauty spot I gotta look in the mirror to see what’s hot Gonna play Winehouse in the White House Back to black while you wear a white blouse Shipwrecked in love I’m your lighthouse Projecting light so you don’t run aground Viking women from Finland are sound The smallest risk of splatter I’ve ever experienced Floating through the ether all mysterious Several beautiful creatures Least I get quality time with my bestie Popularity has never been such a singularity When you’re all alone in your vulgarity Banking all your troubles for prosperity Don’t you know home is the only charity? Are you gonna let me trauma dump? It’s the new form of public indecency You like visiting beautiful places I like to visit the most beautiful people Like we’re on the front cover Of a magazine baby I wouldn’t mind the change eh?
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Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM UTC
All Rhodes lead to Pathos
Nothing is real Compact disk simulator When you first peeled back the seal Like Edward the eighth abdicating Born into money emulator **** it the colour schemes phthalo green I’ll arrange it with one of my team Skin to skin contact and small plates I’ll eat anything if I don’t have to wait Brand activation open bar I hate to be the bearer of bad news No one wants to spend time with you Least I get quality time with my bestie Treat yourself to a matcha **** isn’t that grassy? Norman Bates soul Take a look at that chassis Nobody got a body like you lassie Maybe pop a cork and pretend we’re classy. Are you gonna let me trauma dump? It’s the new form of public indecency You like visiting beautiful places I like to visit beautiful people Difference is the beauty comes to me You gotta fly to find your beauty spot I gotta look in the mirror to see what’s hot Gonna play Winehouse in the White House Back to black while you wear a white blouse Shipwrecked in love I’m your lighthouse Projecting light so you don’t run aground Viking women from Finland are sound The smallest risk of splatter I’ve ever experienced Floating through the ether all mysterious Several beautiful creatures Least I get quality time with my bestie Popularity has never been such a singularity When you’re all alone in your vulgarity Banking all your troubles for prosperity Don’t you know home is the only charity? Are you gonna let me trauma dump? It’s the new form of public indecency You like visiting beautiful places I like to visit the most beautiful people Like we’re on the front cover Of a magazine baby I wouldn’t mind the change eh?
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It is not somewhere over the Rainbow Beyond Mother's breath or In the devices of ancient Or modern hands bereft We touch it in our pathos And empathy from Time to time Through a shallow fading Gravel bed Filtering a bitter water table perhaps Whilst the tender leaf of spring Feels it In the autumn of unconditional Acceptance of the inevitable Morning frost Cold relentless rains And colourful leaves falling to their death In beauty So far removed from our bipedal Posturing And upright positioning at the Computer Desk knowing there is no mystery here No wild cry in the night Only electronic and organic Bleeps and drones and Aw! there… I heard it again A lost chord A missing link That the wild Creatures understand Of what we sometimes feel nearer in our shared limbic Brain seldom penetrated through Our domineering eyes planted Firmly in front Of the gray dross from an eternal Fire We spend our given time on This planet trying to douse when The rest Of creation knows the need for Its Purification and leaps willingly Into its All-consuming heart as we Live in fear of the unknown And of fear itself Keeping us estranged from the Cosmic mysterium which Provokes us to awaken To the wondrous eternal Which will Alter our deluded consciousness To see what has been seen Through the Unknown eons to help us take to The fire We only catch a whiff of in the Twilight Of our hopes and selfless dreams So we will rise through the Dry brown leaves of our once Tender Green vision of an ever-changing Universe Which whispers louder and Louder in our darkness Until we cease our chatter and Learn to listen to the serene Silence Of an eternal vibration Heightening Morphing Less organic much more Ethereal spiritual Crawling further and further From the pulse of the earth As we shed thickened skin which Once replaced thin soft Unprotected flesh Needing protection from Extraneous Sources to cover what should Have been Eternally naked bare to the Elements Not limited to a frail carcass Which Will ultimately be left behind as We Transform into our individual Eternal temples to Join in worship with the rest of Creation To be the living offering At the foot of the Eternal voice ineffable Not waiting to be obeyed In mass procession but As individual as one spark Igniting A plot of trees newly released as Mystery Revealed ever so slightly in the Wake of The burial of earthbound mind Steeped in Temporal ancient tradition Fermented in Oak casks which were made to Remain And grow in their ****** state As we hear distant yet distinct Whispers of The origin of our human calling Above and beyond Thoreau's distant drummer’s Near silent tremors of the Most ancient rhythms Now mostly echoes as we March to And follow our own drummer Leading the way back home As we at times seem to distinctly Hear original rhythm's calling As we try so earnestly to Respond like a dying sea Longing to once again sway To the beckoning moon Often keeping in step With our Own inner drummer who Is always trying to keep Time by asking "Are we prepared to give Into what we will Inevitably meet in the end?"
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Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM UTC
Beyond Mother's Breath
It is not somewhere over the Rainbow Beyond Mother's breath or In the devices of ancient Or modern hands bereft We touch it in our pathos And empathy from Time to time Through a shallow fading Gravel bed Filtering a bitter water table perhaps Whilst the tender leaf of spring Feels it In the autumn of unconditional Acceptance of the inevitable Morning frost Cold relentless rains And colourful leaves falling to their death In beauty So far removed from our bipedal Posturing And upright positioning at the Computer Desk knowing there is no mystery here No wild cry in the night Only electronic and organic Bleeps and drones and Aw! there… I heard it again A lost chord A missing link That the wild Creatures understand Of what we sometimes feel nearer in our shared limbic Brain seldom penetrated through Our domineering eyes planted Firmly in front Of the gray dross from an eternal Fire We spend our given time on This planet trying to douse when The rest Of creation knows the need for Its Purification and leaps willingly Into its All-consuming heart as we Live in fear of the unknown And of fear itself Keeping us estranged from the Cosmic mysterium which Provokes us to awaken To the wondrous eternal Which will Alter our deluded consciousness To see what has been seen Through the Unknown eons to help us take to The fire We only catch a whiff of in the Twilight Of our hopes and selfless dreams So we will rise through the Dry brown leaves of our once Tender Green vision of an ever-changing Universe Which whispers louder and Louder in our darkness Until we cease our chatter and Learn to listen to the serene Silence Of an eternal vibration Heightening Morphing Less organic much more Ethereal spiritual Crawling further and further From the pulse of the earth As we shed thickened skin which Once replaced thin soft Unprotected flesh Needing protection from Extraneous Sources to cover what should Have been Eternally naked bare to the Elements Not limited to a frail carcass Which Will ultimately be left behind as We Transform into our individual Eternal temples to Join in worship with the rest of Creation To be the living offering At the foot of the Eternal voice ineffable Not waiting to be obeyed In mass procession but As individual as one spark Igniting A plot of trees newly released as Mystery Revealed ever so slightly in the Wake of The burial of earthbound mind Steeped in Temporal ancient tradition Fermented in Oak casks which were made to Remain And grow in their ****** state As we hear distant yet distinct Whispers of The origin of our human calling Above and beyond Thoreau's distant drummer’s Near silent tremors of the Most ancient rhythms Now mostly echoes as we March to And follow our own drummer Leading the way back home As we at times seem to distinctly Hear original rhythm's calling As we try so earnestly to Respond like a dying sea Longing to once again sway To the beckoning moon Often keeping in step With our Own inner drummer who Is always trying to keep Time by asking "Are we prepared to give Into what we will Inevitably meet in the end?"
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"A LIL SPACE." Just spare me a lil space in thy heart. I swear you wouldn't know when I'd occupy the whole place, for I'd spread my whole love seeds all over thy heart. Cultivating various numerous vine that makes life commodious. Only just you and I. I'd make you always feel like yourself. By yourself baby it's all you could making mine yourself. I know you'd make a beautiful world and it's quite awesome to live in you as we lived inon GOD. You'd worship mine God in the alter. We both did say yes. Your beautiful mother shall become mine mine realist dad did become your's. And our love will illuminate the whole world turned into paradise, till the last dying days. Like "The Dreamer lad and the dream lass" or like "Juliet and Romeo" just you and I, high on Cloud cockoo land a sphere of reality because my love is true and real, for its from the bottom of the heart underneath my soul poured the water of my love. Streaming down our hearts forming one ocean upon which our love--ship did voyage through lifetime on that trip earning our dreams together. #C9_fm
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May 16, 2021
May 16, 2021 at 4:59 PM UTC
"A LIL SPACE."
Brothers blood on your arms Coward’s salt on your cheeks Heavy head in your hands With such weapons of war No Greek bones should litter These flooded dunes of Mars And still, rouge stained boys clog That one final river Gather on the bank. See The line of Troys that burn
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 5:30 AM UTC
Achilles
She came from a broken home She moved to New York to become an editor He fled Belfast City to make his way as a fighter After his brother was blown up in a car bombing It was summertime when the ocean breeze Climbs up the hills, flows through the fields into the trees. He could see the harbour. He could see the city lights The tall buildings, the millions of people He was alone, lonely, alien, afraid. Their paths intersected by mere chance By the ball fields on the edge of town Their eyes met each other As a summer storm blew in over the field The grey clouds rumbled And rained down on them They ran into the trees for cover In their scant summer clothes. Their heads turned slowly as their eyes met for a second time The laughter started when he said the rain ruined his haircut They embraced They kissed They made love in the rain She took him back to her place and did it all over again He moved into her apartment on the ugly side of town They would talk about the state of things The pandemics, the hysteria, the great writers The music, the people they hated, the people they loved They were at home with each other One day he woke up to find She had gone And not left a single thing behind No note, not even a goodbye He never fought another fight He drove around town for days chain smoking cigars The ones she hated the smell of but told him he looked He looked like a movie star when he smoked them He went to the undertaker and asked if they did walk-ins. He drove up the mountain Where people dumped their garbage He looked down the cliff to see the unwanted refuse. “That’s me.” he said. His body was never found The undefeated fighter met his match. She delivered the knockout punch.
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Apr 12, 2020
Apr 12, 2020 at 3:58 AM UTC
Knockout Punch
She came from a broken home She moved to New York to become an editor He fled Belfast City to make his way as a fighter After his brother was blown up in a car bombing It was summertime when the ocean breeze Climbs up the hills, flows through the fields into the trees. He could see the harbour. He could see the city lights The tall buildings, the millions of people He was alone, lonely, alien, afraid. Their paths intersected by mere chance By the ball fields on the edge of town Their eyes met each other As a summer storm blew in over the field The grey clouds rumbled And rained down on them They ran into the trees for cover In their scant summer clothes. Their heads turned slowly as their eyes met for a second time The laughter started when he said the rain ruined his haircut They embraced They kissed They made love in the rain She took him back to her place and did it all over again He moved into her apartment on the ugly side of town They would talk about the state of things The pandemics, the hysteria, the great writers The music, the people they hated, the people they loved They were at home with each other One day he woke up to find She had gone And not left a single thing behind No note, not even a goodbye He never fought another fight He drove around town for days chain smoking cigars The ones she hated the smell of but told him he looked He looked like a movie star when he smoked them He went to the undertaker and asked if they did walk-ins. He drove up the mountain Where people dumped their garbage He looked down the cliff to see the unwanted refuse. “That’s me.” he said. His body was never found The undefeated fighter met his match. She delivered the knockout punch.
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If my disappointment dressed in wrath, It would rumble in hell-flames and chaos, Reaching the gates of the seven heavens Asking for justice with the blood of pathos. All good feelings made out of nothing- Just as the lightsome grab of a baby's hand, Or either heavy as a smile, making compliment- Shall be enclosed far away of the worldly hell of pathos. Since, the heavenly drops of happiness Are drunk up by stone hearted human greyogles, Playing hazardous games with my rare happiness, And leaving me in a chaos-like hellfire with my dear pathos.
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Oct 5, 2019
Oct 5, 2019 at 2:03 AM UTC
The weak point of pathos
words tucked into child minds forming in the mold, depeche mode, fashion wisdom blooming in starstruck lunacy of lost meaning ****** Airline driving Jet Blue as a sign, you know we rise and ask redemption this instant toiling with tools the psalmist dreamed and all the first cantors sang in genuine gentle spirit of... genius (n.) late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius  "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill; the male spirit of a gens," originally "generative power" (or "inborn nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups. Sense of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental ability" are first recorded 1640s and remaining in super position watching until we see we be agreed and symbiosis sets in upto unto upon a time stumbled into uttering urgent fervent prayer, simple asking, what remains broken what quest unmade, unmade imagined asif this is life's book interpreting your translation of reason into I'll go rythmic waves rising from great notions stuck in the mire at the bottom o' th'ocean stirred up by trouble peace bringing in times of see-change settling in on of by bis more again or less waiting is all suffer ever meant to mean, mean men made each furrow seem too hard to *** in final throes of terminal toil debitum in praesenti, solvendum in praesenti debt due now, paid. It is finished. Good news darkness consummatum light fashioned in the mode of our time powered for ever by happy Sisyphus's rock rolled up rock rolled down by grace of gravity being the law reach out ceive con re de ceive (if you know what I mean, taken for granted) praesentium tedium t'do doodle do touch faith, fingers fail, toe-tippy reach topple the tinker-toy tower where war once reigned back ground Johnny Cash praisin' Dylan from the dead out in the desert, just doin my time-- waitin' by a pile of Hopi nilhili-pili rocks rolling no more sitting still in rasta farian blank spaces between the pieces of we carried to now as you see. We are in this real, as real angel messages made magnificent in worth as words worth deeming worship's solventum songs from the po et tu brutes, breakin' rocks back down the line, scarlet thread sewn tendon anchored to my zen minded ped-dance kick the liar from his throne, claim it for my own, my pile of flocci nauci meaninglessness of weightless worship turned on, with a merest touch. No flame, no night. Words alone reign un fused, un frozen, new mercies rising in the sunshine of a rich man with a satisfied mind, as time rolls by. Cohen told us there is a crack in everything, that's how the life gets in this bubblin ethosphere we offer as a sacred secret shown in light of all we share. Clap clapper in liberty's cracked bell. Let us lieve well enough alone for the time, being once rung, listen, other bells ring still with that pathos we share logically as mere words.
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Aug 14, 2019
Aug 14, 2019 at 1:38 PM UTC
Final phase solventum
words tucked into child minds forming in the mold, depeche mode, fashion wisdom blooming in starstruck lunacy of lost meaning ****** Airline driving Jet Blue as a sign, you know we rise and ask redemption this instant toiling with tools the psalmist dreamed and all the first cantors sang in genuine gentle spirit of... genius (n.) late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius  "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill; the male spirit of a gens," originally "generative power" (or "inborn nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups. Sense of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental ability" are first recorded 1640s and remaining in super position watching until we see we be agreed and symbiosis sets in upto unto upon a time stumbled into uttering urgent fervent prayer, simple asking, what remains broken what quest unmade, unmade imagined asif this is life's book interpreting your translation of reason into I'll go rythmic waves rising from great notions stuck in the mire at the bottom o' th'ocean stirred up by trouble peace bringing in times of see-change settling in on of by bis more again or less waiting is all suffer ever meant to mean, mean men made each furrow seem too hard to *** in final throes of terminal toil debitum in praesenti, solvendum in praesenti debt due now, paid. It is finished. Good news darkness consummatum light fashioned in the mode of our time powered for ever by happy Sisyphus's rock rolled up rock rolled down by grace of gravity being the law reach out ceive con re de ceive (if you know what I mean, taken for granted) praesentium tedium t'do doodle do touch faith, fingers fail, toe-tippy reach topple the tinker-toy tower where war once reigned back ground Johnny Cash praisin' Dylan from the dead out in the desert, just doin my time-- waitin' by a pile of Hopi nilhili-pili rocks rolling no more sitting still in rasta farian blank spaces between the pieces of we carried to now as you see. We are in this real, as real angel messages made magnificent in worth as words worth deeming worship's solventum songs from the po et tu brutes, breakin' rocks back down the line, scarlet thread sewn tendon anchored to my zen minded ped-dance kick the liar from his throne, claim it for my own, my pile of flocci nauci meaninglessness of weightless worship turned on, with a merest touch. No flame, no night. Words alone reign un fused, un frozen, new mercies rising in the sunshine of a rich man with a satisfied mind, as time rolls by. Cohen told us there is a crack in everything, that's how the life gets in this bubblin ethosphere we offer as a sacred secret shown in light of all we share. Clap clapper in liberty's cracked bell. Let us lieve well enough alone for the time, being once rung, listen, other bells ring still with that pathos we share logically as mere words.
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The word I. The idea, ego. Me, relative to you. I am, but you may not know that. May is your word here. May be is all yours to follow in the flow of all that anyman, (wombed or un nevergoes unsaid some days,) any among the lot o' ye, may be able to swim thru if it don't get thick. I, a-poli-gize, bow down, kau-tau, or no-- un appolo getic  magic tech I stand, sistere, my command, in this realm, I command lies to stand in light and I redeem the idle words from the ashes. Okeh that's my job. I am not a messenger, I sweep. When walls come down and chains are cut, it's amess. I become the besom sweeping up the destruction. --- why is any line after any line. sirius, you have to ask. orthodox definitions serve as ample chains to hold any child to the post where today's sufficiency of evil squats quotidianishit, day after day. I find such chains, I cut them with the fruit of my lips, shape-shifted to the sword, from the stone, you know the one... then bing back to me through a google plex of porbables fighting spelchek to go viral. A blind me, I lied, and saw the light. Dumb luck. And then, rather than, lie once more and say, I can't believe this, I am that sword, still be, and know. eh. I, the word, I did it. I made a point and a word formed, as a bubble might under relative circumstances. I know, round and round. If this were a game, this is a key. (ah, a secret here.) if this were a game, and I were playing.
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Jun 18, 2019
Jun 18, 2019 at 11:23 PM UTC
'E goes ( a key piece o'me)
Gently you patted my cheek, with a tenderness piquant, not  known hitherto to us both. Those quivering long fingers exude motherliness,I miss ever after, my mom has gone to her last pilgrimage, And I crave for at moments of pain intense. From the layers of memory darkened by distance,I recover that feeling, to place you instantly at a level higher, than that of a sultry lover to whom desire than anything higher binds together. In to my lackluster eyes, you peer, see the ineptly hidden drop of tear, in the corner shivering plaintively before rolling down to lose forever, it's in the memory of my mother, who rhythmically tapped my back, led me to the cozy cloud of sleep, when outside raged the rain storm, I now gather, to a women I owe when, time after time she takes another avatar, of my mother, momentarily, at times,when earth slips, from under the feet unexpectedly.                          You did see the storm raging inside and the child looking for solace. You hold me close to your ***** and I travel to a world gone by again even when wolves howl refusing to sleep. and let me doze off to wake up in another world!
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 12:50 PM UTC
Surrogate
I have a tendency. A tendency not many think of yet they think of it all the time. A tendency that, will never die. Even if it evokes that pain in me in the blink of an eye. This tendency festers, like an infection that’s stopping my heart. This tendency, makes me feel everything and nothing at the exact same time. This tendency is making me crazy but what if crazy wasn’t so bad? My tendency makes me hate myself and love everything about me for the exact same reason. This tendency can ruin my day. But, this tendency, sits like a sack on my back that I never want to lose. Because despite the straps digging into my sides, this tendency is why I cherish being alive. this tendency, I speak so poorly of that I don’t want to leave me be why this tendency is that I tend to love so hopelessly it’s the scariest part of me.
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Sep 6, 2017
Sep 6, 2017 at 4:30 PM UTC
Tendencies
I do not know a sadder song Then a happy one remembered Nary be a verse to long That it can’t be shortened Or dismembered Summers, springs, Falls, and winters Cut to smithereens Fading in our memories Till only shards of notes remain Lost Until the true tune Returns to us The song recalled Calls forth the tears Turning memories to sadness Knowing that we were once loved But cannot get back there again
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 5:13 PM UTC
The Saddest Song
All I've ever had in my possession were bones. The framework of a biological nuisance, something empty on the inside, though full of what any of us may call life. At the least, the semblance of which we can be convinced: parading a corpse across the bridge, most talented thespian in space; and medicine, the hobby you picked up so you could learn to ignore death. You are too old, now, to foolishly believe you can outrun death, the inevitable silence that haunts your dreams and soaks through your bones. You breathe in too quickly, too aware of the emotional cavity, of the space between your thoughts and your actions. Your words have always been empty, a reminder of the very symbol of your own faith, though you aren't convinced that you, yourself, can ever measure up to that vivacity that floods his life. Repeat that in your mind, over and over; that the anomalies in this life can be proven as effects of the reckless and the brave, that their death is ultimately yours to cause or to save. So, of your own importance, you are convinced, and you know you are the best, always have been -- always, Bones. So don't waste your energy on the thought that all of his promises are empty and trust, instead, that this lunatic, this love, will survive all of space. There's nowhere for you to escape this bitterness; indeed, no space for you to claim as your own, your sanctuary. No chance of a separate life when you've had all you can stomach of this insanity, this empty endless game you've boxed yourself up in, until you surrender yourself to death, to the simple cessation of your repetitive motions -- but, no, Bones; he will never stop. His life will continue, his body and soul immortal -- of this, you are convinced. No, he'll keep on going, as perilously as before; of his invincibility, you are convinced, but you, yourself are, as ever, determined to follow his failures through space, to diligently spout your expletives and condemnations and advice; you are now, as then, his bones, and you never forgot that. Just as he never forgot who takes credit for his life, his bones, his common sense --- you alone have, time and time again, forced death to hang its weary head and return and yet, his own promises are empty. You've learned to scoff at his vows of safety; his idiocy, you could handle. Still, empty, too, were his promises of faith. His loyalty, he proved, but you stay thoroughly convinced that alone would he remain, had you considered your logic. Somehow still, like death, the logic was an inevitability, and you learned to detest one trait in all of space. You can see his faith fading as it goes, as logic proves itself a thief of your life, and you lament the truest fact of all -- no longer could you be his bones. And so I've managed to pull my empty shell together, as he never could, for in space nowhere can I hide from the death of my ethos; yes, in space alone I dedicate my life. And I am, as he was convinced, an honest man. I end as I begin -- with all I've ever had: Bones.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 10:53 AM UTC
The Real McCoy
All I've ever had in my possession were bones. The framework of a biological nuisance, something empty on the inside, though full of what any of us may call life. At the least, the semblance of which we can be convinced: parading a corpse across the bridge, most talented thespian in space; and medicine, the hobby you picked up so you could learn to ignore death. You are too old, now, to foolishly believe you can outrun death, the inevitable silence that haunts your dreams and soaks through your bones. You breathe in too quickly, too aware of the emotional cavity, of the space between your thoughts and your actions. Your words have always been empty, a reminder of the very symbol of your own faith, though you aren't convinced that you, yourself, can ever measure up to that vivacity that floods his life. Repeat that in your mind, over and over; that the anomalies in this life can be proven as effects of the reckless and the brave, that their death is ultimately yours to cause or to save. So, of your own importance, you are convinced, and you know you are the best, always have been -- always, Bones. So don't waste your energy on the thought that all of his promises are empty and trust, instead, that this lunatic, this love, will survive all of space. There's nowhere for you to escape this bitterness; indeed, no space for you to claim as your own, your sanctuary. No chance of a separate life when you've had all you can stomach of this insanity, this empty endless game you've boxed yourself up in, until you surrender yourself to death, to the simple cessation of your repetitive motions -- but, no, Bones; he will never stop. His life will continue, his body and soul immortal -- of this, you are convinced. No, he'll keep on going, as perilously as before; of his invincibility, you are convinced, but you, yourself are, as ever, determined to follow his failures through space, to diligently spout your expletives and condemnations and advice; you are now, as then, his bones, and you never forgot that. Just as he never forgot who takes credit for his life, his bones, his common sense --- you alone have, time and time again, forced death to hang its weary head and return and yet, his own promises are empty. You've learned to scoff at his vows of safety; his idiocy, you could handle. Still, empty, too, were his promises of faith. His loyalty, he proved, but you stay thoroughly convinced that alone would he remain, had you considered your logic. Somehow still, like death, the logic was an inevitability, and you learned to detest one trait in all of space. You can see his faith fading as it goes, as logic proves itself a thief of your life, and you lament the truest fact of all -- no longer could you be his bones. And so I've managed to pull my empty shell together, as he never could, for in space nowhere can I hide from the death of my ethos; yes, in space alone I dedicate my life. And I am, as he was convinced, an honest man. I end as I begin -- with all I've ever had: Bones.
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