"abditory" poems
you were the lacunar bolt the part
of a life spent wishing on stars
if stars had ever granted anything but light
chatoyant the yellow pilot lamp
down the street trembles weakly
wanting to burn out it flickers like a sun
struggling long past its expiration date
I was an absquatulate scholar
of wrinkled bedsheets and the way
the light ineffable shone around us
as though we were the ******* center of it all
a slow-motion salvation is better
than instant gratification behind words
like I believe I can’t accept this
I will give you back
your left behind particulars: your lingerie
your photographs the calligraphy in your letters
the blanket I have slept under for three years
dreaming you might give me back the ring
I willfully saved for you in the abditory
between these walls I was building
for us broken promises refract sanguine light
and shape future homes into abandonment
Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 2:47 PM UTC
Passing through the jade
green understory of yours,
discovering your
forest-like body;
betwixt and between at last
I found my abditory.
Dec 29, 2016
Dec 29, 2016 at 11:06 AM UTC
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In the quiet corners of my
mind, I get lost
in my words –
as are my thoughts swirling
like leaves in the wind.
My notebook and pen become my
__abditory:__
a secret refuge where I
can disappear.
______
And it is here, in this
cherished hideaway, that I
lose
myself completely,
enveloped in the embrace
of
ink and paper,
crafting a reality
all my own.
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024 at 3:40 PM UTC
Take me away
Away from this cursed path
The path we walk as humans
Rushed by time
Consumed by hate
Chased by approval
Sleep walking
Seeking the useless
This path
Wonky and jejune
Nothing more than wanton
Not seeing the misanthrope it leads us to
Living according to a paradigm
Surrounded by air of melancholy
Rather lead me into the field
Give us an abditory
Make us feel
Feel the greatness of ataraxia
Cause at the end
As it stands
We are nothing more than a nation of sheep
Ruled by wolves
And owned by ******* pigs
Jul 12, 2017
Jul 12, 2017 at 7:32 PM UTC