Tuesday, March 28, 2023

I Can’t Paint a Picture

 

Wanting, driven crazy, too viral the beauty; a man with issues, a woman with pains, could it be, would it be? I lose sanity in mirrors. I avoid mirrors. So much unthinkable love, so sure it’s real, so true, what happens to alone men? Praise askew. Answers too convenient. I desire something radical, life altering, most reckless for a soul. Abandoned blues, forbidden reality, shivering, shaking, begging for sanity—it can’t be excellence, waves and ways, each traipsing wires, too bold to sense an escape. Thinking about it. Afraid to live. It might hurt. Peeking around nightmares. Pleading the beloved. Watching, tolerating, forgotten inside, aiming at unreality. I can’t paint a picture. I fail so often. I lose out; it was never close enough; a soul remains traumatized. To eat apricots. To sip wines. Talking like it’s a miracle, so engulfed, so whelmed, trying to impress Light. I must dream. Life back to its curse. A filthy baptism. Wasn’t truly worthy. It sounds this wave. Accepted, notwithstanding.  

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...