Friday, July 24, 2015

Engine Oil

I reach for fate and life, ever bathing in ink, script to soul—
and soul to script. It’s deeper than dungeons, a tragic
beauty, rifted in alleluias. We’re anxious for glory, a
mirror’s stranger, popping, drinking, or smoking. I met
you while facing death, astounded at meeting death, a
terror for mining death. Such pensive days, fraught with
paradox, heavily heated in sadness. We claw a chimney,
for metaphorical soot, two in a half dozen stressing
passions.

Delusion so simple, a must escape, peering into valleys.
It’s so naked, a mixed perception, from cradle to grave.

How close our panic, sorely unbolted, climbing endless
staircases? I mumble, condemn self, and set sail skyward.

It was ever your style, such midnight glory, where I ignored
retribution, indulging anxious contemplation.  

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