Monday, November 23, 2015

Reason’s Ghosts

Have you seen me: distorted deeply, as sane as infant cougars?
Something for suns, through childhood scars, a torn adult. The
winds are chilly, for foolish acts, to lose but life. There’s an
ache, a harpooned heart, chanting: Forgiveness; where walls
are crashing, a salute to Berlin, to usher quixotic thoughts; but
rivers rage, against Buddhists’ minds, to perish a swan; to
which we swim, drenched through deserts, mourning fathers;
to which we perish, a slate so filthy: thorns, briers, scars.

What to give, an aching soul, slanted towards hatred? We start
with self, a grand illumination, to emit sunlight rays; whereto
a contagion, if hopes be blessed, to test angst’ reflection; for
words are bending, to feature emotions, dying where she smiles.

Oh for princess, churning through wires, for gripping rage.
Hold not for poison, but rather joys, a wrist of diamonds; for
pain for crucial, to inflame chaos, staring at a stranger; for long
lives liquor, a distorted image, afraid for sober. The years hath
blighted souls, fallin’ through mirrors, inflamed come mindstuff.
We filter for wild, an eye for an eye, but destined to live. The
theaters filled, with likeness of trauma, to watch our lives.

There’s for travesty, a tragic tale, where swans string violins; to
which a world, too set aflame, to churn a vague feeling; but
know for bars, where perfect died, to opt for humanity.      

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