2009
alternative calculus
we'd sit with this brevity
extinguish our flame, or what we thought was left anyway
you were always too cool
and i always making light
of my feelings and desire to take flight
on that most special of delivery
i claimed a special victory
and repossessed my distressed
ambiguity
no longer tied to the
corpse i thought you'd made of me
free of the strained pained
weight of who i couldn't be
i walked away
i see clearly
oh this secret
better off
and as this poison fades
i know i'll come away
grateful for that fateful day
twisted, ripped
drawn with [reverse]
know you tortured (yourself)
in the decision to venture into your own
and at the abyss
you sink listless
alone cold stone
you sink, ripples the evidence of your
battle and loss
you blamed me for the cost
but you put the bill on your line
credit we each wanted,
credit we deserved
borrowed too much
and broken is such
we sink we follow we swallow
it all and we drink from this cup
see, we know as this poison fades away
the scars may stay but we're apart
better for the
dis.aster
onward
now that i know it's over
i think i can, i think i can
move onward and over you
so true but i waited
imagining we dated
again, and again
i whipped myself, lash
undone i come to you
at my defense negated
belated sedated
i defend against the
monster i've become
one, separated from source
with remorse i venture off
this course
one day you'll thank me
that i didn't take you back
one day i'll thank you
for not swallowing your black
you've got your own poison
to deal with and manage
and now that i'm not around
to swallow your pain
we'll see just who is
truly unsettled and sad, angry and mad
deal with it
always okay
deal with it
it'll start to weigh
around your neck you'll feel so tight
and know you'll never set it right
without settling this debt
you'll set
off track off course and out of steam
slow down
never good at goodbyes
oh, no longer
i am pollution
face validity
crawl
deny me
wrapped
in completion
don't mean to trivialize
blink, blink, sink
i saw it
we were double crossed
called it long before the flame
but, i still think that you were
to blame
to hold the candle your obsession
with the wick, left you in a stick
-y situation and two were to burn
our struggle you left
undeserved
i...
i was stung
preparation, presentation, participation
plied you lied i died denied
the danger
and as we sink i blink
chance it
i think i know
i think i know
you and me
we could be
something something
it might kill me
still me
take me off
this path and this rock.ed
oh so lock.ed
knocked
stocked
and smoking barrel
with these qualms
i see the peril
oh these bombs explode
all around us
the smoke hangs,
it covers us
you think that i can't see
but i. but i, but i
i may trip
and i may fall
but through this space
i will recall
your betrayal
your denial
you started, you started the fire
bear with me
you think you know
but i think less
and what i know
bears repeating
this treating
won't endear me to
want
you back and forth across this place
without a trace undone we come
swing me baby
take this dance
with you i may consider
another chance
oh baby, pucker up
please don't hear this as a diss on you
but i really needed a tissue
such a joy to let it go
though didn't mean to lead you on
hard, i thought about our pace
and have since determined you
couldn't keep up with the ride
i put aside my wants too long
for you i will not write this wrong
on my drive home i
got a bit lost, yes, you'll ask what we shall make that mean
i gleam a spectrum of hope, think
it's possible to find new paths to cross
you off, over, through
what we had was true
it grew
an hour long love affair
and as i sit and feel a little dirty about
the way you said you're really clean,
as if, i ask myself if you'll hear this as
a diss on you, but i really needed a tissue
you're cute and all but i won't risk it
i'll move real fast and get a ticket
let off, get off, with just a warning
mirrored madness
i'm ready to battle
i'm ready to win
cause your beating me down
is wearing thin
on this platform
i stand at this track
i promise you this
i'll never look back
and as we move toward this end
punished, captive will never
mend
mind
mourn you friend
this day is coming
mark my words
you'll see its clear
for you i won't shed
one more tear
torn, tried
terror
true
it was you
charlotte
i cannot even maintain myself
or this high
i get crushed so low
i sink its slow and painful
demeanor
it fills my lips
and gives me warmth
oh the pour is enough in store
to give a pick tick trick
of
cruel
oh i can be
oh i can see
what's coming is an oncoming battle
i'm gonna strip i'm coming clean
i cannot even keep this high
why should i be able to keep you
oh this little lie
you told
i get crushed and i sink
so low, this painful
i'm oh so weak
misdemeanor sets its course
i fold untold into abyss
oh i can be
oh i can see
cannot even maintain myself
or this little high
i remind
to unwind and separate
untangle this web called
.u.s.
kill this sin
we'd come face to face
a few months later
that this disaster had no preparedness plan
that we'd evacuated all too quickly
to put back together
what had long ago fallen apart
desire to remember the
better unbroken bytes
unsettled score, unspoken season
and you never gave a rational reason
just walked out
and took it in
oh the melody the luxury
sin
fill your chest
you're gonna love me
whether you like or not
soon you'll remember
what you forgot
and if i leave it
or let it be
i only hope you
slip
stall
suffer
the way you left it
the way you left me
fancy fucking
fragile fray
you blew you choose it
you sink you stay
stray from the core
of our entangled mess
breathe a little bit less
consume less air you'd say
and i'd choke with the little that i'd take
believed in the widsom you'd give, forsake
i'd give in and you'd step over
this is something i cannot recover
under this guide
this map i can't tell
i'd wonder i'd smother
you'd cover and duck
out of sight and out of mind
i'd give to you what was never mine
peace and sanity had run its course
but we'd never known such
pain, remorse
separate it baby
do it now
cut the cord
and take a bow
you're the hero
a real big man
go on baby take a stand
crave attention fitting in
win it baby, at all costs
reduced reduction
seduction of the
coldest kind you won't mind
it's enough to fill your chest
stay sodden
i sit here in this fold
can't escape this sickening beat
touch me touch me take my seat
i give to you
i give to me
what couldn't, what wouldn't
be
enough i say
you cannot stay
go right now
you couldn't plow
work hard enough
to measure
up.ward onward forward
go i realize now that we were the
anomaly, the rare exception to the rule
we couldn't last the final round
you were meant to pound
me in the mat
for you i'd burst
i'd fall so flat
for you i would've given
anything i would have crawled a thousand miles
to return to you worked in ways you never knew
and it wasn't ever good enough
to suppose or re-emerge
with golden glimmers
of forgotten hope
with that news i couldn't cope
your scope too narrow, to diseased
plagued i go
know you will sew
it more where you lay
and it was there i could not stay
do it baby
oh he had his way with me
this wasn't supposed to be
can't get these rhymes out of my mind
speaking so heavily
i breathe through it suffocate you knew it
such as it is i blew it
and now its fucking my life
oh let's settle this unforgiveable score
'cause when you walked out that door
i understood so well
that i'd created this little hell
assess and prime
this well this draft
i felt so bad it couldn't be
i thought you knew, you'd see
push me baby
on the floor
let me give, i'll bleed a little more
do it baby
take the knife
i'll give you to
my life, my life
push me baby
do it hard
for you i'll go
the extra yard
do it baby
take the knife
for you i'll give
i'll give my life
want you so bad
i taste your skin
oh where, where you been
think that if i want much more
become your whore
and lose myself
placing me upon your collector's shelf
i seem to be
antipathy
self-hatred pour
give me a shot
down it maybe
oh i'll take it, i'll take it baby
oh he had his way with me
this wasn't supposed to be
do it baby
take the knife
i'll give you to
my life, my life
song of risk
dim the lights, i've got a
story to tell
i've kept it in so long i could
not stomach this emptiness much longer
i harbor unease
this foolish disease called love
i, see, i
i feel so alive
livin' off your dime
cause i'm gonna do what
i can, see just
how far i can land
far from you
and what's left of me
i'm gonna pick up
to free
i'll fight and whether
i can renew, refresh, re-
enforce i'll see
to it
to cut your cord
never knew what hit
never know what's in store
wrap these pretty little lines
around your face,
poetic little freckles turn
a cancer in your soul
i burn
and when you waken from
your slumber
i set out to reinvent
we'll chant
i feel so alive
livin' off your dime
you never knew how i felt
never saw what i could see
cause i'm gonna do what i can
break who you be
and we'll all see
just how far we land
after we've met your fist
release myth
my magic is a simple kind
i release the myth
of space and time
hidden lies
removed, release
start to show
pace and syncs
start and stumble
i move toward
start and stumble
i move forward
back and forth
the more i go
the more you witness
the more you know
pain and heart
at your tip
roots and grounded
you become
you sip
the nectar, forbidden fruit
see my secrets
hear my plea
come, and rescue
me [disaster]
unanswered question
erase your face
sourced
wait for it
Slowly Burning
there you go around my neck
it's started to shrink this sick
beat me bruise me baste & tooth me
throw me off this deck
this sea of me
no longer satisfies my internal thirst
these hunger pains leave
me far from where I see your shore
hidden glances, i start
to pour, to place, the prick
your putty
throw me off this deck
this sea of me
no longer satisfies my hunt
i wreck
this damage, this control
it leaves me so
unwhole and
incomplete
i smoke quickly
down my drink
across these stares i see
your face, burning
i give up chase
and just surrender
throw me off this deck
this sea of me
no longer satisfies my disease
i seize
in discontent
and you must know, i was a threat
that we were never s'pposed to have met
criss.cross.and on the line
hung out to dry
hung to please
i cross the street
and hide my face
must work real hard to forget
this place and
where you broke my heart
sick stuck
i sit at the screen
Revolver
truest to my most wicked words
you'll scream contempt and hide your fears
yet it was you who
tossed threw these
years
dis.rupted system
best case interpretation
service the space
and honor the inevitable future
bitter pill to swallow
under.mine.d
in your zealousness to pursue
your quick fix solution
stalls your alternative
the best you ever had
well, baby, two
can play at your game
and i'm making up for lost
time
good great golden
i become undone
release.d in the derivation
of this quadratic equation
values of x become
increasingly clearer,
greater than me
but less than you
outside the lines
you grew
and i no longer hold it against you
and i no longer know
and i want to sew
this fabric in a way
that honors all parties
involved
evolved
revolving
stuff
tried anything
what we had should have been a crime
stay
i trusted and we rusted
What it Couldn't
been there done that before
be.love.d
in this hour
cringe back to me
truth and beauty not today
ugly haunted starts to sway
passing thoughts these words of mine
increasing thunder and
vicious vine
twist around my neck
you will
it starts to mend a
trend across my scars
tremble and true
these thoughts of you
i cringe but can't look back
losing grip
he danced in the most beautiful ways
the clarity and capacity
to melt me into pure and
unadulterated bliss
reduced i'd take my time
to enjoy the quiet solitude
my inner demons
held away by the
feeling healing and
nature of his presence
my tendency to retreat
and trek alone held
against the dam of his
admirable determination to see it through
collapsing against the weight,
no, the wait
of it no longer
releasing
its grip suffocating each of us
and what we couldn't see at the time
we lost cabin pressure
we lost our breath
and we never quite caught up
to an altitude that afforded us time to
lick our wounds recover and wonder
joyously how we made it
and now that it's passed
i sit alone craving the connect
the opportunity to melt again
into quiet
into you
charismatic suffering
ease is a concern
i'm not often afforded,
living inside the distinction
worthless, maybe, next time
and i'll save the best for someone else
leave
heave
bereave
meant loss
and inside the paradigm
I carry its cross
upon the hilltop
i see the cliff
the vastness, separation
from where i stand and
who i want to be
falling
failing
fucked and fury
speeding along as a stream
tempting the time i'll choose
to stop drowning
in my self-reflective
misery
company created
its become quite dated
this charismatic
suff.er.ing
her darkest hour
she was twisted and blistered
broken and buying time
to not have to remember
earlier hours dancing in the curls
when the girls were just girls and
the boys were just boys
but how times have changed, like really just a matter of minutes, literally
and the danger of her darkest hour
could not be anticipated
it'd ripple through her
worse than the rape and its scars
travel through families
like poisonous weeds wrapping and strangling
all that is good in this world
you break it you buy it
they lied and just said they try it
some things can't be gotten back
off track this system is impacted compacted exploded eroded
trust in those with power
and those who witness power
this reckless mess of a story is over
and i've delayed it long enough you know
because there's no use in buying time
to not have to remember
it'll all come flooding back.....sadly.
complain again
scribble tiny, tawdry notes
to each other and dabble in
the dark arts of
laws and attraction
you'd daringly dodge my directness
the candor of my questions
catching you off guard,
intense you'd say as a shield
to fend off my menacing and seemingly tough
inquisition
if you only knew i thought to myself
we'd really be in trouble
but i assumed if you couldn't handle
you'd tell me it burned
instead we ended the evening in full smiles
and you went home to lick your wounds
if im too hot to handle
then hand me the keys to your room
and i'll bury my piece
deep into you and
be gone before you
complain again
trojan
we find ourselves stranded
in the desert
we know we must part
and we stay glued to the imprints
of the tracks we leave in each others'
dust
you couldn't slither away quicker, and
my feet couldn't carry me further
and faster from the truth
that i have avoid.ed
we'd end up near it
and so close to the flame
un.apologetic
we'd seed the scene
fuel and fan the flames
oh so pretty flickering
just so gorgeous to watch its burning
the recklessnes of letting it all go
no regrets
altruism at its best
to let it go undone
undid we did
it couldn't be less
oh so pretty, flickering
oh so petty bickering
oh so,
unapologetic we'd seed
the scene
and i couldn't run faster
in these fury, these flames
in the desert we found our.selves
moving across these sands in opposite
directions
bipeds we depend
on movement toward
something.someone
ended we undid
the revelry of watching
it burn to the ground
in the desert
we were glued to the imprint
the tracks we left,
though you should know
that i did bestow
the most cruel and undetected
trojan
we got it
can't call upon you
my greatest friend;
you're the one who's started to
Unmend my heart; my soul
my [our] time
righteous rancor
venom flow
gleeful guile
I'll darken my glow to meet
you my headon collision
survival no longer a way of living.....
[Two days or months later]
I'm a fleck
a speck in a sea
of circumstances drifting and floating
now anchorless amidst this ship
of agreementlessness
abiding by the current of desire and
whim, you'll regret this course
once stranded on the isle of lonely
[Three months later]
Deaded sun
beneathe my beat
wicked w{h}ine inside my mind
[It should be noted that these notes I've noted
were written before we exploded;
apparently i noticed the path we'd headed down
a year prior
a priori we'd dwell
into the well
of unwellness
and blackened by the walls i fell
into the menagerie]
investigative matters
desire divulge
indulge ignore
fucking him,
me your whore
nice nick razor's edge
turn on me and start to shed
sick silent
suffuckating
all the while i'm debating
fleeing and closing the door
to this dep.arted
relationship you've quietly
investigated [read, you left and quietly unanswered my plea]
Unsolution
you said to turn the cheek
but i didn't know that meant
we couldn't speak
in this self-imposed separation time
i wish well
but i'm not fine
my heart is broken
suffer hell and time is slipping
from these walls
i think it's
we are broken
restore is no longer
an awkward pause
to be flushed
frozen
this is an unapparent
chord
my core is rock.ed
and in this moment
i have anger i have tears
i have unapologetic fears
will wish riots
over you
and you said to turn the cheek
that it wouldn't hurt
and again to repeat
[this isn't complete]
thought knew
how did we get here
into this ditch
we slid
and it became
such a game
of truth and truth
and I dare
to swear to whisper
it's done and you'll be the death
of me
how did we get here
we used to be so clear
it all rest.ed
arrested up top
tip top
we stayed steady for oh so long
and we came so close to the edge of the
cliff that we started to sway
came close to the edge
that we couldn't look away
sucked into it the echo
to fill in and bleed
we let it run
its course of coarse
man.ip.ulation
i think i know
i think i know
that we can't go
that we can't go
back
back back
i wouldn't want it to be true
i wouldn't want it anyway
i thought i know you
but didn't think you could
just walk away
how did we get here
i'll tell you
we were traveling
side-by-side
until you decided
you'd ingested enough for the two of us
as if i hadn't carried
the two for the first half of our trip
we weighted
by the trough you brought forth
we waited
you exhaled as i let go
of my breath
kicked in
i...
how did we get here
i thought i knew...
you....
f'ed again
unfurl unfound
unfinished and unflattering
you began to unfit
what we fought and struggled
for we finally finished what we
failed
Characterize
i would have done things differently
had i had the chance
suppose to ease me or unleash me
you ended up utterly
freez.ing me inside a
line of
not this time,
bad luck or fortune
run for cover
i'm taking my toys and
gunning for another drop
another sip
not from your sickly cup
i'm quite all right all fine inside
and i don't need you to rain on my parade
rein in my parade
i want to play
i want to flee, pleasure to pursue
and plenty to be
you restrain resist restrict
and arrest
me, us, them
and i only did us both a
favor in your by your to your
self.
less i often characterize (assassinate)
the unruly ones
but we all know that it was waiting
in me dormant
just waiting to be uncovered
and you gave me pleasure
you gave me pause
so i pressed stop, rewound,
and am currently recording
over our tape
over our lives
over my lies
and trying out
new lines,
'cause it's gonna be a new chapter in
this book i'm writin'
speak to me
this lesson
it was all about
entropy
and let's face it
it was a lesson
and i was supposed
to learn
and learn it well
id be a great student
master.piece
the tool you'd be to sculpt
the deciding factor
when you struck my chord
and i fell
beneath your radar
well below
the curve and cutoff
point click
alt delete
you said it
disaster
and oh yes,
we sure spelled it
well
We picked
heart.breaker
heart.taker
you'll be back i said its true
you looked at me and we both
understood
that this track this tune
it couldn't be
but suppose we indulge
ourselves
just.this.one.more.time.
we picked the poison
or it picked us
we never really had a clue
we couldn't see what it had
err...what it would do
the trip was good
while it lasted
but fell our worlds
separated.disaster
i'll say it again
and without a rhyme
you tried we died its time to
find a new a rhythm to
make music and move
oh did we move
it was great it was pure
unlike any before
and it stored
and replenished
my faith in a physical
existence
beyond my own head
which made the tragedy
of your short sweet sour
phone call saying it'd be best
to keep it slower
that.much.more.tragic.
we picked
the poison
Go away
step aside you said
we're through
and instantly my heart it
grew
to be to have to hold
i knew that it would
and could
not be true
this wasn't meant to be
they say that the pain
it will all go go
away and in the end
you'll feel this bruise
it won't sting you're supposed
to lose
this sense of feeling
this serene and calm
the rip
tip
stitch from right and wrong
you'll come undone
we did we did
paralyzed we hid you did
come out we're through
it said its piece
and now we have our hearts
to ap.portion
to mend and pay this toll
this serene and calm
the rip
tip
stitch from right and wrong
they say the pain
it will all go away
but it hasn't stopped
not today
stand back back stand
back
stand
stand back
i go
i be i fall
we crawl
this rendezvous
its troubled you
called
collapsed
collide
we tried
to avert the distant course
but your trajectory your orbit
its magnetic
its force
you knew and spent so much prep
time and wicked and wet
i neglected to properly engage my armor
you enrolled me in your tragic woe
and i left myself all bare
to sew
and stitch i go again
one-one-thousand
two-one-thousand
three-one
some
broke it
blow it
bought it
stolen. yours for the price
privilege and
poetic justice
of honor and glamour
we'll be begotten
.this rendezvous
its troubled you;
stand back
and be protected.
love.ly
i knew when we started
that we'd be unwhole.some, departed
before i'd try to write the wrongs
i'd bask you'd ask and i'd
sing unspoken melodies of
tragic angst
my speciality
as it so happens
goes
tick tock these embers flow
burn you feel
goodness i do too
got a little too close for comfort
here and there i feel my feet
to these coals i rose
and i came crushing
barreling down toward an
agonizing defeat
i bought my lines
my lies
my you
and when you ended
you ended
gave me
me
and i was left with the shadow
the faint imprint
of a boy who once could
gloriously conjure
a love potion
so powerful
it'd magically move mountains make men
move
to be near
but lets get authentic
and unrule this demented
twisted fated fairy
tale that we wove so generously
together
we ended smacked
against these li
we've towed
and you know
i knew that it was over when
it started;
that we'd be departed
in eight minutes, months, maybes
or more....
alright
dig in you'd say
and i would stay
against my own stomach's tell
i'd call forth upon
this violent
spell
you'd saunter in
and look oh so sweet
i'd dip my finger in your well
and suddenly
the flames would weep
deep the burn
would rage inside
nothing happened
it's your turn to hide
nothing happened
it your turn to ride
on this coaster
we would scream
just let it all out i said to myself
but secretly i thought you'd
run for cover
if you knew what i was thinking
under
near these thoughts of mine would make you sick
and they turn oh
so quick
you'd flee if you could see
and we would quiver
sink and slither....
oh, i'll dig in
alright....
f.b.
this affair with newness
started well
deeper in i could see
the spell you'd crafted called and courted
but you didn't disclose that you were thwarted
your intentions weren't entirely clear
and i should have known with your drinking;
you'd already started the sinking
of this relation.ship
that to steer
on course
we'd gotten off already
and this became too fucking heavy
in and out
i went and wished
in and out
i went and wished
we'd roll around in this
called thunder
synonymous with
crime and smother
you couldn't keep her decks
all clean
but you stacked
your deck with
gasoline and boy did
you enjoy the burn
torn
twisted
tainted
by the smell; i've neglected my waters
long enough, this sea is fractured
as far as i can see
us be
in and out
i went and wished
in and out
i went and wished
torn and tragic
forbidden kiss
torn and tragic
forbidden bliss
i think you thought
i think you thought you knew
you'd groom
me but somewhere lost
you started to consume me
i lost one side
and blind another
yes my dear
you're starting to smother
cover your cough
and hide those tears
it's not enough
put away your fears
you were always good
at disappoint
this game of passive rage you'd play
one foot out and one foot in
say your prayers
and you would
pin
prick
and pierce me to the wall
willing accomplice i would be
if only i thought you knew that
i would
see.....
i find
i get it now
differently
the letting go
isn't so much you and our intertwined, connected, soul mate spendor
it's letting
the attachment to outcomes
subside and flow with
the current
that takes us to where we
need, want, and must
go
to grow in the direction
of most honorable of place
and in this
space
i find freedom, peace,
and calm
good bye my friend and lover
i hope to see, explore, and try the path
again in a few months
time is an expression
meaningless and yet so full
of trace regrets
i don't forsake you
i don't blame you
i'm open to what there is to create
together, apart, our lives
in full fucking bloom
purity, peace, play, art
and honor
and in this
space
i find freedom, peace,
and calm
shut off valve
it was a silly dream
they'd say too quick
to sweet and innocent
poor
pour
store before you give your heart away
he's robbed and rock.ed
your [his ]
prey
you stained me
sealed it;
like a toxic
kiss wet with cushion
curled in no uncertain
terms i say
that this is rotten
i will not stay
in this realm
of bound and duty
won't see beyond these waters here
you broke it once
return to sender
break it twice
you pay with tender
some.things you cannot afford to keep
so cheer up and turn that cheek
you're good and letting go and shutting off...
oh...yea...i
forgot....
turn off
i can't decide what to say
where to go,
or whether to stay
you put in my place
held away held at bay
this distance you impose on us
it cripples and disposes toward
the anti-holding of our start
we were art we were pleasure
together a vendor giver of love
remarkable in its ability
.to.move.mountains.
.to.calm.waters.
.to.steady.my.unsettled.waters.
and now its awakened
something in my core
that which slumbered
ate eats through
the silence that you knew
.you grew
and i fell so hard
and i fell so hard
for you through you
i thought i knew
you
would treat me oh so right
when we met in the moonlight
i fell so hard
and oh so fast
into a promise
that it would last
last last
place i become
undone
numb and
the forgotten one
pursuit catch me
i believe in commitment
the bigness of promise
honor and word
play
pain
passion
pursuit of truth
goodness
and beauty
i store
repour
and create
in this moment
the possibility
insulted
buy
these circumstances
i sit discouraged
teary
weary
and broken
missed arrival
simply
sought
answers
sunk
ships relate
cold waters to past
endeavors
imprinted future travel unravel plans
foresee the
currency
with which you pay your debts
burden will carry you
to the grave
aligned
maligned
your heart your soul
separated from source
remorse
of course
seek, keep, peek
bliss
wrapping
id be lying if i said i was complete.ly unscathed
this mess we're against
this tide of you
the path is tired
its untrue
we designed a perfect precipice
we'd walk its edge and navigate the
illusion of its danger stealth
wake up to unimaginable wealth
though
id be lying
if i said i was
complete.ly unscathed
your misrepresentation
of commitments
leaves me
afraid
that we'd propel much further
im already in too deep
you've rocked my ship
my world and now its too late
protection you pretend
for me
wrapped in such a nicety
when really you're the one
be careful now
you'll come undone
gone and gray
writing my poetry isn't making me feel any more peaceful
since we're not speaking
i'm not sleeping
i want to see you closeup
warts, ambition,narcissism
your crazy artist persona
im here, up front
i want to see you
closeup
i hate to be pushed back on
disengage is an invitation
to open my unbridled rage
forgotten i focus on nothing.ness.
this was new and clean and free and harmless
but i fell too fast and now that im down
i've skinned my knees
torn my dress
something about that first kiss
lit a fire in my soul of possibility and creating
what i want
and now the illusion's partner neglects defects
and i'm left holding the vision alone again
you'll need a scare to reprioritize though i'll be gone and gray
cause things can't stay this way
trusted rusted you
written in a fury
thunder such as it is
and as its not
tempted to say i forgot
an inauthentic trip
of trusted
this ship (relate)
is rusted
you tried
i tried
we died
descended
the flicker across the sky in grassy fields we lie the music swept we danced in glee such a happy family
trace memories do flicker
and all your past habituated lives and lines
came crushing into the final
kicker
you created what you dreaded
and yet i told you you were headed
toward and to
the final flight
against your beholden magical night
sit and wonder what to do
you lied to me
i trusted you
unencumbered
can't decide between thick and thin
of what i want and where
i fit in
kosmic chaos
darkened w.hole
you started
stumbled
took and stole
its clear
and calm corrected course
to each his own in this remorse
a bleakened situation uncovered
the dust is ruffled by another
smother wonder cry and cover
these days are coming
by and numbered
the clock is ticking
unencumbered
be with
bliss blue ocean
surrounds my being
we warm calm
i let the dissapointment in myself release
hurt embarassed cold and careless
i need to fix this broken sole, the time is ticking and it's no moving quickly
enough i need space to say to F:i failed us, E:figure your shit out and lets go at it again
light and love
reinstored
integrity in service of healing
and dealing powerfully with all there is to manage and be with
family creed
intention is a tricky
try out
applied from within yields one result
but to get another you must approach the source more directly
id like to know if you'll ever manage your monster
the one that keeps you out (of being fully present in our lives)
the one that keeps you in {pressure overload sob story}
How do we reconcile such that we stay lovers when you're having a monologue in your head about what there is to do and be done.
Radical solution: include both parties on the circumstances conversation. no one wrong, no one right.
love.joy.peace
and great sex when we can get it,
jungle
ruthless in my pursuit of
self laceration
i despise much less than
trial and error
approach is all in the perspective beholden
for example
you to i and i to you
a promise is a promise
unless its made through your precious
lips, like gums that bleed
and sometimes fail
you marked me
and left me there
down in my deepest pit
you covered, cloaked, and coward.ly
abandoned post
of a promise we made as children
flash forward to my latest taker
here's what you need to know to
date 'r; insufficient funds of time
will mitigate the magic mine
and slow what should have been due process
choicelessness at my core
i bore
a resentment toward god
that my choices result in such brutal heartache
become gone
we share this house
our own little world
and yet i sit here waiting for you
to remember
what was said and done
is to revive a story long untold
birthmark-ed we became
its place
holder
this place is slippery
don't fall in
mama loved us
we can't begin
we built this house
out of leaves
we built this house
out of dreams
we promised us
we'd make it work
and yet i find
myself again at i
and not as we
this precious parody
know not your intention to be made
but this is your work in full effect
and force
your way into my soul
trick, dick, slick
and bare
backed i become,
came,
and now you've gone
read between my li(n)es
i believe in ancient wisdom
but can't deny sufficient doubt
to try and be with this ether
of angst and the well of blackness
that protrudes, exudes, and cr
inside time i am forgotten
outside i am nothing
never i am naught
and no where am i found
returning i sometimes wonder
whether i can regain trust
with myself i give up
something to
notice and uncover
the rust must be remove.d under
final sync
final hour
you return
and i am sour
final wish
final magic
this we know
will end
tragic
narcissus men
trip dip
rip me out from under
i cover skillfully
you, me, we
from our vocabulary
apoplectic sits and hovers
wait to remove the darkened
lovers
reunited ancient rhyme
sorry now, it's all mine
to mind and time
to my tepid tastes
from dour to duty
to heaven and haste
make me over
do me in
fasten your belts
enjoy your win.d
narcissus men
they broke my heart
and took it in
fed, bled
and i read to far inside
their glances
took it upon myself to steal their chances
i took at face value
their proposition
and when all else failed i
was left holding
the bag
of damaged goods
was marked
return to sender
make me over
do me in
fasten your belts
enjoy your bender,
yes, you my
narcissus men
trip dip
rip me out.
my heart
my tempo
moves me and slows me down
rooted meadow up i go
seeds of summer
start to sew
you a blasphemous
proprietary
ill begotten work
unfound
you lied to me
and designing untruth
set the stage
your platform
a story you told
hid disaster tragedy your
only line
i the sinker
broken heart
meld my monster
icy glazes
can't deny i try to supervise
undone undid unclassify
you sold me
told me
took me out
and tore another
piece
out
downrightdefeated
corrosion
erodes
my path from within
i melt
meld
mold toxic
i wane
weep
wonder
why i relate
so unambiguously to other.not.i
plural.ism
downright fall
sublime to know you
can't recall
i seem to wonder
but can't erase
your smiling thunder
unpleasant face
tricked
tracked
thicket and
thorn
open revolver
lover's scorn
.downrightdefeated.
ended begin
i always end with where i think i begin
and sometimes it fits
others it wears the 'graph
less litely
fine grain composure
i try and look oh so sweet
but my melody is somber
and rather than feel public[all][y] (you were)
undone
i retreat (my feelings)
and so goes my cycle
of
w[h]ere we used
to be
some.thing other than what each of us
could see
unapologetic we set off course
and p[ow].er
fueled
campai[g]n
ran afoul
i sit and wonder
if this is something that i couldn't
smother
ran afoul
i sit and wonder
if this is something i couldn't
rudder'
toward a new sea
without the lift
cliff, drench
drudge
rectify this vast differential between the two cliffs
we carved each.other
rock.ed our mists, midst
did grind and
it can never be what
it was never not
mended thoughts
these r the thoughts that go through my head
whisper
as we talked
sentences
steady i quiver
Rung
my calendar contains
re.tool-ed
twisted and blurred
beguiled pain
unknown grain, grit, gone
re-tool.ed
silence links across my breast the chest my keys
and it's all about what's at my core
beliefs, virtue, or your rules of engagement
i can't' find my keys to undo
my time and the minutes i've passed by
tonight i'll grieve for what has, and will happen soon.
unwind
dis.able.
to retreat
retrench
enmesh
i sit against a backdrop
of failure and regret
choose the lane
insurance claim
(ed) too late
no more
dis .assuag.ed
corrected, neglected, put up.on
dissected
mirror mirror
in my mind
please try and unwind
these pre(co)cious
pages
delete.d
i devour these moments
you feed my creative
generosity abundance
from my c.ore
i ooze and thirst for the pain
of my wounds undone
it's been a reckoning
comin' round for a while
you've teased sauntered and played with it
teased me for long e.nough
well, now i've had my fill
and i'm ready to heave
and let go of all the sweets that you've given
pretty is thin
and you're no longer in
i'll get sober
AND OVER
you.are.not.
everything.and.anything.
can.be.erased.
saved.control.alt.delete.d.
conscience
broken
flawed
and fallibile
i feign confidence
collusion
of inner demons
darkens
an already spotty
gl(ue).oom
eme(u)rgency
is where i feel fallen
i betrayed
my.self
you.we couldn't see
left bereft
i can't speak as i, foreign
language
no subtitles can't decipher or see where to go
never before, have i felt so fucking low
glow becomes the red
said
wouldn't.couldn't.
no mother i won't
don't make me promise or swear,
on my grave i say
that it won't weigh on my conscience tomorrow
drip dry
if only i knew now
what you couldn't say
and oh so did the magic
portend
such a strong fall
and wick[e(n)d]
sick to my stomach
hurt on my core
it's my pain i deserve
it's what i bore
into existence, the wreathe
you breathe around my neck
and as i move forward
toward, unsoured
on my trek
i start to wonder
whether i should head back
unsavory intentions
of cruel and neglect
couldn't manage you.me.we
we'll justify this fatherless
paternity as casual.ty
of the war and blossoming
f(r)iendship
'ight there you're
where you want to be
and i'm stuck square one
where you fucking.put.me
in my place
and teach me.we.
couldn't do what
i imagined we'd be together
for.ever.in.healthandmysickness
blurred behind your beautiful eyes
lied abused internal conflicts sewn
by sister's mafia friend, she's oh so pretty but conflicted in her ways
we, became, casualties, in her kick up dirt to cover my tracks, kind of maneuver
she's just one minor character amongst a dozen that
dripped your tunnel.vision
dry
downed
wicked warns of consumption
consumed
resumed
subsumed
you die a.pathetically
you.reproach move toward
slow, crawl
br(e)aks my heart
torn apart
you whisper
"how could he have done that"
i think, you'll do it two
and it's down for the count
three i await to break
apart, completely
took, taken, stirred not
shaken
retreat, retrench
drenched in silent
i.....stunned
gunned
and down on the mat
mind.me.not
a look inside
reveals some grace
it's a place, begin
renew, let's face
it wasn't meant to last
past ten
carried a.way to the locks again
you threw me in my lesson learned
shock and swim
began i crawled
picked up i moved
quickly and
forgot my long made
dinner plans
i've arrived
no thanks to you
and think you'll beg to differ
'cause, i think that i can make
it on my own
i can hold the wolves at bay
if you'll just stay away
and rescue me if i need it
i want to float and make it on my own
this pack and process too much smother
but be available if i need another
.rescue.rhyme.and.reason.for.your.warmth.i'll.ill.begotten.ungratefulness.to.which.you'll.mind.my.nothingness.
rum.run.rum
i'm a flea
a speck in a sea
of circumstances drifting and floating
now anchorless amidst this ship
of agreementlessness
abiding by the current of desire
and whim, you'll regret this course
once stranded on the isle of lonely....
headon
can't call upon you
my greatest friend;
you're the one who's started to
unmend my heart; my soul
my time
righteous rancor
venom flow
gleeful guile
I'll darken my glow to meet
you my headon collision
survival no longer working...
nicked
desire divulge
indulge ignore
fucking him,
me your whore
nice nick razor's edge
turn on me and start to shed
sick silent
suffocating
all the while i'm debating....
res.cued
routed to another place
i ignore my prior disgrace
albeit one with god i rest
i feel a bit of anguish press.ed
upon my solid ground
yet to find a place to wrap
around
i bend, defy, and try to mend
undone i grasp and gnaw
my way into the next precision play
somber, soaked, and silent
i sink..... waiting for the rescue
recipe.distastered
crashing in.ternal
grace
smoke inside filled with lace
primal deeds go undone
punished next the charmed one
fancy, feasting, prior
year
coupled with a childless fear
sink beneath the bet you made
a father's grace
a mother's trade
::vicious antiunion
where i stop
fancy phallus
at its end
buttons lure
beg undid
can't decide between
thick and thin
of where you stop
and i begin
fall apart
feeling like the phoenix in
can't decide whether to sink
or swim
i wonder if it's meant to be
and can't see us for eternity
you judiciously decide
i cope
together we burn the rope
upon another soul
we dwell
carnage, circus, the road
to hell
i s(l)ink, you throw
together, we mend the bow
arrow each.other's hearts
bleeding we fall apart
askslip
foment
revenge
plague
slow crawl death
dearth
amidst
the scene
i scream
unsure shaking cold
iced i become stone
wall i build
defend moat float body
lay lie across your lips
you'll slip
and ask
forceslack
at the edge
violated
principled
and validated
somber
amber
ashen
fall
sick silly saturated with all
the music that
surrounds my soul
i am full and engaged
in the rhythm of all
that you've not given
im stuck in my own gravitational forces
or vacuum-ness....
scre.am
These gravitational forces
erase from my being
a sense of security
i'm left with all that could
can not be
i'm stuck on the edge
and fearing tipping off
in.to the cradle
i secretly wonder if i can grab you
sink you with me
it would be perfect poetry and pagan
to complete it
that way the way you've done me
given nothing but burn
I've got a remedy
together we will see
sing apart our apathy
and mend the dis.connected
the signals
show sign and seize
i hope you die
slow.very.
ly.
lie.awake.
and.scre.am
iwonteat
i remember
the car ride
on my way home
from the first.the alpha.omega
hand.repaired the broken
in the middle of the road
soft.shaken.i threw it off
and vowed never to return again
interesting on this bend
i return
and realize the need to mend
come undone
one button slowly
undressed/naked/lonely
and embarassed
i've been the only one
getting raw and intimate
you've been king
building your throne
unfortune.ate.ly
we'll see
we'll see
i've got a few aces
spades and queens to throw
come back kid
i give punches
without glove
take you down
out i play coy
like a boy with a heart
i'll knife you now
and cut you out
criminal and cold i blow
these seeds of hatred you've sewn
i'll meet you at your level
and say it right to your face
i.wont.eat.any.more.
beyond.means
missiles
ctrl.alt.delete.
i wish the crash you send me
into
was only so simple to recover
from i die a little
each time
each time we become that much
more separated
upon every restart
and we sift further from the line
that brought us together
we pull
lulled into a false sense of
you can take me for granted
i think not
i think yes
i don't know what to think
given this invest.meant
it wasn't supposed
to be pretty
engaged
i enraged
smug
in knowing yes
failed
railed
and rallied
from the failing bank you'll never
recover from
i've contributed by believing
we.are.salvageable.
i hope this recovery plan
involves subsuming the debt
you've accumulated
lived beyond your means...
source.grievance
Retrieve
Receive an
advanced phd
in grief
i roll and stroll into ambiguity
i delve into disaster
and disparity
i rock into
rocked.ness
i am
i am
no.thing
i spell
i sink
i swim
i'm lost
i'm lost
i need someone.
bo.uy.
b.ouy.
b.oy
measured against
cup full
my half doesn't ever quite measure
up to your mediocrity
clearly my venom
has got the best of me
i've discounted the
little things
scars and beautiful
bruises
that you've given me
my source of contribution
and grief....
sync not
i'll bow
I'll give in
i'll apolo.gize
jizz the way you want when and how you say to come
i'll be done
i've given 8 years
and now i've nothing left
other than regret
i see what i've learned
and think that i could
have been more violated
by receiving a normal education
inside the most of inadequate schools
and i completely own
my hand inside
the realm i sourced
sick
sync i am not
self i am tempted
twisted
i rot am not who i see my.self to be
grumpy
go fuck yourself
you goddamn mother.fucker
i sink you
i loathe you
and i cannot let go of you
my affliction, infection
and i wonder why i've not been
my.self
i've been suffering you....and.....
i'm good at waiting for
something good enough to satisfy
my unworthiness
Worth and value i'm not
i'll self-perpetuate
my non-existence
i'll suck it up
and kill myself
i'll bend to your will
and feast from what you give me
nothing i'll drink
save everything for you
and your appetite
i'm done
i'm done
i'm done
starving; i'm fucking hungry
thirsty
and grumpy.....
falter
my art
i trip
i sip from your cup
affair i flirt
i disengage
and roundabout kill you off
bolting.revolting.i imagine
another
way to create what i wanted
and i see
my wrong turns
i bleed. i seed. i scream
ice cream
i'm humbled
now i k.now
how signif.i.cant
i paint
my poetry
across my chest
cut into my skull i am
a piece of nothing.ness.
i wrest away from you
all that i have vested
econo.my has crumbled
faltered future
has forgotten and favored
nothing that i've
felt has ......
look f.orward to possibilty
and smile
know.ingly i shake my head......
stabinback
violence
turned within
will have heave costs
socialist restdistribution
we'll spread it out
among all the children
it'll be fair,
you'll shoulder all the burden
can't regain our footing
can't settle in this skin
within i tremble
i fucking quell
i sit
i sat
i sink
this is a mini disaster
i think that we'll survive
and i know that i'll remember
.how.you.stabbed.me.in.the.back
