Kiss me when the sun sleeps,
When the bite grows, and seeps.
Tongue no longer restrained,
As blood from your face, drained.
Our tango, twist of fate;
Wiggle of charm was bait.
Removed your crucifix,
And set up candlesticks.
Was surprised to see dark
In your eyes, like a shark.
Cape stopped you from thinking.
In a coffin, sinking.
Down onto the mattress fell.
Now in your heart, I dwell.
Your scream, beside the point;
Jugular out of joint.
When dusk penetrates, fear
Aims fangs, quick, like a spear.
His beauty was a beast;
Doe-eyed virgin, deceased.
There's nothing to write about.
There is NOTHING HERE.
Nothing is on this page? Nothing
Is here it's everywhere! All around
This town. Taking spaces. Quietly
Lingering in places unseen. Nothing
Eludes me. Nothing pursues me.
Ha nothing here nor there!
Nothing IS everything we seem to
Think nothing never MATTERS it
Does it takes plenty spaces it even
Increases nothing explains it and
Arranges it. Is that the strangest?
When you don't have anything to
Write about write about nothing
Write about it regardless. Write about
Beside the POINT. Write about things
About words. Is that THE ABSURD?!
Nothing means there is something
There nothing HERE. ALL around
This town! At the tip of the ledge
On the edge! It IS here watching me
I watch BACK!
VBR Black Panther! Jet Black
Answerer!
No one understands the personal battles.
No one knows that pain
That I go through every single day.
Darkness constantly attacking my brain.
I go through thoughts that would make
The common man insane.
On my own to the point where my
Imagination created its own domain.
Targeted and picked on because I don’t drink
Or engage with champagne.
But that’s beside the point.
They criticize me when I complain.
I legitimize what I sustain.
People tried to make it rain
When I couldn’t make it sprinkle.
People live their lives in vain
While I live mine just single.
Some men dream to run a train.
I dreamed to be the shingle
To complete the roof over the heads
Of my generation so that the
Truth could intermingle.
And....
Forget it.
a total news blackout
but anyone would be the same
the public never knew of it
did it matter?
they were doomed
from the start
my mate didn't care
about the FA Cup last week
the germans don't
care about the percieved
or actually non-existent
football rivalry with England
sweep the battle losses
under the steamer rug
if you win a tin cup
you'll refer to with pride
it took me a day and a
half to get over Nelson's
death
(stick the kettle on)
but that's when it came to life
Villeneuve an outstanding
time bomb
THE ENEMY IS AT SEA!
Trafalgar
like all historical events
momentous and noteworthy
immaterial and beside the point
Ms. Muffet won’t lift off her tuffet.
Cream puffs and cheetos won’t help.
A spider is beside the point…
3/17/2020
No milk for babies
I have lost track of who is fighting whom in the overlapping endless wars
in the middle- east, but that is beside the point today.
I was standing in supermarket`s till a woman in front of me had bought
a litre of milk and now she looking for loose change.
I was amazed she looked like human dairy; she could bottle her milk
in small flasks and sell it to health freaks.
In the vastness of her bag movements, it was her husband Carlos smelling
Like the inside of a purse
I always like to take him along when shopping and know where he is and,
He has got the car keys.
The Americans have been bombing again making sure there is no milk for babies
because they want to build that pipe gas line across Afghanistan and the Taliban
or is it the Pashtuns are saying no, from my home I see for me a giant in uniform
with a belt full of bombs bestriding the world.
As this piece is being typed, I'm only fifteen,
Though come the twelfth of April I will soon be 16
Then somehow the next thing I know I will be 60
Double that, and I know with certainty that I will be no longer exsisting!!
But that's beside the point, it doesn't even matter, besides
All that really matters is whether you've lived a happy life
And as long as I can look back, and know that my life was a happy time
I wouldn't mind it in the slightest if I had to die tonight!!
All trees travel skyward
All leaves seek to hug sun
All flowers wish to emit scent
I too crave for the crescent
Whether sky or sun or crescent
Of course all don’t deserve
There is the order of high and low
Dews smile at the jagged judgment
Dews, those churned feelings from core
Dews, those burned candles in dark
Dews, those moments of light and dark
Dews, those pains when you closed the door
But dews are little moments trivial
Very loose molecules unstable
It’s beside the point if it smiles or frowns
High trees laugh aloud skyward
You wave your plaits and tweet
Accept the truth bitter or sweet
_______________________________________________________
July 4, 2016
Oh moon!
in night you stroll
amidst stars,
a silhouette a day,
why?
Oh moon!
to eulogize, an exemplar!
in night, a guide!
albeit this honour,
a form a day!
why?
night, if you’ve gone astray,
no joy for us,
oh moon!
form, beside the point,
come unfailingly,
to entertain us!
come lastingly.
The Same
By:Sami LaRose
9/17/12
As they walk down the aisle cheerfully holding hand and hand I can say I am a part of the cause
No longer do they have to drive so far to legally express their feelings
They are everywhere you go
In school, at the bus stop, in forever 21
No matter where you are we are all just people
The people who hate are led by blindness and un educated it is the 21st century don’t you see
But that should be beside the point, love is love, pride is pride, and it should be legally okay for a guy to marry a guy
No little kid should feel ashamed to tell the world he has two daddy’s, or two mommy’s, we are all here equally humans just living among humans naturally
In the city, they have their day
Pride is where it Is at
People come out wearing all sorts of rainbows and even sometimes funny hats
Support a cause, more like support human rights;
We will not go down without a fight
Love and Love
And all humans should have equal rights
That is why we all have joined the fight
you know I had my tought bout you at 1st
listening to people about what I should do
but im starting to see the same people that telling what I should do is not happy themself
but that beside the point
as time went on i grew to caring for you and now im falling in love with you
Its a scary feeling because i know how it feel to love and get hurt
but im giving my self a chance to love again
to love a boy who turn into a man over time
to love someone who never had feeling close to mines
to love someone who dont know the difference of loving me and being in love with me or who just lust for me
but i know that the reason we have time and patient
because that what it going to take for me to show you the difference
im not going to say i thing but i know you are worth it
because everything happen for a reason
and I know we are going to get though these rainy days
I am so glad I found you and starting to fall in love with you
I see you there baby, and it brightens my day
You’re like the sun in my life, you always part the rain
Like Moses did with the red sea back in the bible
You make me not wanna get pissed at my rivals
But that’s beside the point and you know you’re one of my idols
However I can never have you, I already know this
I really love you baby, I just don’t waste my time showin’ it
Cuz at the end of the day when I fall all I know is this
Every time I see you there, you hug me I feel good inside
All of a sudden I’m not upset anymore, and all I feel is the butterflies
Crawlin from my stomach all the way into my chest
Cuz deep down in my heart, I will never be at rest
Till I have you, in my arms, I’ll protect you from what causes harm
I’m fallin asleep get me outta this nightmare then there goes my alarm
And I wake up, see you sitting there beside me
I realize that you are the one in need in my life, do you agree?
My dreams are cutting into my fun time
Fiddle faddle, diddle diddle
Should have something worthwhile
But eyes just ache
And my heart pounds like a thing that pounds
I wish I was dead
Or high and dry
But I was born to beside the point
She shot me up then left me to die
Best hit of dopamine I’ve ever tried
Her love is cutting into my freedom
And this freedom cost me dearly
That’s about the time
I cut my teeth
I cut my teeth
On you darling
You’re like a brand new thing
And I’m just writing about a love that never even existed
That’s all I’m good at anyway
If you don’t love me… I can always love myself
Even if I go crazy before I meet me next
I wish you weren’t so far away
I wish I could speak to your face
I don’t even care if we’re both ugly
I’ll feel ugly either way
But I don’t want to be alone
I don’t want to be alone
I don’t want to be alone forever
Two-thousand years has been long enough
I’m sick of deteriorating
I’m sick of hating myselfff
I just wanted to tell you sorry one more time.
So I'm sorry for the lie and I'm sorry for hurting
you. And I'm also sorry for all the pain I put
you through.
I know you've been through a lot. And trust
me I have experienced some of it to. The
pain really does hurt and it's nothing that I
would choose to ever go through.
I know it's not easy and I know it's not fair.
But trust me it happens because I've been
there. And it wasn't easy or fair.
But that's beside the point. You have
a choice to either forgive me or not.
And that is a choice you will have
to make on your own though even
though I know you've been through
a lot.
So I really hope you accept this apology.
And give this one a thought. Because
it was really hard for me to tell you
this and maybe not as hard as the
first time. But it did take some
time and it also took a lot.
So all I'm asking is to please give this
a thought.
Just forget it all!
Forget about what
has been said or
written or been done!
Even forget what
up to now dimly
you may still have
recalled as you felt
being entertained
one way or the other!
Dispose of it and
send it to the bin
for waste and trash,
the black hole of oblivion
that being wide and
bottomless is sucking in
whatever does not count
as being not worthwhile
to be remembered!
And so its qualities
may be neglected or
they are not even seen,
as to you it seems to
be beside the point to
go out of your way to
care !
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