Welcome into the world where I live
With the strength and fault
I care to share and give
To any soul who likes the vote
You need to nick
To win in the rat race
You kick and prick
Into the frownless face
You love to hate
Cos nonsense I can’t tweet
To date
The past I quit
Long ago
To step into the future
You choose to forgo
To embrace the catcall culture
You feel fulfills dreams
You dare to entertain
Alongside streams and reams
Of the nonsense you maintain and retain to sustain
The façade
I loathe
As sentiment salad
Sanity and dignity can’t breathe
Today or tomorrow
Not in the world
Where sorrow
Curled and unfurled
Own no iota of space
To wreak havoc
Deep or on the surface
Where a cassock
No longer features
In tiny doses
With literatures
Whose poses
Can’t detonate
The complacent bottom
Of society at the gate
Wherefrom
Sanity and insanity company part
In circumstances you detest
As from me insanity and indignity depart
When the reliability and validity of life test you waste.
Categories:
frownless, poems,
Form: Free verse
My eyes see further than the reaches of light
Deep beneath the surface of your pale optical illusions
And they are always looking and seeking
For answers
I hear screams from your silent voice
And I hear your racing heartbeat like thunder across the plains
I can hear the words you do not speak
And I listen
I can feel your pain, suffering and your rage
Though you are smiling
They are deep and old, but I feel them like fresh wounds still steaming in the cold
And I ache
I see your soul like naked men wandering the lands
Everything is bare
The robes you wear mask nothing to my eyes
And your voice keeps no secrets
Yet, I must pretend and wear masks of my own
Speak of lily-white lies so that you may smile, frownless
I live a life of lies so that you may dwell guiltless
Without responsibility
Without balance
And without reason
And what do I owe you?
Why must I be so confined to keep you smiling with lies?
Can no other see nor hear beyond reflections?
While I live hour to hour and day to day
I remember
And my memory keeps
I no longer want to carry your burdens
Categories:
frownless, native american, people, may,
Form: Free verse