No escape
From the
Show of shows~
Of which we are
Characters not
Recognizing the
Staging~
A gift of emptiness
Which is not a gift
May be waiting
In the wings~
Yet no escape~~
She is a nightmare,
she is the shadow that follows you on a sunny day
She is the monster under the bed your parents told you didn’t exist
She is the clouds that cover the night sky
She is the depths of the mountain no one dares to climb
She is the aura of the world
Everyone is a victim of her
Although some more gruesome than others
She can overcome you and possess you to obey her
She can attack you through the people you hold close
she always wins,
You can try to manage her
You can try to suppress her
But in the end she will not stop
Until she triumphs
She will make you cry
She rejoices in your pain
She will cause you hurt for as long as she can
As if a deadly disease
She never truly leaves you
Until the day you die
We can’t escape it, don’t know what to do.
People at each other, guess it’s overdue.
Yeah, we’ve read about it.
Is it here? I doubt it,
but I’m here to tell ya that it all is true.
Cuz the world’s falling fast into decay.
Makes me wanna stand up, shout to say -
I don’t really know man!
Where we gonna go man?
We can’t keep going on and on this way.
They make us think there is a choice to make.
They control both sides, why won’t we awake?
Why we wanna to play it’s
such a stupid game it
has us on a path to the same mistake.
Cuz ya know it’s all been done before.
Every empire’s been brought to the floor.
Why we never learn man?
Getting played each time and
every time the scale and the cost is more.
So, now it’s time for the final scene.
Every story ends if you know what I mean.
Nothing’s gonna stop it.
Everyone is lost with
no way to escape cuz… we’ve all joined a team.
Ether: 13: 20-21
Poet’s sleep
with their memories
to hate or to love
Voices unanswered
the night’s
turtledove
Darkness remembers
what daylight
forgets
As dreamers
reenter
— what twilight begets
(Dreamsleep: April, 2018)
A heavy ear
an empty heart
Breathless voice
with eyes that dart
Love forsaken
rebirthing pain
Hope redundant
—lost refrain
(The New Room: January, 2024)
The time that I spent dazed,
Now trapped in this downward maze,
I never looked for escape anywhere.
Every single step,
I didn't care for help.
I never looked for escape anywhere.
All the destruction follows me
So God watched Satan oversee
As lost souls on my Journey whispered
"Don't stop believing." - I did
I raise my head high
Hoping for clearer sky
But night is stable.
A homeless man
with a cell phone
connected to his pain
Desperation
on his speed dial
—muted inhumane
(30th Street Station: November, 2023)
I run, sprint, I jump,
They chase, there're catching up,
Keeps going, then black.
~ Written with a certain poetess in mind. ~
we can't run away from ourselves ~ there's no place our hearts can escape
us
In dark corners of the city,
old shadows are found
In dark corners of the city,
premonitions abound
In dark corners of the city,
the doors swing one way
In dark corners of the city,
your soul becomes prey
In dark corners of the city,
where hope goes to die
In dark corners of the city
—your dreams say goodbye
(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
mother-in-law’s tongue
Sending up new brittle shoots
barbs beyond the grave
May 23, 2021
Alone with my thoughts
—the devil makes three
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
You can't run away from the ashes
—as their memory burns from within
(June, 2020: University Of Pennsylvania Hospital)
Run or die
Faster, faster
The will to run wanes
Write or die
Poem after poem
Though I'm ever sadder
The leopard can't escape the zoo
No matter how much he has plotted
I'm guessing that the reason was
Because he'll always be spotted!
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