Some days I'm just vacuous
No coherent thoughts together
And I use the vague excuse
That it's due to the weather
But actually my head's full
Of fantastic visions and dreams
And I can only feel the world
Through the cracks in the seams
eating again, glutton of cost
he crawled to embrace
the concept of everything, all
hugged to a chest spilling,
kissing vacuous stomach
slid up the slender flesh,
saliva made slugs
a viscous downpour of greed
it could only emanate from he
the glutton of cost
he gnawed at the presence of
all that is near
nothing was sacred in
the space placed between his ears
it is capsized by fear
it is desperate, with agony clear
a glint in his eye
the last star falls from his sky
vomit coated fingertips
cut between despondent lips
pity not the glutton of cost
whomst does not know to
cut his loss
he is the pitiful orphan
of his hopeless cause
oh glutton of cost
you are to blame
for all you have lost
Have we rebuilt the tower of Babel
With weary words of wireless babble?
Do somnolent thoughts surf synapses
On tidal waves of vacuous verbs?
So tasteless, as baseless, and faceless
Secret voices clamor, “I am here”
In clusters of blabbing barnacles
Encrusted, agape, to the Internet.
Watchers, spectators doing little,
Chasing minutia ever fresh.
Turned into products; privacy shed
In a passive world of dungeon dead.
Endlessly griping over offense!
A cacophony of words intense.
If brevity is the soul of wit
How many tweets will create a twit?
Tender the moment
of an empty cup that waits
more so patiently
to feel the warmth of aqua
and taste the lure of caffeine.
Date: 06/09/2019
*Syllable Counter checked 5-7-5-7-7
submerged in blankness
helpless to escape bereavement
frail and broken, hollow eyed
hope is a remnant
the burden of countless tears
lines etched deeply in her face.
I always see you in that mundane
Every time I stare the emotions’ windowpane
Try not to draw a smile, because I don’t want to be insane
I abhor you every time you talk sweeter than the sugar cane.
To have a perfect liaison, I never anticipate
I am very happy is being a loner is my fate,
So don’t you ever dare to open the love’s gate
Because I don’t want to have any mate.
I am begging, stay away from me!
Because I want to fall in love with nobody
Don’t protract my loneliness,
So cease saying words of sweetness!
Stop bridging the gap!
If you don’t want to see me acting like a daft.
Don’t glue my soul’s broken part
Spare me! Please, let me have this vacuous heart!
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Blissful ignorance
A vacuous affair
Mind numbing atrophy
Life without a care
Cloud dwelling dreams
Of a world less realized
The pyramid schemes
Of a world materialized
Land of the free
Home of the incarcerated
The money wheel keeps turning
Our debt exacerbated
Before it's too late
Do what you can
To save what's left
Of this common man
I sleep wondering will I ever dream but as time passed I soon realize that am haunted
by my own shadow.
My mind is empty like a blink paper with no ink to consume, I wait silently waiting for my
soul to be broken .
The ocean is vast and lonely will it ever be remembered ?
Don’t try to understand me , my words conceive fire in which no man cannot endure , My
vacuous mind drowned by lies , only my words enlighten me to pursue life .
But it was just a dream.
Apple orange grapes
Murder plunder rapes
All and sundry things
Empty vessel rings
Sunset evening dawn
Easy leasy loan
Tortuous treacherous path
Fresh and fragrant bath
Crazy curious crowd
Town talks aloud
Dizzy merry-go-round
Folks tradition-bound
Catchy cute couplet
Astute images inflate
APOSTROPHIC INTERLUDE:
Flow !flow! thou vacuous word
Thou are not so absurd
As man's ineptitude
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