"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas
"Go with peace toward the light./ God knows your time, and it's all right." - My persceptive
Long life I’d wished for when my health was best,
but that was a very long time ago.
It’s fine now to yearn for eternal rest.
At one point in my life, I’d been so blessed.
Then winds of afflictions began to blow.
Long life I’d wished for when my health was best.
Bad neck, bad shoulder, hip, cancerous breast,
then something even worse, so I can know
It’s fine now to yearn for eternal rest.
How smug I had been before I processed
that each decade would bring me a new woe.
Long life I’d wished for when my health was best.
Though Dylan with his poetry had stressed
fighting death, it’s not with rage I’ll let go.
It's fine now to yearn for eternal rest.
I wish for health to be again my guest.
This I still desire, but the sun sinks low.
Long life I’d wished for when my health was best.
It’s fine now to yearn for eternal rest.
I yearn
Oh how i yearn
For the longing stares across the classroom
For the jackets that don’t belong to me
For the long nights cuddled on the sofa
For the winter mornings with hot cocoa
For the evening sunsets with ice cream
For the fall walks, laughing and holding hands
For the spring afternoons with water guns and smiles on our faces
For your scent in the air
For the nights spent late watching anime
For the mornings waking up to each other
For the dancing in the rain
For the snowmen in the snow
For your head on my lap
For my hands in your hair
For cold fingers intertwined beneath sleeves
For the hugs that make the world quieter
For the kisses that taste like melted ice cream
For everything
For everything I define a permanent home
For a place we can put our baggage
I yearn
Oh how I yearn
But dare I say it
For at the end of the day
Yearning it is too much
For someone so young
You’re too young to yearn
Or they’ll tell you you are
Never yearn
For when you do
They’ll tell you not to
Yearn for grades
They say
Never a home
dogs hide under slide
I brought them up here to play
they yearn for the house
Your Mind so bright
My eyes do burn
For not the light
For you I yearn
The President spoke to the nation
It was his speech on his job being no sensation
Words upon words leading to nowhere
They weren’t even fair at that
The President was given pre-empted air time
Boring the American people the whole time
Yearn into yearn
The nation had to endure
A President with no cure
On and on in his second term
Nation’s caution throughout
Still talking on and on and dragging on
Waste of America’s time
Whether the TV was on or off
The President spoke gestures of absolutely nothing
We The People had enough
I yearn for you
I want us naked in a bed
As I touch your curlies
As I run my hand on your smooth skin
And I want to touch your dick
Until it blushes
And becomes hard
Hear you whisper in the middle of the night
See your beautiful eyes
Knowing you will get into me
Knowing something beautiful will come.
My love for you is ill disguised
and many trying to advise.
A friendship isn’t ultimate prize –
I yearn from afar.
The flowers fade and vows now stale
as our future looks rather pale.
I dared to live beyond the pale
and yet, here we are.
I yearn for you
Ah to touch that body
To caress that soft skin
To cuddle those curlies
To see those almond eyes
As you look into me
Ah to have you inside me
Ah to moan
And moan
And moan.
Have you seen women,
pushing life uphill
like Sisyphus—
without rest, without freedom?
They birth us,
they work even when their bodies ache.
They serve as if they are waiters
in a restaurant of endless demands.
They do not ask for joy,
they do not demand a pause.
Instead, they whisper prayers
for their family’s well-being—
faithful as devotees before a shrine.
And we—
children, husbands, in-laws—
what have we done?
Did we ever tell them:
“Rest today.
Live for yourself, if only for a moment.”
Even as their souls grow weary,
they keep giving.
So let us lighten their load—
a small help,
a little kindness,
so they may taste freedom,
even if only for a few minutes.
sometimes i fantasize about
driving on the highway
going eighty
and swerving into oncoming traffic
will that make the hurting stop?
walking somewhere
alone in the dark
and getting cornered by a murderer
will that make the hurting stop?
being home alone
door bursts open
an intruder with a gun pointed right at me
aimed right at my head
will that make the hurting stop?
the medicine cabinet torn apart
four pill bottles scattered around me
all once full
now empty
will that make the hurting stop?
a blade in my hand, pressed to my wrist
finally brave enough
to go deeper than just the surface
will that make the hurting stop?
going to bed one night
head laid on my tear-stained pillow
and never waking up again
will that make the hurting stop?
will the hurting ever stop?
or am i destined to live like this forever?
i'm not even living anymore
i'm just surviving
barely surviving
against my own will
(summer 2024)
I want a love that is pure, beautiful and made for me.
I want them to be poetic to me in a way that I am smitten.
God, I yearn for my person to come toward me.
It hurts to wait and still feel stuck.
How do I keep moving forward when I have feelings like this ???
When will someone see my worth and want to NEVER leave my side? Please don’t leave my side.
They say being with someone ur in love with isn’t everything
but how can they say that when in my heart, I want to be held and have a best friend.
I want to experience a relationship that is healthy and comforting.
Where is my best friend? What other lessons do I need to go through before I meet them ???
I feel like crying, God please comfort me.
Help me God help me with these feelings that you can understand.
Will I be okay tomorrow ???
When will we finally cross paths…
I would wrap your love
around me
like a coat.
I would let your hands
be the sieve
that caught
my soul.
I would let your lips
be the
parachute
that I never
checked.
I would fall on my
anger like a
sword.
To die at your feet
is not just
Love, it is
Religion.
To break and be mended
by hands
divine
and flesh
and soft.
Like stained glass.
people lost in the rush
i wait in line with the rest
waiting and observing
people leaving
as others wait they sit and learn.
out to defy the laws we are bound.
in the sorting it is easy to bypass the ones that yearn.
a chance to get away,
with no guarantee of a return
no matter how high you raise you can never forget that day.
try and fly with the birds,
but even they will say you dont belong here.
escape above the clouds,
while you live beneath in the crowds.
search the skies for another chance,
at night i fall into that same trance.
up this high surely now god can hear me,
you have heard my cries you know what i plead.
hauntings of past pain,
whilst i sit aboard this plane.
“The octopus’ tender tentacles tinkled like pomegranate bells ---"
Cut, Cut Cut! What the 'H' are you talking about?
‘Tender tentacles of an octopus tinkling.’ Have you gone mad, Max?
Try again now. Remember this is a H-O-R-R-O-R flick, ok?
Roll ‘em, Madman…
The sugary-sweet sensation of the syncopation of the sonata of the vivacious
vulture ---”
Cut, Cut, Cut! You HAVE flipped, haven’t you, man?
O, yes. For joy. For joy. And, of course, the spread of culture...
And I appreciate the honorificabilitudinitatibus, Dan.
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The Gandaberunda is a legendary two-headed bird in Hindu mythology.
That long word in the last line means: 'the state of being able to achieve
honors.'
flowers that have flourished in winter
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny meadow,
the other still frozen in a field,
envying the other flowers that get to grow along in that meadow,
waiting to be revealed.
every once in a while the pollen of the flower in the meadow blows the way of the frozen flower,
teasing the scent of a life that will never befall.
frozen in a field were the pain echos like an empty hall,
all thats left to do is wait for the seasons to dry,
but if you pick your favourite flower soon enough it will die.
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