Writing / Poetry
Verse
6 poems · alphabetical
Betrayal
It is surmountable, the thought of you.
Yet every few days, I am reminded of
how disgruntling the situation looks.
Looking back at your messages leaves me mixed,
I cannot tell if it was genuine, I am ambivalent.
Potential was brimming over yet looking back,
it must have been a trap... right?
Your intelligence and presence is cunning,
combined with the attention you gave
reached my blind spot.
Oblivious to your red flags
even now I catch myself doubting my decision.
I believed you saw value in me,
I believed you wanted to spend time with me,
I believed you loved me.
Because you said so.
our timeline was you the moon and I the watcher,
the golden crescent began to rise, I admired your beauty,
A mere human gazing at your ego,
as big as the sun.
then you were too dark so that I couldn't look at you anymore,
too busy for time to talk you said, for anyone, you said.
I thought you were empty, longing for what you could grasp.
So I hoped to love you back,
because I felt the same way about
things that I thought you felt in me,
I gave you everything I thought I could.
Time.
Friends.
Heart-to-heart.
An ear.
midnight arrives and you stare down on me, a new moon
something changes, unlocking the monsters inside thee.
I realize now you probably laughed me to scorn,
that I was so willing to care.
i put in much thought, so much so I found the perfect friend
for you, and begged you to take him instead of me.
however you wanted prey,
since you thought he was stronger than I
and as the moonset the true sun begins to rise,
the two of you overlap before my very eyes,
the devils horns at this eclipse
shook me back into reality.
Past your insanity I could only see,
inattentive to the detriment that you could be.
That should have only been the reason
for me to leave.
And when I did, I was your fool,
you went and used what I gave you,
the perfect friend, attention, and care
all yours, and I had nothing to spare.
The claims of being busy, needing time,
all lies.
But it is alright, because I arrived
at the conclusion that anything that touches you I shall not eye.
Or... maybe in the end my spectulation
reflects your ignorant dissimulation,
living in a psychotic reality
a bat for a mind, living.
Code of Color
Concepts in which Color Resides
The Colors are pillars, and pillars are Colors,
This is a mystery for those who want creativity,
A connotation of Color in a code, as color affects the world.
***
The first pillar worked itself largely,
mixed with only one used abroad.
One of the purest founding fathers,
the colors say, "Hail Almighty!"
Loathing its mind in darkness,
It spreads quick but thick,
Its eyes are chasms in the mist,
cold as an abyss.
***
The second pillar was bright,
as sunlight in the eyes,
its partner is the night,
in the vacuum, it's of the stars.
It is fertile; it spreads its passion,
it's like time; there is always more.
However, it questions itself, saying,
"There are so many sects of me, who am I to be?"
***
The two pillars are Color, encompassing others,
working to balance each other out,
being one of the same, constructed the way of
neutrality and ambivalence.
Then something built up, inside of the second shaft,
it quickly broke and shattered into many shades of attack.
It transformed into something unknown,
it couldn't take it and became their own.
Seven pillars born out of second,
each still had some of that one.
***
The first pillar of the second,
came out thrashing and hard.
It had two-sides, beckoning,
mellow and tar.
From the depths of communism and socialism,
it was a bold leader, all said, "Heil thee!"
But the same felt compassion beyond its belief,
Allowing it not to be touched by stress or grief.
***
The second pillar of the second,
came through smiling and bold.
Its tale has not always been told,
It is truly swell to recollect.
It was known as "Naranja" to the archaic,
Like the sixth pillar, it is sporadic.
Its mellowness is regarded highly,
it's respected as the royal and mighty!
***
The third pillar,
An odd fellow for sure,
It always gets mixed up,
With the second pillar's trail of dust.
***
The fourth pillar was juicy,
lively, like rain, the smell of terrain.
Creeping things, and flying fowl,
the representation of all living things.
The Figure uses it,
renewal, understanding, patience,
one man represents it all:
the fourth man.
***
The fifth pillar is gracious,
sorrow with lamentation.
Royal in sadness,
fit for no madness.
The three mediums made of it,
The waters, atmosphere, and space.
The Figure tries to explore it,
But it sometimes retaliates, quenching the force of death.
***
The sixth pillar was mighty,
pure and unique, soft and mellow,
bold and abrupt, played like a cello,
encouraged with its rarity, it says, "I am unique."
***
Then the Figure took of the pillars and rubbed them in the deep,
allowing their imagination to be shown,
In their own way, they cracked the code,
they created something original, beautiful, the world as we know.
***
Be the Figure, be the workman, pour out your heart.
Use the pillars on your canvas, crack the code, fulfill your dreams.
Finding the Sun
Deep from within,
Their appendages have no bounds,
They make deep wells of old,
Spelling out scribbles of languages unfound.
They form sentences that combine,
To paragraphs that rise
Finding the sun.
Their blechs coat my lungs,
A sterile nature's kiss,
Untouched by the harsh hand,
Untouched by our chemical lands.
They grow high and wide,
To the side then up,
Finding the sun.
Their bark grabs my attention,
Clear of blood's acne,
I find it hard to believe
That such a beauty exists.
Whose million scutes and plates,
Cover up tender flesh,
Finding the sun.
Among the peaceful gatherers
They stand unique from all,
Parallel to both the earth and siblings,
They are like a two pronged awl.
They fork the sky
between their hands,
Finding the sun.
Hand of Man
The stars fall and rise in manifold shapes
A hand births out of the matrix of space
These eternal lights of a thousand yonders
Form the hand that judges dishonor
It moves about with skill and cunning work
Craftmanship, sweat, and tears like a surgeon
In the distance, always moving, it changes lives
in an instant, and elicits fear
It cuts and scrapes along the earth
Separating the East faction from the West
whose lights cannot find their way
through the crossing border of 80 miles
everglades
And in the middle, these manmade stars shine
death upon those who sing and cry
hating and praising the chaos on each other's sides
the hand is the balance between war and a fight
Lacrimosa's Silly Judgement
Alluring sounds
Bellow the
Cerulean seas while
Daunting depths keep
Everyone away from
Fearlessness and
Gallant actions
Harboring ironic
I rolls. The sailors
Jeopardize nothing, keeping
Keratin in their hair.
Lacrimosa thinks the sailors
Mean death and apathy
Nonsense! Such useless
Opulence!
Profoundly grandiloquent
Quixotic jibber-jabber about sailors'
Reluctance to go out to
Sea.
To say sailors seek
Voraciously into the depths is quite
Unheard of. So
When the seas allure with
Xylophonic vibrations don't expect sailors to go
Yonder into this sea of
Zozo
Oblivion
Open-concept spacious rooms
Occupy the effervescent living and
Overt quarters, darkness' manumission
Often coating the walls till night falls
I awake to blackness as if
I haven't opened
oblivion
my eyes.
I stand. The hall is calling,
I pass into the open space.
Far deep into the kitchen
on the wall, a door without a frame
darkness creeps,
the entrance to
oblivion
Ingress into a silhouette, a cactus resides
It sponges sound into silence
floating toward me slowly
gliding through the kitchen
where concoctions of blackness diffuses
Through the living room, passing
the sofas which soaked up
my musical concerts of youth
and belting akin to the Jacksons
The sweat of Wii Sports
coats the white granite floors
oblivion
swinging in tennis
throwing bowling balls
My heart drops into my diaphragm
breathes deep, racing mind
oblivion
I contemplate a strategy,
facing the deathly silence: unknown.
Seven feet tall
a menacing silhouette
gets closer to my frozen
corpse, the cactus of destiny
I run down the hall towards
the game room scouring
oblivion
the cactus follows
close behind
the flat screen reflects
the darkness somehow
oblivion
I run to the wet bar
open a cabinet and squeeze in
Puppy, my favorite stuffed animal, lays
Sarge, another, joins
Jaguar protects me in her loving arms
one of my old blankets suddenly wraps around me
the cabinet opens on its "own accord."
the silhouette is free once again
and I can only send it back
I reach out, and it fades to black: oblivion
Pitter Patter & Away
I — Pitter Patter
I remember the Island of Rainfall, in a hut of palm.
The roar of cumulonimbus shakes all.
Thousands of stars fall, coating each blade of lemongrass.
A chunky bee bumbles and buzzes through nature's whispers.
The metropolis fell ill-ly silent.
Am I soaking wet?
A raindrop hits the sizzling concrete.
II — Away
I remember a muggy day in Alabama.
Where the zephyrs turned to darkness.
The sky was sick with green clouds, and the trees grew grays,
The cattle moo miserably, and dogs growl in suspicion.
Do these signs fall on deaf ears?
You hear a train, and you see the tears.