There is no goddamn darkness at the center of your soul no more than there’s an abyss in the fetid sewers below There is no tortured victim no brooding martyr’s death no struggling Prometheus or upgrade from all the rest Humans live in humans, nothing else is there but a […]
Poetry
80 posts
Distilled into each exhalation is you; heart, body and mind eager to feed effect and flavour my life our lives and everything inbetween But what’s recieved is nothing just cruel, muted waves soft on the ear but echoing with an emptiness where you’ve disappeared and cold creeping nothingness reverberates onwards
The creature we all feed on feeds on us in return turning poisoned teeth of humans into emotional concerns not always loving missives not always hate filled curse but a necessary living to complete the human verse But the feeding turns to cruelty when we clamp down to the bone […]
Bring a hundred thousand people bring a hundred thousand more bring the armies of the faithful bring the legions of the poor bring all of those belonging and the ones who are left out Bring the children of tomorrow and those aged with crushing doubt bring all of the resistance […]
It’s not the Devil you need to fear Not the shudder of feeling which drags you underground, into granite cells scored with solitude Not the sigh of loss which brushes raw memories or the clear space left to gulf what remains It’s the indifference of silence The echoing stillness of […]
When you find yourself buying the dreams you used to make with immature passion as an ignorant expansion of those feelings with no name When the naked truth has found an outfit selected from the screen where nothing is left laid bare but a desperate need to be seen When […]
A minor thing, but dedicated to Kathleen ‘Daish’ Winkley nonetheless. A life well lived is never ended From graves or ashes hands reach out fingers extend to brush against the living To wipe away tears stroke hope into the hopeless caress the unseen and hold the lost in a grip […]
What was once forgotten is remembered just the same lessons learned made vivid old names cried out in vain Moments long made history alive in present tense undead steps to dead ends too late for recompense Old journeys are now over tracks lost in choking dust with the next step […]
When footsteps are coming closer I play a vacant hand numb to desperate feelings in silence I have planned and when the shadows start to part and shy eyes look on mine I hide behind fake blindness stifle love with fear sublime But when she starts to walk away and […]
A breeze has no purpose no desires and no needs just a vaguely drifting impact in the rustling of leaves The waves have no meaning no questions asked, no pleas but the rocks that it crumbles fill an endless sea And a person has no focus no matter what they […]