Tag: time

  • Brushstrokes In My Brain


    O these times
    These lonely, lonely times
    Of a single tear falling
    From a broken, crooked eye
    For the meadows sunk in shadow
    And shadows that each day die
    On the tar road turning homewards
    To pink hearts falling from the sky
    O these people quietly standing
    Waiting that single boat of hay
    Here are lovers with their children
    And servants with silver tray
    All waiting to be carried
    Somewhere in the ocean
    Where faces are not of plastics
    And even fishes have emotion
    O these homes are now softly falling
    Like snow on winter’s eve
    Left faded to fill a dry canvas
    With damp colors smelling new
    And there is no one to wake the silence
    And no one to hold the door
    Only brushstrokes that breath to say
    We are here for you are not anymore
  • Ascendance

    And slowly we all
    Shall fall asleep
    And know no more of each other
    Or of those who knows us no more

    But the stone shall remain stone
    The sea shall remain sea
    You shall remain you
    And I shall remain me

    Yet we, the us, that immutable thereof
    Of shared spaces
    Of pendulum breaths
    Of eclectic existence
    Will change
    Into dust
    Into wind
    Into silence
    And rescind
    Motion by motion
    Memory by memory
    Till all that is left
    Is only the sense of leaving
  • Suzerain

    This silence
    As great as the age of an ocean
    Now brim my teacup
    And I; a droplet of delusion
    Aimless upon the surface of ceaseless eternity,
    Dare ask for a refill

  • The Half Past

    It was half past ten
    In the broken clock
    Light flooded from the bathroom
    Vintage; as if streaming from another time;
    A past not yet undone by dialysis,
    I laid ankle deep in silk
    The shawl around my neck and feet
    Splitting me in two tragedies;
    Naked and none, while
    The feathers of my pillow whispered in their broken flight: “Do not close your eyes or all that you fear shall come alive”
    There was something in those words
    That left me speechless
    And so I slept
    Wide awake
    Breathing only for breathing’s sake.

  • Opaque

    I dream of a man dreaming:
    Only to awake and find
    A mirror in my hand

  • Encore, Encore

    They walk alive
    In rigor mortis
    Of routine;
    The selfsame adventures
    Over and over
    Till memories are maimed
    Coagulated
    In an endless reel
    Of a single frame
    Until that very end
    When all goes black
    And it begins again
    Without palpable pause
    Amidst absent applause

  • Diurnal

    Days like firefly
    Burn away
    And those ashes remaining
    As wings of memory
    Cannot fly
    Without a flame