Existential
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the words written on a page
are symbols strewn about
destined one day to fade
and disappear without a sound
perhaps no one will read these words
Read me aloudFeel the familiar sensation of words often saidAnd bring me to life We living things Like to scream into a voidCold and careless to our concernsWe yell not to be heard
we are the children born of machinery.
conrete goliaths,
strobe street lights dimly lighting a path never walked
down dark, vacant streets that bend and curl into oblivion
ni de aquí, ni de allá
the road of failure is
painted
in the color of hope
and leads to the jagged cliff
where my dreams
jumped.
the road back home is
brightly lit
and leads to a state of
So silent, yet so alive.
Pitch black is the night, with flickers of stars illuminating the heavens.
Neighbor's dim their lights to slumber, yet their aura manifests their presence as a continuity.
So silent, yet so alive.
Pitch black is the night, with flickers of stars illuminating the heavens.
Neighbor's dim their lights to slumber, yet their aura manifests their presence as a continuity.
in a harsh dark world, stained red
where screams of terror are on repeat in your head
maybe all is lost to hatred and fear but please
wait one minute my dear
the stillness inside everything
Write what you know, they say.
Write what you know. What do I know?
I don't know how to trust (you can thank my dad for that)
I don't know how to seperate dreams from reality
Colors. Fears. Doubts.
Painting the canvas of reality
With obscure shadows,
Scavenging through heaps of
Meaninglessness
To catch a glimpse of
Sometimes I wonder
Why is the sky so blue?
It all just fades to grey
When the storm becomes new
And if emotions run deep
Would they scar visibly?
It must not be,
Uneventful brain canvass leaves much to be desired.Ancient wisdoms, science laws I've struggled to acquireFrom the corner of my eye they sink into the mirethat stagnant swamp that's left behind when big souls lose their fire.
All things without reference vanish
to the undiscovered country
from which none have yet returned.
Those whom fortune neither kissed nor cursed,
The cliff
hazy in the distance,
veiled by an insubstantial fog.
Surreal mysterious and dreamlike.
is it real?
A moon invisible,
I am… not someone to be understood, an anomaly amid this universal locus.
Escape through a dark window, a reflection of the world I’m within is in and out of focus
Who am I?
Well to answer your question
I must first answer the question of what I am not
I look around.
I look up and down.
Everything I see
Is filled with complexity.
It is in both you and me.
Around me
I see a sea of majesty.
So calm it is.
no soul in east williamsburg
thinking about something other than walk my baby to school today,
pour me a cup of iced coffee and put the lid on,
someone spare me some change for a metrocard,
Only upon the acceptanceo f our own mortality
are we simultaneously
invincible and vulnerable,
immeasurable and finite.
These humble teeth and tongue
clatter
in vain to articulate the
fascination,
inspiration,
and empowerment I derive endlessly from my own mortality,
unable to comprehend this yet personal and
I feel like I’m one dimensional
I feel like I’m the only one who sees how I see
I feel like the harder I try to be exceptional
The more flaws are pointed out to me
I’m scared of what’s ahead
I sit inthe dark of my roomand contemplateall the thoughtsof you
they are sunlightgold and earth-warmgone coldin my arms and inmy mind’s eye
I left it waiting on a front porchthat belongs to no one.
I left it hanging from the walls,on an empty house.
I left it burned beneath pages of papersthat have disappeared.
I don’t want to do life today
So I think I’ll just lie here
I’ll be a Neo-Nietzsche
Since life won’t do me either
What good is a body
That only sees despair
It’s not white or phallic
Tossed out of the ocean
I’m gasping
God take me back
This agony is everlasting g
Deaths cold fingertips
Tantalize and twist
Instantaneously extrapolating
infinitude summation
of the single orb,
derived of nether region,
misty and cloud laden
which sits on high.
