The Void in You
With decomposing irises
You looked me dead in the eyes
And I saw everything I needed to
When I saw nothing at all
The windows of your soul,
Blue curtains drawn apart,
Lead to an overwhelming emptiness
The same kind I suddenly felt within me
As panic seeped into my being
That’s the point when I started
To catch on, to catch cold
An encroaching illness, a fever
Creeping up
Synching up
With my unwilling suspicion
I can’t believe
I believed someone
Who was lying
On their deathbed
Trying to bury me in their place
A Sonnet for Homework
I forgot about homework, yes truly
Then remembered, but forgot once again
I’m surprised how poor mem’ry, it threw me
To a panic, yet I managed to pen
One quatrain while I sang in the shower
A few more lines while I combed through my hair
A couplet while crying in rush hour
And some more rhymes that I plucked from thin air
Should my sonnet be filled with delusions
Or brimming over with loves sad and true
I’m not sure, but I’ll tie up the loose ends
I mean, it’s just homework I’ve got to do
Hey, look, everyone! Ten beats ’til we’re done!
Ten, nine, eight, seven, five, four, three, two, one