Elven Elegy
Life is not fair
For an elf way down here
When an elf way up there
Lives with jolly and cheer
Now they jeer
prod and poke
At the elf in the snow
Not that they know
But because a Fat Man
Told them so!
Yes! A fat, fat old man
With his gavel in hand
Come to tell us
What’s good, and what’s bad
’cross the land
How do you even know
Did the gods tell you so?
Up there elves think you’re god
Are you god! So you know?
You don’t know,
That I know
And yet still they believe,
You can’t help
Down here elves
See things differently,
Every elf has his way
Every way is his own,
It’s the elf with his way
Who should say
what’s condoned
Fat, fat old man
Just cause you sit on top,
With your spoiled milk beard
Stinking up the whole shop,
You think right and wrong
In your unfamished hands
Well this down here elf's back!
In his old banished lands
With this candy cane
And garland,
I will scale your high walls,
To your chair by the fire
Where the cookie crumbs fall
I will sneak like the ghost
Of Christmases past,
Silent essence of nightshade
I will drop in your glass
And if that weren't enough
For to see your breath-stopping
I'll bide by the fire
Tucked away in your stocking
And then
Fat old man
When you've drawn
your last breath
This down here elf will come up!
as the bringer of death
So then I'll have the reigns
With this slay, I'll make right
Merry Christmas to all
For it all ends tonight
Isolated
Im sitting alone, willingly. I have a family in the other room but they're asleep. I chose to be by myself, on the floor, kinda. On a bean bag chair made to be a rainbow unicorn. I can't help but feel the irony so cushy on my bum. It fits. The irony, not the unicorn. Maybe the unicorn. Its natural for me to be alone. Its where I feel the most natural. I can be myself because it's only myself. Maybe I like to copy the demeanor and mannerisms of other people too much. Those are other problems for other times. It's easier to bring the isolation along with me and not move too much at all. Only subtle movements along with short pithy statements. Although, when i'm out i don't want to be isolated, but I make myself feel like i am. I do it to myself. Not really me though, someone else. He's also me but he wants something different. I let him have his way too much. I can be very persuasive. I can be very, very gullible. I'm never truly isolated. It's always me myself and i. I think that's the best way I can put it. But still, I enjoy my own company over anyone else's, so I isolate myself while wanting to join the fray, so that me myself and I can have something to talk about.
The Solo
It was the feeling of the strings gliding against the tips of my fingers, the vibration of the drums beating right behind me. The pressure of the air, waving on in organized rhythmic waves around the back of my ears and being sucked straight through to my brain, I could feel the beat in my head, then my spine, then my body. It was the rumble of the bass that gave us all a ground to stand on, shaky as it was, we rocked along with it in perfect timing, back and forth, back and forth. It was the placelessness i was in that mesmerized me as I realized I could see myself standing right in front of me, watching my hands caress the fretboard of my 1970 epstein sunburst electric guitar, and tenderly I guided myself over the progression of unity that held the wandering band of souls together. It was then that i took off over myself, over the band, over the crowd as a melody poured out of my hands and onto the floor. Then, as it pooled in front of me, a figure started to emerge from the pile. It was a beautiful temptress that seduced even the coldest of hearts and melted away all sense of self so that she could enter in, and make nested in their soul, a warm bed for her musing. It was a baptism of vibration that cleansed the soul of the misfit.
If I were to drown what then? is it black? is it bright and shiny? as my meat machine sinks to the bottom of the dark and crushing ocean am I in it? or will I go somewhere else? i think im drowning, therefore, i am drowning. so when will i stop thinking that im drowning? when i stop thinking, and how can i stop thinking, does my flesh reject the dead thinker or will the thinker remain with the flesh and fall into the earthen crust darkly? If I believe, will my all powerful friend bring my thinking thing into the outside, beyond what we can see with our meat and our machines? or if i dont believe, will my righteous friend keep my eternally thinking thing connected to the meat machine I cherished so dear? is this hell? dark. trapped. restrained in the lifeless weight of my ephemeral body, feeling the weight of the water surround and slowly start to crush me, the heat of the thermal vents pushing my grayness here and there ever spiralling downwards. the unnerving feeling of microscopic organisms and the gore of Gods hidden beasts gnawing on my cold, soggy, all too feeling flesh. and i go unnoticed. my agony unchecked. If I were to drown my question would be answered, but will i be around to recieve it?