Breadcrumbs
The pidgeons on fourth street used to mock me. Each morning I'd tell them about the suffering of mankind, our trials and tribulations, only to be met with a rumbling "Coo".
Coo, such apathy makes me writhe. Indifference to a world on fire doesn't make you stoic. And yet they freely accept our breadcrumbs and fight over trash, feathered hypocrites.
Each morning I would chastize them
" Fools, have you no shame? Do you think yourself my betters? I shan't let you make fowl of our society and get away with it!""
" Coo" they would reply. The greek cynics proclaimed the simple life superior to self imposed complexities. Statues were built of them for the pidgeons to poop on, which I suppose proves their point.
Perhaps I was the one in the wrong. Our modern world is a conveneint one, technology staves off death at the cost of truly living, bodies softening from lack of use, our futures on strings tethered to the capital building. If only I could take leave of the opression and the lies and vanity that enslaves us, if only I could fly. I would not fly far though, the unfamiliar is worse than withering in this button down shirt. Maybe I'll perch up by a park bench, nice old ladies laying out feasts from time to time.
It would be coo.
I’m Never Alone, I’m just Lonely; Cause Loneliness is Always With Me.
Spending nights with my pillow
Soaking it with tears and sorrow
Staring at myself for hours
Trying to heal all the invisible scars
Letting my heart cry out
Silencing my unheard shout
Hiding the tears behind my eyes
Faking a smile to cover my lies
Waking up every morning, without having slept
Remembering the secrets I have kept
Going around all day as if it’s fine
Laughing those laughs which are never really mine
Hanging with people who don’t really care
Yes, so many people but this pain no would share
I’m feeling so much that I feel empty
Surrounded by people, but from the heart there is no one I can see
Walking back home with a broken heart
Wishing an end for this story that start
And reaching back, with a thousand things to say
But everyone has already walked away
I looked around
I wanted to disappear, but actually I wanted to be found
And then again, curling up in bed, hoping my heart, never again beats
But this pain never goes, this pain just repeats
But, now again, the nights are here to hear me screams
And the mirrors waiting to steal my dreams
The pillow is ready to be drowned
And the scars are waiting to be found
The pain is waiting to roll down my cheeks
And then come out as shrieks
But who dose care; no one is here to see
No one to notice what loneliness dose to me
Solitude is bliss, but loneliness a curse
Cause solitude comes from self and loneliness from others
And they say to live you need water, food and air
But ask my murdered heart who has got everything but love and care
Loneliness doesn’t really have a colour; it’s like a black hole inside
Or perhaps a place where I could hide
Don’t say you were there, because you left me alone
Don’t say you brought tape, because my heart was still torn
My heart that is broke now can’t be made
The smiles that covered the pain, have started to fade
You’ll not know how I’m being killed from inside
You’ll not know how many tears I’ve cried
You won’t know how bad you hurt me
I’ll never let you know I’m lonely
It’s not my fault you didn’t hear my cries
If only you would have read my eyes.
But I’m never alone, I’m just lonely
Cause loneliness is always with me.
A Parliament of Moths
The sum of the world’s griefs rests between us
on a rickety wooden table. They fit, with room
to spare, at the bottom of the chipped china
tea cup that sits before me. It reminds me
of the porcelain bowl I used to shave this morning,
splintered with thin gray spiderweb cracks. The tea cup,
the man tells me, is from Vienna, where he studied
as a young man before returning home just before
the war started, this home where we both now sit and talk.
The chip is in the rim of the cup, and a threadlike
crack runs halfway down, it is the kind of divot that the upper lip
cannot help but find when I drink; I do not turn
the cup around to drink from the other side.
The light bulb overhead buzzes, and through the open
window come fluttering wings and the sounds of
evening settling over the village.
He used to, he says, love to watch his daughter
play with the tea cup and her doll; she had beautiful
hands, he says, long pale fingers, I wish she could have
had a piano to play. The daughter is, of course, not here;
she is why I am here, it is no recompense.
The curtain flutters, someone outside is singing, the
first stars are emerging in the purple sky, the sun
is eaten by the mountains in the distance,
their round tops like the knobs of a great spine.
Two weeks before he died, my brother and I went camping
in the mountains, partly to celebrate my graduating
high school. The trail led upward for hours, evergreens
towered on both sides, deer and rabbits and hawks
peered at us and then decided we were, in fact,
the nothing we really were and went back to their lives.
We found a fire lookout at the top of a ridge that looked
out over a forested valley at the base of which was a
lake that looked like some god, playing roughly with
some other god, had torn a sapphire from the
gauntlet of his foe and in the scrabble for purchase, it
had fallen and landed here. We drank and talked
about the years to come, that seemed innumerable
as the stars overhead and just as bright.
Side by side we slept; or rather, he slept and I lay
awake, because the night had settled upon us like
bad news and I lay down in my sleeping bag with
a growing sense that when I woke up, everything
would be different, because moments of beauty and
of chaos walk hand in hand like brothers. Pink light
came in through the window and lay across his face,
I lifted my hand and my black fingers appeared on his
sleeping eyes and cheek, surrounded by the
blood-light cast by Mars high in the night. Trembling,
I got up and went out into the warm night. I stood
looking up, pale wings whispering against my bare skin,
at the far pinprick of ruby, shining like some warning light
on us all, or perhaps just he and I. Please don’t, I told the
far world, please you cannot. But the galaxy is a big place
for words to get lost in, and the wars inside grind on just as do
the wars of the world and after all
what is the point of a treaty, if your
body stays at war? The wings battered at me like
a ghost kissing my body over and over, I sat down on
a rock still hot from the day’s sun and looked out
at the little lake, its surface now bloody. Something
flew past me in the pink night, into the trees, and then
flew right back out again, right at me, I felt the breeze
of its passing on my cheek, the brush of a feather on
my shoulder. It is fleeing, I thought, from whatever
is held in this light. Back inside, he is washed in
the pale red light and I cannot look at his beautiful face
without shaking. In the morning, I say I want to go home
and he smiles and we begin to pack up and walk down
again, through the trees; he steps off the trail to piss
and into a cloud of butterflies. He laughs, he says Look
at them, and I look at them and I laugh too; they wreath his head like
a May virgin’s crown. My breath catches in my throat,
this is the last moment of joy I will ever experience
and I feel the certainty: the butterflies, the pink light of Mars,
the feather against my shoulder, our laughter all fit
at the base of a hollow in my chest, vast enough to hold
all sorrows, to hold them safely,
like tea in a tea cup, like a wish, like a prayer
lost in the dark, drifting through the night,
up through the branches of tall trees,
lighter and lighter as it rises, passing through
atmosphere and into the stars, where there are
no wings to beat it back, no light to make it cry.
Weird
I’m weird
I’m odd
I’m corny
If I’m Judge by that then you don’t really know
Me
Then ask me why are you acting distant ?
why do you look so lonely ?
Do you think he’s phony ? ....
SHUT THE FUCK UP !
I donate - I share - I care - It’s Rare
I get it
Blank stares - despair - cynicism
It’s all gone!
never been about it .. no pessimism
I talk about optimization
New Reality
My Revelation
Includes
Translation To The Nation
- How to be happy
how to show appreciation
Towards education
More dedication
non retaliation
Someday I won’t need an introduction
Some day I’ll build my organization
Where everyone shows affection and handles operations with determination
Work towards solutions to situations when no one cares no positive affirmations
IDK
Maybe it’s all apart of my
imagination
Fuck it !
Just call me
( Weird )