Terminal axons

Potassium channels

Flickering

halogen

Sodium bulbs

Synaptic flashes

Dashes of light

Bright insight

Blighted by

Cognitive collapses

Photogenic genetics

Software crashes

Temporal

Half life

Progressing

at the rate

of decay.

Bioluminescent

Full

Partial

Then, Crescent.

Alkaline spirit

Renewable essence.

“I do not exist!”

Quite the dichotomous statement

Particularly while staring

Into a mirror

The reflection is unique

And impossible to leave behind

Much more difficult than

Walking away from my shadow

The ironic part is this

My shadow follows me

But my reflection

Walks away

Despite my point of view

Once I gazed among the stars, I felt a certain peace in my mind.

A certain relaxation within nirvana,

always a mystery to me,

until I saw those stars.

The sweet scent of the pine remains eternally in my nostrils,

the warmth of the crackling fire upon my cheek,

the warmth of my sweet coffee streaming down my throat.

All these comforts gave me the peace from the stars.

For when I gazed upon them,

I felt eternal.

Soft as a vision

Laced in speakeasy garters

Cut to blushing ribbon,

Rag doll skin

Pulling at the flayed pink dawn,

Tawdry red cheeked flame

A humid attic’s scintillating dance,

The torn curtain armour

Dribbling starry flushed flashes

From apple lipped Aphrodite

Into her bosom cleaved gardenia.

Soft as a vision

That laps pooled colours

Around a plum plush tongue,

Your surrendered movements

Carve deified nubility

Around plucked rose summer balm.

Through flesh’s sacrificial kettle

Bending winds

Strike chime and chord,

Euphoric and devoured,

Where lightning bug magnets

Play sacred catch

With the harvest moon’s pocketed tug

After nightly funerals

Of the fallen sun.

June’s emptied bowls

Mute witness

Hushed and loveless

Piqued with fevered shocks

At autumn’s alter

And call to arms.

Once upon a Delilah

In the fields bleeding gold,

Where stirred her song

And stung her charm

And lurched her beast

Where love entombed

Slipped free,

Was born.

I made it so easy

Bared my soul to you

My vulnerable underside

Soft belly

Tender neck

Exposed

Like a stupid

Submissive animal

Rolling on its back

Your vulnerability is of the highest quality

My wounds touched a sore point, stitched back together by your silver needle

Excruciating pain, but your sun shines back at me

Your love is my holy grail

My life, an open book, rip out the pages that belong to my past

Lost in the darkest nights between vitality and the colossal emptiness

Your love is an observation of my true self

My poems, a pathetic imitation of your magnificent self

Lilac butterflies creating a halo over your head

Your family's diamonds united into one incomprehensible person

My lies, the only thing I used to feel

Excruciating pain, but your moon shines back at me

Drifting away to sound of your voice

My love, an unbreakable promise

Fire inside me I thought had become dormant

Silence in my brain when I feel your skin striking mine

Your skin like porcelain, patched together by your past

Within your walls, a colossal gentleness

Lilac flowers covering your eyes, overlooking your magnificence

Silence in my brain when our bodies collide

You taught me how to quench my thirst

How to love without reservation

There might be something good in me if you allow me be yours

Silence in my brain when I gaze at your silhouette

Your beauty so underestimated you might overlook it

The epitome of splendor

Not a day goes by where I'm not stunned by your faculties

You pierce straight to the core

Filling up the room with your glorious presence

Curled up in your embrace, crawling under your skin

My lifeline in this dystopia

I know you keep me save

Angle wings on your splendid self, the response to all the pain

Your eyes like fire achat

Ease when I reconnoitre our fate

Our souls are the same, connected before my first breath

You take me back to my purity, all white, all black

I gasp for air, inhaling every word you speak

Lowlight after lowlight, I would do it all again

To become acquainted with you

My vulnerability, gift-wrapped on a silver plate, is all I can offer

Gazing at your every move

Missing piece to the bigger picture

Violets across your chest

Begging for misery

But only with your company

Crying tears of delight, all red, all blue

Wiping away all tragedy

Waiting for you, while picking petals of the rose

Meet me at your Red River

My blood turns dusky

Raindrops on my lips

While you fantasie about a kiss

Puking down your throat only jogs my memory

Squirming in the fury

While your hand is down your pants

You're a prowling hell

Your god is dying of amnesia

Scared stiff of your desire

Eyes on your every move

No intervention, no clue

Repenting all my misdeeds

Enticed you to be your perverted self

Through the mist a quiet admission

Trying to distinguish myself from prey

Pinching my last bit of purity

Devouring my sanity

Now in full possession of my faculties

I know your primal instinct

My tears are what you've earned

There is no remedy

Bury me still vividly

Lead me to my destiny

No one left to execute

Let's play hide and seek

Uncle Noah’s

Corncob pipe

Steams out smoked sagacity

As he tells me;

“Time is a cumbersome leech,

An evaporating haze

Of television snow,

That was a kick drum assassin

Between the weary flickering bonfire

Of heart bowed eyes;

So the penalty of life

Is being alive”.

But, I answer that I’m not so sure;

“For if life is but mangled symphonies

All bruised and tinny,

Shuddering in the thunder

Of leviathan’s steps,

Who would remember

And who could forget”?

But he retorts

Between locomotive puffs,

And wicker chair cheeps;

“The youth of my sun

Climbed and slept

Upon the lazing floors of cloudy heights,

A shelter from fever

And black dog nights”.

And

So I let God whisper something solemn to him,

As I walk away

And

Whatever He said,

Was lost to the wind,

And

Carried away.