Where all the dust has stayed
The body of a soul, limp and warm,
resting on him as he is Atlas,
holding the earth above his shoulders.
Thoughts laden with nostalgia access
the eyes of innocent spectators
not knowing how to live in his world.
Thrown about from the back to a string,
the body dangles and leaks with life
into the dust of my stomping grounds.
Yet again another sacrifice
and all the trappings shoved down my throat
while our soulless beings lay down.
So wearing the armor he gave me,
now renders my memory anew,
as light returns to the eyes
so shrouded in shades of you.
All of his captures in sudden end
are a life bestowed from him to I -
to now live in his clandestine world
swept away all that piled atop
a psyche mechanically ingrained
to take a death as the final stop.
The body of a soul passes down
to the ground where all the dust has stayed.
Bury Blood
Obstruct, oh Little soul, bury blood,
cascading down his face, touch by touch,
hands rise, caressing to occasion.
Take his spirit from the lively flesh
that dances before this elation
so lust is no more unrequited.
Tossed and turned, torn and built up to you,
the fortress in a forest in him -
gone cold, solstice, hopes to be reborn.
Taken down, stone for a limb by limb,
let a fountain of life stream outwards,
as bound blood brothers of may stay up.
Given the least resistant path shared,
make treacherous the force to be had,
raise the hand wet should the life leak out.
Look fear in the face - drive yourself mad.
For time is the essence of the life you crave,
the leaking of the damned, fort in drought.
To now stand between these ancient walls,
sheds light upon him and the view
that the heart is no matter of love
but merely a systematic coup
that sustains the belief that we pledge
to human constraint or bury blood.
Into
I would make my light a salt skin kiss -
place it across yours so that if he would float
o’er naval waters till I steep in remiss.
Maybe one night I may for I’d lush and wander into me alone
before my pleasures took me for feeling my home -
a hearth ablaze in flames when I adore -
such a man, molten clay.
When he said I want you to enjoy yourself -
how I would I stutter - drown in my harbor -
dark to the bottom where I pain myself.
Yet below the water I’ll find a different kind of passionate pearl -
keeping to myself in this hiding place -
a flickering - down there - pools and whirl -
spiraling - sunken mer.
Permanent Blue
I'll thereafter be wearing permanent blue.
Sewn sky clothes - cuff to wrist - a fond fair face flush.
A heart reverberation - attached to skin
arisen in the air - dioxide blood rush.
Without you I heave no oxygen - no breath
in the phrases from you I longed to witness.
They bear a weightless fashion - invisible.
So I’ll drench soundless - inked - navy negligence.
You left a light above - my eyes are swimming
in ambient alchemy - gracing my gaze.
A spring iris convex - a hex that you bestow.
Watch them bloom in your direction - lit ablaze.
Invert and ultraviolet - the veil opens
before me - a portal to your paradise.
Too high to touch - I lower my barren hands
believing they once held you - white lies.
This bittersweet reality bares its face.
I unravel myself in realization.
All of the threads you tied to my sentient cell
cast away - a stitch in time tessellation.
All the words that evermore never were there.
No matter - I felt their false fragility -
assured to be allured - demure forgery.
Alone - azure in attire you made me.
Unconscious Creature
While your still cool eyes remain vacant
and your head lain - unconscious creature -
I will take leave in so slight patience -
merely disappear into ether.
And in your sleep - if I shall saunter -
I let leave a trail of my entrails
as I trace my lorn feet and fingers
on the ground of your soft sunken braille.
The life in me drips in reflections
whirling deep in retention of you -
light lune of masterful inception -
sulk deeply in your fever dream dew .
These hallucinations lay and steep -
wordless and in one thousand visions
a storm alive inside the amber sleep -
the mirror of your fire enchantment.
Droideka
To lay in between a kinetic consciousness
and submerge sentience in capitulation
renders a void of violence - into I’ll collapse.
While my woes form amor in crystallization -
I cave and emerge anew - a foil fetus
ebony and oil - vehement profusion.
Consume what lays beyond this heavy cavity -
let light constellate these sore static motions
as my cogs evolve - melt in depravity -
lead me to the edge of the earth and I’ll fall in -
dismembered and obsolete - drowned in oceans
from the gravity of this appetence to breathe.
A simulation of stimulation unravels -
a body reverberate - subject of the whirl.
I contract asphyxiated - alone in travel
to a white nu-world where all my darkness uncurls
and festers deep within this cage of enamel -
a spiral of your loss in the shape of a girl.
I am but an encryption of emergency -
a stark surface - cool and drenched - saturated ink -
the implosive product ever anthropocene -
a tool you employ to solidify the brink
of your desolate destruction - martyr machine -
a maligne manifesto for the ways you sink.
Published Works
Where all the dust has stayed - Maya Literary Magazine 2019
Burry Blood - Maya Literary Magazine 2020
Into - Maya Literary Magazine 2021, D&M Magazine 2021
Permanent Blue - Maya Literary Magazine 2021
Unconscious Creature - Paper Dragon Literary Journal, Volume 2 - Issue 2
Droideka - Gypsophila Art & Literary Digital Magazine, Volume 1 - Issue 4 & Maya Literary Magazine 2022