A ship anchored in our bay
The sailors looking out to the shores
And we, to the ship
The day darkens and we see eachothers lights
Wondering whether the other is really there
A ship anchored in our bay
The sailors looking out to the shores
And we, to the ship
The day darkens and we see eachothers lights
Wondering whether the other is really there
A silver moon rolls around
In the cloudy sky
Eating the stars light
Excreting out black
Into the dark night
While the blowing wind sings
Through this forest
I’ve lost myself
Trying to understand its words
Where it blows from
Where I’m coming from
The nights get darker and darker
Bullied since I entered the building
For my weirdly shaped head
I thought I was better?
The insults grind up and smash
against my tiny brain
Like a storm of jagged stones
They even throw them at me
My family can’t even look at me
They pass my room
Squeaking some faint noise
Shove my food on a tray and slide it
Under my door, like a prison
“Have you got a job yet?”
Their names stand like ghosts
Whispering around my brain
I can hear their words in my dreams
That’s right, I’m nothing, my ocean
The shampoo in my eyes
She left me and I felt nothing
I’ve played out the scene in my head
A thousand times before in my mind
Before we even met
I acted sad on the stage
But in actuality nothing is reacting
I just drink a glass of orange juice
The nitrous fills my lungs
I float higher than the balloon in front of me
When I come back down
My eyes break like glass
Hovering on top of a parade
Of tiny black ants
They lead me to the sea
But not a step further
It’s a place they can’t grasp
So they fear it
Leaving whispers in the salty air
As they head home
I stare out to the sea
I try to make conversation with it’s waves
But they’re too fleeting
Rising and falling
Living and dying
I don’t want to occupy too
much of their short
Lives
So I shout out to the ocean
Timeless
But it has no mouth
So it can’t reply even if it wanted to
I guess some things on this planet
Aren’t meant to communicate
A path of bright stars appears in front of me
Leading to a dark sky
A night that will never end
A darkness that will forever be still
I follow it
until the stars beneath my feet
Burn out and fall to black
My thoughts turn from
Alarming Green
To worried yellow
To angry red
Until I reach a peaceful blue
A deep peaceful blue that lingers
Ringing sofly in my mind
until it falls and dissipates
Into the night
I slowly melt into black
Now that my mind has given way
I melt into what we were
And what we are always meant to be
He sang with a simple voice
Simple, but honest
He led a normal life
Read easy, fluffy books
Had cliche memories
And such pleasant dreams
He felt something was wrong
When everything was right
The world was not so simple as he thought it
An empty hole gaping further across his heart
Filling itself with overused inspirational quotes
The words turned to jumbled up letters
So he did what any sane man would do
He took his own life
And the simple people wondered why
I am soft spoken with a hard crust
I trip and fall over words
As hurdles are presented to me
I ride through the wind
Shaking like a leaf
But I’m sturdy as a tree
My Gran always said!
“Be bamboo, flexible, bend with the wind, don’t break!”
Through the strong smell of wine
Chase your dreams, they say
Well I just can’t seem to pick one
So for the mean time I’ll float like a dandelion
Germinating where I land
Walking on into a field
Where blood has been spilt
Soldiers have bayoneted one another
Bullets have teared and ripped skin
Lances have pierced and run down many men
Horses have trampled faces into the ground
Swords have butchered flesh
Cannons have spread body parts into beautiful artworks
Dogs have feasted upon terrified foxes
Young women have bled here in painful solitude
Men have cut themselves raw
Shell shock
Bombs
Gas
Hysterical laughter
Graveyards
Screams
Maggots
Angels and demons
The bible
The grass is red, so, so red
The Devil is here
And he has been fed
Pain,
It tickles my skin with shovels
Digging, loosening me up
Weeds torn and ripped
Thrown aside into the air
The soil is then hoed over
Made fertile
So that I may plant my own choice
Of flowers, weeds or fruit to bear
I tried looking for my mind
But I couldn’t find it anywhere
I climbed the Himalayan mountains
Right to the top
Dancing with the eagles
I swam in the Dead Sea
Letting my body float
For who knows how long
I flew in a hot air balloon
Across the red Arabic sky
Sand as far as the eye can see
I ventured through the cold,
wintery forests of Russia
Taking refuge with the wolves
I blazed through the deserts of America
On a Harley Davidson
Riding with the coyotes
I studied with the shaolin monks
To calm my mind
In China
I rode horses on a sea of grass
Drinking fermented milk
In Mongolia
I walked through streets filled
With cherry blossoms
And people
In Japan
I fished salmon in the lakes
Of Alaska
Competing with the bears
But no matter where I go
Or what I do
I can’t seem to find my mind