In this segment of “Get to know the author”, I want to show you the different ways I sometimes interpret a single concept. Please let me know what you think of the poem below and check back Tuesday for the alternate version ^_^
Continue reading → One by one, the lights go out (& Get to know the author #2, part 1)
It’s always too hot
but when it’s not
it’s so goddamn chilly
it gives me the willies.
But absolutely worst of all
is when the room’s unbearable
but when you leave to get some air,
the temp pulled a 180 outside there.
(Seriously though,
fuck the weather this year.)
The sun bent low to kiss the earth
which responded with such mirth
that the sky was set ablaze
with orange, intimate evening rays.
Swirl around, ye Reds and Blues
whose swift embrace births violet hues
ripe as the passion of their progenitors
and deep as the debts of their inheritors.
These damnable distractions
haunt my not-so-happy home
so I seek solace elsewhere
and pray they’re content not to roam.
The suffocating weight
which seems to permeate
this ugly, wretched mortal frame
as it’s screaming out your name.
I twiddle my thumbs and fritter away
the seconds, minutes, hours, days
waiting long for a sweet respite
which I know I will not find tonight.
Long into the twisted wood,
past the oak and branch and briar;
deep into the gath’ring dark,
past the circle of your fire.
Further than the distant stars,
twinkling beyond the sky;
deep into your very heart
where you hide behind your lies.
Past the heavens and the earth
and the realms of men and God;
you, who seek out happiness,
onward, onward must you trod.
I listen to each creak and moan
of this aging body of mine,
its quiet metronome
slowly counting out the time.
I have seen my shadow
and given him a name
and ever since that day
I have never been the same.
A (wise) man of two faces 