Learns to Love a Silence

Learns to Love a Silence

Just doesn't get it, or can't, won't, wanting

But not wanting, its safer, but always empty. 

Not empty enough it seems, as you are here. 

I'm not in here though. Fell asleep long ago. 

It's what I tell myself to make the days go by. 

If not dead then too awake, too much to feel. 

Want it but cannot allow, for their sakes, all or

Mine?  What's mine in these twining strands?

It is not for me to have, to want, nothing of it. 

Nothing of them exists when all's not in view. 

It becomes illusion, illusory and aye, I know it. 

I know it is the demon inside to block a sun. 

There are all those devils in the ether too, still. 

Thoughts become of flesh and blood simply, 

Not enough fight left inside to fight them out. 

Empty threats of myself to self, another devil

Yet another forked tongue; the sharpest one. 

It shouldn't have to hurt so much to feel this. 

Divining my own bones, waiting to see that

Which stays within this circle, and what falls. 

Steel of skin and the softer flesh beneath me,

It is compressed, a singularity, starved of air. 

And of what tender lies beyond these faces?

Wishes for the stone; doesn't believe it's real.

If not a farce, you'd not be sentenced to this. 

None before, please for none hereafter, a plea

Or promise, I mean to mean, so can't be sure. 

One high, three low; I cannot see you or raise. 

The lottery, always rigged before, always was,

Frame different? No; and show me your work. 

But, I keep tapping, tries to wrap my thought. 

It is to my maddening futility I mean to swing. 

Look here my dear, it will brew all my deaths. 

It could spell a miracle of a melancholy limbo. 

I still know though, this delicate plane I tread. 

It could be worth my love of silence; shadow. 

There is no safety in numbers when it's in me. 

My tears could attest my own starving relief. 

I have to choose between its truth, or my lies. 

What is it, to let the silence bring me solace?

Another face, another skin to keep me whole. 

-phoenix

10.30.2014

Science of Sleeping

Science of Sleeping

The windows aren't closed but its murky here. 

They were shut earlier, but wasn't peaceable. 

It's the buzzing in hallways that is at impasse

And no matter how I shake the bubble; won't. 

Can't.  It can't. I can't. Severs all the nerves. 

Staring from the window into the hollow deep. 

Transfixed by darkness there, its consumption 

Of all faulty matters of my circumstance; free. 

Lie still; breathe shallow, it keeps spinning off

In search but never catching of the scent of it. 

Dead weight, barely animated body, nor mind

If keenly clutched within blanketed oblivions.

It is free-fall; and the fall is how to climb back. 

If not the bottom, how can you see a horizon?

It is listlessness, leads not into lead but follow

Until the last to first must strangle idle hands. 

The windows are still open, I cannot breach

But I cannot shut, cannot touch the pains yet

But I'm trying, can't your see me, hear, please

I can't get out; have to keep diving, gasping...

But if I could find it, dawn, please something,

Anything to spare, sometimes its just a rope. 

Or let me sleep, don't make it dream, I can't, 

I mustn't or I would miss the exit stage right. 

It is the weight, and waiting indecisions, too. 

In fields of land mines and l desire survival,

It keeps me locked and loaded, runs in place. 

It still moves, even when spinning backwards. 

Without a backslide I cannot see what I've hit.
Not to see its girth, how then circumnavigate? 

How these tremours want to extinguish light. 

Crossed signals, lost in translation of the soul. 

If I'm to gather mine and stand, to fight for all,

I must first learn of my surrender unto a void. 

Let the nerves writhe if turned inward, burns. 

Stop me when I can feel you twist the knife. 

Crawling back from the centre to the window. 

Tumbling headlong from space, in heat, light. 

Slowly, steadfast wins these second chances. 

Know where I am, where I was, but is awake. 

-phoenix

10.29.2014

Losing Faces

Losing Faces

There are more faces in here than I can count. 

One for each one of them; also for my sanity. 

Speaking of putting aside of childish things, I

Cannot surrender these that make me whole. 

It becomes harder as the years pass though. 

The personas wither and peel away, exposing

Raw flesh, raw mind, raw face, raw heart, and

I can't do this for much longer, too priceless. 

In a crowded room where I can barely breathe

There is none in this picture frame but myself. 

Grows tired, tired of the face, tired of a name. 

To bleed out in tears, words, none love them. 

Letters are born, fall short, shatter, dissipate. 

Each takes a sliver of what is mine, of my soul

And soon, the sands will run dry, nothing left. 

Would seem for sooner rather than later, here. 

I can hear the ticking, measuring the seconds

And I know its too long until this will be done. 

I wasn't built to stand against these trials, too. 

It is all too heavy, and I can't turn a blind eye. 

All I hold, or try at least, slips like falling sand. 

Makes for difficult footing in the quick of it all. 

I can't stand to stand by as it all fades away. 

I have few choices for it, they've made sure.

What of mine then, when it boils down to it?

It is silly to want when none would deliver it. 

Too many strings, too many holes to identify. 

Too much to wade into to find what I needed. 

It all loses value because I have none to give. 

All I try to give; takes back from me in threes. 

They wouldn't see to care to begin with, and I

Become a fool over and over when I even try. 

-phoenix

10.27.2014

Arousing Curiosity

Arousing Curiosity

The curves and angles of her face delight me. 

Tiny doppelgänger, embodies my fascination. 

Those illuminating eyes could fill the universe. 

I would long to peer into her mind, to see her. 

I wish to know this child who hides in the fold. 

I want to see her world from her point of view,

In her own words, just a brief glimpse will do. 

So I may hear and sense what hers all means. 

This creature is so wondrous, but so troubled. 

She becomes so easily confused, she panics. 

She retreats as quickly as her comfort allows. 

I step back, to take snapshot of her breadth. 

We have come so far, you have climbed a hill. 

The mountains, love, are still far ahead of you, 

I fear, and loathe the darknesses I do foresee. 

You sell your life short though, looking too far. 

The chemical standard, your active conscious

It betrays you splendors of the here and now. 

How I torment with your flaws, mine or yours. 

I'll see you history lessons I'd wish not teach. 

Seeing in you those even I can't change, mine

Is already beaten to submit by these demons,

I'd hoped for more, but gave different layers

To this easily battered spirit, and discourage. 

To lament even as she walks the miles keenly. 

She shall stumble for hundreds more smiling. 

I want to find her a steadier path to bore her. 

None awaits but my hands would build it if...

But I must bide her time to trial and to error. 

I cannot walk beyond the membrane splitting. 

To trust to fate the lessons she'd not listen to. 

To have faith that fate will smile on her there.  

-phoenix

10.15-22.2014

Burdens of Silence

Burdens of Silence

Its a much heavier burden, that of a silence. 

A weight of a hollow in the miscreant heart.

Not so much of ether, has shape and name. 

How does this warmth turn so cold in here?

Mustn't be for the likes of trespasser flesh. 

Not for the darkness, for it would be eaten. 

Yet still lives here, this perfect extremophile. 

It feeds of the light seeping in, leaves a void. 

A laden juxtapose, a perfect balance but not. 

Occupies in space, and time to consume all. 

Lovely excruciating treachery, is so a spade. 

Excising this demon is fruitless, so it seems.

Time again attempts to expose it to the light,

There's no reception, no certain reciprocation. 

It stagnates as it refuses to be seen or heard

And to know its truth; to wither away, vanish.

Perhaps a key, but if so, unwittingly. Lament. 

Upside down and inside out and for nothing. 

You shouldn't be here, and nor should I ever. 

To long for yesterday and tomorrow at once. 

Knowing of one a farce and of another done. 

It's the linger, the presence, its perseverance,

And its mocking calm that drifts from cracks.

It is a glass door, but still a door nonetheless. 

Oh torture at the fruitlessness of this journey. 

Only it becomes harder to sacrifice of my self. 

How can they look her in the face and not be

Disgusted by the creature that stands before?

Selfish, fickle, the flustering madman that is, 

Assumed as so deserving; not even scraps. 

Toiling and tilting, the buoy barely afloat now. 

All ends in sight; means extinguished before. 

Must be content to let it fester and boil; both. 

The pointlessness of stepping beyond a wall.  

Feeling something may be more than nothing;

wake of waves to be neither seen, nor heard. 

To say its better; I know not of such fantasies

As pressures build and would grind into dust. 

To stay this course back to recessive corners,

To watch, to wish and to mourn this from afar. 

-phoenix

10.25.2014

Writing the Wrongs

Writing the Wrongs

There is no muse for this music to play for. 

The coffers lain barren longer than dreams. 

Achingly etching the notes in monosyllabic

Tempos losing the value; means of melody. 

Citing a disease's fortune owning my soul. 

Its pocks to bare relevance but only blandly. 

Contentedly misguided by my feverishness

All I am to sing writ upon a wall none pass. 

It hungers for any eye to trace this tapestry. 

Such wintry reception repeats into the void.

It becomes swallows of dark temptation to

Lead the weary jester further from the flock. 

Transfixed by the fixture of these sentiments

Even as they bury into cacophonies of woes. 

It becomes a bloodletting, piercing a mind to

Make known all splendors; so too the horrors. 

Frightful still, those who would search it out,

To taste the wretched waters that flow there. 

To swallow pieces of the melody, to see into

A chasm where a heart shrivels to die awake. 

To join in solace at the price of feigned sanity. 

How can a peaceful soul step by this place?

It is the truth of nature that one becomes to

None, and the absolution of the math is key. 

It breeds an idle stupour, fresh downpours to

Breathe life into a husk, a tree behind my wall. 

And another word is born into the blankness

To bare me fruit that smells sweetly poisoned.

Never enough to kill me, only meant to maim.  

Mother may I sleep away what days are left?

Always to the same. Turn a page, turn a leaf. 

There is no rest, wicked, only another melody. 

-phoenix

10.23.2014

All My Falling

All My Falling

It would be so easy, but so far from painless. 

Engulfed in myriad frustrations, protestations. 

To what victor goes my spoils of war at arms?

At arms length, always and forever, and never. 

Statued tearful ironies, won battles, lost war. 

To become sour on the mind but taste sweet. 

To want so little, and encompassing oblivions. 

I so need and have no room to want of need. 

Nor for any, ne'er do well, in this well of pitch. 

All for lacking, wanders too far off thin edges. 

It becomes a shame and a shameful heathen. 

Grows weary of all she has let a rain wash in. 

A whitewash pane, fogging pains of glass and

All to stare at here; the grim imaginary favour. 

Sunlight dance on bare metal, but rust eaten. 

Twirling, swirling, fevered madness, not mine. 

To sleep through one image, to waken others. 

No words, no voice, no concession thereafter. 

Exists askew a world, to walk a void between. 

To hear, see, to know it still, be still my hands. 

In terror I pierce through; its terror freezes me.  

Its so cruel; my need to want, and daring drift. 

To push through and I find the daylight coldly. 

To fall away even in pain of all that of nothing. 

What forces wish to meddle in my make up?

Where one hands favour, one breeds my toil. 

Where steady made this mine, pain casts off. 

Where have they placed my leave, I want this. 

I steel my bungling, and recede to steal away. 

Both make light of a leadenly, jagged retreat.

And its all sand dunes to begin with, all of it. 

Were I to fall further, I should sink beneath it. 

No hope therein, none so more in thereafter. 

Its varied mirage is nothing more, not for any. 

Empty handed, holds my heart of all my dark.

I know it must be.  I hear you tell of my woes. 

I must stand back, regarding them so coldly. 

Its much more than any might stand a weight. 

I'm none but splinters to the likes of them all. 

And those in the circle where I danced, blind. 

Memory serves to sever through my trusting. 

Empty handed again? Empty handed always. 

-phoenix

10.22.2014

What's Good?

What's Good?

The rain had moved in, settled, down poured,
Tomorrow's forecast, much the same as this. 
In a moment though, momentary lapse, word;
I found a sun, or perhaps you carried it here. 
It will wax or wane, who trusts a weatherman,
But it matters, if only to you; shapes meaning. 

So we built a chain, first one letter, then word,
strung together brushstrokes, something new. 
Becomes a painting no one else sees, but we. 
In folds of grey, it becomes blinding at times!
It cannot remove it, but it can eclipse for now. 
For now; all I ever wish, what you always give. 

Grey becomes tired, sleep a spell; leaves me. 
Jagged round the edges but good for a smile. 
This is where the days go, down a black hole,
But sucks down the light too, and we keep it,
Sometimes to ourselves, sometimes to them. 
Even if it is fleeting; tomorrow is a new grey. 

None else hears the intricacies of good, too. 
It amuses me, like your silly puzzles for you. 
There's no face value, even as values a face. 
You always rise, even as I speak in raindrops.
I become topple-prone, but you lean against. 
Backwards tug of war in words and phrases. 

Your turn, spin me tales of windows or woes. 
My turn, hear my flustering fault lines through. 
Turn prisms to it, trade me a wave, gives rays. 
It is good; tomorrow to be was, but not now. 
And becomes energy; skull a sounding board. 
To let sleep, lain in the crook of today's smile. 

-phoenix
10.13.2014

Pick the Window?

Pick the Window?

Why must we dance upon shards so often?

Would you have the years be all for naught?

The weather of your face, so unpredictable. 

All I can do, let the clouds roll over and past. 

There is nothing beyond this, my tiny window. 

There are fleeting few minds that touch mine. 

How can it be easy, blinding your eyes to me?

You'll not have to raise a hand to leave marks. 

Pound for pound, the air pressure drops off,

I cannot catch my breath, or stop the rains. 

You claimed, though claims now falsely, I...

Am barely here, never be your centre again. 

I've taken to back seats in my reality, empty. 

No truth in the vocabulary for the likes of me?

When I'm hurting you, now lends your anger,

And when slowly dying, meets to indifference. 

Is this the eternity our souls will be sharing?

To compliment a clock rather than ourselves?

Never to see a day with you, or night with me. 

What sharing of this continuum to be tainted?

The cost of all we've built billed to weight me. 

Can barely see any longer, the grey is so cold. 

The window mocks my savage anguish, and I

Have no recourse to the obstacle course now. 

I know the shape of my own grave, my love. 

And my tombstone will bare you to its centre. 

So many other faces to rim the edges, but lo,

You were always the centre for mine.  Without

You, I'd have melded into the chaos long ago. 

Even as it crawls o'er my flesh, I think of you. 

This beauty is fleeting, but once held magics

of a world, so I slip away on thoughts of you. 

-phoenix

10.9-12.2014

Pick the Door?

Pick the Door?

Can't we take this hurricane outside please?

It has been an earthquake, slowly, but surely. 

The slow motion landslide builds momentum. 

Soon enough we'll both be buried, or is it me. 

I'll carry forth the rain, you'll take the thunder.

Is as it always was, only bent by apocalypse. 

Which one of us becomes puppet for today?

In truth it is both, always both, don't you see?

No, my work was too clear, much too precise. 

Now I'm to pay king's ransom for my sanities.  

No good deed to go unrewarded; my cell, sir. 

I've no need for keys, no point to the leaves. 

Might hand me a shovel, best to dig my own. 

Less confusion of intentions, of machinations. 

I know of love and loyalty, perhaps more so. 

You want to make it be me anyway, oh runner. 

I've given you all, still you'd have me a villain. 

I'll not oblige you, let me see your dirty hands. 

Your loyalties were always tarnished and yet,

You still wanted to hold this platform with me. 

I begged you, pleaded you to run than abuse. 

Was it a lie? Was it cowardice?  Deflections?

Is this really all its worth?  Ask me yesterday,

I'd have defended you to the death; disbelief! 

I have no faith left to spare, having stolen all. 

You've made sure of it, my choices are clear

and clearly you; unaccepting of the evidence. 

You would force my hands to save your sleep. 

I'll have none of it, promises broken for both. 

If a push is all you have; rather I would swing.  

-phoenix

10.9.2014