Dear Valentine
Forget me not
For offering always
this Black, Tainted—
but Genuine—
and still Naive
Heart.
Particular Moments
More Stars than There are
Tag: heartbreaks
February 14, 2017
January 3, 2017
Crisis in Barren Island
Scars that won’t heal
Pain that cannot absolve
Now
What are you
But an empty crest of
Everything you once were?
Once immaculate, un-clever,
Never mutilated.
Seeking in despair
For sentience
From without—
Blinding lines of lyrics
Taking all your minutes, and
Countless, heart-wrenching
Silver-screen Plots,
Stealing away
All the hours—
Do you remember,
Or do you
Simply fall down low,
Empty
Once again,
When the Show’s over—
Still searching
Voraciously, tears lost—
No hindsights,
For the next wave
Of manufactured emotions?
June 20, 2016
One Empathizes
After great pain, a formal feeling comes–
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs;
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round–
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought,
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone–
This is the Hour of Lead–
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow–
First–Chill–then Stupor, then the letting go.
—After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes, Emily Dickinson.
October 26, 2015
In The Dark + Self Understanding
Feeling most reassured when I feel nothing at all.
August 15, 2015
My Affection
Here they stay, after all has retreated from the vanities of wakefulness. Quiet, mysterious, and solemn—a reality to their own.
August 14, 2015
The Conclusion
I cannot
Be a Watcher
and
A Doer
All at once.
My love
Does not forget,
And remains
Unlike the beasts
Of Burden
That surround
You.
January 7, 2015
Serious Pang
“Sometimes
It’s like someone
Took a knife, baby,
Edgy and Dull,
And cut
A Six-Inch Valley
Through the middle
Of my Soul.”
—I’m On Fire, Bruce Springsteen.
Particular Moments 