Another Year and Half on Hiatus, When will your Songs be Heard?When you've been put Under?
Break your Eggs, my Friend---You are every bit as ConsequentialAs the Stars and the Moon!It'd be a SinTo hide your EssenceAnd mute your Lustre.
The Sun rises upon our City,
Shining through
and eventually rising past
the Dust
and Smog of Unspeakable
Terror---
That which some of
US have been Spraying
and Pressing,
with an devilish
determination of Doom,
Upon those defenseless
in our muddy, Earthly
Lot.
You Stand by
the East-facing window,
and Dawn radiates itself
half-muffled,
through our Now
Sedated Sky---
Constrained by its
Silver veneer of death,
Mapped haphazardly
and logically
Overhead.
You Look back
in the Mirror, and
the Silhouette looks
Back sickly,
With Blood-Shot Eyes.
He looks back at you,
as if you were the one
who were dead,
"Have you been suffering obliviously,
If not having had been
Duped
into Half-Hosting
Our Greatest War?
Living one eye blind,
While having lent the other
to play mere Bystander?"
shadows crawling, sins go on repeating
as you scantily prop your back,
fighting cross-generational
demons.
years without Transcendence
or pure self destruction,
cut out from the fast and easy
perishing---
do you find yourself now
so needlessly harsh,
morbidly crass;
so stubbornly brash?
would opening your skull,
and peeking in to
snap these tense cords
bring you final release?
mute screams, muffled
between inner ears
reverberate and
seep---
until we are nothing
but knots over knots:
finding ourselves
in a messy string.
But hey now---
hey now, hey now:
If we are so Lucky
as to
Carry On Living...
Remember,
Grit your teeth!
trace the harder
route to Release---
Follow the timeless Patrons
of Form and Patience,
And all the while,
.
.
.
Rage.
Plan with fervor;
Desist; Trample if you must---
but Do---
not try but do,
Toss
until chaos
becomes Peace.
Early dawn birds remain unawakened;
night-prawl creatures resigned to slumber—
your Eyes are afraid
to shut themselves,
Lest you cease to
Stay Alive.
it certainly isn’t true, but
it’s nice to pinch ourselves
a little harder now and then,
and to Imagine
all of One’s Life glorified
in a single,
Victorious Instant.
Blessed is thee
For thy watery,
Luminous eyes—
Capture and paint
Moments so rare
and precious
to the more unkind;
Cursed is also thee,
Whose pupil remains
Unsullied—
Too often
Falling prey to
the many hearts
Soiled.
“If I can stop one heart from breaking”
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one in Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.
—Emily Dickinson.
.
the best convictions are those that seek to benefit the self the least—they also the ones that shine the strongest in life’s most extraordinary circumstances.
I fell
In Love
With a fine,
Young Lady
From the Other
Side
Of town—
She North
And I South—
Two neighborhoods, separate lives,
And both having
Miraculously crossed,
Would never
Once
Be
The same.
Particular Moments 
February 27, 2022
In this City – Part I
The City is indeed a peculiar place to be—
it is a eco-chamber that sources its
raw goods from outside its borders,
and in return, never manage to return any
fruition of equal liveliness or consequence;
it is a mischievous juicer
that spits out yellowy-green puss, putrid waste
from the best apples and oranges
innocently fed into it;
it is its own twisted mega-church,
with its organs always blasting
on high volume—
deafening drones of motorized something’s;
heart-wretching screams of lost Souls,
with all of their needless violence and commotions;
it is a rotting garden of surprises:
festering garbage lodged uncomfortably
into crevices better served for other purposes;
dog shit, or those of humans and the alike,
left behind for invisible, miracle cleaning crews;
broken parts of otherwise wholesome constructs,
carpeting the roads’ medians
and their left and right side walks—
.
When putting all of its saucy elements in view,
it indeed looks quite like
a bewildering, if not entirely mad arrangement
for Man to gravitate to.