cry for stillness
listen, that rhythm, that beat
crashing and burning
spinning and turning
we’re dancing, we’re diving
we’re dreaming, we’re scheming

light and scatter
time shatters, shards, splinters, splatters
we’ve only just begun
voices crying out
howling on the wind
spin, beloved, twirl
screaming in the desert wastes
in the bleak, scarred wilderness
of my soul

tripping and falling
herking and jerking
like an epileptic on speed
the pupils dilate
the heart beat races

we sing

dreaming spaces
traces
lost and forsaken

mark where the paths cross
like a tight braid, a strangling skein
destiny unyielding
like a fly wrapped up in spider-silk
still and lost
gazing at the maw of death
abrading and lacerating
scraping and rasping

Death’s too good for ‘em.

Light!
sing the glory of angels
floating on the western sky
like shimmering clouds
firestorms of the fall, come early
this blistering summertime
this scalding solstice
dessicating and despoiling

Blight!
the empty interiors of my wretched soul
the vast, haunted echo chambers, still and silent
but even the darkness breathes
the great winds sweeping

Still.

Brilliant
Aching
like crystal meth directly into the bloodstream
I taste starlight
and breathe the sun

spilling, brimming
this corrosive acid
glass etching
burning away

it’s all just
burning away

falling, fading
twisted
jaded
we are one with the universe
in its near-infinite emptiness
the silence
this deafening roar
echoing within and without

8 minutes
when the sun implodes
it’s 8 minutes before the searing blast
the nuclear holocaust
stripping away electron clouds
leaving superheated plasma
streaming to the ends of the universe

Nothingness
This shiftless chaos
This quantum foam
all that ever was
all that will be

Nothingness
still and silent
in the darkness past midnight
dreaming still of unicorns
dragons and wizards
princesses and knights
of happily ever after
and other such foolishness
the wounded heart still beats
the shattered soul still hopes
I am cold and alone
and still waiting
for stillness