some day we'll find a name for this
burning hole in the contours of
misshaped living and set
the word on fire dancing
in circles drunk tormented
              liberated
        beautiful
   beatific
beat

eternity blinked at his grey collapsing face
follow
follow
the stare the hunger
the heat of the body
drawing closer and closer
rugged rhythm of
starry frostbitten years
no more exits
just wounds rippling
collapsing the surface
of loosening skin
follow
follow and do not return
the all-knowing stare
of eternity

your fickle heart
does it know the inevitableness that's
turning mornings into irons stiff
does it ache when you unveil the world
reassembling in awkward silence of your bedroom
does it cry out in poignant disbelief
still here
still crackling spinning sinking
into the pounding pit of the rib cage
wearily stealing seconds and minutes on end
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don't break
don't break
do you feel another smash coming
how big will it be
don't break
because if you do
nothing will ever put you back together again
nothing
ever
i've taken a big one
i know
ever

are you falling
are you in love
you might take a smash
you might break
you will fall and nothing will ever put you back togethernothing ( Read more... )

all mud and hungered looks
all broken and breaking
steel cord
cut in deep
cut it off
blueprints loveless
like animals mute surrendered
well-versed in ethics of slaughter

i am letting go

of the unbecoming dreams
i have reached out to and savoured

of the cargo
disappearing reluctantly in dim waters

of the phantoms
crowding the deck
dragging along
thin lips pursed eloquently
in reproach

of the steering wheel

of the dog-eared map of stars
and quick judgements

untethered Moloch has claimed me

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in streams of savage colours
he ascends to me every night
chanting slithering wailing
unrecognisable under the ancient
mask of horrid paleness
friendless and faithful i stand
beside him and listen
to the whip of his immaculate kiss
turning me to stone