Weary from the constraints of society, / Conformity, and its misaligned propriety, / Where truth is lost in the desperate chaos…
Category Archives: Society
Too Many To-Dos
A myriad of necessities / Scatter like loose embers, / Float away from me, / As I gather them, / Slip through the gaps / Between my fingers, / For I have only two hands…
Tale of a Sputtering Spark
A deceitful act encapsulates, / Taints, represses, and destroys / Innocent eyes and trusting souls / Color drains and greyscale paints / Across the once blissful dreamscape / That encouraged joyous naïveté…
The Crickets and the Cars
The crickets hummed in noonday sun. / Summer scorched the cool greens of Spring, / Dyed the pastures a warm, wheaten yellow / To match the bright, burning rays. / The frontliners of the season’s change / Signaled the crickets to emerge and sing / Their characteristic melody…
Nothing Ever Fades that Should
Nothing ever fades that should / Valhalla is reserved only / For the worthy and good / The things of Hades creep / Climb out from underground / They never truly die…
The Pacifier
It’s a little thing / To soothe a terrible cry / When nothing real is needed / But the motion of the act…
Knifed
The flesh wound wasn’t deep / I am not cut, but I bleed / Not in a pool beneath the skin / Blue and black and bruised…