Dark Poetry Prose Poetry July 31, 2004 Dark Poetic Prose

07-31-04 saturday 9:39pm

peel away your eyelids. never sleep again. unzip your skin. crawl out of it like a dirty blanket.

see the darkness as it shines like a lantern. stiff and black and transparent. lit from within. fingers of light grab out from the center. grab at anything that is different.

i gave it all away like a yard sale for the soul. gave every memory a price tag and begged strangers to take. cuz none of it was worth keeping anymore. all it did was take up a lot of space.

forget what you thought you wanted. concentrate on what you've got. kiss the moon and wed the stars. it's always night. it's always dark.

07-31-04 saturday 10:53pm

it's nothing now. just as it's always been. only it took me all this time to notice.

it's then. photographs unfocused. aim your life like a viewfinder and hope. hope that the shutter is quick.

it all supposes. angles upon which shadows grow. striking harsh without requite. lives unfold like empty beds. and we are compelled to throw sheets upon them.

there's nothing left to say except that sunrise was a disappointment. it only shed light on all the things i'd rather not have seen. silver bows decorating packages left out in the rain.

it's not that it's nothing. it's that it never was. it's not that i wanted, but that it seems everyone deserves that option.

days fall like rain and we watch as the pavement is saturated. days fall down like rain and we struggle not to drown in them. we've always known how to swim, but this is different.