Dark Poetry Prose Poetry December 6, 2004 Dark Poetic Prose

12-06-04 monday 9:47pm

no. loud as thunder. shaking the sky with its anger.

yes i did. once. breath through a flute. turning the simple act of living into music.

the face a victim. the body an accomplice. no villain. but many a crime.

the rain abating to allow the moon to see. a whole world below it waiting on the next tide it's to bring.

move this sand. erase those footprints. wake the ocean. make it dance again. like it used to when all alone i would listen to it. as the waves would recant the stories of all the places they have been.

steal the sun. make darkness permanent. because i only feel safe in its arms. surrounded by it.

tell the sun. convince it. that it should stay abed. because this world is so dark regardless.

12-06-04 9:55pm monday

drinking life as i am drunk by it. we're all liquid when you take away these fleshy buckets we keep it in.

pour me now as you would your favorite beverage. that i could ever be that tempting.

that i could actually fill any container i was placed within.

given a few moments i'd find a way to leak out.

such a bright smile the morning always has. eager to reach the world. ready to be had.

i know what there is to want. what there is to have.

i'd like to. i would. but i can't.

lend me your hand. i'll only hold it for a moment and then i'll give it back.

just hold onto me for a second and i'll be so much better off for it.

just touch me once. with that life you possess. i won't take it. won't try to keep. i just want to feel. feel someone else.

i just want a sense of what it's like to be alive. to be felt by.

12-06-04 monday 10:34pm

tomorrow not the friend you'd hoped. yesterday your tattered clothes.

release me. unto. like chalky fantasies of childhood. the eraser sweeping over that black landscape.

like so many math problems you couldn't solve. as they looked upon.

so afraid to wear that stage. as it wore you. so dead in that picture frame. as they hung. hung it like a waiting grave.

smother me. won't you please. because i'm long since dead. cover me. give me just one tear and then let me rest.

your love was real, but not enough. you didn't even know me. you only barely touched the surface.

i tried to, but i couldn't reach it.