Marbles

I can make words for myself,
I can shine and polish my own being,
For being’s sake,
For life’s sake,
Without cracks, or even with,
I can still function,
I am like a glass moon,
With glass eyes,
And a glass heart,
 Only trying to look through all this light,
To find my own beam at the end of it,
But there is no light from the moon,
Nor from glass.

Haunting

I tumble, and I fall, and the stars never seemed further away than they do now,
You stumble, and you stall, and the sun refuses to fall down when it promised it would,
I took nothing at all: I was generosity, and now I am left with nothing at all,
Now you’re overcome with guilt, now you’re running to and fro,
My veins are getting deeper with all the disappointments,
Now I can’t help but notice how beautiful they are,
You painted the world with glitter the color of your eyes, and I am mesmerized,
How have we never noticed how I feel? How you don’t feel?
I have been thinking of confronting you, but how will that work if you won’t turn around?
You scared me in my dreams last night, and now my days are nightmarish too,
I am nothing but bones; you’re nothing but skin,
All we can be is parallel — never touching, never touching.

Infinite

We build our humor on childish imaginations and laugh while they look at us strangely,
We stand on crashing waves trying to find reason to wait for the sun to rise beyond the horizon,
We knot our promises in the tender moor where we met the beast that became our tormentor,
I missed all the remarks, and you ran at the first sight of rain,
The world sets, and we sit under the sky we weaved from the moments stolen in the blackest of nights,
And we realize that falling up meant nothing more than joining the slow dance of the endless stars.

Tyrant

I sneeze and entire nations fall to their knees,
I raise a sword, and my enemies cry, and they bleed,
I laugh and the world shakes, the universe quivers,
I pile magic beans on magic beans and climb all the stalks to the sky,
I tell everyone that they can paint their ideas on my empire,
But I’ve silenced them before they can even speak,
I taunt, and I holler, and I defeat every ending,
I thought every fiber would be enough, but I can’t swallow fiber,
I can’t cry freshwater,
They say I control the world,
But I’m losing all my power.

Strategy

I promise you, you are a monster of monarchy,
Your crown sprays poison, and the board reeks of fog,
I raise them against you, pawns unaware of the rules of war,
In the castles we built, we let the bishops pray,
For survival into the knight,
Pieces that run back and forth,
As we trade loyalties over and over,
Gliding as queens without trace of mercy,
In the end, we both spill our kings —
Never realizing that checkmate meant game over.

Anathema

You sprawl like a fantastic disaster,
you try and think of yourself beyond such things as
hatred and anger and jealousy
but I found you a liar
and your falsities are seeping through.
You become the hated
and your anger becomes your icon
and your jealousy tears the world apart.
You try to call yourself an angel
but I found the word demon
to have met you in the war of your existence
and define you in its victory.

Tell-Tale

I am driven insane by the noise,
I have scratched my skin,
I torment myself on deafness, and I try to find a place where I can’t know you,
I rip out hearts and hide them under floorboards,
I build attics and basements in the arteries we clogged,
So why does the beating only stop when you run away with me?

Dictator

Making no effort to conceal your disgust,
And I don’t bother to hide my disinterest,
The world continues to wage war,
We’re made of silent battles,
And stolen warriors,
So many lines have made their distinctions,
Yet I can’t wait until the day you surrender,
For nothing can beat indifference.

Stalactite

Keeping hold because I can’t let go,
I won’t let go,
Because this is all I’ve known,
To hold and hold and never let go,
I am always the one falling,
I am already slipping,
Crippling.

Stalagmite

Ambition
Is my name,
The top is where my eyes have seen
For so long it seems like a dream,
And so I try and run, run from the ground,
Jump so high that the world will be mine,
Maybe then, maybe finally, I will be something.