On certain days I want to tear apart my ribs and let my heart beat free
paint sunset shadows in bloody red and
set the throbbing of an empty muscle to the tune of the pouring rain.
On those days, I often cannot tell
if the feeling is exquisite in its’ ecstasy or agony,
whether I want to feel nothing or everything.
All I know is that this is the only way I know to feel either.
For lips stitched shut from the inside have a hard time speaking.
And even if I had not long ago given up on speech,
my rusted brain no longer knows what it means to give itself a voice.
How does an organ speak anyway? What does a lump of tissue know of fears
I’ve had enough.
Enough of these restless eternities,
Silent pleas for time
As the clock ticks down.
I watch desperate fingers scrabble in the dust
Frantically catching at the grains of sand
That slip relentlessly from their grasp.
Wasted lives spent
Fighting for time.
The seconds beating loud in my ears
The hours soft as a sigh.
These endless moments and ending infinities
Tie me to this place.
The frantic beating of my heart
Races the clock,
Fighting a battle long since lost,
With the clock
Relentlessly ticking to the same steady beat,
While my heart slows,
Slows,
And between one moment and the next
Stops.
There’s nothing left to tell you,
In truth, what more can I say?
You never listened then
And I doubt you'll hear me anyway.
So caught up in your petty battle
To prove that you’re the best,
You think you’re somehow more deserving
Of father’s honor than the rest.
Despite all that you have done,
I still have love for you,
In truth that will never change,
And one day I hope you’ll see it too.
I’ll be waiting for you brother,
For the day you come home at last,
For the day you regain your senses,
And leave your schemes in the past.
But even though I love you,
You should be made aware,
That there is no trust b
Phosphorous Days and Magnesium Nights by GaleriaC, literature
Literature
Phosphorous Days and Magnesium Nights
Nitrogen and phosphorous,
A volatile mix,
Hydrogen or Plutonium,
What consequences did we miss?
With lives defined by Nickel,
Platinum, Silver, Gold,
Ignoring things that matter,
What does the future hold?
When compressed Carbon matters more,
Than children dying in the street.
When they lie Lead riddled,
These kids we’ll never meet.
We have only Titanium dreams in a Neon dusk,
Paling now at dawn’s first light.
Copper streaks across the sky,
It matters not,
when eyes are blind.
So drink down the Arsenic,
And take your fatal pill.
Cut off the Oxygen and bathe in Mercury,
Until the rushes have been stilled.
Pay the t
We are so caught up in our trivial lives,
We fail to see the truth.
That beyond this fragile dying planet there are stars.
And the stars form galaxies,
innumerable and immense,
In the emptiness that is this universe,
A space stretching far beyond the capacity of our minds to understand.
And what are we in comparison?
We register not at all,
And yet we spend our lives trying to make our mark.
We struggle to make an impossibility,
When our existence is un-seeable on a universal scale.
We are simply stardust.
We are molecules and atoms, neutrons, protons, quarks.
And space.
So much empty space between.
We are helium and hydrogen, carbon
On certain days I want to tear apart my ribs and let my heart beat free
paint sunset shadows in bloody red and
set the throbbing of an empty muscle to the tune of the pouring rain.
On those days, I often cannot tell
if the feeling is exquisite in its’ ecstasy or agony,
whether I want to feel nothing or everything.
All I know is that this is the only way I know to feel either.
For lips stitched shut from the inside have a hard time speaking.
And even if I had not long ago given up on speech,
my rusted brain no longer knows what it means to give itself a voice.
How does an organ speak anyway? What does a lump of tissue know of fears
I’ve had enough.
Enough of these restless eternities,
Silent pleas for time
As the clock ticks down.
I watch desperate fingers scrabble in the dust
Frantically catching at the grains of sand
That slip relentlessly from their grasp.
Wasted lives spent
Fighting for time.
The seconds beating loud in my ears
The hours soft as a sigh.
These endless moments and ending infinities
Tie me to this place.
The frantic beating of my heart
Races the clock,
Fighting a battle long since lost,
With the clock
Relentlessly ticking to the same steady beat,
While my heart slows,
Slows,
And between one moment and the next
Stops.
There’s nothing left to tell you,
In truth, what more can I say?
You never listened then
And I doubt you'll hear me anyway.
So caught up in your petty battle
To prove that you’re the best,
You think you’re somehow more deserving
Of father’s honor than the rest.
Despite all that you have done,
I still have love for you,
In truth that will never change,
And one day I hope you’ll see it too.
I’ll be waiting for you brother,
For the day you come home at last,
For the day you regain your senses,
And leave your schemes in the past.
But even though I love you,
You should be made aware,
That there is no trust b
Phosphorous Days and Magnesium Nights by GaleriaC, literature
Literature
Phosphorous Days and Magnesium Nights
Nitrogen and phosphorous,
A volatile mix,
Hydrogen or Plutonium,
What consequences did we miss?
With lives defined by Nickel,
Platinum, Silver, Gold,
Ignoring things that matter,
What does the future hold?
When compressed Carbon matters more,
Than children dying in the street.
When they lie Lead riddled,
These kids we’ll never meet.
We have only Titanium dreams in a Neon dusk,
Paling now at dawn’s first light.
Copper streaks across the sky,
It matters not,
when eyes are blind.
So drink down the Arsenic,
And take your fatal pill.
Cut off the Oxygen and bathe in Mercury,
Until the rushes have been stilled.
Pay the t
We are so caught up in our trivial lives,
We fail to see the truth.
That beyond this fragile dying planet there are stars.
And the stars form galaxies,
innumerable and immense,
In the emptiness that is this universe,
A space stretching far beyond the capacity of our minds to understand.
And what are we in comparison?
We register not at all,
And yet we spend our lives trying to make our mark.
We struggle to make an impossibility,
When our existence is un-seeable on a universal scale.
We are simply stardust.
We are molecules and atoms, neutrons, protons, quarks.
And space.
So much empty space between.
We are helium and hydrogen, carbon
Hey,
I know no one is going to read this and that’s fine, but I just needed to feel like I’m talking to somebody. I’m feeling really down and I need to share. It largely revolves around my mother, and I don’t know what to do about it. I know it’s completely cliché, but she really doesn’t get that sometimes I need her to recognize that I am not the only one in the wrong. She is part of the problem too, and I just need her to say she’s sorry every once in a while, without turning it back onto me. I need her to listen to what I’m saying, put herself out of the picture a moment, and look a