Monthly Archives: February 2018
past away
Posted on February 13, 2018
I can’t fly to the past. I can’t beat my wings beyond the guardians of yesterday. They protect what’s carved and etched, with revolving clock hands that spin like a helicopter rotor, only sending me further into the future. The more I reach for those memories, the more tomorrow tries to hold my outreached hand.
Skies of Skin
Posted on February 9, 2018
Last night, my body was the sky. I felt sizzling stars glowing underneath my skin, shining starlight through my pores, one of my pupils was the sun and the other was the moon. The emboldened sun raged with flames and rays, sending its light down my body, illuminating its side of my face and body, […]
f e a r
Posted on February 8, 2018
The fear builds up around me like a yellow elephant-skinned light bulb. I stare around, alert eyes not expecting, amazed as the adrenaline bulb turns on, blazing, eyes being crushed and stomped into bits and pieces by the fiery army boots which are worn by the marching radiant heat worn by two eternally growing, glowing […]
Solace
Posted on February 7, 2018
In the misty shadows of your dark eyes there is a calming refuge unlike any other place, your risen eyelashes spread above me like two black roofs, putting everything below them in an engulfing shadow, protecting me from this scorching life. Looking up, seeing two giant white moons, shining their soothing light on me, a […]
Cautereyes
Posted on February 3, 2018
I cauterized my past so it would stop bleeding into my future, but I still have blood on my hands.