long gone.

You're gonna kill me
...how long?
Words are like shadows
Lingering in the mind and the sun
Fragments of such
Come patiently
But you say nothing
While I wallow at my tea
The sun comes to darkness
The air cold on my teeth
Never let go before
But the glass is more empty
Than I can see certain
It's a sad world
But I used to see it so real
It's gone to the liars
And burns in the floods
While I suffer on
Can't control my reasons
To feel so gone
It's true!
I am missing the sad mark
The pain stake
The observation
Of content
Just contempt.

And wouldn't you know it's the truth.

I'm too smart
I need to die
I won't lie in your way
I don't crave your attention
I'm far away
But not enough
To know what is true
And what is false
I lie stagnant by the claims
Made
By those forgoing
And those forgiving
Lost lamps
In the landslide
Carry me away
From this place
So dark
So hidden
Buried
Beneath the bodies
Digging up the bones
Going down
Seeing nothing
But the pure white
(Of heaven)
In a dying eye
Could've killed me
But I thought it true
And carried myself
Till I can't carry no more
I see the shadows
Yet it's still dark
& thought of you:
A modern of joan of arc
Oh sure...oh sure...
Give so much
For your goddamn art
But how hell do you
Explain
You're own salvation
With all the rust
Through your tarnation
You're a tattered soul
& I tethered
But we look through
The same lines
To the truth through.

The natives know when to speak.

Clock tower; madness; disappears
Casting shadows on the tallest man
I think to shudder as you close the blinds
Letting the light slip in
Like slivers stabbing at dusk
Each blade a fine shape
Edge between the bookcase and the bottles
-When-
Every night is over
And every day is done
I'll succumb
Without a whimper
Not a tear
For the day breaks
In silence
But the players' defiance
Left a ringing in my ear
Told me not to settle
Not to play the fear
For those shadows
Until they
Disappear
They've found the light
In sacrifice
Letting go..
So when it breaks
It shatters