Accident-prone yet bulletproof, resilience courses through my veins. After plucking out the shrapnel from my own Hell-Bent self-destruction, all I was left with was me. Through embracing my darkness, I found the light. Here lie a sordid collection of POETRY, PROSE, AND REFLECTIONS on the traumas & triumphs along the way.
Friday, June 18, 2021
BP.
immunized from those green eyes;
pools of jade, that pull me under,
they reel me in, then let me sink.
Why do I desire drowning?
Like a bird made flightless from oil.
Feathers drenched and dripping tar,
all because I broke my own protocol.
An oil spill like no other, leaking out
as far as icy Arctic shores.
You dyed the sea black—
just like my heart is charred.
Perhaps no prisoner before me
ever dared to protest,
demanding justice,
or even just respect.
Your unyielding innocence
only leaves more room for neglect.
This is a disaster, like no other before it, causing mass endangerment
to marine animals,
mankind,
and ultimately,
all life on this planet.
Until you learn to leave on time,
no love like mine will ever stay;
even if your smile brightens
my darkest days.
This is the all-too-familiar recipe
for another bad romance,
so I'll take this chance to leave,
and be the one who got away.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Mystique.
A few unforgettable sighs
and I caught on fire—
float higher; unfatigued.
I aspire, you succeed.
Make me feel weak,
fom your mystique,
it's so unique.
This technique unseen before by me,
sets me on fire, like a gas leak.
It douses me with desire, like I am antique,
and sends me reeling as I retreat
into a rhythmic release immortalized
by an elite orchestra of my own adoration, obscene.
I perceive you as the precipice,
I'd wreak havoc on the most chaotic
if it would win me a single kiss
from those lips, that leave my soul wet.
Perspiring, patting prudishly at the dew
that drowns me in the essence of you,
as beads of citrus, and luna rossa
but just as I'm about to man the decks, I stop and catch sight of my reflection, flushed and made more red than scarlet letters.
So I slyly smile;
then let out a luxuriating breath.
I dont know how you do it
but suddenly, I'm 16 again,
I feel so fresh.
Like I've got brand new insides,
it's cleansed my chest.
Whatever it is, I know
that you and me could rise above the rest, become better than our best,
conquer the globe from east to west,
but only if you promise to never
Unsmoked Meat.
How many times can I fall
for a different version of the
same mistake?
I trip & I tumble,
then I stumble,
my self-worth away.
What can I do to feel brand new,
revive the smile on my face?
I've been broken down before,
but this can't endure another day.
I'm free-falling, and failing to be free.
I am living life inside a bubble,
and I'm in trouble, but I stay humble,
to save myself from the insane.
See, I've been down some streets
that seek to steal the shine right
from these big-sad brown eyes;
conquered all my monsters,
defeated demons, and danced
with dragons, darling—
I've dared the darkness to be brave.
Cracked, and I crawled, in combat,
collected every single crown,
to claim the war in my own name.
Correct if you think I commanded
mountains, oceans, seas, and lakes.
I caught the criminals before their crime,
ambushed the armies at their gates.
Yet still, somehow, I seem to stack
my odds against the victory, the
sweetness of success.
Slipping away, I stumble,
singing sirens to their deaths;
so stubbornly, I sacrifice my
own need for luxury,
to secure a stranger's desire
to dress to impress.
Each opportunity to raise my spirits,
seems to be a chance I take to rise,
to raise the securities of someone else.
A sequence of silly me, the saint who
stains his own soul for the salvation of
society.
I am not their goal,
their toll is not with me.
Unable to make them whole,
I am not any more or less unholy.
So although this is a series of
the same old same, stuck in a loop
that's on repeat, it seems to self-identify
in different ways,
it's appearance may change
but it plays an old familiar. ancient game.
Unless I learn the lesson,
there will never be a new subject,
sentenced to suffer stuck, like supper,
in some spider's web.
Smoking I smoke and I
I'm smoking I smoke and
I'm smoking I smoke
I'm smoking to stay sane.
Puff and I puff and I'm
puffing I puff I'm puffing
I'll huff and I'll puff and
I'll blow the house away.
Foggy,
it's dark
and it's gloomy,
this haze that is looming
leads to another cloudy day.
I weave,
and
I wave, and
I rant
and I rave,
I'm riding out
this wave.
Slipping,
I slide,
I trip,
I fall
into the hungry mouth
of an open grave.
And if I recall correctly,
I crawled directly
into this cave.
I used to have it all,
the money, cash, and coins t
that I could crave.
But that was before I learned
to burn, to bend, to break
in order to be brave.
Jetsetta.
First class,
flyin Emirates,
VIP,
nothin less,
blazing trails,
makin moves,
settin sail,
feelin cute,
private booth.
'Cos you can call me the don,
di me "el diablo"
Corleone; godfather,
but Italiano mi no hablo.
What’s a capo to a paco?
A cannoli to a taco.
Locos vato, roboto,
so domo arigato.
I'm the Moses, to ya Musa
Billie the Kidd on appaloosa,
not a snake like you, medusa.
"Muey piquante, like papusas!"
Send you postcards in the mail,
souvenirs from every destination,
sun-kissed locations, and hot spots
That got names with different
pronunciations.
I'm Carmen Sandiego, mannnnn—
they be like, "Where in the world is he?"
Catch me if you can,
like Taz, i got you feelin' dizzy.
Better move fast,
you know I gotta do this quickly,
before I blast off:
blink and you might miss me.
So, bon voyage, bitch,
I take off and text you flying kisses.