#rhymes

We speak without words
And breath without air
Our hearts compose without beats
And we shine without glare.

The earth seems silent
whenever we are together
The loudest of silences
Forever and never

r.t.

Distance lends to longing
Nearness, by contrast, diminishes interest
It kills curiosity and breeds familiarity in its place
Mystery traded for certainty
Risk for security
The unknown for the known
The strange becomes the expected
The average
The normal
Once fascinating, now commonplace
Questions turned answers
The proximity of loveliness almost begs to be tarnished
The beloved and the forsaken
The cherished and the abandoned
The most precious yesterday
The least desired tomorrow
And today is somewhere between
Distance is love without depth
Nearness is depth without love

My stories soar me
Higher than life
I edit
Thread it
Under the knife

You know things are bad when you try typing something coherent, and poetry is all that can be clawed across the keys. Fractured minds break fingers across abused keyboards to create shattered words. There’s pain in those misshapen keystrokes. 

Deep down

Where light

And sound

Filter out

Deep

Deep down

Where shapes

And forms

Dissolve

Down

Deep down

Where nothing

Is the only

Something

Where

Deep down

Where nowhere

Is everywhere

at once

I

Deep down

Where lies

And secrets

Trade places

Keep

Deep down

Where mind

And body

Blur together

You

I’m writing now

But I know these words

And they sound as much a warning

As they do a whispered confession

I voice totally alone

Because

I’m not fluent enough

To make you understand

In a language neither of us speak

Or could really ever know

I’m writing now

But it’s not enough

Or maybe it’s far too much

Of something untranslatable

And laughably beyond my reach

Because

I’m not a casual anything

And nothing comes easy

In the ways I need them to

For you to be convinced to love me

I’m taking a long look

And a long draw

Of everything

I ever heard

Or saw

Of you

I’m catching up

And holding back

From choking

On this

Feeling

Of you

I’m forcing myself

And smiling

Through

I can’t make

Anything

Of you

The sea ahead of me,
as wide and as deep as my eyes could ever see.
And, right behind me,
lies the city’s biggest cemetery.

Look at me! Says the sea.
I am blue and just as full-of-life as you.
I’m sorry, says I. But I do not want you.
And all I wish is that, one day, I shall cross you.

Turn around! I hear from behind.
You disregard me. Yet, I will never disregard you.
There’s the sea. You can run, you can go through.
As for me, one day, I shall cross you.