Showing posts with label sorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sorrow. Show all posts

Winter Solstice

History's hurts burst gracelessly and blur
the polished edges of responses
sponsored by maturity.
Blurting half-burped mutterings of
defensive small-talk offerings
in place of confident honesty.
The maw of malicious memories yawns
and looses vapours venomous,
vines around voice until it leaves a croak.
Crone-dry and bladder-wracked,
hoarse retorts crack
thoughtless reports across the
hectares of unspoken battles fought.

Token offerings to false idols prove the dedication to deceit.
Conceit conceals tears long since congealed
into crevasses carved by rictus grin.
Spinning stories cobweb thin
from which a larder fully stocked with
melancholy memories of mockeries suspends,
an endless supply of abuse.

Cogitations crank and the wheel, it turns.
Burn the lights on the longest night,
for tonight we learn and sacrifice
a sorrow
in exchange for wisdom.
Flames devour, smoke billows,
sour tongue converted to
icing sugar ash,
cinnamon cynicism
and not-in-my-name nutmeg.

Feast upon your fears and you will never feel them again.


Too

it’s tomorrow already and all days are gone.
what once was hope’s now
broken, floating
           motes.

it’s too much already and all peace has gone.
what once was all’s now
cruel, crawling
        brawls.

it’s too hard already and all diplomacy has gone.
what once was tact’s now
fractured, panicking
              attacks.

it’s 2 AM already and all seeds of dreams have gone.
what once was future’s now
uprooted, fruitless
              disputes.
   
it’s too late already and all plans are gone.
what once was trust’s now
crusted, suppurating
            cuts.