Self Deceit

I daresay I’ve been tricked into oblivion
My senses betray me, treacherous are the lies they spin
The truth that they’ve kept from me, the truth that shall set me free
Has evaded my detection
An internal dereliction.

My Reality is a shapeshifting monstrosity
An illusion I love to live in
My hope, my oxygen.
Chilling it is to think, from this thought I slink
I’ve been breathing in My End
There is a poisonous paucity
That I couldn’t portend.

Under this burden, I buckle
My feet unsure of where they land
What was positively concrete
Was only fickle sand.

In spite of all I’ve stated
We prefer the mirage we’ve created

His City

‘To my happy place, wherever and whatever it may be.’

In the dark hours of despair
Before the dawn is in sight
Sits with a trembling quill
In the wane candle light
Page after page furiously he writes

He weaves himself a city

From the yarn of dreams

In ink he paints

It’s layout and scheme

Words come alive it seems

When his notes clash

With the song of life

When he seeks solace

In the world of strife

Tuneless and tired

It is here he retired

Inside the walls of his city

And one day as the morning sun

Will flood his room

And the burnished sunlight

Lift the gloom

He will fade away

Into his city, consumed

A Different Kind Of Warehouse

Sometimes, I wish I had a photographic memory.

This is not conventional poetry. It is a peek into a moment of time. Take one out to read it too.

In pill boxes, in shoe boxes, in silver foil packages, in odd containers, in hidden pockets, I have stored memories. Lovingly cramped in corners, waiting to be fathomed in the wee hours of the morn when the mind endures deep anguish for a lost cause. It is to these I turn, picking up the thousand shards carelessly scattered, desperately clinging to the transience. They rise, only to vanish into thin air, hanging around me in a silvery cloud, a tantalizing sheen it is. I dare not breathe , I stare transfixed into nothingness. I reach out, clasping the unknown. I wield to the fear boiling inside, transferring fistfuls of the gleaming air to a Tupperware jar. I seal it airtight, placing it among the other cherished rejects.