Came from darkness.

You know I'm from the dark side
no matter how hard I try.
Time & time it shows,
round & round you know.
There's no blaming,
it's worth noting.
Everything's in me
to no one's surprise.
Lucky to be alive,
after all that delay.
It's just hard to decide,
what am i.
Doesn't matter just be.
The voices become quiet.
Can't be too far from death.
Yet there's a light.
I get back in line,
starting to hear the rhythm,
smelling that sweet bread.
Darkness I expand,
like an old friend.
Don't be afraid
what might've been placed
like an antique box,
safely waiting,
for an aged hand
to gently retrieve.
What's still.
Darkness awaits.

Confession of a vacant mind.

My parents love each other.
It makes things worse.
Growing up watching them,
co-dependent, non-functioning.
I was knocked outta myself.
Thinking I could see things
clearer, without emotions.
"I'm afraid of losing my mind
like my grandma did."
So I left my seat
observing calmly
without knowing
who I am.
Always needing someone
in case I disappear,
in case I get lost
in the formidable maze
that's my vacant mind.

Happiness is a sucker’s game.

Happiness is a sham.
Biologically it helps no one.
Where's the urgency?
Who's the casualty?
I want to ask,
"What's the price
of happiness?"
Sure you can laugh
then you die.
I'd stay quiet
and step aside.
Not a coward
but a wise.
Who says happiness
smells of wine?
It's a sham! Shame! Sham!
Oh, oh, you can tell
I'm having a good time?
Why, it's not a party
but feel free to join.
We are selling happiness.
What a sham!

Confines.

In the confines of a camera lens,
will you be kind or
expose me for what I am?
In the confines.

Things are so predictable,
even the story is foretold.
Everyone's so special.
In the confines,
in the confines.

Whoever I'm gonna meet?
Whomever I'm gonna be?
Oh, the places I get to see.
In the confines.

It's 6am & we call it wrap,
looking for the next gig just the same.
You know we gonna meet again.
In the confines.
In the confines.
In the...

Animal Channel.

Instead of watching actors
I watch chimps & birds.
Instead of arousing some
humanity that I don't have,
I take notes
on animal channel.

"It's not a natural life."
someone says &
they are lying.
At least the animals
don't sell fashion lines
on the animal channel.

Oops, someone got eaten.
Lordie, some babies died.
No matter how you gasp,
you're laughing inside.
It's the circle of life.
("That is so.")
On the animal channel.

Delimitation.

I look for delimitation
to freeze the moment
for close examination
of the quantum fluctuations.
It gives me weird vibrations,
as if it'd known me before,
so I ask it for more,
and it gives me the finger.
Patience is not something
I can afford.
Pushed along these narrow streets,
in & out of consciousness
as the moon sways,
and the sun bakes,
and the dance keeps go
round & round.
I've been silly before,
I will strive even more.
There's no reason, only time.
There's no rhyme, save mine.