Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

with or without, within

inspired in my dark
head strapped by two black cups
dancing
with words
i only mutter
to a lonely soul
since absorbed by inner space
my sanctum from ignorance
notes drift lightly
tightly seal
me
in dream
in a hole
inside my beleaguered brain
whispering, rocking, 'don't go insane'
don't let them see
how you die
from within
without

inspired in my division
from the falling tides of a crest-capped sea
rolling
with words
i am floating
to all those surfaces
since consumed by orbiting space
their heaven of ignorance
bars drop heavily
tightly seal
me
in purgatory
interdimensional inert plane
inside my overstimulated brain
whispering, rocking, 'don't go insane'
don't let them see
how you rot
from within
without

without
without love
without those eyes
without those extended hands
without their painted rouge smiles
i keep whispering alone
into your phone
love me
love

love a fool who thinks he knows
what he's talking about
in inner space, outer space
under the seas and into the skies
floating ever higher to every dry eye

what was that?
a noise
me


8.14.23

didn't take the tone sought
another dance, another time

Charge admission to witness from sideline
Fiasco