Immortality
Lies of forever enwalls my vision
My vision of lucid illusions
Illusions of deluded memories
Useless memories of my visions
Inhibitions suppress my advances
My inhibitions are boundaries
Boundaries of real from fantasy
Fantasies of distorted reality
Forever is just a lie
For all is bound to die
We can never say ‘never'
Probabilities of possibilities won't err
My skeptical tongue tied
Strangled with this mad hope
Interlaced with immortality
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Stockholm Syndrome
You're a cellar, a dune, a pit
And if my sparse body can fill you in
I will suffer gladly, you can have me
With your knife in my guts
I'll bleed everything if I must
This felony, this amity
These strings knotted badly
Must you let go your hold on me?
If you would ask for it,
I would, with denied grudge, submit
I would miss the kiss
Of the cold pistol's lips
And the tight embrace
Of the rope in my scrawny arms
And your stares, they need me.
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Fata Morgana
Sworn into secrecy
We waft in the air
With innocuous wings
Slicing the horizon
To reveal what we are
This mirage,
This esoteric mesh
This loud silence
Venting through the fringe
With all the colors
Of the blackest stars
With streams in our eyes,
With candles in our palms,
Who are we to judge
The meander of hearts?
When we are astray
From the very start
Cling onto hope
Cling onto fear
Cling on with you lissome hands
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A Person inside the Idiot Box
A doll of mud
Halcyon smiles
Of synthetic vim,
Glacial tears
Devoid of empathy
What are you?
My jaws grind
As your voice cracked
With the lousy static
What a farce slapstick.
You are a fraud
Stealing hearts
All the hasty pounding,
All the famished breaking,
And despite of the grandeurs
Of your personal convictions
It is out shadowed
By the flashes
Of fame and puppetry
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Spider Web
I meander in ponderous roads
with my tarantula feet -
a forthrightly crowd
that these silver ribbons
sang like violins
with melancholic notes
descanting oblivion
Because the roads
slithered perfidiously
into a coiled writhing circle
but no one recognizes
the superfluous threats
imposed by blitheness
The lambent steps
ruptured from a lambaste
ricocheting to rue
until the terse sound
dissected its own echoes
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Melancholic Split Second of Doubt
Indistinct noises in the air
Irrelevant pictures everywhere
Burns glow of dramatic flair
Of emotions destined to err
Blatant facts or beautiful fiction
Convincing lies or deceptive truth
Sweltering a sea of confusion
The aftermath: point of moot
Overwhelmed by lethargy
Congested in a rainy day
Establishing the boundaries
Too close but far away.
Burning like an ocean of fire
A subtly dangerous concoction
Can I walk through the wire
Of a thin line connection?
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The Path I Tread
And I'll walk down a familiar path
With a worn out sole and a heavy heart
I'll dream of amends futilely in the midst
And in your faith tightly cleaves.
Distance stretched you from my silence
In desolation ignite your absence
You're stapled on my wishful thoughts
Etched gravely with iron-wrought.
A fork stuck in the path I tread
I could have never understood, nor judged, nor expected.
Still I endure, but severely loath
And wrote another sad senseless ode.
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Time After Time
Time flies away, flapping its gossamer wings
like a hummingbird preying for a daffodil
and silently, perch upon its frail stem
and sap its saccharine treacles
Time escapes, running the chasms
with taciturn footsteps and invisibly
palled by shame and fear, I caught
a glimpse of its unwinding remorse
Time drank its vine licorice,
staining its pallid lips red and
the vermillion driplets on its chin
glimmered with a forbidden secret,
enthusing gravity itself
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Kamay Na Guryon
Ang iyong kamay na tila guryon
humahampas sa alon ng hangin,
sumasayaw nang walang pag-ayon
Sa pakiwari ko ay mahahawakan
mo ang araw ng hindi nasusunog
Ngunit isang ilusyon ang hinahati
ng hugis ng kamay mong maputla,
sa pagitan ng gintong hininga ng araw
at itim na anino ng pagindayog nito
At ang manipis na hibla ng guryon
ang tanging nagdudugtong sa ilusyon
at sa katotohanan na pinunlaan
ng apuhap na hangin ng pag-asa
at mahinay na paghatak ng ala-ala
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Norman
Semantics nominated by the Teuton.
A prayer to saints and hypocrites
Idiosyncrasy denounced by the faithless
I shall meditate upon my name.
A sound resonating the mediocrities
A noise possessing the peculiarities
An arbitrator of bipolarities
I shall meditate upon my name.
In desolation, in defeat, in confusion
In delight, in bliss, in ebullience.
Signature affixed of pride and ego
I shall meditate upon my name.
"Norman, adj., Teut., Hopeful"
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