Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Suddenly

Suddenly
Everything becomes nothing, Every
Definition blurred, As If
As if a great hand smudged the rainbow In The Sky

In the sky
You wait and watch me, Now What
Do you see in my eyes
In my eyes, not your reflection
But what I think and feel through mine?

These days
These days they are darkened, because
Because everything expected and not is going on, getting to me
Creeping through my defences and chewing slowly
In this,
I put everything In This to see as I once did, But
But why. Maybe... Why? Where
Where did the pretty things go?

I think, no, I feel, I know
You have no intention
Of understanding me! Aiy!
Why, though I have tried so hard, Searching
Searching to know you - and I feel I do
I never knew I would find this, This
Mirth

Why should we presume to aim above, when
We will end below - are we trying to return home
But the Universe is expanding, you know?
It cannot be changed, And I Stand
I stand _here_
Barely breathing, I cannot count
My rapid, shallow, inhaling, And I Cannot
Cannot see, through tears escaping
While my ears and skin scream - aiiiiiy!
Why, I am finally being released and expectedly,
Expectedly, it is as painful is being kept, hummmmm
But there, you see. Just
Just a small girl on a grey street
Getting smaller on a green and blue ball
And yes, look - she tries to run to the sun, but it rolls away
It keeps rolling away
Rolling away
It just
Rolls away
The sun
The day
The night
The same
Suddenly
It is all the same

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Choices

If you had a chance to say
You had a hand in making me
Would you

If I could reap success for certain
By letting all else take second
Would I

Well,
I am trying to find ways
To turn this axis around
To point it at the sky
Then squash it to the ground
For,
I want not measure "progress"
It makes a mockery of learning
Taking all of change and time to
Seeking growth is wasted

You know,
I cannot quite follow
For my so-called smarts and work
Why I throw my hope at overhangs and
Drag my child up through the dirt
And,
The most inane, absurd of all
I go place you at the top
Never had to jump so high
On so much doubt before

So,
Just like Auckland weather
I cycle days and weeks
When sleep decides to help my feet
I sometimes see the peak
And,
At my best I may even
Pause to smell the roses
Turn my head away from rocks and
See the other climbers

But
Absent, awake, at 4 a.m.
Lidded eyes pull clock and chain
Growing fears and stories to
Heat volcanic rain
Anger is childish, I know
Though I still chase my shadow and
Hoard heartache on my back
Your voice is safely stored and played
Until I understand

So,
I am sorry I am not more
Of what you thought you caught
But slowly (I hope) I begin to know
How to "synthesise new thought"
And I remember,
When I first got here, I said,
I want to be my best
Push me to my limit
Put me to the test

Still, if I had that choice again
To go another road
Would I let this go

And, if you had that choice again
To be a part of me
Would you say no

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Notion

I am elementary particles
For over billions of years
Who have come together
By accident
By natural selection

So if I am not to feel purpose
Self-worth, nor direction
Who am I to say it should not be so?
I am no more than atoms asking
Where did my starlight go?

Mass, velocity, position, energy
Man-made metrics
Of sources never created
But sure, we try to harness
Still, we struggle to contain that one photon
That divides forever and flows everywhere
Why, our minds can bend light
But our hearts hold it and if heavy
Never let it escape, letting it
Fight away the dark space that
Creeps and crawls in between bits
And paint glue on the pieces that
Would otherwise explode and shout
An inaudible, insignificant bang
Ah, the origin or end?

Monday, October 12, 2009

Numb Funny

Every time I talk to you
My words run away
Like pieces of me
Toward you

As I deplete
What remains waits
Like crumbling foundations
What to do

When we part
There is stillness before
The world rushes back
Trying to drown this peculiar feeling

Helium Balloon

No matter where I go
I will never leave here
This is my home

No matter who I follow
A weightlessness I bear
Beneath exterior show

Within my head of wonders
The shelves of everything
Are unforgiving towers

But if I lose at sea
I shall never sink
They hold fast to me