Lamentations

They think I’m a genius So wrong they are For, if I were what they say I would’ve built a time machine And froze the clock To keep you from leaving us behind They think I know all How can that be? I don’t have all the answers I can’t give a rock-solid reply When they ask me Why aren’t you here anymore? If I were...
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Burning money embracing dried tobacco. Sharing glances at the two bulbs from the lamppost illuminating rested four-wheeled machines. I see you dancing. Laughing. Shaping words and syncopated music, exhaling white air. But you are not there. Their light mocks my silence, Narrating novels Of moon-lighted days When the sky is a sheet of black cloth, When our muscles invite varicose veins and cramps. I see...
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From within, glowing in all directions The pit of the coconut pulses Touching strange forests and alien strands Self numbed into nothing, nothingness All senses are divested from self A wearisome travel to borderless regions There the life nectar freezes still Like hail stones roll, rolling All the feelings and emotions are roused A burning sunburst on bare heads Searing a presence that will...
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i was wrong to think that in time i’ve moved on, wrong to think that  in time i’ve grown strong. for here i am once more standing on familiar ground and as i’ve said again and again, to sorrow i am bound. i was happy to realize that my love for her has gone, maybe not the love but...
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The census took less than a year. The beneficiaries were identified even if the records did a disappearing act when it was time to sort them out. But they were all there. Some even took a bath along with the children. They wanted to smell nice to the Rotary Anns. We waited for almost an hour with them. And they came. And announced they can’t stay. And administered the TB shots...
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sing for me, o sirens of the deep call my name, tempt me, from sorrow my heart do keep. save me from this agony, save from this fate save me from my own demise before it is too late. for i have wept a million times and my eyes in tears have bled and sorrow gushed from my battered...
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you are the love that i have so longingly longed for through the years and yet i push you away you are the very life, my very soul, the very reason why i breathe and yet i hurt you every single day. i cannot live without you, no never breathe without you near, but i cannot resist to hurt...
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this life has been a prison for the past months or so, and i am a prisoner shackled to your memory, i know. it’s quite tiring, having to drag you along, and yet i know, to leave you behind, i’m not that strong. everywhere i look it’s your face i see, every single breath i take still feels like...
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heaven cure me cure me from this sickness i am wrought heal this pain that for countless days i have fought free me from the shackles of sorrow she has brought oh God cure me heed me o Lord, hear me gnash my teeth in sorrow hear me praying not to wake up again tomorrow, listen to me weep my lord, my...
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I guess you’ve found somebody new, someone to say I love you too, I guess it may be right for me to say though it hurts God bless both of you on your way. it’s been a while but the feeling still lingers i may just put up a band i’d definitely name weepers and they would sing songs that...
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