Tag: existentialism

  • Another Glamour

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    Harsh! By all events,The course that had ruptured throughHardly was ever so evident inThe eyes of those who lay before it. An example! How?For the betrayal of understanding markedA semblance of tepidity If only as suchSince the meaning of greatnessDissolves like salt in a boiling pot. The product becomes the attentionAnd the components are lesser…

  • So It Goes

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    It was a torrentIt was a hazeI was enveloped in a blue hazeThe water was stillI became still much laterWhen it became dark, so very darkAnd it was cold until suddenly it was notAnd I was dazedI was freeI was burning passionatelyIt was a blazeA red blazeIt was under gray smoke I perishedI was with…

  • Still in Progress

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    My life was wrapped in dental floss,The other end of it strung to a doorknob,And it was pulled from God’s jaws with a slam.I sprung free from His tooth like a chick from an eggAnd through a bloody stream, I took my first breathAfter a vicious cry as I came alive.

  • Supplant

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    Will you take these failings of mineAs not a mark or a stainAnd my name not as a deviceTo besmirch or shameAs if your tongue recoils to even speak itBut instead accept me whollyFor all a man isAnd these hands that tremble before you?These are thoughts that materialize as I standOver a sunny lake with…

  • Prayer Finally Finished

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    Dear God,Dare I aspire for a horizon of promiseAway from where all my dreams lie before me,Their bodies still warm,Their hands still reaching for the skyAs if in their last momentsThey still chose to believe in You?I am alone in a desolate fieldEmbittered and stained with malcontentWith nothing but reproach left;God, please, tell ME— There…

  • Death of the Inhuman

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    He was bespeckled in confusion,Little doubts that grew larger than him,And how could a child ever carry that weight?There was only a single thing he knewAnd that was that he knew nothingAnd so he was nothingAnd what worth is nothing?But it’s nothing, So it doesn’t matter,After all, it’s just nonsenseAnd he’ll wake from itAnd then…

  • I Felt The Air Crushing Me

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    I felt like every moment was a hot flash, With every breath drawn in with discomfort As if the next could be my last And the shadows would hang over me Until the last glimmer is snuffed out As if all the stars perished at once And we all have left Is that gaping darkness…

  • The Source

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    Let that darkness that sweeps around my feet Dissipate. The shroud of my existence feels heavier Like a promise realized, but only for a moment; I won’t know what I have until I hold it And I won’t understand it until I lose it. A dream becomes an angel or a ghost. Heaven, after all,…

  • World, Alien, Splinter

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    I feel as alien as flesh that grew around a splinter. I have become part of the world, and yet so distinctly foreign. Take a look around and you’ll see me there with ease, standing alone but surrounded by it all. I could never infect the world though; I am absorbed by it until I…

  • I Started to Peer Inside

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    In referring to myself, I refer to a glamour: A suggestion of self, Rather than an assurance. In truth, at times my own self feels As if an alien marooned on earth Forced to play a role unlike itself All to blend in, all to cease being. As if to look in the mirror in…