Part I (Thoughts of an Artist)
I'm going to open my mind the only way I know how…
Really, here I go, watch, just…
Watch…
The conflict of interest from business afflictions
to witness the bridges between the past and the living,
the condemned and forgiving, abomination of faith
sporadic hate mixed with fate projects a lifeless waste,
Make haste! The ingredients are thrown from above
As I wonder how to create what I've never heard of,
Daydreaming of darkness, and nightmares I find
To the eyes of the visionaries frozen in time, so
Gaze…
upon the fragile frame of a weathered imagination
convulsing in the breezes created by death's snicker,
The bickering of demons cast by hell's flicker
and the Devil's nation rises to the occasion,
Splattered hope dispatches constellations on white
as rats connect the dots on the falling tear drops,
You can't slap a price on the ones time forgot
as night entices fright to come out of the light, all
Because…
Life is random in tandem with fate everlasting
and the mind of a poet grips the enchanting,
The steaming of breath rising up to the sky
Gods and angels alike, breathe the same air as I,
Sever the strings attached to deception and lies
to the invisible it's critical not to be outlined,
Alas, the thoughts of this Artist are humbled at best
all pouring out at once through this hole
In my head…
Part II (Sporadic Randomness)
Let it out...
Slowly...
just breathe Ben, breathe,
count to ten,
one, two, three,
forget it,
fuck it,
my mind is a whirlwind of thought that
cascades off the peaks of desire and lust, the things
I strive for are a stride out of reach, the things I have, I
left a step behind, when the wind washed away the sand
and the waves washed away the dust, settled in the puddled
mesh they tell me is my brain...
Ring Ring!
The devil calls me a conundrum, always makes fun of me in
ways and with words I don't care to comprehend, because
alas, it's funnier to make fun of someone in two ways...
I feel as if I could burst any second, sending forth shards
of the thoughts I didn't know I knew, or maybe I knew
I knew but just didn't care to know...
Lies!!!
I think with my motions, weaving in and out of nothingness
to become something...ness? no, english never suited me
and doesn't suit anyone who doesn't want to wear it.
I would, but they say it doesn't fit me,
my shoulders are too big, too much muscle from carrying traditions
and customs I don't know how to drop, habit is in my blood,
trying to find a way into my soul, but forever failing because
I wear my soul on my sleeve, and use it to
wipe off imperfections.
Part III (Invisible)
I hate being fuckin invisible, not noticed by the one I want, just
a waste of space, there with no purpose, worthless, it hurts,
still, even though I tell myself to forget it, to not
be bothered with it, to ignore it, I hate giving up on things
I haven't truly tried, and I can't ignore feelings, no matter how
badly I want to, I lay in bed at night, with sickly chills from
the cold shoulders, imagining what might be, and what never
has been, day dreaming in a blackness that engulfs me in
its abyss, I want to put my arm around you, to hold you, to
feel the beating of that thing inside me that's been lost for
so long…
I want to tell you, to look into your eyes and see you peer
back with rejection, because then at least I can know for sure,
and if that time ever comes I will be there, possibilities in hand,
waiting for you…
From the thoughts of an artist to being invisible, my mind wanders
aimlessly, lost in itself.