dishonored philosopher – a poet's confessional

roe v. wade

i ask some of the world this: what will make you listen? we have asked politely but you have not listened we have demanded, but demanded in the proper way, without violence, without harm, within the bounds of the law we stand in the streets, we stand at monumental buildings and call for our rights,Continue reading “roe v. wade”

let me lay

after the gnashing of teeth and searing of red within the eyes the exhaustion sets in, weary and consuming it makes the eyes burn and muscles weak an all-encompassig exhaustion of body and mind once the guilt and realization set in

tolerate

you wander a path where if you continue you will lose it all your intelligence,, your responsibility, your respect, your family, your love this dark wood will make you lose yourself from foolish ichor only you can choose to deviate, to wander down a different path i advise, i warn but i will not follow,Continue reading “tolerate”

pedestal

in my delusioned stupormy ego screams for agony, for strife, for everything to sate itit demands wrath, it demands harsh words, and nothing but silence as an answerand i feed the corrupted thing, it bolsters me for a timeit tells me i am the only, i am the wiseand it tells the person who setContinue reading “pedestal”

surrender

for you i know i would give more than i ever havewhich is a testament to all that i have giveni know that i will do it without hesitation, without recallso, i, as proud as i can be,bow my head and begdo not take my giving as a kindness and cast it awaydo not leaveContinue reading “surrender”

another has been added to the flowers

i will never forget the day when you spoke and my heart broke you did not mean to, you were caught up in the truth but the words you spoke, your pain incarnate shattered my heart because that pain i have felt for a milennia’s time and i never wanted you to feel it too

a treatise on such indelicate things

there is such shame in my pleasure where i cannot reconcile one and the other where i become a philosopher of centuries past, trying to connect, try to make one the same where i try to justify such things i look, i stare, i try to understand but there is no one in the sameContinue reading “a treatise on such indelicate things”

i ask

i ask the wind to carry my laughter across the plains and through the forest holds, where i once grew in my youth. i ask the earth to embrace me, and this time, i shall embrace it as well, as long as once i am no longer flesh and bone new life may rise fromContinue reading “i ask”

writer’s block

i have fallen into old habits once againgood ones, this time aroundhabits of fiction and fantasyoh, how i have missed youi consume words and usher out the promise of imaginationthe page, oh it calls me, to pick up my creative mind and go againthe fiction curls and smoldersbut never enoughwhy can’t i write anymore?like iContinue reading “writer’s block”

vein of storms

i have been told that i look like a stormespecially my eyesgrey and cold like oneor visceral and bright blue like onethe ring of yellow and white like a strike of a lightning bolti have always have had pride in suchone point of me i find beautiful amongst the what i do notbut i amContinue reading “vein of storms”