"So much to live for, so much to die for"
Once said the lonely wanderer, a Dead Boy
I can't keep up with him, nor can you
We are lost forever in this new world of man
"Little hideaways for a lonely heart"
Once said the scriptum, the piano's song with grace
Apart from that, we live for the moment
The moment we're at, it'll never come back
"Time is of the essence"
I yelled with pride
Born to be a leader,
My hands were tied to life's wheel
"I hear but how will I see?"
The siren's song brings me to thee
I long for you
I'm yearning for a catharsis
The world is yet to see
In my darkest of stories
And the darkest of me
It i
I do not sing myself unkind or
unwoven.
Indeed I am bequeathed to air and nature,
indeed I am neither cadaver nor earthly fire,
and be these things as they may I am
limp upon my own horizons and I am watching
the silhouettes of birds atop the roofs of buildings.
and the roofs of buildings where you fell in love with him
and the fire that navigates your pores, in and out of
skin that sings electric when I touch it, and
my body sings of unrest and want,
desire is impalpable and it permeates my eyes through
the vast oceans that are your irises.
and be this as it may,
you doing lines on roofs of Harlem watching the
sunrise and danc
prelude to the open road by saltwaterlungs, literature
Literature
prelude to the open road
I want to walk out of class
and never stop, watching
my hometown sweep
behind me like glass shards
under a carpet, and I would
not miss a single brick of it.
(When has this town been home?
Every building is four walls,
and they too shall topple:
I can see the ruins clearly.)
Once I started,
I wouldn’t be able to stop
because permanence means
standing in cement and smiling
at its steadiness and stability.
I do not want to wake up one day,
see my feet stuck in stone,
and realize it is too late for me
to do all of the things I wanted to do,
so I will never stop moving.
I am too aware of my pulse
and the second hand
tick ticking in