For Egypt, For Freedom

This cage was fucked since our mouths opened.

Our shouts shook the world.

They broke the bars of our captors

and the backs of our masters.

They broke the chains

that held down our arms

and bound our movement.

Fuck the shackles

that existt in the fires of our hearts.

You will not take this from us;

you cannot steal my soul,

because the voices of the soul

culminate in the moment

when all burns beneath our grasps

just to begin anew.

8.14 FEB 7 2011

the rush of you against the wall

of me against you

the glint in your eyes is worth

the trials of the day

just to get here to this moment

and I can't tear away

the cold is biting deep

the cold is biting deep with

and the light refracts through water

Falling quickly from the distant heavens

the absent heavens

or something like the heavens

staring with eyes

black like an insect

crawling up the skin

pouring out its morphine to numb my flesh

there is nothing to feel

other than what I choose to feel (nothing)

and I can't let this go

whether pain, or something else,

I'll never let it go

no matter how deep I am

in the freezing snow

this memory deep inside

flashes bright

it flashes bright until all I see

are beetle black eyes.

Metaphysical Erosion

Shuffling down the street

you're some ways behind me,

off back there. I'm thinking

we used to crunch

the leaves beneath our feet.

With hand in hand,

yours in mind,

with a wedding band,

that held the crumbling

statue together.

But that's all since eroded

away to hopeless dust.

If only I could just

multiply negative to

the negative presence

between us. But that is

impossible.

I'd only create for

myself more distance

in the longing cold.

Sunless marble weighs

down my chest,

and I've no idea where

all the years went.

They were loud enough

and then -

silence.

All of a sudden

hate is a comfort

to being alone.

Bare as bone

more stripped down

than a candid painting

of a girl in -

bare as bare

visceral, no shining lights

this city shut down

just a structure to explore

please, please

no labyrinth of words

just simple

one...two...

and at the most basic

we are the most alive

in the atoms

that make up my body

the electricity runs

and I'm constantly awake

to what you do to me.

Have you ever tried

Have you ever tried to know more thank darkness?

You have to look the light in the eyes

Open-faced stare

Blind yourself from the intensity

So that an eye dies

Not death with decay and flies

The likes of which wouldn't dare

To steal the skin to wear -

More than the darkness is the absence of reality

And I'm stuck in this flesh

Too scared of an escape

And too lost in the world.