*artwork- “wound” by pejac via artcollectorz.com
When I pick a scab,
Tiny echo of ache,
What do I wish to feel?
Quite simple.
To feel.
It’s yearning for yearning.
An infinite plowing through barren fields
Of terrain so hard and frozen.
Burnt.
Forsaken.
Orphaned.
No woman’s land.
My enslavement to pain
Never loosens its grip.
Devout hostage to sour lump in my throat, I am.
Won’t ever spit out
Won’t ever push in.
That’s right. For
Being tormented is of rarest value.
*artwork- via docolucci.deviantart.com
When fantasy is so brilliantly blinding
I delightfully step up into my noose
Sweetest addiction of being stood up to
Is strong and present and oh so exciting
After all, there’s so much to lose
*artwork-via www.houzz.com
| he was the lamb wishing to be the shark, years of struggling, and he did get there, but i never came, trying to get rid of myself. given to the hands of curiosity with nothing to remember but this empty street and deserted man, it was easy. playing in the same team with my own nature, we spent meaningless hours sprinkled with random talking about books. suddenly, it occurred that he was so near, and for almost a year i felt these warm words followed by cold drops of closeness. twice i was a coward: being colorblind, i waited for so long to share, but he was the one who took my colors, giving none back. already colorless, i was fleeing and he let me taste this black and white soup, it tasted like happiness. into the wilderness, i got lost, and fell down ,slithered, for he was the snake. and he was the snail. and again i was sinking into the goo i wished to produce, even though on that moment he was sticky and sweet and melting like sugar. soon on a night of exhilaration i was the one to hold his hand on a way home, and we laughed. then he was beautiful, tearing my skirt he wore, so frozen and distant, i felt. so that i needed to escape into engineered world of scheduling and brushing the teeth after every meal, it couldn’t last. on the roof top we drank sour wine and spilled out well known secrets, he knew how to surprise my feet and tickle my heart. i wanted my heart un-ticklish, but it refused to obey, because he was so upright, and so small, and so much larger than i could ever imagine or bare, so i let go. just to see that he was a red head pirate, fighting his own demons, he could not fight those mine. on that moment he became roman, forever turning jerusalem into sanctuary. i got caught up and it all turned into a big mash with a guitar music dressing. i needed to breath, so now he was showing me his paintings and i was breath(ing)less again. that’s why he was young and his hair was big, he played saxophone during nights and i was smiling. wearing beautiful dress, and smelling like me and like everyone, i was talking to him in the dark, and my lips were touching his skin. i was hiding in holy jerusalem, when he came again, and took me into his pre-planned world of tomorrow, we never celebrated the moment. so i ran away, and then he was worshiping Buddha and climbed mountains, while i was sad. so he came straight from his own reality holding that mirror. he wanted to pull me in, i preferred to fade away. into what used to be sacred jerusalem, but only closer to the polluted sea. all of a sudden, i was near holy heights again: he was another lamb, hiding in god’s lion skin, digging out secrets buried in earth, so delicate and warm, he was, i thought i can breath for real, but i was suffocating until i managed to leave. for long nights i waited for the moment when i could go back dancing on my own, and barefoot bear put me under the spotlight and into the game. satan was lurking just around the corner, making illusive southern desert look like luxurious oasis, it hurt deliciously. so i chose to try out north, the heat was strikingly immense, but little black eyed demon was as cold as marble. |
*artwork- “relativity ” by m.c. escher via blogs.cornell.edu
| i did forget. beloved Cortazar, how funny does it work. three lines by genius and it became so vivid…that chilly summer night in holy city. i wear long brown dress so dark and infinite to match the mood we share we slowly walk, with nothing more to say so miserably lost two accidental strangers then the shelter of a bar, protecting sounds of jazz i hide my tears in smile you are unmercifully distant i sipped the shame. and swallowed. and now, forever since, how powerful it seems. now. |
*artwork-“Further up, further In” by sol kjøk via galleriramfjord.net
| i do not care. you can be anyone when i close my eyes i do not feel the difference. eager to be held and being lied to. i close my eyes. you can be anyone do not infect the air with consonants and vowels the only lie i believe in is your hands with eyes closed, they feel the same. when you came to rescue me my hair still smells like 1000 cigarettes |
*artwork- “red couple dance” by naxart studio via fineartamerica.com
| still. walled in comforting fears my fruitful quest for rejection won’t stop. i’d not give up on you so sweet, slap after slap every word tastes like leather belt on my skin leaving red marks that i collect and keep carefully cataloged and maintain them thoroughly. we move, altering egos of cowardice. my faceless men your nameless women, an endless fuel for our dance of hurt and solace. |
*artwork- “intimacy” by derek murphy via derekmurphyart.com
| our bodies have a secret so now we’re sealed with a disease. until it’s too late and the words can not wait inside anymore you remove the dirt under my nails we’re filthy little animals, |
*artwork- “sudden night shower in tel aviv” by victor bezrukov, via victorbezrukov.com
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if there’s god then bless this night and rain. |
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transparent like the powder i wore on Friday, being reclusive nomad, and then. you are the shelter Saturday morning. the eyes are all of a sudden moist i want to throw up. i am nowhere i am the snake, remember? |
*artwork- drawing by kosta gurgov
| deputed beggar spotless junky getting no share. i am gone. hungered by anger that’s who i am Greek tragedy… |
on my way up 