I love him
in the way
that he is
the ‘you’
of my poems
I love him
in the way
that he is
the ‘you’
of my poems
If I die
my love for you
will still remain
Sometimes I wish I could
take a break
from loving you
Because it breaks my heart
But my love for you is relentless
It is ever-waking, never-sleeping
omnipresent
immortal
If I disappear,
let it be in your eyes
Hands and knees
on the harsh and raw stone
Dripping black from my eyes
and red from my mouth
I hear suffocation’s footsteps behind me
The crowd around me stares
doesn’t understand
And says I’m
crazy
He smelled of smoke masked by perfume
And had a death wish masked by a smile
I hate onions
But if you love them
I will look up the best recipes
with onions
a lot of onions
and cook them for you every day
That is exactly humanity
to try
Once you try
you have already succeeded
in being human
There is no failure in trying
You are the explosion
that tears my skin apart
and my bleeding body parts are scattered
on the streets to your house
And still my heart aches
as it lies there upon the pavement
And my mind is nothing but
pieces of flesh now
But you never exploded
only I experienced that burst
as if you and I live
in parallel worlds
In my world I experience
you as an explosion
In your world I don’t even
really exist
‘You’ seem to be the answer
because all problems fade away
when you smile at me
Deep within the cult
How did I ever get out?
And what
if this
is just another one?
Art is the communication of (indescribable) feelings without using the human theatre
I’m just so excited to see
who you’ll be
Because I already love
the person you are
When also all lust
deserted me
food lost her
self-evident value
I stare at you
wordlessly
because there are no
words to describe
this
Some invisible claw
that sinks itself
into my chest
only by
the sight of you
The red entanglement
of sun and clouds
lighter fluid in the bathtub
What do we do
with the things we can’t express?
with the words that can’t exist?
with the experiences that can’t exist in our language?
The small and unreaching man-made order, man-made language
I laugh at this last joke
‘I love you guys’
My mother can’t help but cry
‘It’s going to be okay’
When I lay there
on the hospital bed,
soulless and unmoving,
my family went back home
weeping softly in the car
This was not their choice
I was no longer
their responsibility
So I chose for myself
Father,
are you my father?
Do you exist
or do you transcend
Being itself?
Can I call you
a ‘you’?
Can I speak words
that will be heard?
Can I see something of you
or understand?
Where all winds meet
there is too much pressure
to breathe
That one moment of reality would be enough to support a life of fantasy
It is the push and pull of meaning
The push into the unknown
into the black space of nothing
And the pull up
till you can see just the smallest speck of light
Then the push again
And the pull
The real world doesn’t care about those names
about your name
And in this nothingness
this beautiful nothingness
this is where we live
where we love
To play and feel
and feel and write
and write and yearn
and yearn and scream
and scream and die
And yet that is to live
To break language
down to its core
and then shake that core