Bittersweet Box

By metaphormachine

Quick - street devotions, deadlock sign

he watches, no words

are sufficient, often, no words - but lilac wine

will help

on these occasions, for insomniacs, abrupt decline

nights - to fill.

 

In invisible cases, hulls

Give the will a door, my bittersweet box

milk taste, flagging my overnight lulls

here in these aloneness places.

 

What would I give for a switch, caretaker of my brain

here in the protective screen, an administrator, nothing is in vain

nocturnal, usually a cold, cold, cold

breath, to me, that night.

 

Butterflies can be beautiful ...

 

Without you - no light

& it breaks, loose, break through, with more weight

the neurons, bushes, bush, babies, devotion & submission

cuntlicker in company, in camera

in company & in pursuit we are consolidated freight

sulphur & like magnetotactic bacteria

it can usually live with.

 

Enjoy the silence!

Because when they left us without mundane projectiles

to shoot

projections worthwhile, usually only the drones

& on the imperial thrones

of our hormones

biochemistry, ruler

Let it happen!

& flow it is ...

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Copyright 2013 metaphormachine
Published on Saturday, February 9, 2013.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Poem 11 - Book 7 of 15 - My Word - The Void / God Views - God Views -
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  • A former member wrote: i found this despairing, devoid of bliss and fulfillment... a sort of que sera sera at the end there. perhaps i have read it differently than you intended because the others seem to think it kinky. oh well. i marvel at your skill all the same.

  • Stephanie Sideways On Saturday, February 9, 2013, Stephanie Sideways (276)By person wrote:

    Erotic peep show. (That's what I get.) X

  • A former member wrote: Wow that last stanza blew my mind!

  • dwells On Saturday, February 9, 2013, dwells (4177)By person wrote:

    Almost got this one but then I'm a bit thick at times, and this was indeed a marvellous portrayal with a catchy and irrestible title, flow on!

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