29

Lost in the journal of these memories

of tattered thoughts in papered ink

that try to seduce the stranger inside

attempting possession of this weary heart

with collapsing assurances of hollow words

Leave me to myself I beg

before I surrender to time

to appreciate the fallout

to be the alchemist of my normality

to embrace the ordinary within it

28

this endless basement
in my mind
I lost myself
in the kindest lie colors that were so fragrant
yet flowers they were not only knotweed of my past
this fertile soil these defiant roots
makes violent twisted pavement
tripping my solitary shadow
of a heart forever vacant
without you