Destroyer II

Unafraid
i stripped away
the flesh that clothed circumstance,
and the rhyme that held my world in check,
curiously began to lose its place

(i had become I)

and pulling you into my arms
i held you there
a flower
had you become

and those who claimed
that this would somehow
be strange
drifted away
having curtained the coma,
a sentimental veil that protected us
from the blinding, burning light of judgment,
the usual light of day

and folding into the boiling bubbling sky,
that is nighttime in this rural town,
i remember to remind myself that
i will always seek to break everyone
except for you.

Coin

Fourteen seconds into this
i searched for a word that never came
the only thing left
for me to do
was
break the screen
to make it seem
that i could alter
reality
was
plant the knife
in fertile hands
where a penance became
eternity

or fourteen seconds into this
i’d found a new philosophy
i’d opened a wound, apparently
and God, there,
spoke of broken tunes
of notes unnoticed
of…

and signing below
in time
encoded signature
unloaded caricature
of man-exploded
polygons

but your geometry
cannot capture clearly
or sequent nearly
enough emotion
to fractal this notion
that i have blent
these murderous hands
into trivial lands just
to please you out of
the life i’d presume
to squeeze you
but i cannot make you die
you imaginary coin.