Submissions by UbiquitousVoid (. . . . . . . . .)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OIL AND WATER
Now there's a dust from my legs
As I unfurl my wings once again
A trip to places I missed
Another sip of those colder winds
Just a pinch of salt will do
Just a ghost of belief from you
Now there's an ocean between
These places pulling my heart from me
Our eyes were locked in a dance
But you were taking another's hand
By Autumn you're falling free
I see you as the swaying leaves
I've got an ache in my bones
It's not as painful as hope, you know
When love becomes like a gun ...
As I unfurl my wings once again
A trip to places I missed
Another sip of those colder winds
Just a pinch of salt will do
Just a ghost of belief from you
Now there's an ocean between
These places pulling my heart from me
Our eyes were locked in a dance
But you were taking another's hand
By Autumn you're falling free
I see you as the swaying leaves
I've got an ache in my bones
It's not as painful as hope, you know
When love becomes like a gun ...
#grief
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#shame
#emptiness
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DEATH OF YGGDRASIL
Breeding dark chasms
Vile echoes fill the air
The twisted, dying sounds
Wind alone is passing through
The hemisphere
Opal odour
Nihilistic balm, transcending
Cosmic ash, nine homes
A tapestry for lost souls
Between us lies Niflheimr
A journey through the hole
Against my will, trapped
In the fires of perdition
Thunder cracks the sky
With Hel and her conditions
Tree of life
Her dead roots weeping
Odin awakens, from sleeping
Nine worlds open
Around all...
Vile echoes fill the air
The twisted, dying sounds
Wind alone is passing through
The hemisphere
Opal odour
Nihilistic balm, transcending
Cosmic ash, nine homes
A tapestry for lost souls
Between us lies Niflheimr
A journey through the hole
Against my will, trapped
In the fires of perdition
Thunder cracks the sky
With Hel and her conditions
Tree of life
Her dead roots weeping
Odin awakens, from sleeping
Nine worlds open
Around all...
#dark
#mythology
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4 Comments
HOW COULD I?
I burn again, embrace the pain
I long again, for nought to gain
Alone again, I seize the day
At peace again, I need to stay
Seething with each word
Is there any other way?
A tragedy never heard
O'er the darkness I say
How could I, with my great stride
Rip a hole in the sky above?
Drink all the rain it can give
And decide that it's not enough?
Tear down my sun from up high
Hoping my arms can bear the love?
How could I, with glass collide
And deign to yearn with eyes of blood?
The...
I long again, for nought to gain
Alone again, I seize the day
At peace again, I need to stay
Seething with each word
Is there any other way?
A tragedy never heard
O'er the darkness I say
How could I, with my great stride
Rip a hole in the sky above?
Drink all the rain it can give
And decide that it's not enough?
Tear down my sun from up high
Hoping my arms can bear the love?
How could I, with glass collide
And deign to yearn with eyes of blood?
The...
#anxiety
#depression
#grief
#rejection
#separation
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A BEACH
Abreast a lonely wind
Rustling grass glaze
Heartbeat of the hill with
A half-shadow haze
That's where I want to lay
All day
Underneath the oak
Veil from the evening rain
On the rocks that spoke
Crying out my name
That's where I want to be
That's free
Melting footsteps behind
From where I used to stay
Crashing waves I'll find
Where youth can stay
Waiting for my reach
A beach
Rustling grass glaze
Heartbeat of the hill with
A half-shadow haze
That's where I want to lay
All day
Underneath the oak
Veil from the evening rain
On the rocks that spoke
Crying out my name
That's where I want to be
That's free
Melting footsteps behind
From where I used to stay
Crashing waves I'll find
Where youth can stay
Waiting for my reach
A beach
#escape
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1 Comment
HELIOPHOBIA
There's nothing around me
And that's where you found me
Pulled in by gravity
Took me away from here
Some place between vague and clear
But it's only you I fear
Destroy the curtain
There's so much more to see, for certain
Then a bolide came
With spectacular speed, to me
Refulgent beyond
What a star in the sky could be
Can't keep up, you're too fast
Holograph, make it last
Pull me in, keep me close
Take me there, nebulose
Just another rotation
I'm...
And that's where you found me
Pulled in by gravity
Took me away from here
Some place between vague and clear
But it's only you I fear
Destroy the curtain
There's so much more to see, for certain
Then a bolide came
With spectacular speed, to me
Refulgent beyond
What a star in the sky could be
Can't keep up, you're too fast
Holograph, make it last
Pull me in, keep me close
Take me there, nebulose
Just another rotation
I'm...
#love
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DREAMSCAPE : DYSTOPIA
Veiled by smoke billows
The starlight has been consumed
A tithe for shadows
The starlight has been consumed
A tithe for shadows
#dystopian
#haiku
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DESICCATED
Heard the Siren singing
It echoes through the fen
Suddenly I'm swimming
Inside my head again
Save me, I'm helpless
Abandoned and breathless
The glaze over my eyes
It shrouds what I long to see
Are you still alive?
The years, they pass us by
I've died so many times
My past has become a dream
But the heart remains perpetual
It's the only thing that's real
And our fate remains eventual
No matter how we feel
Just come alive
Just tell a lie
Anything but nothing
Felt...
It echoes through the fen
Suddenly I'm swimming
Inside my head again
Save me, I'm helpless
Abandoned and breathless
The glaze over my eyes
It shrouds what I long to see
Are you still alive?
The years, they pass us by
I've died so many times
My past has become a dream
But the heart remains perpetual
It's the only thing that's real
And our fate remains eventual
No matter how we feel
Just come alive
Just tell a lie
Anything but nothing
Felt...
#depression
#illness
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#despair
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DROLL
Yeah, I've been used and hurt
It's not the same, but worse
The whole world, a blur
In which I'm immersed
But Hell can wait another day
Cause I'm in pain now, either way
There's my excuse to burn in flames
You know fire will not ever change
But I'm starting to believe a lie
Couldn't tell if there's a reason why
And the voices say that life is fine
So I'll drown just to float by
Dogs never bayed louder
Seems time always skips hours
A hopeless climax washed away
Well, I've got nothing left to say ...
It's not the same, but worse
The whole world, a blur
In which I'm immersed
But Hell can wait another day
Cause I'm in pain now, either way
There's my excuse to burn in flames
You know fire will not ever change
But I'm starting to believe a lie
Couldn't tell if there's a reason why
And the voices say that life is fine
So I'll drown just to float by
Dogs never bayed louder
Seems time always skips hours
A hopeless climax washed away
Well, I've got nothing left to say ...
#marijuana
#MentalHealth
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
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DIORITE
Here we are
Somewhere between where we'd like to be
Passersby
On a twisted path toward vacuity
When frigid waters meet my feet
So far from drowning into sleep
I watch hope begin to shape
And through my fingers, swept away
But I know you see the same as me
Cause darkness needs no clarity
But I'm alone
And this is the fate which I cultivate
Bleeding out
All the substance my heart begs to save
Even though our love has passed
The ecstasy of pain will last
Just like memories obscured...
Somewhere between where we'd like to be
Passersby
On a twisted path toward vacuity
When frigid waters meet my feet
So far from drowning into sleep
I watch hope begin to shape
And through my fingers, swept away
But I know you see the same as me
Cause darkness needs no clarity
But I'm alone
And this is the fate which I cultivate
Bleeding out
All the substance my heart begs to save
Even though our love has passed
The ecstasy of pain will last
Just like memories obscured...
#loneliness
#IMissYou
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1 Comment
NOT HERE
Heart to heart
From the start
Oil the gout
With, without
Words slow down
Water crown
Overflowed
Worth in tow
Lost, said I won't trail
Kept winding, to and from Hell
Red goodbye, trust I exhale
The ghost I, it would not tell
Saved for last
Cooled too fast
Safe from health
Know me well
Step inside
Watch them glide
My white lies
Black sheep cries
Found, what I don't feel
Ripped to shreds, by the last wheel
Momentum, there is no...
From the start
Oil the gout
With, without
Words slow down
Water crown
Overflowed
Worth in tow
Lost, said I won't trail
Kept winding, to and from Hell
Red goodbye, trust I exhale
The ghost I, it would not tell
Saved for last
Cooled too fast
Safe from health
Know me well
Step inside
Watch them glide
My white lies
Black sheep cries
Found, what I don't feel
Ripped to shreds, by the last wheel
Momentum, there is no...
#betrayal
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ID
Found you below shallow waters
Eating skipping stones, third
Colossus nil, a jaundiced grace
Trampling the one-way maze
Life is fleeting once you've died
Ephemeral as every lie, cried
You'd blame the jester every time
While looking God between his eyes
I wish it was I, stars in my head
And black holes between my toes
A solipsist once told me why
But I will never pass them by
Siphoned poison additive, inure
Soiled voice now redacted, pure
Weight increased, to hellish deep
An earthquake heard...
Eating skipping stones, third
Colossus nil, a jaundiced grace
Trampling the one-way maze
Life is fleeting once you've died
Ephemeral as every lie, cried
You'd blame the jester every time
While looking God between his eyes
I wish it was I, stars in my head
And black holes between my toes
A solipsist once told me why
But I will never pass them by
Siphoned poison additive, inure
Soiled voice now redacted, pure
Weight increased, to hellish deep
An earthquake heard...
#hate
#lies
#honesty
#hypocrisy
#philosophical
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LUNE
Anew, by auburn waters rest
Gave it all to watch what's next
Those memories left, undress the eye
Fixated on the fleeting, unfeeling I
Yours, mercifully taken breath
Mine, most hastily abandoned
There, where your hopes remain
Among weeds I've neglected
A choice bequeathed
By finality
Whatever weather becomes of life
Whether my roots lay bare 'neath April sky
Wander atop my head, you are the sun tonight
Spear me through, lune, between now and soon
And you, nigh frozen wastes...
Gave it all to watch what's next
Those memories left, undress the eye
Fixated on the fleeting, unfeeling I
Yours, mercifully taken breath
Mine, most hastily abandoned
There, where your hopes remain
Among weeds I've neglected
A choice bequeathed
By finality
Whatever weather becomes of life
Whether my roots lay bare 'neath April sky
Wander atop my head, you are the sun tonight
Spear me through, lune, between now and soon
And you, nigh frozen wastes...
#loneliness
#separation
#healing
630 reads
3 Comments
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