Submissions by Helopolis

Your eagerness echoed his persistence,
both vestiges of the whispered call
I heard telling me I was home
in his arms and from his chest so many lives ago

Not to mention my first follow, little cloud left me in darkness

Model 4, not counting revisions within editions,
wrought, knowingly, with pitfalls and potholes and risk
with blind eyes wide open, I enter
high risk; an exponential increase to the charge

I am sparking, seeking a flame to burn only me

The distortions I've been spinning myself,
thinking in moments I...

It's what you want
I'm disappearing
but you can't see that,
not at your distance

They're saying it was too quick
ribs showing
stomach inverted
skin hanging
but my collar bone is looking perfectly 90's
it's hard to not enjoy the discomfort

stress kills
loneliness kills
my hand is more deft

I'm glad my light is fading
I can drop the pretense of permissible par
I can surpass the darkness into disregard

I will be forgotten
and I am grateful
you will recover
and you will be great ...

The mornings are easier
A few moments of fantasy
before I encounter isness
and tear myself from bed

I'm still not living there
if you care
I wasn't able to do the work
not as I imagined, so more time
but you don't care
The value has increased significantly
and I thought we'd share

Such simplicity spilling
saline sadness of no catharsis
I'm wreckless now
And I wish you would temper me

It's night that bores holes in my brain
Such strain and pain, there's no one
here to say goodnight to

I'm tired – I need a good rest without the stress
of smiling as Sisyphus

I need work that's doable in the day,
or week or month, at least someday
I need my responsibilities reasonable,
even if not easily reachable
I need the ears above me to hear
and make change not to the dance, but the stage

I need my value verified,
by reducing the excusing
of the subtle deoxygenation of all the souls in the room

And we wonder why we walk this line shorter and shorter,
feeling shorted more and more of the time
a...