Submissions by Mutemenstral (Muteminstrel)

*Before you read the piece below, I want to explain that this is a piece shared between myself and a friend. Writing together, in the form of a conversation. I have her/his full permission to submit his/her(does not wish for gender to be disclosed) parts in the piece. Also she/he says hello!**

-Mm= Mutemenstral,
-K= Key(my super awesome buddy!)
We take turns so try to imagine a different voice for both (K) and (Mm) and in the last stanza the voices will speak as one. We may do audio in the future.


(Mm) Feel free to make excursions into the chaos and survey the...

Aahhhhh!!
Thump thump
Aahhhhh!!
Thump thump
 
I cleared out some of the clutter in my heart and staked the plot that I used to build you a home where you could dwell. I did not dare build you a mansion.  
No.  
For you deserved so much more.
 
Thump thump  
 
Thus I constructed a castle complete with fortifications made impregnable by my passion for the light behind your eyes. I presented to you my labors, proud of what I'd built, the thought of you basking in the courtyard garden surrounded by the flowers comprised of devotion...

Lately I sleep for only moments before I'm suddenly awake again drowning in a reality where you don't love me  
I break the surface and I gasp for air as I claw at the ether beckoning the arrival of a breathable tomorrow that never really comes...
 
My heart has grown stale
There's no warmth or cold to be found as the numbness sets in...
 
My eyes burn and my vision clouds as l look out upon the barren waste where once passion did flow yet now the taps are parched and brittle...
 
My insides have hollowed and within this vacuous space echos the...

I have seen the sons and daughters of mother earth defiled by the nature of their own minds.
Stood baring witness to warm souls being driven astray, made deranged in exchange for a chance to be named in the history books of our time.
Each of them daring to defy humanity and physics, sworn to refuting the axiom of their own demise, beguiled by the wiles of the moon and the cold and the warmth of the stars.

Yet not a soul has bothered to lay eyes upon me, perched, high as I was, atop the roofs and ramparts, gazing out at eternity, inaudibly wheezing as my lungs slowly...