Submissions by UbiquitousVoid
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction 'And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' - Friedrich Nietzsche
LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2020 7:01am
12th May 2020 7:01am
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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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2019 2:20pm
2nd Oct 2019 2:20pm
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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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Jul 2019 1:20pm
8th Jul 2019 1:20pm
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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LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2019 6:03pm
22nd Apr 2019 6:03pm
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
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Mar 2019 2:22am
9th Mar 2019 2:22am
087-B
Down again I weep to tread
To deeper depths than reason can
My heart in hues of palest blue
With every corridor I lose
I count each brick that prisons me
As signs no longer have the means
That face that guides me from the way
As empty as my hopes astray
I'm forced to gaze upon my dread
When nought but Him walk in my head
It's what He speaks that torments me
'Don't look at me, don't look at me'
To deeper depths than reason can
My heart in hues of palest blue
With every corridor I lose
I count each brick that prisons me
As signs no longer have the means
That face that guides me from the way
As empty as my hopes astray
I'm forced to gaze upon my dread
When nought but Him walk in my head
It's what He speaks that torments me
'Don't look at me, don't look at me'
#anxiety
#dark
#fiction #scary
#fiction #scary
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Mar 2019 1:49am
9th Mar 2019 1:49am
YOU DREAMT OF FATE FROM THE SHADE
Hatred built
A coffin sealed
The hollowed wail
Of stonework sails
Maelstrom-taught
To bleed, to clot
And scream for guilt
That she had not
Sorrow felt
A nail was pried
Poured earthen slow
By waters honed
To fall in place
To shame, to face
An edge to melt
And fill the space
Ice and lace
Crimson trace
'When roles reverse
The light is inert
And you'll be further than I've ventured'
A coffin sealed
The hollowed wail
Of stonework sails
Maelstrom-taught
To bleed, to clot
And scream for guilt
That she had not
Sorrow felt
A nail was pried
Poured earthen slow
By waters honed
To fall in place
To shame, to face
An edge to melt
And fill the space
Ice and lace
Crimson trace
'When roles reverse
The light is inert
And you'll be further than I've ventured'
#depression
#death
#suicide #despair
#suicide #despair
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SELF POEM
Published
28th Feb 2019 11:23pm
28th Feb 2019 11:23pm
EPITAPH II
There's nothing of value here
Ashes in a cup, apricot and almond
What detours passed me by
On this tangent through what I'll become?
There's a stream of light that's fading
As I fall deeper down the in-between
I can't deny as all hands extend
But they can't touch beyond their means
And you gaze at me through smoke
I wonder if you'll know just where I am
Before we get there
We spoke of happiness and pain
Just like we were young and naive
And the fear and doubt that passion brings
When...
Ashes in a cup, apricot and almond
What detours passed me by
On this tangent through what I'll become?
There's a stream of light that's fading
As I fall deeper down the in-between
I can't deny as all hands extend
But they can't touch beyond their means
And you gaze at me through smoke
I wonder if you'll know just where I am
Before we get there
We spoke of happiness and pain
Just like we were young and naive
And the fear and doubt that passion brings
When...
#grief
#death
#memorial
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Dec 2018 5:31pm
25th Dec 2018 5:31pm
THE GIFT OF FAMINE
My madness
Spent upon silver dew
And wilted yew
By the cracks in my shoulder
Ventured
Beyond soot and sleet
In the blackened wood
Rotted flesh, those paths
Of which I hew
And from the pale I am saved
Your ululations from the shade
To where my feeble heart rewinds
Your ululations I cannot find
This hollow season brings me pain
And sorrow, the trees know the same
For all that is emptied
Must be engorged by solidarity
As all must be
They bruise upon the twilight ...
Spent upon silver dew
And wilted yew
By the cracks in my shoulder
Ventured
Beyond soot and sleet
In the blackened wood
Rotted flesh, those paths
Of which I hew
And from the pale I am saved
Your ululations from the shade
To where my feeble heart rewinds
Your ululations I cannot find
This hollow season brings me pain
And sorrow, the trees know the same
For all that is emptied
Must be engorged by solidarity
As all must be
They bruise upon the twilight ...
#dark
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DARK POEM
Published
5th Dec 2018 5:09pm
5th Dec 2018 5:09pm
D.O.A. (Y92.86)
I see the breadth of longing
Between the curtain-clothed draft
And the pungent, barbed glitter
That dusts these fingertips
For that option was already tried
The rust peeled from the sides
Fumes of loneliness pervade
The taste is of salt and sulphur
And the nausea that follows
Is a sweeter drug
Than laudanum
And aqueous does it flow
Upon the thirsty cement
As all things must crave freedom
Of all things that aren't free
So we share your sympathies...
Between the curtain-clothed draft
And the pungent, barbed glitter
That dusts these fingertips
For that option was already tried
The rust peeled from the sides
Fumes of loneliness pervade
The taste is of salt and sulphur
And the nausea that follows
Is a sweeter drug
Than laudanum
And aqueous does it flow
Upon the thirsty cement
As all things must crave freedom
Of all things that aren't free
So we share your sympathies...
#death
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Oct 2018 3:14am
17th Oct 2018 3:14am
CYANOSIS
You draw me in
Collapse, tension
Pneumothorax
Held accountable
Her finger hovers
Extended, glass
Will me into existence
Poised for inheritance
My hands lay frozen
Upon your throat
You know the cold I wore
As it bites your lungs
And blues the nabla
[______ASYSTOLE_______]
Collapse, tension
Pneumothorax
Held accountable
Her finger hovers
Extended, glass
Will me into existence
Poised for inheritance
My hands lay frozen
Upon your throat
You know the cold I wore
As it bites your lungs
And blues the nabla
[______ASYSTOLE_______]
#death
#illness
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Oct 2018 7:02pm
16th Oct 2018 7:02pm
PAINTED IN VERMILION
As the aberrant dawn came
With spate of perception
And an icterus glow
My yearning shined brighter
Yet an echo of the dark
And sooner than comfort dissipates
I'd cherish the cold that lingered
I am within
Cruel chelicerae, athirst
In an affair with dusk
Anywhere is bifurcate
Past the vale of sloth
Oh, twisted and lush
Entangle me in credence
Of all time, there is no waste
Of all matter, but a trace
Parabola converged, assured
That I will never change
Yet...
With spate of perception
And an icterus glow
My yearning shined brighter
Yet an echo of the dark
And sooner than comfort dissipates
I'd cherish the cold that lingered
I am within
Cruel chelicerae, athirst
In an affair with dusk
Anywhere is bifurcate
Past the vale of sloth
Oh, twisted and lush
Entangle me in credence
Of all time, there is no waste
Of all matter, but a trace
Parabola converged, assured
That I will never change
Yet...
#despair
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Oct 2018 5:36pm
4th Oct 2018 5:36pm
BUTTERFLY
Time became oscillation
Indeed, a fruitless swaying
Of which there is no deviation
No bridge from tangents
To watch her, perpetual
Death equilibrium
Absorbing the paradox...
I can't save her...
Corroded by rust of inevitability
Would any heart react the same?
And every instance
That tarn of blood
Winnowed into my eyes
As a stream rejoins the sea
That image remains as I leap
And I never sleep
She knows nothing
Of...
Indeed, a fruitless swaying
Of which there is no deviation
No bridge from tangents
To watch her, perpetual
Death equilibrium
Absorbing the paradox...
I can't save her...
Corroded by rust of inevitability
Would any heart react the same?
And every instance
That tarn of blood
Winnowed into my eyes
As a stream rejoins the sea
That image remains as I leap
And I never sleep
She knows nothing
Of...
#grief
#betrayal
#death
#TruthOfLife
#escape
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6 Comments
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