Submissions by xero (Micheal M)

I’ve made a promise
To never fall in line
I’ve made a vow
To express only self
Culture says I’m wrong
Religious tycoons agree
But I’ll never again be
A victim of conformity
Safety’s in numbers
If you’re in the center
And for those on the fringes
So many are at your back
It’s a comfort to both
Who may never even meet
But I’ll never again be
A victim of conformity
If you wish to be invisible
This is the Way
Melting into the very crowd
That gives you your identity
You can live your whole life ...

Fighting what I see as inadequacies
I run from the real and dance with my lies
Joyous in every single untruth revealed by me
I can't stand to sit still with myself

Knowing I'm not telling me my own truth
Wallowing in the sea of incidentalism
Can anything shake this sense of remorse
Never painted, never drawn, never shared

Why then does my frown cover
The entirety of my soul
Why do these Three Little Birds
Continue to issue such empty promises

The air I breathe is said to be free
But why then has it cost me my...

There's death in the eyes
Of this unfinished page
Images still left veiled
To the unsuspecting mind

The viewer may not forgive
The unbrushed stroke
The poet may cringe
The word left unwrote

Oh to be the conveyor of words
Oh to be the ocular muse
Where word and image are
Considered one and the same

Prophetic and heretic
The lines we must walk
With the pen in our hand
And our ear to the ground

With the splicing of words
I make room for the monsters
Every single incision becomes ...