jayivan

i give you my lukewarm best
at the solemn behest of this mess

the fortune telling
machine, ones and zeroes lost
to polyphony

ego free—
unbound by ropes,
open hands see

chaotic yet calm
like wind dancing across a
shallow rock-strewn stream

need to imagine
a happy end, otherwise
tragedy begins

time for this ball of need
to compost into worm feed

so now im free:
untouched, untethered,
jumping into the sea

easy rhymes
4 cruel times

when all you have is pain to share,
shush it up—folks just dont care

this window, a mirror:
that future, your past.

bury your heart to set if free
in a red hot kiln of apostasy

he had no chance
not with that phantom dance

you set the spark
then snuffed the flame

illusions lost
delusions found
at such cost
ive grown unsound

in this world of plenty
aint nothing more than empty

you may hear what you fear
—when it’s not what’s here,
so let go of the suspicion,
suspend dark apparitions

no need to share—
or see or be seen—
i’ll fold into
an origami seam

i must release
this brain crease

poems, butterflies
in the brain, fluttering til
one lands on your hand

there is no right
i just miss your si(gh)t(e)s

deaf to my currents
until the waterfall roars:
white noise & lost boys

the wind cannot sing
with winter-clipped wing–it howls
nestled in scowls

when you withdraw
the ice never thaws