Pain swallows
All words.

Trapped within our atmosphere,
We move across our destination,
Ignorant the gravity towards
The forgiving, non-discriminatory
All-receiving ground.

Patient, progress strides ahead —
With cocky tread, but jerky moves.
One step forward, two steps back
Awaiting the dawn of comprehension.

Quench our fear,
Unburden.
Show the way,
Inspire.
Soothe our minds,
Condition.
Live our life.

Too vivid dreams,
Unreachable,
Left us blinded.
Unaccustomed to the brightness —
Driven to shun the sun,
Hide in darkness,
Clinging to a saturated
Memory of light

In absence of
Our heart's desires
We simulate.

Life, our shared journey
To a solitary destination —
You are not alone.

We're not here
To help you out,
To be a friend,
To ease your doubts,
Your pain, your fear,
To let you vent —
We came to sell.

Free choice of none but sustenance,
Our world, a cornucopia.
An oxytocin, dopamine,
All-you-can eat utopia —
We're stuffed.

The more I recognize
The common threads —
The storylines of our existence,
The more I sympathize
With villains.

May your joys
Be surprising
And your setbacks
Predictable.

Don't do it —
Don't you dare.
Do not tell me
What to do,
As I am telling you
Right now.

Like a rain
Too fine to see,
Yet you can feel
Your clothing moisten,
Such is my grief.

Movement under scrutiny,
Inching on with nervous steps —
Steering clear of trigger words,
Away from what still
Needs to be said.

Abandon all presumption,
Ye who enter here.

Barreling hellbound,
Riding this
Unrelenting downslide —
Chasing a flickering
Uptick of clarity.

Short-term wants
Breed
Long-term sorrow.

Patch my leaking heart —
Make me whole again.

No loose end
Too large,
Too small
To terminate.

Desire lives
Within realms
Of the known.