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.

Suppress your
Lust for attention —
Listen before speaking.
You might be
Heard in turn.

Like pinpricks on a starless night,
The faded light of
Crystalline moments
Still lights our path ahead.

Tiny circles,
Round and round —
Pressure builds,
Pleasure floods.
Caught in an endless,
Breathless moment
The world comes to a stop.

Changed your mind?
That's alright —
Simply choose
A different path.

Stripping rainbows of their color
Tends to make
The world less gay.