slipping time, or, yet another
update mass
incarceration trapped
limited
paid in dues
cracked folded
pretended time
when in darkness faced reality
turned fled obscurity
left this line in place
of quality
through doors
i've had these
read in soft hands
given it all with no demands
silent returns
greets my morning
though still the sounds
of my only being
protect this from the gazing abyss.

i laughed out loud, could not decide
i smirked in silence
i knelt before myself, could not remember

i, you, we, need help
be there

why do i consider?
use that word in particular.
from ashes, dust, fibers, to the less than solid
streaming
well i can say this my friend
not one of us has
hasn't had or will have
a second rate

or if you wish it another way
you are you and as such can't escape

pretend for a moment
it meant something
i could move you
we moved each other
or why else

erase wish withheld
in past times


............................

i know my shortcomings
sadness does not lie in ignorance or tragedy
but in the inability to affect change
despite such knowledge
we walk this path willingly by default
and when one of us alters, we fall upon them
turn against, as clearly we only wish we could alter as well

by admission we are complicit
confession allows comfort from sin
and as such should be stopped
we should not confess or admit, instead
you must change.

Sad from afar this
That and the other
Sirens time direct
Spent in line
I can't define a blank space
In other time