accepting premises 

Tonight I told you,
attempted to communicate,
what I see when I look at this world.
Arbitrariness, deception
destruction and meaninglessness
obscured by a near universal
profound disillusionment.
You listened,
you shared,
because
you care.
You see an ocean in people,
and all of these people in an ocean.
I did not argue.
We both have valid interpretations
brought about through
            (mostly)
reasonable lines of inquiry.

We are just opposite sides of the spectrum;
a rainbow juxtaposed next to a sea of grey.
So where is the middle ground?

It is that spot on my chest where
your head rests as you listen to my heart beat.
It is in the delicate movement of
our fingers as they slowly trace each other.
It is in those moments when
our eyes close,
lips meet,
and the world around us
dissolves
and collects
within us:
orchestrating our movements,
binding us together
in a moment of
syzygistic agreement of a flawless unity
amidst the
swirling cacophony
of affairs
that make up
our world.

We can create
Anything we want

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice