Tag: depression

If I can’t trust myself

can I trust you?can you trust me?it hurts to be humanit hurts to errI indulgeI drink sadness and despairI breathe smoke, instead of airmy eyes burn from lack of tearsmy heart beats fast and weakwhen I confront my fearsmy blood-stained fleshis like this ink-stained fleshas I try to bleed outmy terrors and rageI’ll make you […]

just a bit of physical reciprocation

I’ll settle for a fractionor an indefinite decimaljust help me out a bit pleaseI know we’re trying to help ourselvesbut we hurt each otherbut we make each other feel goodbut we want such different thingsbut we want the same thingI know you want meyou know I want youI know I want youyou know you want […]

It hurts too much to write right now

I’ve been trying so hard to live without painbut the instantaneous dissipationof the only words I could mutterhas left the room empty.The reverberations of your footstepshave dissolved into the infinite,leaving mecold, trembling, and alone.

There is a part of me

so coarse and dryit cannot thrive inthe light of day cracked and bruisedthe blood tastesbitteras it grindsthe imageof others sanctuary insolemn solitudesilentlydivide separate self andothers as isolated as the moonamong the stars alone amidstthe galaxy

As Common As Carbon(1024 x 512 px)

How to Use

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