Purged of faith

the soul despairswhen forced to ask,what is a soula concrete answereludes usIs this because our soul is fluid?or because the idea of a soul is the resultof anthropocentric delusions of grandeur?Can we call the results ofprescribed fantasies,false instructions,misleading guidance…delusions?They are not the result of yourown poor reasoning.There are the product ofanother’s inability to peer into […]

The oxymoronicality of a subjective cosmological satire

The chains of apathy hold me upas I latently struggleto break freeinto this world of boundless limitationsI rest tirelesslyhidden in plain sightamidst the light of the nightdreading the darkness of the dawnand all the terrorizingacts of human compassionseeking the solace of lonelinessin my closest companionswondering how a world so beautifulcan look so uglywe are taught […]

I hope the world looks different

with you by my sideagain.For right now,I can’t seem to see in color.Days comprised ofsloppily composedpetty to-doshalf assed attemptsto check offthese arbitrary tasksendeavors fruitlesscontentment unobtainablehappiness impalpable.Don’t get me wrong,I’m doing fine.Waiting is just hardfor a skeptic.I taught myself not to hope.I surrendered my faithin the search for truthand here I amwaitingand hopingtrying to find faithin […]

no faith maybe hope

There you are,a single entitycomprised of infiniteconstituents:A pastthat has brought you to thispresent,all of which will dictateyour future,while I lay in bedreviewing,processing,analyzing,wondering,losing focus ofthe present,caught up in a search—a maddening desire—to understandthe infinite.I refuse to havefaith,but I will try to retain somehope.

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