Mad About English

languige can ern money, meh
engrish can it one, ah
gahmen wan livesigns, leh
dey wan enginear, leh
den go an stardy mats lah!
go an stardy signs lah!
mats can it wan
signs oso can
can poot rice on de tehber
dun pray pray okay!
nex taam mus rite argue compo meh
nex taam mus tok reedem meh
nex taam mus in fur rens meh
but
nex taam [...]

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Grief

the grief -
a seizure of the chest; shallow,
desperate breaths; a cruel,
slow, bleeding of my heart -
seems at times too much
to bear. and i wonder, how
i can go on; how to continue
to trudge within the gravid mud.
wearily; worn more so
by perceived ignorance, a staggering
insensibility, or perhaps my
inherent peripherality, my exiguous existence.
so i continue, to dwell,
buried, within [...]

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the ghost

always, an expectant tilt
of the head, as the bus
trundles to a stop,
and my eyes seek
you, sifting frantically through
the immaterial throng
for the comforting warmth,
like a well-worn blanket,
of your presence.
when you are not
there, still your spirit
haunts me; you are
the ghost in my machine,
traversing the crevasses
of my soul, my mind.
always. you will stay
immortal, an unvanishing
apparition in my [...]

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To my madness

what shines with glaring clarity is
the truth, how i exist
only in your periphery -
a shadow; a wraith -
skirting the edges
of your consciousness,
if even that at all.
yet, you, eclipse all
else in me.
no thought within, no beat
of my heart, reflects not
your winsome rays;i
am encased in your amber glow.
but you do not know
the truth will set
in tranquil depths,
beyond [...]

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if I could

if I could write to you
of my love, this would I say:
that you are the best of us,
that your heart shines through –
more pure than purest gold,
more beautiful than the sunrise,
more precious than finest spun silk
You are his wonderful creation,
a creature beyond imagination.
You rule my thoughts
and fire my senses;
and my soul thrills
at the sight of [...]

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all at sea

it seems there exists some uneasy
truce, a fragile pact,
which quickly wanes as
the passing shadows of cloud
blacken and shroud
your glorious light,  which,
for now, cuts right through
the heavy darkness,
illuminating a path through the
tumultuous surface, below which
churns the fury of unfathomable currents.
i fear your passing.
what will i do for light?
who will be my hope?
the violent beauty of the [...]

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one day

one day
i will see you
hands locked in
another’s; and i will
weep.
i will imagine:
your words leaping off
your lips,
to his;
your smiles,
golden and coy,
meant only for him;
your heart,
tremulous and pure,
intertwined with his;
you,
utterly his.
Utterly not.
one day. today.
i will weep.

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a ton of sighs

my heart weighed an eternity’s ton today,
so i lifted my eyes to the sky -
in search of your heart, to seek
its comforting beat, if only to lull
my broken, broken heart to sleep.
but i saw an invisible strand,
buffeted by a chary breath, which caught,
only just, the hesitant rays of dawn,
then the sighs fled and filled me [...]

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black/grey/white

we wade in the grey
sometimes falling flat, face
hurtling deep in dismay,
but we’re fine with that.
anything’s better than the black.
anything but the sinking
sand; the noose round neck,
wrists wrung, and silent screaming.
anything but. thank you for the red
which broke through to grey and,
will to white. now no longer dead,
we will rise to the endless, in the end.
branded [...]

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rescue

the shuddering tremor of life
reverberates, aches to the marrow,
prompting a frantic retreat
into numbing distraction, into
the abyss.
but yours is an invincible grip.
an unbreakable three-fold cord which
secures me for eternity
to you.
i can but only sink
to my knees.

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