The Black Raven: Favorites

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

ryn

Give me a minute
To read the stars
Lamenting in their stories
Their laboured twinkling far and sparse

Give me this moment
To stumble and swoon
My branches reaching for
The faraway moon

Give me a while
To be one with the universe
Hear the colliding planets
As they spill their mournful verse

Give me some time
To plot my rightful place
Within my uncharted galaxy
And collapsing space...

#alone #time #stars #space #thinking #universe #reflection #planets

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Wake Up, My Love

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

ryn

Wake Up, My Love

Since you've been away
I've trailed the wake of the clouds
Just crumbling clay...
That lay in the shade that enshrouds
Depending on the ifs and mays.

   Wake up, my love...
Since you haven't been here
The sky did nothing but only sang
Ambient translations of mocks and jeers
As the green blades of earth bared their fangs
Mischievous songs that I've held dear.

     Wake up, my love...
Since you've been gone
I've realised that I'm not moving
And you too, haven't moved since last dawn
A reality all too disheartening
Bits of me all cut up and sawn.

         Wake up my love...
Since you've been missing
I am never whole, and never will
A lifetime of endless chasing
Bottomless jar without a seal
Void clustered emptiness in need of filling.

          Wake up, my love...
Since you've been absent
I could only hope for this lungful
To lead me to subsequent
Ones that taste like bitter pills encapsuled.
Mind full of drugs running rampant.

               Wake up, my love...
Since you wouldn't have known
What these days are like...
Time induced tumours have grown
The hours impale with temporal spikes...
Inseminating malignant thoughts soon to be sown.

                  Wake up, my love...
Since you've been away
I'm a player hoping for a fair game
Nonetheless still crumbling clay...
That lay in the dark just the same
Choking on the what ifs and what mays.

Wake up....Me...

#wakeup #whaaaaat

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Slum Bum Crash

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Silence Screamz

Slum *** Crash

I have lost my way,
please draw me an arrow
Five corners of slum
Deep in the boroughs

A decayed old soul
with smells of masters
Alcohol and poisons, mixed
Death comes much faster

Living in a box,
discarded like trash
Pushing farther below
Slum *** Crash

#living #the #on #street #homeless

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Overprivilegded White Kid

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Evan Hoffman

Overprivilegded White Kid

I put my butterscotch in the refrigerator
Next to the bananas, three loaves of bread,
tortilla strips
just under the styrofoam cups

In the cupboard, I keep my ground beef.
Don't worry, I put it in freezer bags,
I'm not an idiot.

I challenge everyone I meet to a staring contest
The first time I lost was to a homeless man.
He had a way of staring at something (and nothing)
at the same time.
He told me it's a skill you learn when you are
perishable goods.
Here I was trying to preserve things
I would only use once.
I don't even know what butterscotch looks like.

#freestyle

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

Undead

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

PrttyBrd

Undead

Changing slowly, painfully
Shedding skin
Raw and new
Naked and bleeding
So long to heal
Longer to toughen
Layers turned scars
Hide a silenced heart

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Oct 2014 The Black Raven

The beauty that used to be.

Oct 2014 The Black Raven

punch-drunk

The beauty that used to be.

Halfway up the glass does the water reach not so low,
but protruding from the vase of life, flowers do not grow.
Withered petals and sagging stems replace the living air,
colours fade, death must obey, not alive to even care.
But if i drop into the vase a magic thought from me,
I can dream and think and see, the beauty that used to be.

I wrote this one whilst admiring a dead flower in a vase.

#love #sad #life #death #thoughts