#catchcan

There are some, is it true

Erred not when words threw

I myself have sang the chords

So have the peasants

And so have the lords

Phrase uttered in castles doubting

Despairs, endless, ever a-counting

All voices singing inevitable symphony

Those who can only whisper

Those who cry the epiphany

Occulted perception, to know the story

The endless privilege of dramatic irony

Comforted maybe, but never assuaged

To know who lives, who dies

And who turns your page

Those at Goliad, those days past

Us today, next door, in fact

Of course, we all will join the chorus

Between little ones born this hour

And everyone that came before us

Somewhere in you, you know the creed

The justification of darker deed

The steadfast solace in the unrecovery

Said with intention, or none at all

And here I was

Shining as day

Making Chantilly

And the finest of company

And here I was

Biding my time

Waiting on you

And beginning the climb

And here I was

Dreaming of heights

Dreading the days

Where I have to take flights

And here I am

Pissed as all get out

Fury within me

Committing to plans is a molasseslike sin

Before you think your heart’s rushed in

See, unlike the brain, a heart pulses rapidly

Which, for me at least, is abjectly dastardly

Bare with me, dear reader, I was in an desert vast,

With sliding sands and sunlight amassed

And there I was, I saw my oasis

How lucky I was to have found that placement!

I thought it was right! I thought it would be fun!

Now I stare down the barrel of the gun

He was right there, right there within grasp

Mirages tend to do that, then vanish fast

Now that I have dreamt of purest water

It only can be that much farther

This is my fault, that I can concede

You are like the bowl of soup I forgot to throw out

That I promised my roommate on Monday that I would

At first you were so warm, so human, just want I wanted

I put in all of my favorite things, like carrots and potatoes, pasta and zucchini…

I put in the salt, the paprika

But once I had a taste, and experienced no flavor that I intended, I put down my spoon

And you did not change. You mellowed in my fridge where you took up too much space. You thickened and congealed. The pasta within you swelled up and the zucchini became no color that I could discern. You waited for me to do something about you.

You just sat in my fridge and I told my roommate I would eat you. I told her I could stomach the taste if I just altered it a little.

And I guiltily struggled to pour you down the drain. You didn’t ask to be made, and I certainly thought I knew what I was doing.

Anne was wretched, we all know

Limited talent, limited flow

“Miserable to the end” 

All her friends penned

We’re left only to wonder what she kept hid...

I dislike her subject

I dislike her verse

I finder her morally depraved,

and utterly perverse

But tell me what’s worse

that I’m breaking scheme 

On the day I went insane

to silence the voices in my brain

I stripped to nothing, save a mask

And walked down the street in stupored bask

I had other duties, much more pressing

None I desired more than undressing

What must it take to have all of the attention

I’d do everything that need not mention

The sight of him burns my guilty heart

The talk of her tears me completely apart

Why am I slave to my obsessive fantasies

It brings me comfort

I climbed my way to the top of the tower

Built myself an unearthly empire

My men labored for days on end

Hoping to see their loved ones again

I drank their soup, they had no tea

I utterly deprived them of humanity

I laughed behind curtains, shirked my pride

I reserved my love for the fireside

When at last work was through

Hammer and chisel cast hitherto

I marveled at the majesty, inspired,

Wouldn’t you?

I climbed once again, finally among the stars

Felt nothing but familiar emptiness in my heart

Decades, I slaved

Hundreds, I slaughtered

But here I was,

Gold light that pierces eyes

Like the lightest suds in the shower

Enumerates my sight of this land

--Invigorates my power

And when fire flickers beyond vision

When darkness is upon us

The magic rushes within me