Monopolize.

Sat in class, in the back
Hidden as best as one can hide
From peering eyes behind the podium
Good thing this room is wide.

Phone in hand, on my lap
Underneath the small divide
My Notebook and pen lay motionless
My Fingers occupied

Im sidetracked , thoughts move fast
It is to your words I abide
Neglecting what I am supposed to learn
The problem comes alive.

Fear.

Strange how in that melancholy moment there seems to be so much emotion flowing
Words: adjectives and verbs seem to be pouring out not to mention nouns
Which keep me pinned to labels I’m not even sure are adequate
But damn if I don’t fit the definition
Yeah it’s strange what defines a person.
Language holds so much influence
But it’s not the sole presence
No, there’s no star of the show
Abstractions takeover in the form of feelings
Experience is one of the keys
To unlock those layers; what we call growing up.

Life is one big stage
Constantly performing roles
We feel pressured to play
Social constructs constructing reality
Shift context, they mean nothing
And you’re left staring blankly
Into empty seats

Role reversals
Walk a mile in their shoes
And tell me it doesn’t hurt
If the tree falls but you’re not there
Does the sound of death
Still reverberate?
Does the striking silence slice
Lacerations into heart tissue
That just can’t take it
Do you bleed for your beliefs?

Would you feel relief if
All this were to end in nothingness
Just abyss like when you sleep
Falling of that precipice
Slowly rolling off a cliff
Crossing the boundary
Onto the other side of consciousness
Crossing boarders
Where memories aren’t meant to haunt us

Who can say were even human then?

Sunny Days Sweepin' The Clouds Away.

Brandon

Ink blots
Tic toc
Where has this spiral led me?
Climbing ventures
where time spent,
smudged on a weary descent
erased traces of my day.
in that melancholy way
a cloud marked nostalgia
drifted away.
Whirled in sight
light comes to pass
over the forgotten,
a heavy shadow it shall cast.

Only.

I only whispered
To keep you calm
Only agreed
So you wouldn’t feel wrong
Only smiled
So you wouldn't cry
Only

You inspire me
Ignite a spark
Desire
I
Me
Us?
We'll see
Hold my breath
Feel my heart
Pump pumping
Pump pumping
Pump pumping
Thunder loud
And thick like grey
Like a fog, like a blanket
Like a hot, muggy day.
You inspire me
Ignite a spark
I can feel the blood
Rush rushing
Rush rushing
Rush rushing
Steel smooth
and fast
You inspire me
To make it last.

I only screamed
So, you wouldn't care
Only soothed you
So you wouldn't fear
Only.

ramble.

Tell me what it’s like to feel sparks ignite
Inside those convex recesses we couldn't seem to find

Maybe didn't know were there
Maybe we didn't care.

Yeah tell me how you melted
Icy walls erected to deflect
Redirect
Simply reject
In order to protect.

But what is living without risks?
What is pleasure without pain?
What is time if not tricks on the mind?

Simply motivation to transcend
Self, spirit, substance.
Excel beyond limits

So you can mesh with Mother Nature herself.
Nestled in the bosom like a child frightened,
You feel the warm caress familiarness
That calms.
Soothes like a solve.
Solving problems

Transcendental functions
I do not derive from nothing
No zeros on my soul
In fact I multiply
Wherever it is I go.

Leave little imprints
On other people's essence
Etching marks into the earth
Fossilize, time capsulize
Til I live forever in little broken fragments,
Covering more ground then I ever could alive.

Yeah I glide.
Swift smoothing sailing
Into skylines stained pink
From the sunlight bleeding
Into atmosphere.


Fadeout and disappear

Pale Blue.

I stare out at the blue house
As the sunshine pale radiates
Bear branched trees stand proud
There is nothing to hide.
The sky a perfect back drop to this dreary winter day
A shade of gray so delicate like porcelain or clay
Blocking out the sun, draped heavy like the snow.
A mask with perforations, the street basks beneath its glow.
Slick gravel, coated with remains of winter
Squishes under tires, rolling through
Holding strangers heading nowhere
I sit staring, with nothing else to do.
Birds chirp, a conversation
going a mile a minute
A high pitch chatter and an encoded secret.
Skeletons of winter wither
As blue bleeds through the clouds
Gentle winds sway branches
Unashamed and well endowed
I sit here staring out
At the tin roof of the blue house
Reflections in the window
Show nothing but privacy
Mirror the outside
And stare right back at me
Two eyes, take in
What we deem the world
Process, analyse, over obsess
Two eyes take in
What we deem the world
Colored beautiful, an inspiration
Yet how easy it is
To destroy this creation
Paradoxes taunt us from every aspect
Trapped in prisms, so many facets
Take into consideration
We are united by loneliness
Birds chirp, bare branched trees stand tall
The pale sky illuminates ideas
In the form of green
Awed by all this beauty
Enamored with the unseen
An overwhelming power, a yearning to comprehend
An unwritten language to which there is no end
Yet here I sit... Two eyes
Take it all in