Melody Blank

Empty heavens

Full of eerie cherub statues

Melody blank.

Earthbound, evergreen lusts

Full of the car engines buzz

And the honey bees flutter

Like an engine starter

Sombre affairs

That lay bare  naked truths

And longing stares.

Yes, affairs of the mind

-For melody blank

Distraught bliss

That paradise that exists in jealousy

For your neighbours wife

Or the cherry red lips

Of the young red head

Melody blank.

The unformulated desire

That lives in your heart and mind

Until you die.

 

-E

 

Picture: Saatchi Art

Hidden Treasures

Deserted.

On a lonely island

Surrounded by lifeboats

But nobody cared I was drowning.

Stories appeared

Written in the sand

Whispers repeated through the centuries

Of shadows that surrounded me

The superstitions bombarding

I tell myself

Not to conform to my minds trickery

To grin until it hurts

So I dug a little deeper

And made my own shelter

And they crept a little closer

To the coast before me

But I no longer cared to see

Because in the end

When the war is over

Happiness will be there

Buried beneath

My own hidden treasures

For me to find

And for me alone to keep.

 

-E

 

Artwork by Rachel Christine Nowick

After Thoughts

Falling for so long

Past the sunrise

Into dark

Ignoring every sign we pass

Missing every mark

On the dartboard–

And therefore every chance.

 

And if we’d only lifted up our heads

Brushed away the tears

Shrugged off the dread

Found ourselves in the swarm of bees

Raised our voices above the din

Then maybe these smiles would be genuine.

 

And we all know the story

The fable since time  begun.

That we’re not everlasting

But this youth has me feeling young

In these moments with these eyes

This mouth speaking the words you despise.

 

“I will never change,”

Like the sun in the sky and the moons

That revolve around it

This power is mine to take

And I demand it.

 

If we’d only turned the key

Stepped into the unknown

Forced ourselves out of the shell

That we retreated inside of

Then maybe we would see

The glow of the halo’s that were always there

Just hidden away, out of sight,

Subtlety.

Maybe then you wouldn’t think about it any more

But you were a little too late,

Hopefully a lesson learnt,

Never treat me as a mere after thought.

-E