The Worth of Truth

There is a kind of exhaustion that comes with delivery and perfect execution like the hidden fee a service license agreement you have to constantly renew for energy consumed the cost of technology is moving forward into entropy inevitably all systems decay and something new has its day and it turns out the truth is…

The moving parts

You get to a point you can’t track all the moving parts the busy bits the needling pauses the sudden starts a part of your mind tunes out and there it goes spinning on its own out of control like it always was You just detached instead of being the movie you step back and…

The long way back

I will take the long way back the kind you loosen up to because it’s a strenuous journey and there’s a trembling in the pit beneath the sky above the fire deep in my belly I’m the bouncing sound the ricochet between the walls the spitting hiss whizzing by that just missed another inch and…

The Witching Hour

I’ve been going down all the roads I’ve gone before now the miles ride buttery with the new asphalt laid over the toll the wounds took and the surface once broken now seamless yet I remember them well the circles I’ve closed while I hung on a cross sacrificing everything from the years in between…

Ordinary hues

I’m a girl on the run weeping at 3AM in the bathroom bleeding from cuts too young trying to warm up beneath the heatless sun of a flickering bulb I walk with monsters camouflaged in scars afraid of the dark the first thing I learned was to contain the suspense of the unknown that made…