Vision+Voice

Why I’m Here.
Sometimes I look into
The mirror and wonder why
I’m here. Maybe for smiles
Or laughs or cries yet I know I’m here
For something. But what?

I sit and wonder all this time,
But I still sit and wonder why?
Maybe for sports or school,
Yet that’s not why.

Then I sit and think for
A good long time and
Realize why I’m here.
Maybe for emotions, sports, or
Education, but the real truth is everything.
Your human you do all and that is why God
Put you here on this earth, So you can do it all.

So yeah sometimes I look into
The mirror and wonder why
I’m here.

My mind is always wandering.
Back to when I was younger…
When I was small.
What I’ll be when I’m older…
What will I do as an adult?
Will I make them proud?
Them, my parents.
The reason I succeed in life…
The reason I am here…
The reason I try my hardest…
I wouldn’t be who I am without them.
My mind is always wandering.
Even to the saddest thoughts…
What will life be like when my parents are gone?
Will I still smile?
Or will my personality be gone?
My mind is always wandering…
And it never stops.

I cannot feel Safe here…not anymore
My Home is gone, nothing is left
Not much more I can endure
Love cannot save me

A Ringing…in my head…in my ears
A suffocating feeling, sits –
A plead…that no one hears
Love cannot save me

A Fire kills…everything it can
A weak, small Human has no chance
Then that little Fear…began
Love cannot save me

Restless…Useless…Terrified…in the Dark
Forget what matters, Fire comes quick
You’re scared – of course…it left a mark
Love cannot save me

Love cannot save anyone

Suddenly
a happy world is gone
disappeared
evaporated
How could this have happened?
An arm
around a loved one
in comfort
but nothing can comfort me
Every life a world
and now one world
a world that I loved so much
Gone
Forever

To lie on the ground
and just
look
up
is a wonderful feeling
the endless world above us
is an amazing sight to see

These twinkling lights
are what gives light to our universe
at night
they are
the night’s light

The Earth, if my eyes deceive, was clean and clear until us humans came
We polluted, we destroyed and the Earth shed a tear and tried to blow us away
But we stayed here
As we kept on hurting her the Earth tried to cope, ice caps-melting, Covid-killing
But we stayed here
Nothing was working, we became to strong, so as we create a vaccine the Earth sang for help,
And as she sang, and as global warming got worse, nobody came
so we stayed here
Black death, chickenpox, yellow fever, all were ways to drive us out, but we didn’t notice
So we shall stay here

Fantasy
The word begets only ill formed shapes in my mind
Of the glint of sunlight on metal
Of crimson red,
And yet I can’t stop thinking of them.
Their taste draws me in like blood to a shark
And I can’t help but bite into the lure.

Stuff
Things
Such a broad term for such a specific thing
Stuff is the black cat that reminds you of Halloween sitting on your window
Stuff is the blue pen sitting at your desk stark against the brown wood
Stuff is the blood red nail polish in the bathroom
Stuff is the dried flowers hanging in your neighbor’s lawn
Stuff is the old tea bags in the mug that has long since lost its warmth
Stuff is the white pillow sitting on the white bed that hasn’t been slept in for years
Stuff is anything and everything
Stuff is something we all take for granted
Because
We always want more
Always think that we need more
We all give in to wanting until
There is no more stuff
Nothing that you own because you wanted too much
And threw away everything that you owned
You threw away everything that you are
And you have to find yourself again
To finally remember to stop wanting

Infatuation. Fascination.
Passion. It’s
Obsession.

Any way or form.
For that one person it
Sticks in our minds like
Gum on the bottom of a
Shoe.

However hard you try
They’ll always be
There. Waiting
For attention

Waiting
For you to circle back
Around to dwelling on that
powerful

Infatuation. Fascination.
Passion.

Obsession.