my thoughts are so loud

trying to focus
give me breaths
hold back the salt
of tears behind my eyes
my brain screams in horror
my skull collapses
with the pressure of today
my eyes feel heavy
my heart begins to race
i think...
i think myself insane...
i feel my body go fuzzy
my being is a glitch
another mistake in the universal code for all that is real...
and i hear my thoughts laugh
as they choke between collapsing breaths
"it doesn't matter, kid"
it doesn't matter...

past lives

a young man walks
in the dead of night
past lives stalk him

he stands at the corner
and lights a cigarette.
watches the smoke
rise up to the stars

the lives that stalk him
collapse to the ground
knees to the floor
in worship

"please"
they beg
"free us"

the man pulls up his hood
and carries on his way.

he comes to a cliff
and watches as
the sun
its red and yellows
swallowing the sky

they are
the last things he sees

"understand me"
he whispers
"understand me..."

at last
reunited with
time, as
if all their
faith fills
a hole, what was killing their
cadaver
tells the story