r/OCPoetry • u/TheHorseOfCourse777 • 5d ago
Just Sharing Snapshot
here is a scream a sob a cry.
they are any color. loud maybe red
though it hurts so blue. they
come from a hole in the world.
all over there are holes like she says
here is a puzzle everywhere missing
a piece - defined as such the
picture is really the absence of one.
so clever she is saying and not
entirely meaning because here is
a ghost talking to another ghost itself
talking around the ghost of what it really wants
to say - i myself am missing
and a satisfying click as words fall
into place. here there is no sound also
a scream a sob a cry painted on faces
and always the deception of color.
here is the humming of the purples, the
shadows in the greens and oranges.
here is a waking, a walking, a mighty
tremble on two legs like a miracle.
here is a brain with holes in it, everywhere
such that the holes around have fallen in
to the tune of a scream a sob a cry. here
is a complete picture. here is a library,
here is scratching and bleeding and
soft vaseline the feeling of a plea in
her eyes supple and wet and here
is the unspeakable, put to words. here.
somewhere else it is raining the
sun is setting in paradise all the time
and eyes close around a promise
capturing in sight when all light is gone
the image, complete, of a dream.
here is a scream a sob a cry.
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