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Within Extremity


The things I fear aren’t always as tangible as death 

or the loss of the ones I love.

Sometimes I fear loneliness and simplicity

Things staying

still.

 

From the words I devour 

I stitch together my understanding of the world.

Through the chaos and clutter of this world,

I have grown unshakable.

My passion drives me forward 

it slams the gas pedal with no reservation.

With no concept of brakes.

 

Yet give more than I hope to get back.

My love is weighed on an unbalanced scale.

I dredge the last I have from my depths for others,

I keep giving

even when I have nothing.

 

Emptiness has rooted in my bones of my once home, now house.

Skeletons of memory are buried in my heart. 

I know that my Home no longer exists,

nevertheless I manage.

 

I am cynical, 

acutely aware of the flaws of the human condition,

of my own flaws, 

and so very hopeful that I am wrong.

 

I thirst for more.

Desire has dug my grave. 

My insatiable hunger for life,

the final nail in the coffin.

Longing for stark contrast,

For extremity in which I feel nothing.

And everything at once.

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