Incomplete
Partial
Imperfect
Indecisive
Divided
Multitasking
Noncommital
Novice
Weak
Stretched
Sparse
Open
Exposed
Vulnerable
Inevitable
Despair
Perfect
Envy
Perfect
Death
Perfect
One
Perfect
There was a time where this was an ask blog of the lives of our high school literature club, but it's now a place where we can stay in touch and share our writing still. Wherever we go in life, it'll be something that keeps us connected.
Incomplete
Partial
Imperfect
Indecisive
Divided
Multitasking
Noncommital
Novice
Weak
Stretched
Sparse
Open
Exposed
Vulnerable
Inevitable
Despair
Perfect
Envy
Perfect
Death
Perfect
One
Perfect
I sense the air
What information is stored in a breeze
Atmospheric temperature
Gentle changes in pressure
A storm and its distance
The physical shape of this vastness
Where and how insects will fly
What information is stored in a word
Emotion seeping past the voice
Not the patterns we build upon
How they can bend to serve the moment
The stakes of or futility in the act
Myriad thought of world wholly alien
I am not a hunter
I am a scientist
Testing hypotheses
Sketching truth I can’t hope to grasp
This web’s placement belies my soul
I wish I could feel sorry
you come to me like a dream
sudden real purposeless
your name lost echoes
voices familiar and dead
I see you in the land
jagged damaged cliffs
the wake of disaster
forgotten by still air
memory lying far below
beautiful
precious
deadly
I want you to look at me
I need to know who you see
when all you’ll say is cute
What am I supposed to say
You’ve settled on the sweetest way
to name me irrelevant
I’ve had that word before
nice
small
endearing
irrelevant
It could never drown out the others
Give me fire from the gods
I’ll roll at the steepest odds
for something forbidden
Take me by the heart
I’ll give you every last part
to rebuild in me what you see
You Live Your Life on Stage
Burning in the Spotlight
The Show Must Go On
So it Never Stopped
An Audience of One
Until You Make It Big
Until You Make It Big
Until You Make It Big
Never Any Downtime
Just a Backstage Pass
I’m trying to speak to you
But to you I’m your Biggest Fan
Scream
The soft earth nourishes
A cushion loving and gentle
Whispering of the sunlight
Letting me feel the footsteps
Tasting the rainfall
A better hiding place I couldn’t ask
Voices muffled speak above
Speaking words I used to know
Calling my name
I sell my days one by one
looking astranged at simple luxuries, meager purpose
looking in both peace and dread forward
those days waiting to be taken and sold
looking at you thriving in your home
Everyone’s friend, this bundle of fire
favored both above and below yet modest
only the dress code looks the other way
letting you look the part
self-realized, a juggler of life, love, and joy
Wilting in your garden I call to you
You laugh, “I don’t; I am exhausted all the time.”
There’s a time and a place for
Everything unspoken by a sword on the
Wall carved by the river of
Choices I allow myself to make or
Restrain each hand once bitten twice
Shy because the times for boldness are all
Passed me by like scenery in the
Window to the past where all this makes
Sense that this road leads off of a
Cliff perfect for a dive into the
Sea that’s been tossing and turning me
About to change everything by changing
Nothing
judgement nibbling away at passion
its afterimage leaving new scars
misfortune becoming a sensation
a dance of feathers
amidst unending raindrops in the dark
I breathe a prayer to this uncanny valentine
watching a massacre of the extraordinary
every cry with its own charm
The calm
perfected
inevitable
path of droplets
through nothing
to become nothing
one wave echoing
a circle unbroken
fading to nothing
only in solitude can perfection exist
only loneliness can exist in perfection
to seek beauty is not to bring it joy
let me join the storm
falling lost yet found
meaningless only alone
nourishing new growth
rejoining the earth
inviting us to live again
messy
complicated
imperfect