Over and Under

Mouth agape

Hungry for Heaven's wrath

Headlong with nightmares

Overflowing

Defiant I contrive these

Other worlds to thrive in

Dreams left stillborn

Stagnant and done trying

Brought to bare it all

Against the open source

Caught up in the fuzz

Overgrowing

Percussion fades

Still babbling by the river

Running out of themes

Still just repeating riddles

Banish this to fragile glass

Self-aware of these reflections

Approaching an event horizon

Bent by this maddening lensing

Meet me in the middle

Or never speak to me again

I guess I'll just resign myself

To never knowing what I did

I'd take these hands

And forge new sins

If I wasn't such a coward

Courage up in smoke

Make me a final offer

Or never say a single word

Either way I'm the one resolved

To a love I find insoluble

Such surreal and pretty monsters

Serene I set myself

Firmly in these fangs

Securely in this trap

These sensations so unfamiliar

Tired of self-detonation

I'd resign myself to servitude

If I could set off someone else

The cacophony between

Spells of madness cast

Is what makes this my music

Meticulous

In careful calculation

Glittering alliterations dance

Stars illuminate like wishes

Breathless I blow the candles out

Remaining in orbits synchronous

Now I let myself relapse

But shooting stars cannot align

In this atmosphere I just collapse

Closing the distance in my mind

I clasp my hands and hit my knees

I do not believe in the divine

I'm just wishing to be prey

Insecure but I know you

Wearing this pedestal thin

Endless pattern of push and pull

You still have no idea just how beautiful

Two left feet, bowing arms seeking

Still eager for dancing

Throne or throwing out my aching back

Desperation reaching

Fever pitch and flaming out

Never ceasing to sell myself

Still alone at the closing bell

Undersold

Let this cycle be sewn shut

Sealed and never opened up

Swallowing the sadness bitter

Shut my eyes with an empty tongue

Maybe I'm just made to suffer

Or never find the starting line

Sutured shut pathways of my future

Surgical, my cord of fate is cut

Tell this pleasant fiction

I've already matriculated

Straight A student of self-flagellation

Undergrad

Neck deep in empty obsession

Never deserving a second thought

Cut off and not worth repeating

Infinitely worth interrupting

Sometimes I wish for

A failure more intimate

A goodbye more imminent

Another set of second chances

Emergency, I've packed a bag now

Thrown together a few favorite memories

Vow of silence still intact

As I set this thing to blow

Wirelessly, this heart implodes

Ripped away by flowing floods

Let the tide of Catharsis take me

Undertow

(all art generated using Wombo Dream AI App)