The sand smells of algae and blood As it clings to our exposed bodies Sharp and soaked with eternal lust It speaks to the wilderness Carefully concealed within our souls A whisper from the down below As we float freely, weightless and young again On the surface of the sea, powerful and raw Submerge with me into it guilt-free Feel the substance that has been feeding us All along Our flesh may rot and dissolve All pretence cleaned from it by the unforgiving salt But our very selves will be reborn Beneath the roaring waves We’ll continue living anew Mixed with the molecules of other corpses And all human-made will be swallowed Taken away by the careless currents We’ll swim, until the end of time We will roam, our minds filled with courage Into the cold embrace of the unknown
The nature sleeps so I must be awake In dead of winter My blood boils and my fingers twitch My mind reaching out To the twisting roots hidden underneath The sea is frozen so I must run In circles waiting for a signal to slow down Snow-white wind chills to the bone And the moon is silent As if also waiting for salvation In darkness of the mighty woods Here I stalk threads of my innocence Frail and shaking to the core I do not let up Until I leave my earthly body and its mind Until but the idea of me remains Branches rustle anticipating My return to the soil that feeds them And I wonder if I ever was at all Or if the trees are merely dreaming of me
The Doctor, the Patient, and the Cast by chanyhuman, literature
Literature
The Doctor, the Patient, and the Cast
The patient came with a broken leg. The doctor they saw, his name was Greg. He put the cast on tight, but did not look right. Now it was more broken than an egg.
If the ego that we build For ourselves is living Then this is a destruction An apocalypse That no one made-up can survive Take my hand, now withered by pain Caress the moss on my fingers And come with me where horizon never ends Where the time is always present If memories are ocean waves Then I will be the sun My lava scorching the seabed that we walk Ash falls upon bleached corpses And new life sprouts, cleansed of spirits We have no future For we’re not built on abstract wishes We have got no past For it was not us who came into this place If blackness is fright Then let me wrap myself in darkness Underneath rocks and entangled roots I will hold the very earth with care I will seep into it naked I will leave my flesh and bones behind Not afraid to disappear For there is nowhere that this mind could hide And I will let the earth absorb me I will hear its rumbling within my own breath "Stone, sand, mud and living creatures There is need for all shapes and forms They all belong
Suffering in the rain, while dancing under the stars. I know light will break through; that light will cast a shadow, but shadows give shade on a hot summer day, so I'll stand in that light and let the shadows fall. Love in the light and love in the dark, knowing both will come and go. The little stars twinkling in the sky, reminding me how alone we are in this cold, vast ocean makes love harder in darkness and light, knowing forever isn't coming and now is all we have—now is everything we have, and in the presence of now, I don't feel so alone. Rain pours and stars shine, as Now wraps a scarf around my neck, and in the midst of suffering, we dance on together.
It's only mid-summer And I can already see how trees will wither Their leaves yellow Rotting in mid-air while they fall Unaware of giants that used to hold them The snow has melted recently But I already imagine it storming in Covering the autumn's death in white Chilling the sandy shores Where naked feet still burn today The cycles they keep on turning Why do the living bother With this endless struggle to keep up with time Forced by laws they’ll never understand Animating their skins through the landscape I can already smell the cold wind I can already feel its fingers Caress the goosebumps on my confused skin Animals will stockpile what they can And humans will pretend another spring is sure to come Oblivious to being mortal I can already hear the funeral drums I can see flesh pealing off the crumbling bones And the seasons will keep on going No matter if a soul marvels at their dance
Unwanted Your very soul feels fouled Stained by what you do not see Labelled for disposal You plead but no love ever comes Unneeded You alone brave the churning seas Always on the brink Loneliness breeds insanity And the world spins backwards Blinded Never taught how to relate Where they end and you begin Paranoia settles in In place of human feeling Unwanted And by yourself you always walk The night sings its lullabies The earth itself puts you to sleep So cold and incredibly ancient Abandoned With no ground under your feet In mercy of wild animals Eaten and beaten You regrow each day more deformed Into the image of your makers So break the tainted chain Tear your dirty skin off Bleed out the hate and the pain Still unwanted Still unneeded Still alone
I’ve said goodbye To the small buildings made of concrete and hate To the burning metal fences And mountains silent in their disbelief I’ve said goodbye To the darkness lingering in human hearts To the artificial light That shames all honest and all good I’ve said goodbye To the littleness of assimilated minds To the suspicious eyes To the stares that hurt the innocents And I am no more A participant in your dance Of self-sustaining sorrow No more a part of Your terrible sickness cycle