Poems from lyonbrave
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot
I can't fucking stand myself
because I've joined a self loathing click
we stand around and smoke cigarettes
talking about how lucky we are...
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Not to die or to perish or to fall off a cliff
Not to disappear from the hearts of others
Not to drowned, stuck in a submarine
like a can...
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THE PUREST KNOWLEDGE
Is preparing us for the day we die.
I understand it’s a gorgeous day outside.
Change is not an illusion.
The basic...
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SOMETIMES I SHRINK
Back from it all. There are a million bows to tie.
Why should I be studious? Maybe if I were a kid
again I wouldn’...
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Charcoal covering my flesh, my bones
In my dream, I am a gorilla, I am a chimpanzee,
I am hanging upside down in the New York
City Zoo,...