uncertainty
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For All of Us
All of us
Not just one of us
But each of us.
Is but a tiny droplet on the face of this world.
For All of Us
All of us
Not just one of us
But each of us.
Is but a tiny droplet on the face of this world.
The maple seed hangs tight against the wind
But a gust comes through and it can hold no longer
It flies, dancing and twirling on the breeze
Pirouetting over fields and forests
This empty feeling in my gut
Will it ever recede?
Or will it get the best of me?
We love to sin, they like to lie
But will you hide behind them?
sometimes i don’t really know if there’s anyone there
downcast, empty, broken
i wait for someone
someone who may or may not come for me
alone i wait
I heard once that when the timing’s just right,
there’s this green flash that flares up on the horizon
in the exact second the sun settles on the Pacific.
Your eyes are soft when I tell you where I am going.
"I'm proud of you," you say, and to me it sounds like heaven.
The words linger on your lips, tasting of ambrosia.
nothing i am feeling is anything unique to the human experience.
i love you,
but how can you believe me?
you can't know how much i mean it.
Steam pours from thin shoulders
Dimly lit, white tile reflecting moonlight
Beams hit my skin
Slowly, ever so gentle,
Revealing to me a world both unknown
and a truth that scalds
I feel addiction grasping me,
It has been for years,
Always in different forms.
I cannot handle that.
I want to die,
Not to leave,
Days grow longer, nights colder;
Everything seems to change. Yet, there’s still me-
I’m unchanging.
Same face, same clothes, same friends, same creation.
Days grow longer, nights colder;
Everything seems to change. Yet, there’s still me-
I’m unchanging.
Same face, same clothes, same friends, same creation.
I keep on spiraling again.
Veins palpitate, aching like the
Desire of an obsessive
Heartbeat.
Perpetuations of the future abyss,
Ceaseless paths and choices do so
Remind me of
I exist
In the subtle rhythms
The periphery of perception
In gentle sea breezes
And silky laughter
In the dance of falling leaves
And dreams I lust after.
I construct my reality
Syllable after syllable...
Love flows from a desperate heart
Into the crisp, tense atmosphere.
Rivers could not compare.
The chains disintegrate;
Ash flies to the nearest patch of crumpled soil;
The dark corner and the deep sea
The high sky and who I should be
The uncertainty creeps in
As the lights begin to dim
What is hiding in those shadows?
My eyes are met with a thousand worlds
And I marvel in front of many possibilities,
But I can't choose. I cannot find my words.
And so the strings are pulled by other entities.
Hey there Adolescent!
Is life not making
Sense?
Any sense?
Are you trying,
And still need consent?
Have you been
Devoted,
Then Demoted?
Yet tried your
Best?
Dear Uncertainty,
Maybe
life will turn out good.
I'll be content and have withstood
all of life's roadblocks,
knock on wood.
Dear Love of My Life.
You have my heart
yet not my name
You have my love
but not yet gained
“I’ll make it,” I say
As I am five feet deep in a pool of my problems
I am not sure of myself
I cling to the wall
Breathing doesn’t come easy
“You will make it,” you say
Having a crush will typically usher lighthearted feelings
Yet I dread the possibility of fading from your memory
like a rose that withers a little too fast
Wanting what you can’t have
Enough to drive you crazy
Feelings getting stronger
And now it’s scary
Fear of rejection
Show remorse
When I ask if you want this
When I go for the last kiss
I can never know just what will happen
With my hour, my day, my year, my life
All uncertain, unknown. My mind lost in
Thought, about if I’ll hold a surgical knife
We are in need of peace
Senseless acts of corruption sadly appear everywhere
Lives are sadly lost
That my friends is clear
Families are in a state of uncertainty
As they stand near the gate
the road of failure is
painted
in the color of hope
and leads to the jagged cliff
where my dreams
jumped.
the road back home is
brightly lit
and leads to a state of
“You’re good at being you”Why does that make my heartStop
“You’re so extra”Why does that warm my cheeks
I’m garbage“At least you’re hot garbage”This shouldn’t tie my affections to you
Uncertainty is
my enemy,
my mortal dream,
my inconspicuous nightmare, and
my one true love.
Though the clock still chimes every hour,
I cannot will myself to stand upright
You shudder at the thought of me wanting someone else.
Yet the thought of you drifting won't quell.
Even if you get board of dragging an oar
over this water of uncertainty
I have faith that you wont jump ship,
the constanants tingle, the vowels vibrate into placenot quite creating the words but leaving in my brain a faint traceI can feel them in my body, they move from my head into my heart
I miss when nights used to drip from the sky. When parties moved in slow motion and we drank with angst and expectation. Everything is so steady now–I’m restless.
“I need some inspiration!”
Don’t submit to frustration.
“But I feel like I’m falling short.”
You will always have support.
“Really? From whom?”
Settling downward, the road’s early haze
Unable to see height of trees as I gaze
The world now shadowy, and dim, and shy
Seamless grey stretches across the chilled sky.
What do you want to do with your life?
What is your major?
How do you like college?
Large family gatherings on breaks
I want to teach.
Each time we kissed felt more passionate than the last, overpowering every molecule that is my body and soul.
Every morning when I wake
I question myself,
"What now?"
As I lumber out from bed
muttering slowly in my jumbled head
--what am I supposed to do today?
how should I fix myself?
So I've come to a conclusion,
Everything and body is an illusion.
Any sense can feel a tense delusion,
Not sure what's real--
I feel deep confusion.
So open, so crucial
So dangerous, so brutal.
I am scared, even terrified,
I keep thinking,
Of what they will find inside;
And now I am sweating,
What if something is wrong,
Deep within me.
Nothing in life is ever completely clear. Everything is hidden within a fog or some sort of mist one cannot peer through.
I think I love you.
Cause each song on the radio
Sounds like your name.
When the engine of my mind idles,
Thoughts of you casually stroll in.
There’s this feeling in my chest
weighing me down
It makes me twiddle my thumbs
Bite my lip
and shake my leg
Do you ever get a feeling
Born a girl
But read a book
And now what is she,
A he
An it?
Doesn’t she know the pain he causes others
When it
Or xe?
Decides a thousand things
In a single day?
Do you stare after me
that’s the problem, I don’t know
I’m on a wooden boat being tossed to and fro
Without filters I fear for my mind
and the tricks it plays on itself all the time
Without filters in which I see the world
My eyes would see opportunity everywhere
and not just the beaches,
Through the cracks I fall,
Waiting for the moment of certainty,
So I can grab a handhold and regain stability.
It was a drowsy battle that yearned for sleep.
The light and the darkness.
And I found myself in it.
Instigating and terminating its intentions of cruelty.
But what if I mistaked its cruelty for consideration?
You're crying ,sick and your pain is so badIf only you would have listen to the plan I hadSaying no to drugs and sex is not a crimeI have said no over a thousand times
The eyes are the first thing that you notice, then comes the whispers and you cannot unnotice this.
A true emptinessis a forsaken goodbye.A missing pieceshields the truth.The only clarityhovers the unknown.The ultimate lightnessis existence.
10101: my home.
A place of beauty, nature, tranquility,
serene.
And yet here we are.
Victims.
Homelessness, poverty, pride, HIV
AIDS.
Uncomfortable, quiet, something undone.
Ready for nothing, unconfirmed but still tons
of excitement, uncertainty, ready, in wait.
Contradiction, shifting, family, friends.
Who am I
Shaheed Baukman
9/11/2013
You use me every day, causing you to become complacent to my significance
A mask for the task at hand
to find success and to be the best
to draw peace from a green light in uncertain darkness i have to put up a fight
although i know not where i'll land
Can I love?
It would be peaceful, like a dove.
But I truly doubt I can.
I never have before now,
So I don’t know how.
Do you love me?
Your emotions aren’t quite easy to see.
nuzzle love-bitten guarded girl
overlapping legs, fallen asleep together
blue glow dark room warm hidden world
strong gentle grasp, the trust of the touch on the neck
slight suffocation, enough to relax
I'm attracted to mystery
I jump into the unknown
Assuming that it's good
Because it's new.
I want you because you're different
You're elusive
You're confusing
You suprise me
The first time I met you I thought little of you
Now I know you for you
I like you
It's been eight years since then,
I love you
We started as friends
then best friends
then sisters
Uncertainty that runs through our blood.
Future out of our mortal hands.
How shall my life go?
People don't listen, they push you down and say you have no voice.
You hide in the shadows, wanting to speak but never knowing how.
You have an opinion, but they say it's not allowed,
Being in love is drenching yourself in gasoline and giving the significant other the match and trusting them not to drop it
I wish I chose my words more carefully that night.
I take all this time to plan
but one can never get ready for this,man.
I spoke from the heart instead of my head
I forgot that my heart has always been dead.
I like to think of our relationship as a tree that grew with love. But, it was injured as a sapling but it kept growing on our love and we kept placing more pressure on the break.
I missed her for the way she would draw her backward As to the way she would walk with her subtle thighs not saying much to the world but letting me know she's my girl
-I love how we hide important things from each other
and try to live in the moment of pure bliss.
-I think of you when I am weak,
I think of you when I am strong,
I wonder if you think about me at all.
-I wish you were in my arms where nobody can do you harm.
Because we're pretty cool even though you drool.
-Can you really trust me because I can't trust myself.
Can I really handle you or do I just put you on the shelf.
-I hate that you make me jealous.
I despise that you know how to make me jealous,
-Tourquoiste amber in her eyes open me to a new world where herI alwyas comply.
Her shirt toys with and around me tempting are her breasts
-I can see that you're keeping things from me
but I don't want to know why it is but eventually
I'll wonder if it is my biz.
-You only like me
Because I was your first body
But your fondness will fade
-When I write you poetry,
It makes the poet in me
Think of you as the figure of affection
Are you afraid, are you left cold
By the thought of our parting,
The final separation
On that lonely day
Somewhere in the distance,
The unknowable future that
Folds the Now and the Then
Here I stand at the precipice,
I gaze off the edge.
Into a world uncertain,
into the void ahead.
Don't know where I'm going,
Only where I'm coming from.
Brace myself for the change,
And maybe those pains in your chest aren't heartburn,
but the ache that comes from not living up to your own potential,
God, please quiet these conflicting voices inside my head
Is one of them yours? It's getting harder to tell.
I'm trying to filter them out.
My days and nights are blending together
Who do you think you are? You think you have power over me, the ability to suppress my creativity and freedom of speech.
The students
Walk down the hallway
And toss the
Vagrant's gold
On the ground
Meanwhile
The man leans
On his broom
And eyes humanity
With a sordid look
You captured my heart from the start
With your sense of humor you filled my heart
Oh but I didn’t want to admit it to myself or anyone else
I am convinced thatThese are the days
i will remember lookingback and forth
between glass,asking
what does TruthFeel like?
A small glimmer dancing over a shoulder
Is the only thing battling this darkness
A heavy load of anticipation
Weighs wearily on my lungs
And strangles the air from my throat
Do I dare risk
Stepping into the unknown?
With warm spring air and flowers
To guide me home,
Or a dark winter’s night
That makes my soul cower?
Will the warmth be there one day
Leave me to hate another day.
Where I will be proud to say,
You were not only my girl,
But the prettiest in the world.
Leave me so I can hate again
Don't tell me it will be alright.
That is something that neither of us know.
Yes, I have a past-and a challenging one at that-
But this is where I'll find my path.
you shadow me with dissonancehaunting lingerlong, slender fingerpointing, trapping the night.i stop, you starebringing a world (a universe) of fright.hunger, beware,off in the distance,
A side-street district sleeps to the beat of the heated city streets
Where the dirt on the windows can’t even be seen
Where the shades of grey and denizens of the night kick their heels
"End of the River"
I can’t see,
Please!
What’s to be?
It’s known, what could,
Living in the woods.
There he sits, glaring up at me: I shudder.
In wondering the meaning for this
strange interaction, haunting memories appear.
Now, he is my Paris: with no comparison to
my true love, Romeo.
I’m the English nerd
Never having enough Shakespeare on hand
analyzing movie plots as if they were books
wondering if in reality
we are just a story with a destiny
with some author out there
"You're Special"
That's what he said
But what you said was
that I have better things
to do with my life
But life is meant to be spent
with happiness all around
Not everyone gets this opportunity
to find someone like you
I take it all in; One day at a time
But you're always on my mind
¡Oh it's just a first love!
But no matter what place it's in
It's Love
You make me happy
And what's more important
than that
It's a fact - happiness makes
the world go 'round
That's why I always want
you around me
I dont care what they say,
Tell Me
Is this wrong
Is this typical
tested, tried, & true
It makes me blue
with fear; this tested
tried, & true
It feels so right
But ...is this wrong
It’s ice in my heart,
the memories now;
Deep slices in a once warm soul.
Flashes of moments,
Words that were spoken.
Blue eyes so pale
Just like the ocean
Seasonal breeze, please slide in my window,
Flow through my hair and take away the pain of cramping fingers.
I love my big brain, but with the way it’s being endowed
I came to you one humid spring night
You taught me how to appreciate life, because
You are death and death is all I see
You are tall, dark, violent, endlessly mysterious but blatant with your lies
I had just finished my climactic battle with a cockroach this morning,
When I froze to look at the sight of its body in a groove.
How poor an incident I have caused, what terrors I ensued?
I am curious, and unsure.
I am going on a road and I don’t know where it will go.
I have castaway something that people told me to do,
for something I feel I may love.
I confide in the lost and being lost. That carrot; being tied to that string, will forever lead me onto this way until that same string becomes frayed and old, just like me.
