Calice
Poetry
S1 2024

With the darkness, I’ll become one.

I took the time’s hand5 mins it took meI hopped on a trainAnd went back to wherever it left meThe 10 year old meRight where it had started

The years long isolation ended in archives that I diminishedAt the time they were to perishI was scared I couldn’t create moreMy hunger was to turn darkness Make it into a perfume so I can smell it all night long

Dancing to the final melody they tell meI always knew this songMy guitar in my hands finallyI feel one bodyJust like the 10 year old me

I let the leaps roll inside meOnline to be told what I am to beDenied all conventionsStarted from scratchBecame an anomaly Not an ingredient in the big guy’s starch

I kept back thinkingDinosaurs followed as they never left meThe metal age I’ve built my way seeThe rhyme in my poetry, my words want to become a songWill I let them free

Frameworks and linearityMy brain pleasurably doesn’t carryThe dark order they call me

I stand still in silenceLook at the darkness in comfortHoping the city lights disappearTo feel like I stare at the end of the worldWhat you are scared of imagine whyI close my eyes and listen to the gleams of your silenceBreaking it whenever I desire

Knowing how you’ll encounterI play with your desires in my melodyMy words, once more, they are ravenousThey won’t stop this time They’ll carry me to the end I’ve becomeWith the darkness, I’ll become one.