You created an ecosystem
Surrounded by life lost
Longing circumventing lust
Recycling our misery
A lovely world of rhyme and rust
Like bare trees dance in winter wind
Decomposing as we speak
Seasons rushing by and by
The weak slip quietly into soil
Sowing memories with their pens
Never to be seen again
A secret that you kept so well
Slept while time was casting spells
Now, dissipation renders lines
Once holding so much hope
Changing meaning over time
Spoken words or scattered prayers
You share the fruits of labor rent
Hoarding rust with Autumn leaves
Tending flowers on your knees
They never seem to grow
Nature once your solace
Lost in complex paradigms
Prostrating in pantomimes
You pass your hat for change
And change is often what we get
When wallowing in our regrets
Our future life we soon forget
When drowning in love (retrospect)
Replaced by wicked cyberspace
This portal held inside my hand
Transports a version of myself
From me you, and back again
A world created with my pen
It so constricts when I hit send
But just as easily…contracts
Craftily, when I fail to act
Rearranged in strange degrees
A perfect life nobody sees
The person I would like to be
A version of aversion
Masking all my failures
Pretending is my specialty
Reality, it scares me still
My body has become a tone
A frequency of mischief
Tuning pixels once again
AI lovers for my friends
Connections are dependent
On my level of despondence
A consequence of quantum
Ones and zeros for my heroes
Suspended in a time warp
Crimes of past and precognition
Recognition of my pretense
Quilty for my vain offense
for every idol word I post
Clouds and rain on canvas skies
The eagle flies, a bird of prey,
And who are you? The prey, you say
Or do you circle round my dreams
Swooping down when I am blind
Stealing visions from my mind
The doorways I hold dear
Wormholes that I step between
Slipstreams sucking light
I may be wrong or may be right
A future that I thought I knew
A portal I was passing through
And now I know for certain
that your words were like a virus…
Infecting all with negatives
Twisting with your narratives
Stories seep in ears like wormwood
Poison flows so sweet
Keeps you guessing at the meaning
Deception, oh so complete
Cozy, safe, and out of sight
Latibulate, the space we shared
You dwell in shadows of the night
My muse within her mystic lair
Obscurity creates a name
To call a pet or secret friend
Is comfort found inside a flame?
When nothing matters in the end
Smiling in the eyes of fate
And who am I to tilt your world?
To wobble your magnetic field
To stumble when the truth’s revealed
I showed up unexpectedly
My expectations overwhelmed
Created quite a stir, it seems
Some darkness to eclipse your dreams
You shield your eyes to no effect
The cracked horizon was too much
I torched your sky with my neglect
A sad affair, a slight defect
Each lie served as food for flies
A bug inside a spider’s web
Paralyzed but not quite dead
A meal in transit, aren’t we all?
Suspended in a nightmare
Waiting, waiting, waiting…
While escaping in the brain
Yes, time is chasing, rushing by
Water words I swim inside
Images or photographs
Lovers framed forever more
On a page, a clock of sorts
Where seconds ever buzz
A swarm of indecision
Blocks intentions like a cloud
Like gray erases blue
Until it’s just a memory
Following your every move
Like shadows tied to shoes
The sky was much more different
In the days I was a child
My smile was fixed upon my face
Happiness a state of being
Seeing through my innocence
Everything was fine
Now the portal shifts again
Transported with my pen
Created something close
But not entirely the same
Missing pieces to the puzzle
Trouble hard to find a name
But nothing comes of nothing
And the end is still the same

TM DiSarro
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