Consumed

I’ll burn the world attempting to 

Satisfy this heat

Watch the flames grow stronger now

Charring my frozen feet 

If I could but feel warmth inside

I could be complete 

Every day, I’ll feed the fire

Not letting it burn out

With tenderness or fury, for

Coldness comes with doubt

If I could tell the difference, well

Perhaps I could get out

Of all these cycles I have made

Always attempting to

Make my life, my self feel whole

Make the world feel true

To make the feelings stick this time

I’ll put them all on you

Every time, I convince myself

This is what I need

If I can’t feel enough love

Anger can be the feed 

And I’ll feel sorry tomorrow, but

For now I’ll watch you bleed

So I’ll consume eternity and

All that it may hold

Swallow the very earth and sea

The spoken and untold 

If I could but feel full inside

Then I won’t be cold

All of Life

Fickle findings fold and fade

Amidst the atmosphere 

Capricious candor carries well 

Expounding existential fear

Death dwells not on drib details

Willfully wonderstruck and wild

Intending to ingest infinity  

Til time and truth are not defiled

Harken to hearts harrowed and hard

Aggrieved arteries do acclimate 

Lonely, lost, or languishing 

Lessons learned letting love asphyxiate 

Onus overhangs opportunity 

Fickle findings fade and fold 

Like lessons lost to life never lived

Instead, ignite interminable cold

Flames form futures forgotten now

Eternity expounding til I emerge old