Mary

When I imagine you, My empathy makes a monster of your misery, One I’ve studied often in my dreams And more frequently discovered in reality. I wonder when it breathed, When spark and spleandor clashed that evening, And you saw what it had seen How it found you in your sleep.

Captivating Commercial Saga

Awareness and arousal

Awoke unto an immersive square,

Pastel polished pixels

Spoke in motions posed with glare,

Entreating eager eyes

Into a cavalcade of myths,

Beseeching supple minds

To discover what they wish.

Dreams on silver screens,

A corporate cultural sensation.

Breeding entertainment,

Feed suckling lips of generations.

Memory and retention,

Daily dramas with prescription padding.

Models and role-plays

Impactful stories told for selling.

Tele-moral notification,

Digital lives live no less lies.

Captivating commercial saga,

Eyes achieve ends as characters live and die.

 

Story Tellers

Watching words will read you,

Willingly or not. As it were,

We’re read as readers.

Eyes watching eyes see

Watching ourselves on T.V.

A subversive narrative is only

Narrative not yet subverted.

All writing is fiction as

All perceptions are hollow.

Naked words reveal nothing.

 

One thought fills immensity,

Well, it may as well,

As immeasurably limited is the Id,

The psyche soundly snug

In conceptual bliss.

Emptiness laughs to see

Loneliness subverted by such

Rationalized madness and

Imaginative beliefs.

Nature clings to anything,

Latching onto whatever’s present,

Precarious as it might be,

Only hoping to survive.

People pretend their whole lives,

Acting, dressing, watching, and telling.

At ease with their lies,

If at least it makes a good story.