Nothingverse

I stretched behind the blue October sun
And wrote with bullets. I would bear its blood
The almost-sanity that shaped its frame
As infinite and feeble as that sun
I saw the world inside a broken drum
And choked down mind beneath a burning mud
And dreamed that light away with leering rain

And so I lay beyond this night and let it burn
Through all the fragile pieces of my skin
That can remain, incalculably thin
She is as never and will not return

And so I lay beyond this night and let it burn
Through all the fragile pieces of my skin
That can remain, incalculably thin
She is as never and will not return

As trees skinned off the sky like skin-ripped hands
I manufactured night with bruising steel
As flocks of words took flight but fell as leaves
I hammered fists to fit our virgin hands
And tempered them in oil and orphaned sand
I spoke in fossils and reduced the real
It ran to rotten and this rot we breathe

And so I lay beyond this night and let it burn
Through all the fragile pieces of my skin
That can remain, incalculably thin
She is as never and will not return

And so I lay beyond this night and let it burn
Through all the fragile pieces of my skin
That can remain, incalculably thin
She is as never and will not return

We sucked in summer for our desperate lust
With failing meat we fed a grey machine
And coughed into our weeping ruby sores
We smiled with needles and we cried with lust
Dismembering the time for begging dust
And stooped to label all love as unclean
And watched the clouds strut through the dark like whores

And so I lay beyond this night and let it burn
Through all the fragile pieces of my skin
That can remain, incalculably thin
She is as never and will not return

And I am full of dirt, and my concerns
Do little but assist the angry spin
Of all those hardened worlds I hold within
Those glaring satellites I still discern

If only in dismay. I bleed and yearn
For distance, and that old trick - to begin
Again. To wash the flames out of my sins
And, softly, with the darkest hope, to learn