Journey Through

Journey Through

It's terrible when your background image becomes stronger than the reality behind it

dulled acid filaments

melting

wired lanes

randomly

depot of memories

it's terrible when your mind absorbs all those pictures of rough life events, cutting, polishing, re-framing them into a scenic amalgam that you set as your background diversion tool

in hope of

temporarily

expanding your illusion

of past

into the future.

Is this not

what we all do?

Perverting time in order

to make present

arise from its static

singular

nature.

© 2014, José Eduardo Coelho

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A dreadful peace

   could not define it

here, where dogs bark

      the sound

at the silent night

         embracing memories lost

there’s nothing ahead

            stuck in-between

nothing behind

               vertiginous words

just the promise

                  in a row

of emptiness ebbing

                     attempting to swallow

vacuum’s form

                        present, past, future

into something

                           ominously

unnamed.

© 2014, José Eduardo Coelho