A Bitter Hollow

Open Wounds
Originally uploaded by ka24det

My arms feel limp, my chest hollow like an ancient tree finally succumbing to the ravages of time. Weather beaten and forlorn the empty hollow tree weeps in misery, for in it's current state it can not love.

A bitter darkness fills it's angry heart and a black sap seeps through it's hollow chest. Solidifying blackness engulfs the tree from root to branch.

Stillness echoes through the night.

Stillness, for a single movement, one solitary twitch and the encrusted blackness will come sprinkling down. Twinkling in the night the shattered pieces of it's soul will lay un-sown, cast aside, forgotten, ready to be reborn.

A breeze brushes past, a branch sways, the tree shatters and I die dancing under twinkling shards of bitterness.

forget

forgotten confetti on chinese new year
Originally uploaded by Maharet Raider

i'm trying to move on. doing my best to pick myself up and get on with life, but something has happened to me. i don't know what it is. nothing tragic, nothing drastic and certainly nothing that justifies the feelings within, but there's something. i can't quite put my finger on it.

i'm trying to move on. doing my best to pick myself up...

i don't think it's working.

i just want to forget.

Love On A Black Box

Nathan Black & White 2006
Originally uploaded by Maharet Raider

He heard a voice of foreign tongue
It sounded like a dream
Two boxes united against the world
As they entered the unseen

He traveled to America
From England it would seem
And there he met a gamer girl
A girl who’s mighty mean

Doing nothing to deter them
Struggle and strife became their life
But planning to game til death do them part
The man took her for his wife

Together they have conquered all
Though they do sometimes feel the pain
And they may not have a lot right now
But they’ll always have their game