Life's a bitch & Then you die Or so they say It be that way Both grim & grey The skies still weep I greet the day In depths too deep The #doves still cry I cannot sleep Tis best to die Without a peep A test to try I take the leap No wings to fly Now off to sleep... #vss365

The time has come For us, my #dear To dance the wind And float away Perhaps we shall Return one day (Another falls I hear his calls) The dread footfalls With sickle-gait Our clock is ticking (Can't be late) Ravens flocking Need to sate Tarry not He shall not wait #vss365

We laughed in the face of #fury, buffeted as we were by the winds of innocence (or was it ignorance?). All hard planes & fissures, enough to make the bravest pause, still we crept 'tween its teeth to be chewed to shreds - masochism by mastication - grinning as we died. #vss365

I am an ember Not a #name No eyes to see No soul, nor voice Never free No life, no choice And still we all Must play the game Unwinnable With none to blame Dwindling This spark of life A cinder in the Endless night Soon to be Extinguished flame #vss365

I'll find my voice again. Or I won't. Either way, the world will keep spinning 'round the Sun long after I'm gone, and I just another name on a stone that people walk by without seeing. No grand #tactician in the sky, guiding. Just entropy & the merciless march of time. #vss365

Adrift in absinthe apathy Fools were we To be lulled to sleep Wheedled as we were By #wolves adorned as sheep Entranced by how They wove their words Blissfully ignorant Safe in our herds The wool pulled ever Over our eyes Unaware or uncaring Of the smallest of cries #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #jade

Maybe I was #jaded Maybe I wasn't shit Cuz no matter How fuckin' hard I tried... I never made it I guess life just Forbade it So I took that razor - Shiny & sharp But still so fucking dark - And bladed Each cut deep Jagged & serrated And still In the end Was never sated #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #word #GoodNight

In my time of dying 'Pon long Belabored breath These #words My only comfort An epithet 'fore death Long gone The time of trying To grasp at straws be done And in our lives of lying We struggled neath the Sun Now no more fight 'Tis only night The ending has begun #vss365

Stuck inside This fucking #loop Ouroboros It mocks me so & All I really fucking know These coils which wrap Around my throat Sinuous & taut as rope Twisted knot To choke my dreams Strangled now It stops my screams To end this Everlasting game Whispering Forget my name #vss365

Raised up Dreaming of the stripes & stars But we right here Livin' within steel & bars Sportin' scrapes & scars Ain't no stones & sticks When everyday's a hustle Movin' zips & bricks & No magic tricks No, that shit's for kids The outcome death Or doing lifetime bids #vss365

We lay here Cradled in the #hands Of the indifferent infinite Children eager For meaning But we slip away Lost as hourglass #sand Our moment as ephemeral As tears in the relentless rain Here today Gone tomorrow #vss365

Off to spread my own particular brand of insanity. Be good, or be good at being bad. I promise I won't tell...

Hurt me So damn bad Won't hurt me No more Packin up my bags Headin for The door Pedal to the floor Driftin as I drive So much pain Can't maintain At least I'm still alive Toss the Goddamn #ring Good riddance & Goodbye Can't forget The memories Matter how hard that I try #vss365

Haven't done one of these in a while, so here's the spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #pen

They say the #pen Is mightier than The sword So I grabbed That motherfucker And went to war But the war was lost 'Cause the words were weak Wish I had Dropped that pen And had learned To speak Maybe then I'd have earned The results I seek #vss365

I bled inkdrop tears Sobbing a soliloquy Onto the pages Of your indifference Weak words Bled into the spine Becoming blurred & Buried I thought I was a #man But perhaps I was just chapter's forgotten To be shelved & Blanketed In the dust of detachment #vss365

Meet me on The other side A side where it Won't be so grim It doesn't matter Me or him One must go We cannot grow We shall not sow A single seed Nor #conduct Sweeter symphonies The deepest cut I yearn to bleed Naught but a whisper In the breeze #vss365

Magick lived In secret glade Within this glade We met our end Its secrets not For mortal men They whispered sweetly In my ear Were simple #sprites T'was naught to fear And so we smiled & took their lead These children of A different breed Upon our necks We felt their breath 1/2

She was a #tempest A temptress All fire & storm From the day she was born Draped in a sundress Me, I wanted to undress See, I needed to possess But she was #illusively Exclusively, a Goddess So I lost my religion Becoming Godless And now I'm just A broken project Regardless #vss365

It was there In the sky In my heart Luminous & warming Home So I reached out to it But no matter How hard I tried It was always Beyond my grasp #Frustrated, I cried I still cry And yet... I still try #vss365

Sign right on The dotted line No fear, my child You're doing fine You'll soon be mine #Endorse my deeds Forever am I Sewing seeds I know your needs Both greed & lust (The greatest sin Is ever trust) Now dust to dust Unending, same The evil that men do? My game #vss365

To #mediate I meditate Two halves Of the same coin One side Love & One of hate How I motivate Sit on the edge & suffocate And I don't know The answer Malignant in my brain Becomes a cancer Too many questions & I'm tired of being An asker What's in my head Is a disaster #vss365

I'm liable To fall into a Suicidal spiral Hoping to go viral But what do I know Maybe then I'll be sated Hey ma look I finally fucking made it And all the voices That berated They've finally abated Still frustrated As I partake Of heartbreak From every mistake That I make #vss365

Let us #partake Of the feast Blood of the innocent On hands & knees We were ever the beast We were forever the least Without cease No peace amongst us Preying on old folks & Youngsters Falling for shysters & Hucksters And still? We were ever the monsters #vss365

With a whisper And a sigh A curtain call We say goodbye Stage is dark The end is nigh Now all our nightmares Been #surpassed And though we wish To hold on fast What's done is done Past is past Dreams are dead The die is cast Goodnight my child We've breathed our last #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #Surpass

Surpassed? Shit, we've been Suppressed Fettered & fleeced With no recourse Nor redress Shit's a mess Congressing with conmen Used-car salesman slogans & Strong-arm men Who's to blame You know the name Looking for justice Fuck that It's just us #vss365

Before the fire I feel no #warmth Hearth gone cold A phantom flame With crack & hiss It speaks my name An empty echo In the night Bereft, I am Of sound & sight My will is sapped I cannot bend Is this, in loneliness The end? Shall I be granted Sweet respite #vss365

This is my last will This is my testament Wrote too many chapters To want to write The rest of it So lay me draped In linen vestments 'Cause I'm tired of investing In investments Tired of hearing Empty sentiments #Precious little time Might as well The best of it #vss365

#Harmony 'Tween head & heart Split in twain Was all in vain This broken brain All jigsaw shards Naught to see Pay no regards Play house of cards A Joker's deck Heedless of The call & beck In all the dreck The pieces tossed And all that's left ...Is lost #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #poem:

Down the lonely Wending ways Dark down here No light for days I'm marked, I fear The path, it strays Deeper still Intent to kill Hellbent, It's will I know it not & What I knew Was soon forget Regret & rot & Here I stays Lost within These wending ways #poem #poetry

I thought I caught #Lightning in a bottle But it was just Static You know the game 5 seconds of fame Warhol before the fall Ephemeral Maybe even venereal Pass it on To the next Flash in the pan The last mark An epithet Funereal #vss365

All men should be celebrating women - not just our partners, mothers, daughters and sisters - all women. Every day. We...I...fail at this often. Each and every one of you should be valued and loved and appreciated. We need to do better. I need to do better.🖤 #HappyWomensDay

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #obsessed

From the womb To the tomb We break bread & Play dead Suffocating On our own screams #Obsessed & Depressed Feelings repressed Our hands 'Round the throat Of our dreams And wondering What it all means #vss365

Mow us down Bullets flying With #velocity No mercy killing To be dealt With reciprocity No answers Mute in the face Of this hypocrisy Pompicity & Barren of Generosity #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #orbital:

The Earth, the Sun, the Moon Were one #Orbital in their ways In birth, were spun, too soon Were done Deplorable end of days And now we die Goodbye blue sky The curtain drawn once more Oh how we cry No wings to fly And nothing was it all for #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #stellar:

Off we go Into the night A #stellar sight My bones are worn Eyes are gaunt & Soul is torn I seek an end Goodbye to light Too long, this fight In fleshy form A puppet borne By mind & might I bid farewell No need to mourn Now off I go Into the night #vss365

The scent of hot oil & cordite wafted from the sawed-off as he bounced the barrels on his knee - much as he'd once bounced his little Janey. With Janey, he'd made silly horse-sounds, smiling at the way her #bouncy red curls jumped in turn, #vss365 1/3

The weight of all this - this - seems a #mountainous task. To put one foot in front of the other blindly searching for a foothold in an unknown future, waiting for those inevitable pitfalls. Death would ever be lighter. But where would the fun be in that? Let's walk. #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #enchanted

We danced the dream In moonlit mist #Enchanted glade What was forbade Became unmade A heart undone The dream it screamed Neath midnight Sun Tears they streamed & hands were wrung Til all was gone The song now sung In the end When all was done A figure left The lonely one #vss365

Tried something different for this spoken version of today's #vss365 - #miniscule

Would-nots & could-nots No good thoughts We have-nots Braid our own Slip knots Play hangman We hang, man Makes us say Damn, man Outlook Stays pitiful Piteous, inimical Hope seems So #miniscule As though Just subliminal #vss365