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All Ends with Beginnings
Alcohol induced, seems like a dream, I am not sure what to feel, But it seems that I actually can feel. Being numb, emotionless and free, Like a lonesome bird, Pretending to be happy, Secretly seeking some company.. It's funny how a moment can change one's life, A moment of good is worth one thousand days of bad, A millions of days of paralyzed mind. Over and over you say to yourself "NO", But it seems that some things you just can't control. Still don't know if to believe, I am trying to pretend it's all a dream. Surely this can't happen to me, I am too crazy and lonesome to be.. Burial and cigarettes after sex, I think I might look at things in retrospect. Fear, something that never goes away, Scare of the unknown, Loud places where I want to be free But the city lights draw me in, it seems I might not be in control enough to resist. Burning myself over and over again, But the moment of happiness might be worth all the void, I think I'll take the gamble of the unknown once again, I hope, for once, you are to be. Foggy and hazy, forwards, please lead the way..
Relationships end when one person loses us, not us losing them.
A Beautiful Darkness
Sadness is such a powerful emotion. It swallows you. There is nothing you want to do more than just disappear, evaporate and become a cloud. Or cry relentlessly, curled in a ball, without even knowing anymore why you are crying. The feeling of loneliness drenches your bones. It overwhelms you and surrounds you, making it hard to breath. It lingers in the air around you, like a trail of darkness from your cloak. You can smell it. Your core is polluted with dark stormy weather. All you want, is somebody to hold you or for you to cling onto them tight and never let go, so they could tell you that you’d be alright and your inner demons and dark stalk will never take over. Yet instead, you put on nice clothes, you smile and make those around you laugh. Maybe you’re too arrogant, may be just too scared or simply you are afraid that your sadness is contagious, to tell, to ask for help. Day changes into night, sun into the moon, summer into winter and nobody notices how slowly you are decaying and dying inside. You can’t eat, you can’t sleep, you can barely smile and you don’t care if its warm or cold, sunny or raining.. or that you haven’t washed your hair for over a week. All you want to do is stare out the window and protect others from the feelings you’re all too familiar with. You are lost and the sky is falling and the walls are closing onto you and you can’t breath. You might even have a psychotic panic attack. So you step in a cold shower wearing all your clothes and watch the water droplets drain you as if slow motion and beyond your control, hoping it will bring you back, back to the people, back to the world, back to reality, far away from your inner rotten eternal nether of black. You realize you have so much anger never told, never spoken, never understood, you wish you would know how to scream, how to scream for help, until your voice box is no more..but you never screamed, never shouted. You simply don’t know how, you always silent scream and people don’t understand. It breaks your heart every time people leave you again and again, when they promised they will stay. But you take the blame, because you lied. You hid away the demons that possess you. Perhaps you tried to send them signals for help, you silence screamed from the depth of your soul, hoping they would hear. But they did not. It’s all your fault. It’s all because you lied. Yet when people are here to stay, you push them away. It’s all because you lied. You hate yourself yet you can’t really be something else. So you lie their fiercely clinging onto your mannequin, listening to the darkest deepest bass lines, which sounds like the cries from the depth of your soul, whilst the tears stream out of your eyes. You can’t move. But for once you have to take care of yourself because no one else will. At the end of the day you’re always on your own, facing your rotten soul. And it doesn’t matter if you scream because no one will hear. You need to learn to take care of yourself first too, because you will never be somebody’s priority and even if you are, you’ll get rid off them. You need another cold shower, yet more you need a thunderstorm, pouring rain, stormy weather. Maybe then you’ll hear the sky crying too.
You Obstruct the Light
Strings of lamps, Lost highway into the void, To meet the demons and the master, One day we all go to hell.. But you obstruct the light.
Miles apart, I am swimming further away, May be you will stay?
Miles pass by, Memories remain, Things fall apart, But very #near I shall stay.
Like a creeping ghost Grabbing onto your fabric tight, I will always protect you, I shall always remember, Even if we fall apart.
Everything changes, Dissolves in time, But during the chase Some stay and some simply become shards of time.
Time is an illusion of human perception, Faint or bright, A tribal shaman Elucidating my doubts.. I am sorry I hurt you, It’s all a test of time.
It’s all because you lied.
The Orange Sun
Everything you think about…everything… everything you think about, I know… I also think about it. That there is an ending to all distance, thoughts and dreams, The mind will disappear.
Whilst hiding fear badly behind laughing and grimaces, We are still bright and unique in everyday life. Don’t be scared- there are no boundaries there, You will just become a bird.
You know, it’s not scary there, I think it won’t be scary, How can it be scary in the land of our dreams? There, there is most definitely the sun- the orange sun, Which hovers around the avenue of massive cities…
But we are still sitting on the rooftops, some higher and some lower, Hugging each other with our furry wings. It saddens me a little, But think about good things, this all for later…
Everything, everything changes, it simply dissolves, And gets lost in the tiny corners of eternity, And someone in this chase, in this infinite stirrup, Sadly, shall become, simply a shard of time.
But if we’re lucky, we’ll turn into someone like Newton, Some like Paganini, some perhaps Napoleon.. So don’t hide your wishes, dreams, ambitions, You will just become a bird.
Study for the Nurse in the Battleship Potemkin / Francis Bacon / 1957
I am sick of 18 year olds and other soppy specimens complaining all over social media about their stress levels over some deadlines. Wish they knew what real stress was. I've never had it so hard in my life as I have in the last month. I never knew these feelings even existed and how strong I can really be if pushed. When you have no tears to cry.. When emotions subside.. When you feel helpless.. When so many rely on your help and support.. Immense anger, frustration and sadness.. When you want to kill.. When you're so exhausted that your blood pressure is equivalent to that of a dying anorexic/ horrendously ill person.. And a few days the blood pressure measuring device cannot even find the pulse in your arms... (Forget about caffeine helping to stay awake- that has now long gone) When you had to sacrifice your social life completely.. When you start detesting something you used to enjoy.. When you have to stay strong on the outside and just keep going.. And yet in between the inescapable you have 4 big deadlines to meet in January. And no one can help you. Nothing can help you. Nothing can be done. And you just have to keep moving forwards. And in between all the responsibilities, sacrifice your sleep and get your own work done- not wanting to put your life on hold in case things improve soon but also because you want to succeed and make something of yourself rather than drown in shit and depression. I've had 2 glasses of wine since Boxing Day- accidentally had a dry January. Didn't even mean to. I don't know what's worse- the feeling of immense pain you experience when someone you really love leaves you (such as boyfriend) or the stuff I'm going through. It doesn't hurt the same. It's very different. But the responsibilities are overwhelming. I am suddenly feeling as if this last month I really "grew up", matured and became an adult. (Probably also aged a lot of years- surprised my hair is not greying but I do dye it so may be I can't notice). And just when you think things are starting to get better- they get worse and another storm happens. All very spontaneous and completely unexpected. I feel like such a slap in the face has really put reality into perspective for me. The overwhelming adult responsibilities and problems whilst trying to not give up on either of my uni courses. And so reading my mate's "problems" has throughly angered me recently as they seem to irrelevant to what real shit feels like. I am still in denial I have managed to submit all my assessments for the four January deadlines, even if 2 were extended. I was very happy with 3/4 of my submissions. And whilst, for once, I do not feel like the weight off my shoulders has been lifted once all the deadlines have been conquered, I certainly feel victorious and not ashamed to say- proud of myself, even if no one else is. When you just have to keep going.
Vivid memories haunt me.
Come With Me
I can see nothing. It’s dark. So dark. Am I dead? Am I alive? I check my pulse. It’s beating.
Silence. Breathing. It’s my breathing. It’s ok. I must be ali….
Shake. Shake. SHAKE. Jump. Pain.
I suddenly remember all. Yes, I am alive. I am in the luggage bay of a tourist bus. Locked away, I’ve been literally stuffed into here like a rather oversized suitcase. Above me, the bus is full of business women. I know them. I know them very well. A few months ago I went on a business trip with them myself, pretending to be someone that I was not. It was horrible. They were all horrible. I couldn’t reveal my personality. I was cold turkey out of a deep depression boozer. I couldn’t drink. Nineteen hour exhausting days constantly surrounded by these horrid women. They were drinking almost every day. But I didn’t dare. I was tired. I was on a calm down from alcohol. And withdrawal. We were in the country of the rising sun. Except it did not rise for me then. Or now. Probably won’t any time soon.
I am in the luggage bay of this bus. I can hear them laughing upstairs. Reality is slowly daunting on me and starting to sink in. I am more aware of the situation. The bus is driving. Probably quite fast. I am back in the country of the rising sun. Thank god roads here are smooth or else I would have died already probably. Thank god I am also in a tight space with not much scope for movement or any breaking and accelerating of the bus could also prove fatal for me.
That is not the worst though. I am surrounded by wooden boxes. In fact I am interlocked between them hence no worry about the bus moving around. What are they? I brush my fingers against one and get a few splinters in my fingers. It’s dark and I can’t see so I can’t pull them out. I suck my fingers. I can taste blood. Oh the sweet taste. I am terribly thirsty. I scratch my fingers against the boards more so I can drink more of my own blood. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I keep hearing squeaks and creaks. I have become quite accustomed to them through this journey so I don’t pay much attention to them now. These badly made wooden boxes are making a lot of noise as the wood grinds against itself.
Then the realization comes. They are coffins. God damn coffins. Why am I surrounded by coffins? And why does a tourist bus have a luggage bay full of coffins instead of luggage? I don’t know… What I do know though is that I can hear fear creeping up on me, from behind of me, everywhere around me until I am surrounded by it. Panic start to kick in. I become submerged in the overwhelming feelings of loneliness and fear. I am in the luggage bay of a tourist bus surrounded by coffins. Try moving. Fail. Trapped.
IT’S A TRAP!
I am defeated with this situation and I guess the only thing I can do is lie still, think happy thoughts and hope everything is ok and I’m released out of the prison cell upon arrival. I hope the judge is not too strict and they set me free. I’ll run far. Far away. Far away from this place, from this country, from this bus, from the coffins….
Another squeak. I barely even notice them now. The skin on my upper arm feels cold. Goosebumps of past lovers and cold chills…
One of the fucking coffins has opened!!! Oh my!! It’s not the chills of negative emotions and the breeze causing my goosebumps and it wasn’t just another squeak…The coffin has opened! The corpse is slowly brushing its cold fingers against my arms!!!
I try move my hand to reach my upper arm to brush it off…BUT I CAN’T. I AM TRAPPED! More squeaking! More coffins open! I can feel more corpses brushing their deadly fingers along my body. I must be naked. They are everywhere. Whispering. Whispers. They are calling me. They are calling me to come with them to the underworld. They want me dead. I can’t move. I am trapped. Why? Why has this happened to me?! The deathly whispers all along. Like a thousand voices in my head. Cold deadly fingers. Horror. Vomit. Sickly. Cold. What. So cold. Adrenaline. Panic…
I SCREAM
I escaped.
Heroin. Heroine. Heroin.
Chickens with no Heads
Imagine all the people… Turn into chickens With no heads. Imagine corpse fingers… Gently brushing over your side In a luggage bay of a tourist bus.
Mimicry of total trash, Imagery of purple flash, Misery heat rash, One more puff, You’re flying high Among the heavy cumulonimbus clouds of the crystal clear sky.
Enchantment of ragged witches, Dirty scum, Who the fuck have you become? Just another evil villain on the scene, You’re not a rare breed.
Trampy Scottish beggar, Shiny metal, brown bits of shit… Mother hear me! It’s bleak.
Relentless tears Evil Santas bring.. The signs were there But you chose to ignore. Everyone will pay for their mistakes, Old wounds erupt from his Vesuvius scars.
The coffin silently opens, An arm crawls out behind my back, Frigid frosty fingers creep along my skin, Whilst I lie like scum in that wicked luggage bay, I scream in horror, grabbing to my sheets.
Presidents are nothing other than mannequins of power.
Photographer Sarah Schönfeld took liquid versions of drugs, both legal and illegal, and covered exposed negative film. Each drug interacted with the film differently, and the chemical reaction continued for variable amounts of time. She repeated the process for dozens of drugs and enlarged the negatives after the reactions were complete.
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Everything is metamorphosed into its inverse in order to be perpetuated in its purged form.