07-29-2011, 07:59 AM
"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. " - Emile M. Cioran
I have been called a pessimist.
A man who craves the long dark night
when all we know and all we see
is drained of joy, blasphemy
replacing it. The moon a fat comedian
pausing for breath against his stool.
But what I crave is emptiness.
I have no need of pain (who does?)
but simply silence, a blond-haired boy
to share it with, preferably eighteen and dim.
I have been called a pessimist.
A man who craves the long dark night
when all we know and all we see
is drained of joy, blasphemy
replacing it. The moon a fat comedian
pausing for breath against his stool.
But what I crave is emptiness.
I have no need of pain (who does?)
but simply silence, a blond-haired boy
to share it with, preferably eighteen and dim.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe