At the prow of a sunrise
The air does move with sanguinity
The expanding air
Does break point
The coldest chill of the morning
Flees the morning rise
And does so with many lands
Across the prow of the sunrise.
From ruinous fortitude does come fear
Forth from our souls and our minds
Such a thing can bring endless calamity
Forth from our souls and our minds
To fight is to express fear
To remain passive is a product of our mind
Through ruinous tacit do our eyes find
A fear that is unbreakable
Unshakable
Such do our eyes find
To walk alone is to be among millions
The very crowds we isolate from
It has become habit - practice - demise
No less true than our hearts that beat
Life into our souls and our minds
To treat life like a game is to lose
To be to ingrained is to be subsumed
It has become habit - practice - demise
Forth shall we survive - surprise
Things anew and alive is how we survive
Again we find that curse is to have
Too much is then to be much worse
No rhyme can cast a shadow so bright
No story can bestow hope or light
In a world so dark we ever forget
That love is to live, on that we can bet
I see the sea
You see me with the sea
The sea is with me
Set sail
Embarking to a new land
Conditions were difficult
Very so did my fortitude shrink
My job never changed
Yet changed was I
Your face there on the dock
Yet I knew never would I know you again
Years to be travel
Spirit did unravel
Piracy was always a risk
The ship was finely crafted
Ten cannons promised safety in the high sea
The cargo was simple
A perfect sphere found
Somewhere
Silver it shined
The Captain took hold of it
His quarters did display
Such an object I've seen
Today
Nothing changed, yet the sphere
Saw all who came in contact
They were remade - their strength
Five-fold
I craved such a prize
My intrusion surprise
My pistol carved half his neck
He died instantly
The prize was near
I took hold of its polished surface
My mind was undone
Yet I remained sane
Powerful yet mortal
I shook the main deck
With the thunderclap
Ringing of impending weather
I piloted that ship single handed
Avoided storms, and
Milieu Concept Prose 2 by The-Utopia-Code, literature
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Milieu Concept Prose 2
There is a young man, who had a very odd idea; he would convince to everyone he knew that he was a Psionic human.
He was only ten - he wasn't really psychic, he knew he wasn't. They didn't, it was the convincing nature he perceived a Psionic person would - like he could read minds, or even change reality.
He performed this illusion for so long that he actualized his true of ability.
Psionic abilities that changed the world. There were more like him but a different personality, different manifestations.
An impossible battle for right and wrong, being the views of some of the now adult Psionically powered, all remained covert in those circles fighting to keep the Meta Enhanced few and their power would be unmistakable.
Wealth Amongst Poverty by The-Utopia-Code, literature
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Wealth Amongst Poverty
The ribbon tracing the gilded cage
Walking amongst the tiny
So small
Keeping pace with the clock that is never right
Tick-tock, tick tock
Walk, Walk
Balance on one foot
To test the balance of reality
Tremble, fall
Weld the corners of the walls
Is reel, is real
Laser pointer fixed on nothing
Is there, is real
Is real
The now of the time, still wrong
So long, the path
Day became night
Neon rain, so right
Lost, so lost
Too high, the cost
Finally wide, now outside
Work for that, no pay
Sleeping with no eyes to see the night
Flashed in the moonlight
Eyes so big, so big
Too small to see it all.
His reality,
His universe was just that-
Always moving through static universes
Occupying his duplicates-
For a moment, or for an hour-
Where the time difference
Was acutely slow.
From the omniverse he lived in.
Always moving - always.
Everyone he ever knew-
Were in reality those known by his duplicates.
But he knew them all very well.
Fish Bowl Apartments by The-Utopia-Code, literature
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Fish Bowl Apartments
Sleeping silent in the dark of night
A dream dared display
In my unconscious mind
It was not wholly lucid, languishing
I fought the urge to simply run away
Hoping time would start showing sunny day
Stirred by external stimulus
Stirred I awoke abashed again
I left the unconscious unaware
Moring time merely moving mending
I found my mind familiar kind
Drifting backward to slumberous images
Memory ignites lucid living light
No shadows in this recall read reversal
Returning to such comfort inspiration
Enthralled with senses heightened
Endless fear rested near silent ear
Slight olfactory of nightmare panic sweat
I once had an old broken-down car,
Every couple of months it needed repair,
But it was one of the first cars I had owned,
And I did not want to give it up.
Until a day came when the realization hit,
That I had been caught by the sunk cost fallacy,
So, I had it towed to the junkyard,
Borrowed money and bought a new car.
I suppose sunk cost can apply to other decisions,
Do we continue to invest in a relationship,
Where fights erupt continuously without growth?
When do we say it is time to start over?
Or perhaps you view your own life as a sunk cost,
So much suffering and pain and for what?
A death without meaning or redemption?
And you are debating as to whether to continue...
I wonder sometimes though,
Whether God views the world as a sunk cost,
So much blood spilled in the pursuit of power,
A world where wisdom and peace never lasts.
In truth, I see life and this world as a work of art,
Yes, you we will all make mistakes and suffer,
But we incorporate it into our own creation,
For
I speak out of time,
With the lost words,
Of the uncreated,
Dying to live again.
Last life of the fallen,
Born guilty/dying innocent,
Forgetting to remember,
Tomorrow was yesterday.
Once I was a desert rose,
Kissed by the wild wind,
White like pure snow,
Offering dew drops to you.
That rose is still with me,
Growing inside my heart,
Pierced by its sharp thorns,
The pain is my love song.
Sweet and sour
raindrop on your tongue
acid
from a tin can
tasting like everything
that has left me blindfolded
and now you can see for yourself
in the soft light.
Icy blue candlelight flame
dancing on the edge of
your rooftop
that you were so afraid of
the railing
cold on my waist
electric singing of an upside-down city
in a red sunset.
Stimulated senses
feel like the loss of all touch
in a deep dive
watching the eclipse
of the eyes
change
the exposure
of my hard light.
I couldn't have been much older than nine when, strangely, something came over me and I felt the need to pull a prank on one of my neighbors down the street. I wasn't giggling maniacally to myself, no, it wasn't for laughs; rather, I felt utterly compelled. I grabbed a small box, probably an 8 inch cube, and inside I placed some turds that I had gathered from my cat's litter box. I sealed the box with tape, then I wrapped it up in blue gift paper, with a nice, big bow on top. I walked down the street, as if drawn magnetically to the corner in the cul-de-sac, and then, when I found a white car in a driveway with its window open, I placed the nasty gift on the driver's front seat. I left imagining some poor sap exclaiming, Gee, what, a prezzie for me? I pictured them unwrapping the gift and finding the tasty morsels nestled in the bottom of the box.
Years later I learned that the neighbor in the corner of the cul-de-sac was arrested for producing kiddie porn for distribution. Now, I'm
Why?
What did I do or say?
To make their approach in a vulgar way?
Is my skirt too short?
Am I not covering enough?
Was the way I looked giving a sign to approach?
Why won't they leave me alone?
Why won't they take a no?
Why is nobody noticing what's going on?
Are they blind?
Or they don't want to see?
Do they not see it on my face crying out saying HELP ME?
They say it's consensual
That gives him the permission
Feed me all these lies made me fall into delusion
Am I the reason?
Is it my fault?
That I deserve this abuse and assault
Did I not yell DON'T PLEASE STOP loud enough?
Did I not fight hard?
That I deserve every bruise and scar
Did I (truly) deserve it?
Did I have it coming?
Did I give him an invite by the way I was wearing?
Does my perfume have a smell of prey?
Am I not a human;
Just another plaything?
Is it truly my fault?
Why do they say it is
When truly...is not
Poem ending with a line by seasaltrose, literature
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Poem ending with a line
From here, the sound of you
swings left; my heart
wants you first and I
shadow. The day
we met, she kissed
you and I became her.
From then, the sound of you
was the ocean, the timbre
of waves lapping golden.
And you were my
missing skin and what
I know: when I met you,
a blue rush began.