"Mechanical Afterglow" - Poem by BW Derge from "Mars Jazz" - written in 2013
Mechanical Afterglow
Not too fast there
The words flood off the tongue
Splash into another set of ears
To be misconstrued
To define the originating mind
As abstract reflections-
Disorganized ball
Of loose spitting energy sparks
Broken open down
The lateral slurring vocals
Twisting around the abdomen
Of a serpentine wisdom.
Lustful hazed stares
Trudge through the abysmal filth
Burdened by a lost wonder gnawing
At their intestines
Crawling across blood ridden
Microscopic nightmares
Hazardous in the way
Entropic atoms orbit thoughts-
Cavernous cavities rot away
The intention felt so true
And what is left
Mangles the perception of decades
Glistening
In a mechanical afterglow of humankind:
Shimmering red faint sweat jogging
Across a bruise
Left away in barbarian warfare aftermath
And blacked out,
The chaotic warping
Of a double helix feasibility chewed
Swallowed to be regurgitated
Into outer space abyss
Surrounded by lost lonely ghosts
Of holy misshapen reality
Never to see the light of daybreak
Reaching through flames
From stars too far away to realize
The river never flows.
Liquid nitrogen courses through
Dried alien vegetable veins…
Light particles bounce around
The emptiness between
Like fallen vacant eyesores broken
Across galactic debris-
Oblivion collapses into orbiting shards
Of violet forgotten orbs
Circling around the skewed misconception
Of fleeting words:
Fluttering specks of dull sensations
Persisting in mundane days
Slowly forming storms of thunderous
Black matter conscience
Submerging subliminal refractions
Of rage suppressed depths.
Forlorn into cataclysmic phlegmatic gazes
Characterized by aggression
Passively fluttering beneath
Utterly pallid blank paintings
Hung across illusionary cosmic walls
In panged imaginations
Appalled by the endless infinite sea
Of empty oyster shells
Lulled to sleep in July requiems
For whatever once was to be
Into dismal dazed dreams,
So now it goes again, almost gone,
Drifting off out along
A windy ocean of space-time majestic:
Gravitational waves of ionized energy
Whipping solar sailing flares
Surfing off away again,
Recalling being awake
So long ago nowhere-
An understanding content face
Of a beautiful elliptical woman
Staring through a fantasy laden
In a dormant turquoise spirit
Evaporating
Into sullen half-hearted efforts,
Grinning softly,
Peering through the thin fabric
Of a collective soul bucket
Designing an escape
From the dark cold sleep alone void.
Awoken, rush free- !
Too fast the words flood off the tongue
To splash into another set of ears
To be misconstrued
And the Ferris wheel swings around
The loop again
And the constipated bag
Of sporadic energy mind
Flings itself out of time
Into vacant emptiness lost
And here again the desire builds
In bland listlessness
Plummeting down back
Into situations surreal:
Abstract black darkness molded
Into stones without shape
Haphazardly awaiting
The moment of motivation
To bust free from the cold rock shackles
And fly-
To flood off the tongue
In a maddening rush of words
To splash into another set of ears
And be misconstrued…
by BW Derge
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"Mechanical Afterglow"
Poem was originally written in 2013
