Cat-Scratch Eyed

Sing

Suck it up

Far up the lungs

Absorb the Grunge

That grinded taste

Glistened and hate

Power in sound, souls unbound

Terror the word, agony in cry

Felt with heart shunned with eye

Wrote with the induced

Seduced, by Love’s tragedy

Granted me

What is needed, to view it

Subduing

Purpose of, lust in

Try-fail attitude

Blushed then brazen latitude

Life, Precious; practice yourself some

Longing for, shortening to

Development stumped

Embodied and sewed

Erect is the back

One of one’s own

Sorrow intact, severed in lone

Eyes shine through, ideas and perception

Reality plays a different part

She nor him, need decipher

Nothing there was, nothing there is

Less you enjoyed, more it begins.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Circe]

I love these impressions, your way with words, leave the reader thinking, stewing... it makes me knock my head to get it working again for pieces like this! I'm nodding to so many lines, their sound and the message, the way you cut the words, brilliant... and the end too! how true that is.

[ObscurityNone]

I'll let you in on a secret. I actually had you in mind while writing the last section.

[Circe]

wow, no wonder it connected with me so much!

[ObscurityNone]

Hah, yeah. I am glad it did.

[Olivia Marie]

I love the ending most of all. The poem is written extremely well, but "Nothing there was, nothing there is / Less you enjoyed, more it begins." is just amazing. Your language and choice of diction is superb, and I love this. And I also love you begin the poem with "suck it up" catches the readers attention from the start :)

[ObscurityNone]

Thanks, my dear. x)

[Hawkmoon]

hahaha "nothing there was, nothing there is". Very Zen. The Zennists have a great saying, vis a vis Alan Watts ... (not Watt, but WATTS) ... "If you see something ugly, look away... if you see something beautiful, look away". A great objective neutrality, vested in the power of balance and clarity of conscience is acknowledged in your statement, a kind of non paradoxical paradox. But creation ex nihilo -- the Uncreated Creation, when Athena Springs from Zeus forehead fully clothed ... is also a type of balancing. Think like a Greek

[ObscurityNone]

Thank you, quite a nice little philosophy there.