Dump The Ashes

A collab with a great poet, human being and friend. Liza V. Thank you so much for allowing me to work with you. A true honor.

 

A suspect a passageway to the furnace at the base of my temple is blocked, the core of me is frozen,

I have sheltered this blockage because I’m afraid that an open flame is not a temperature yet set, for my surroundings to benefit.

The icicles formed throughout the cycles of my behavior

numbing me from within.

I sense a falling, breaking and melting of senseless disconnections,

these sensations are burning away unnerving connections;

fumes line the walls of my brain.

My thoughts become so dark that at times I forget how to breathe,

ashes rise out of my chest, I gulp on seemingly nothing and choke on every breeze.

Devastating the complexity of my appetite to break down and through

suffocating on the lifeless reflections that mold from untried tears.

These veins feel like a muddy ashtray,

so much so that I can taste the dark residue on my tongue

triggering my reflexes to heave this toxicity.

Pleading for the wind to blow through and kiss spring into me,

begging my heart to speak.

I recognize a tide coming urging me to spread out to the sea

or become the Phoenix.

Obscurity creeps through my cardio halls,

I vow to transform the eternal through humanities canal.

A stream appears, I breathe steam and witness vessels gently pushing through my own resistance… I exhale a sigh of rebirth.

Author's Note

I got a call from my friend one day asking if I wanted to collar, said she had an idea that involved using smoke and ashes as metaphors... the interesting thing was I had already written six lines with the same concept two days before but hadn't completed it... After going back and forth adding and editing our words have combined to form this poem.

Reviews

[Marc Marlon Villaflor]

Love the writing, keep it up!

[Tree]

Cool collab. I like when members of the WC play nice :)

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you sir... it was such an honor to work with my friend.

[Becky C Strukamp]

Truly an amazing write. The two of you composed an excellent poem.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you very much.

[Liza]

Truly an honor. It was the first time I wanted to write about something but needed the help of an insightful mind, bold heart and spirit. Thank u Dale

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

It was truly my pleasure.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes we have to reconnect...everything gets us so crazy our brains just burn like a furnace and we can't think straight, can't relax...can't function at all..

so we rise through the ashes..i like the phoenix reference...very much.
this poem is so good...and you guys really are on the same wavelength..because this poem does not sound like the work of two different people...sounds like one writer wrote this..

good good job guys.

jacob

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you very much sir... I think we blended very well... that I believe is a sign of great friends.