synthetic horizons

01/2012

Plastic sun-rays pierce through Kodak skies

and scores of perfect, swift soaring clouds.

Illuminating my pallid skin and my numb sight

for what seems like the first time in ages.

Vivid scenery greets me, all laid out in

a painstakingly familiar sense of somewhere.

This vile I've choked down is hollowing out

inside me, bringing me closer to necrosis. 

Until then I will wander these synthetic horizons

brought on from imagination and hallucinogenics.  

With people that walk to different tunes, selfishly

giving in more to the machine instead of life.

It's just another fake day in this empty city

so lets get wasted and forget our dilemmas.

The darkness that spills from my eyes is the

only remnant of a reality that is dying within.   

Author's Note

Reviews

[Otsana]

Your writing is very descriptive and this helps bring out the emotion in your poem. I feel as though in the line "Illuminating my pallid skin and my numb sight for what seems like the first time in ages" there is positivity but it has been out ruled by all the negative that you are witnessing around you "With people that walk to different tunes, selfishly giving in more to the machine instead of life". Great poem!

[Thea]

A very marvelous piece...I like the descriptions...The perfect choice of words made the whole poem really great...Well done!!!
:)))

[M.E.Lyle]

Yikes, what to think of this I'm not sure. It's dark reality I'm afraid. This is the futuristic world we've created and must now live in. Your talent is beyond discription.

[EMF]

Allright. Gloves off. Every buggers going to say wonderful things about this, because you and it are so damn good. So. Time for an assault upon you...to balance things out. Right....When you get into your fourties, you'll start developing pronounced nasal hair. And...and...and you'll have to eat the occasional bowl of bran to keep you regular. You'll get up to pee in the middle of the night. And you'll start to make noises when you stand up. If you're lucky it'll just be you groaning.

Serves you right for being this damn good

[BlueDreams]

A brilliant piece of work.. :-)

[Aidz]

Last two lines...sweet..... Nice one Joshua :)

[Jeremy Baker]

You just keep getting better and better!

[Arielle Ann]

"Until then I will wander these synthetic horizons
brought on from imagination and hallucinogenics. "...aah, the beautiful yet illusive view is awaited...the longing to escape "people that walk to different tunes, selfishly
giving in more to the machine instead of life." is well expressed...You put in different thoughts here- an enchanting imagination, the stark reality and the desperation in the end....the write started off with a positive note only to be later reflected as a dream...striking lines really!

[Pratik]

Mind blowing Josh.. truly awesome :)

[olla]

plastic sun rays through Kodak skies... exquisite..