darkness and fool clown lips

Published in 2007.

absurdity showers from fool clown lips,

words falter and fall.

conceptualisations forced into vocal range

bombard my senses, yet

all I can see is this darkness.

this darkness which troubles me, 

covers me,

permeates the space between

each synapse of my brain, 

so that even the firing of 

each individual electron

does not illuminate its consuming mass.

my view flickers within this void,

this space between spaces, and

i feel myself layered over it,

entwined within it, flotsam

upon a sea of brilliant darkness

drifting beneath a pure black sky.

Author's Note

With this poem, I tried to deconstruct our social conditioning, move beyond sign and signifier, and push past our hard-wired, synapse enforced pathways of "out there" interpretation. To the void, and near infinite gulfs which exist between our atoms.