☾

You were our Mother and Father

when we had Neither

Thank you for the meals,

they chant,

Thank you for the meals

You prayed, dear Jesus,

kindly make them mine

Thank you for the meals,

they cry,

Thank you for the meals

You dressed us in lace,

and we embraced Grace

Thank you for the meals,

they wail,

Thank you for the meals

You shed blood

on our cold, bodiless beds

Thank you for the meals,

they wrote,

Thank you for the meals

We orphans leave you,

to come back and deceive you

☾

White-masked

sedatives

Your deed

half finished

Dreams of

steadiness

Your birth

lacks answers

Look up,

face midnight

Your vision

is taken

☾

The light glows

on my right.

A stranger,

a darker

White.

Grasping the cruelty

of a hate-filled dawn,

I have befriended No-thing.

Her knowing smile,

fixed.

Guessing games

ringing truth,

ringing true.

Dead and dusty corners

of Sanity,

sharing so few.

What to hold on to

when Night calls on you.

a blunt Hello.

The light is unmoving

my left is cold.

☾

sit up,
the peacock stares
at you

you stare,
the Moon

crescent,
essence,
her presence

the level
of your head,
measured

a floating sickness,

calmness
calmness

no more