March 21, 2019

r a ve

(MELLOW BUT EXCITED) RAVING,
talk incoherently, as if one were delirious or mad;
speak or write about someone or something with great enthusiasm or admiration.

You can breathe out the moisture of your thoughts, and the sound of the sun merges with the sound of the mountains, clear like cold air on your chest in the nighttime woods without fear.

There is light in all inside and outside and everywhere, we are breathing light and we are smelling it into us, from us, all and everything remembers itself. I remember suddenly that the sorrows and pains of life can be looked for, but light stays forever inside, and the sudden unstoppable overwhelming smile lingering from the depths of you.

And is an emotion real or imagined? Pablo Picasso said that Everything you can imagine is real, and that has stayed with me for so long. Don’t make a difference if it’s imagined, you know it is all. Feelings such as this, the sound of mountains in your head, and the sound of the sunset thrumming through you when it is in viewing distance, and looking is never enough until you realise nothing will ever be enough. I fidget and glow together. And with light, not always it comes in great surges of almost dizzy rememberance and happiness, not quite ecstasy, or maybe I haven’t felt it yet, or I remember it differently to when I was feeling it.

It was the morning today and the sunrise was unended and faintly you remember anxiousness too faint to hold onto. After you might remember more. Hungry Heart plays on the playlist of one, and I turn louder and I keep watching the sun and the light as we go up the hill slowly and I forget that we could fall off the side and I don’t have enough time to drum for it and the sudden surge almost immediately comes and takes away from what could be flat but probably just flatter, suddenly all you remember that is immediate tired but real jubilation, and dizziness encases you but you are also free, and inside you you feel huge, expanded, into everywhere and anywhere, and the Feel of Jersey Girl when Bruce Springsteen sang it deep happiness not up there but also up there, and you feel happy softly in fatigued love. And tears began to form but did not fall, but sometimes they do, in gushes like the cotton tail of a white wedding dress long heavy thick only when you look close down the cliff, a waterfall, and when you zoom out it is small and like a person falling off the danger.

Then there is the heart of pain, and the mind of knowing. Sounds like an idiom, and huge Feel sounds are like an idiom are they not?, I just thought it in those words, but pair it with the lingering gaze of your heart when you can’t look enough at beautiful things and you photograph it sixty times and it’s all so same and hard to differ after the time has passed and you are in the future of that moment and it’s anxious wanting to stay there forever. 

And I think this is what my rave is about, admiration for what I feel, what I know, what I want. There is less fervency in these words, perhaps I feel tired but also perhaps more this, I want to write it coherently in the way I fully feel it. Like the sixty photographs that happens so often I have over forty thousand on my phone, I do not want to read it and not understand what I knew then. Of course someone in every mind is everything you forgot, but you cannot take it out without the right key. The key is time, the key is emotion and the key is surroundings, and the key is everything. If the everything is not the everything around you then it is not time to remember. It feels unnatural when you want to remember but you must, I must remember to remember what is now and not before because I am bound to know it strong again. Déja vu. And so many of my wants are intuitive and inherent natural knowings. There are no reasons I can write. Also I don’t want to write them for fear to stop feeling them that way. Will I feel like this tomorrow? I remember the glow I had or imagined I had, and I remember light always when I am suffering. I never go to bed now without kissing and hugging and happily speaking words of love and seeyoutomorrow to my mum and dad.

Where do you go to my lovely when you’re alone in your bed? Where do I go? I go within me, I go everywhere, and the notions of dreams being truths, like Joseph’s dreams are truths, and truths are also the passed ones,


And to not think of theologies and ideologies, Robert Mapplethorpe said he only thought to be a good person.

Were my mind

I WAS SWAYING JUMPING STEPPING ARCHING PUNCHING TWIRLING TO THE SOUNDS OF BELLE AND SEBASTIAN AND 1980s DISCO MY HEAD AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE WERE MY MIND AND THE FEELINGS OF SOMETHING LIKE MOONS IN THE WIND THE WILD, HEARING SOMETHING LOUD AND NO ONE IS SHARING THIS FEELING NEAR ME SHARING THEY ARE AND MY HEART WAS THRUMMING FLYING FEELING CRYING LAUGHING AND I REMEMBERED HOW IT IS TO CRY HARD ABOUT SOMETHING EVERY DAY TO FEEL SO MUCH AND MY EARS HURT MY ARMS ACHED IF YOU ALLOW YOU TO FEEL I DONT EVEN STRUGGLE AGAINST THE SADNESS IF THERES SOME MY HEART IS HAPPY CRACK I WAS FEELING LIGHT AND HEAVY AT THE SAME CRACK TIME SWAYING SLOWER AS THE SONG CHANGED FASTER AS THE SONG CHANGED GOING AS I GO

closed eyes sang LOUD my mind was tearing no seams free to tear hopped left right to the sky and back flying through the buildings of my city alone in the closeness a stranger stood close to me and i didn’t know them but they looked like somebody i had seen we had run into each other another day another week everyone i’ve seen everyone i know...and i talked to some and they talked to me and i lingered on their eyes at once my heart soared in nerve...

i saw birds and long coats, deep hard yellow lights in the evening on a tramway, i was swaying jumping stepping arching punching twirling and i was dancing, i was lifting myself into whereabouts, heard myself swallow and forgot the time and my dinner had been hours ago the night was the lamp of my light of my room too warm and too tired

lyrics from space

whistling in space
everyone hears
a wind in my eyes
yellow streaking
and the rings
around the colours

the moons
yellow circles
rings i slide
new still
why should i mind?

when i have seen the other places
and yellow shoots across the sky
and white glitter looks marooned
go now everywhere and anywhere

wonderful life
i throw myself back
yet to know
ears in your mind
i can see the world.

i see the trees
and i see the beings
i can hear them
but smell around
and i smell only my home
big vast world

but i dare not care
we go into the world
dropping slowly
streaking everywhere
and i streak

when i have seen the moons with their flo
wering faces i like myself here
to know the world but not why
the world and streaking through the world

and the lights like circles from my home.

Postcard and diary entry from another perspective

Power, glow in the sky, yellow, substantial self, substantial leaves greatly over and once, white tulips feather out of the sequins, and free, flowers and sports. We were walking together, when I realised I could know everything in simpleness, and I walked, my friends walked, when we reached the gardens I looked at the gardens and couldn’t look enough, there were plants all everywhere! The guard in a blue jumper with their hair swept to the side, they give us flowers and we found somewhere on the rocks looking to the mountain, next to the shallow river clean and glossy and pure, and the mountain angled so beautifully and the trees taller than us. The swaying of the birds atop the trees, sang out and we were very good! Spread biscuits on bread, and drank milk.

tight in my heart, i feel


at last,
the sign under my eyes
reads ‘Closed’
for tonight.
with the moon shining
the tears i didn’t shed
i finally confess
i like the way you smile.

Silver


He strolled slowly over to the panels. A wisp of silver fell from his eyes into the glowing abyss below. The panels hummed gently. Reaching them, he saw her scent waver around the forests of the lamps, intertwined like twigs; their bulbs removed, hollowed like tree caves for squirrels. He looked away. The lamps didn’t glow on their own but he remembered when they did.

a world of guilt settles inside me


i feel like a child.
i don’t know what i want
when they ask me what i want.
i don’t know where i want to be
i don’t know where i am.
why is it that this feeling lingers
deep, entrenched and still somehow soft
in the most awful way possible
as i stand on the stages
kind of tall - not aloof?
i am feeling some sadness
i don’t want to see.
i feel it all the time, i feel it for years.
i laugh and i play, i jump and i hug.
it all warms me then and then i am 
hurt
again in my bed shivering not from cold
my teeth chattering wondering when
someone will climb into my window
and i am scared.
i feel like a child
and i feel these things so deeply like fires
swirling in some green field of gold blue water
and i feel like a child.
i know i’m a child.
i don’t look like a child but i feel like a child
and it hurts
to the core
of
me
that you’d call me young lady
and you’d call someone so innocent
that’s not me.
it faintly angers me
but i know it’s not your fault
i haven’t lost my mind.
i know it’s my fault
it spirals into me like a deep
settling dust
and it is all at once unnoticeable and heavy
and i feel sorrow
mourning for whatever
i feel like i’ve lied to myself
am i living untrue?
i feel like a child
just want to sit in the grass
stare at a mountain
and play.
i want to be free
from all these wanton desires
and why is it that every word speaks to me
with their own mind, i see a different image every time?
i am scared
i believe it is cowardly if i go away
but it hurts very much
i don’t even know why you stay.
why do you love me
why do you care?
i hate myself.
i feel like a child.
but that’s more comforting than being something else.