21 February 2025

I wonder why

I wonder why I look toward the sun
When it flings me back and makes me fall
And that fall drops me in the depths of the ocean
The ocean that is cold and deep and cruel and dark
There in that cold, deep, cruel, dark abysss
I wonder why I look toward the sun

- MM

01 February 2025

I stopped wanting to see

I stopped wanting to see
I stopped wanting to taste
I stopped wanting to hear
I stopped wanting to smell
I stopped wanting to feel

The arch of my being has
Not understood before more than
This sense of

Love

A love that disrupts all senses
A love that is all-encompassing

Because
It seems
Love is simply
Life


25 December 2024

"I counted Loved"

I counted Love
And I thought I saw four
Till I realized that
Love was not a number

11 December 2024

I crossed my self

I crossed my self
My faith was not mine
Because what was mine
Was really everyone else's

Faith

04 September 2024

Aubade IV / East

Aubade IV / East

I look toward the East
I look at that shimmering river
I look at the great Sun gracing it

I look at my hands
I look at them as I have not looked before
I look at their glow

I look at the patterns of my skin
I look at the blood flowing
I look at the veins and joints

I look toward the East
I look at all least of the Sun
I look, yet, at the Sun

I look at the Sun

I look at how the Sun
Has never looked at me
Until I, after all, and nothing at all, I saw...

— M.M.

25 July 2024

A Conversation

« You have done so many wrong things »

"I have. I must ha... At least I think I have.
I must have...?"

« But all that you did was, well... »

"Well, what?"

« Well, there's a knot to all things. And your knot
» has this twist that keeps twisting for a direction.
» And this is a knot of something. »

"A knot of what, exactly?"

« Hmm. I'm not sure, but by the Sun's diurnal wealth,
» I would wager it's the daggers and the noose around your neck. »

"What the fuck? So, both mean death?"

« Hahaha. Death?! Death?!
» Death is love; Love with Life »

"Maybe... death..."


17 July 2024

To Lucky 13 (Pt. 1)

The first time—I don't even remember
All I remember was that I remember
That it was a quite time—that's all I hardly remember

And yet, I kept going back
And have kept going back because
I've always loved all the peoples
All the dancers, all of them, and all their
Hearts

But, in all luck and love, it's been
Luck and love that makes me feel love
For Lucky 13 Saloon

And, if nothing else, it's because they're have been
Friends and bartenders and everyone
In between
Who have been
And all been 
Just a little better than me
And everything in between
For a little something in between
Is what I believe we want to all see

– M.M.

04 July 2024

Breaths

I've taken breaths and breaths and
        One further breath every single time
But a breath won't change this breath of mine

Y'know, I sometimes stay up to see the
        Sun rise (sometimes on time)
But the sight of it—it doesn't make me feel fine

I sometimes wonder if there are others
        Who also wonder, and think of time
Of that fucking tick, tick, tick-tocking of time

The clock that I know is the ticking and tocking
        Of my own fine
When death decides to come kind and tell me it's right

– M.M.

12 April 2024

Talking to Death

This is to Death:

"You bastard, you fiend!
You've laid all your shadow
Over the core of my heart

Death:—
The proximal lacerations of your swings
Still sting and radiate outward and inward

The way you cling and fasten yourself
To any light lit so luminously in the dark
Disgusts me

Death:—
Even you must die
Even you must destroy yourself"

– M.M.