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.

Love (Iteration 2)

To love

And be loved

Is all of my Law

– M.M.

Love (Iteration 1)

Oh, how Love can be so exquisite

So divine and so otherworldly

And yet... so nebulous...

When she walked into the room, I thought:

"How graceful she is, how accented by the light"

I walked toward her and thought to myself

What to say, what I should say to her

And nothing came to me

I thought of nothing that would stir her mind

– M.M.

Depression (Iteration 12)

It is all in the dreams, my dreams

It is all in the nightmares, my nightmares

It is when you wake, when I wake

It is when you live, when I live

It is your life, my life

It is your life, my life

– M.M.

"The World can wait"

Based on a real dream I had a few nights days ago

"The World can wait..."

Is what I thought after I saw her there

After we held hands

And when we talked till the Sun rose

I cared little for everything else

All else, beyond that place we were

As we held hands

We spoke to others at some point

But they I all now forget

I forget everything except

When we held hands and

I kept believing this—

This that I said, that:

"The World can wait"

– M.M.

"We fought the good fight"

We fought the good fight
Fought the uncaring world; we against all

And still the world said, "No."

In our hearts we believed we were right

Right and steadfast against all

And still the world said, "No."

We had no weapons, none of bite

It was right and justice that became our call

And still the world said, "No."

It will be time and time's might

That will show that life and life alone is all

And if the world says once more, "No."

We will say far more—far more—than simply: "No."

— M.M.