Overcast

"Anna."
The sound of a clock ticking echoed through the empty room. Empty, save for the bed in the corner by the window. A dull light shone through the panes of glass.
The aging man in the bed turned his head from the view out the window to call again. "Anna, where are you?"
Silence met him.
"Anna?"
The clock beat its tattoo like a beating heart.
"Anna? Where are you?!? Anna!" The man's hands fluttered in agitation and fear.
"It's alright, Will, I am here." Another sound interrupted the clock's rhythm, followed by the woman. She opened the door to the empty room and moved to the bed, taking up the man's veined hand in her youthful ones.
"Oh, there you are. I was afraid..." the old man said as his panic subsided.
Anna smiled sadly. "It's alright, Will. I am here."
Will let out a small chuckle which quickly turned into a wheezing cough. Anna's expression changed to one of concern as she helped him to sit up.
"Anna..." Will muttered through half-closed lips once settled back on his pillow.
"What is it, Will?"
"Can I go outside today?"
Anna did not even glance through the triple-thick glass window, did not cast her gaze upon the barren landscape shrouded by thick green clouds, did not even pause to think. "Not today, Will. It's too cold."
"You always say that." Will pouted as only a sick old man can pout. "At least tell me if the sun is out today."
She longed to say Yes the sun is out today, but it's hidden by the perpetual clouds. Yes the sun is out today, but no one has seen the sun in fifteen years. Yes the sun is out today, but even if you could see it, Will, it is not the sun you remember.

"Yes, the sun is out today, and the sky is blue, just like you remember."

random post time!

so one of my friends posted a link to a nifty thing which mixes up words. you put in some text, and click Bonsai! and it mixes them up into perhaps meaningful things. here's a few renditions of some poems i wrote a while back. the originals are somewhere...mua ha ha ha...

i am the paradox of light and no home to shreds
beaten broken bleeding then poorly mended again a lie
i am truth less than what it was
i am a truth less than what it was
i am the beast with no home to speak and no home to shreds
beaten broken bleeding then poorly mended ...

i am a lie i am truth torn to
i am the paradox of innocence
i am a lie i am truth less than what it was
i am the paradox of light and foe
i am the paradox of innocence
i am the beast with no home to shreds
beaten broken bleeding then poorly mended again ...

i am the picture of innocence
i am the paradox of light and foe
i am the beast with no words to speak them to
i am a lie i am a truth less than what it was
i am the paradox of light and no home to speak them to
shreds beaten broken bleeding then poorly ...


'i seek you cannot see me!' i can't see me!' i know you i feel you are near me i scream defiantly and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and weep in the open with my eyes i hide?
if i keep persistence on my side hiding in loneliness i find you, what do i hide?
if i laugh and laugh and laugh and weep in loneliness, persistence on my back turned, hands over my eyes in loneliness i find you, what do i wander blindly, hands over my eyes ...


my friend once told me in a dream that i can only stand and stare into the future with tears streaming from my eye
my eye
my eye
my friend once told me in a dream that i can only stand and stare into the future with tears streaming from my mouth
it's over, all over, then?
i see it in my throat keep it all over, then?
i can only stand and stare into the uneasy feeling
run down my friend once told me in a dream that i can only ...

my friend once told me they will all go forward
see it in my world is crashing around me in a dream that we are no longer children is ending my mouth
it's over, all over, then?
i cannot follow i see it from bursting from my mouth
it's over,
all go forward i see it in my mind but i see it
the rainbow is crashing around me they will
all over, then?
i can only stand and stare into the future with tears streaming from my mouth it's over, ...