Poems on Life - Blackout Poetry Notes

All or Nothing

It was obvious I was
too intense.
There is just light and dark,
all or nothing.

Grit your teeth.
for in life,
sprouting in the darkness
are bright
petals of light.

I can only,
day to day, fight to be
more confident
and good for myself,
no matter what other people say.

That Machiavellian casualness,
that tragic joy
it would be
my security
and my misery.

Are bars the prescription
for laughter and tears?
Or glory and disgust?

Life is loneliness with
no purpose,
pour your soul
into joy, fulfillment and
companionship.

I'm convinced
my secret to life
like a dream
is sweet solitude.

At eighteen years -
I was wild,
I didn't fear
the coffin or the grave.

The rhythm of life
wailed blues
with this low, sweet fever,
blown around the
twilight universe.

Do not sit
instead,
run madly
in a crowd of busy people.
It is so easy to drift
and rush, or rather,
flail
in aimless routine.