synthetic horizons

01/2012

Plastic sun-rays pierce through Kodak skies

and scores of perfect, swift soaring clouds.

Illuminating my pallid skin and my numb sight

for what seems like the first time in ages.

Vivid scenery greets me, all laid out in

a painstakingly familiar sense of somewhere.

This vile I've choked down is hollowing out

inside me, bringing me closer to necrosis. 

Until then I will wander these synthetic horizons

brought on from imagination and hallucinogenics.  

With people that walk to different tunes, selfishly

giving in more to the machine instead of life.

It's just another fake day in this empty city

so lets get wasted and forget our dilemmas.

The darkness that spills from my eyes is the

only remnant of a reality that is dying within.   

Author's Note

Reviews

[Otsana]

Your writing is very descriptive and this helps bring out the emotion in your poem. I feel as though in the line "Illuminating my pallid skin and my numb sight for what seems like the first time in ages" there is positivity but it has been out ruled by all the negative that you are witnessing around you "With people that walk to different tunes, selfishly giving in more to the machine instead of life". Great poem!

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Sad...I like your expression and it is a very good poem though!

[TL Boehm]

This is the way so many live. How many of us really are awake, and in the moment. This is a strong poem.

[Kaylor Mason]

Reminds me of the photos they sell in frames, or the pictures that come with wallets. Empty photos of hired models with false smiles against photographic backdrops in some nameless studio. The feeling of nihilism in this piece is very strong.

[Spookers]

Again. Your metaphors amaze me.

[Alex Vidmar]

Your writing draws a clear image in my head every time you write. You're an amazing poet/writer.

~Alex

[Ryzo]

Wonderful imagrey. A well planned and structured poem. Potent and full of life, true rock n roll right there! :)

[Mockingbird]

sometimes the trip to synthetic horizons is the perfect escape from a sepia world.

[Archia]

I really enjoyed this, it was truly something interesting, something to think about. "Until then I will wander these synthetic horizons/ brought on from imagination and hallucinogenics." Those two lines are two of the best lines I've ever read. It's because they say so much, and it makes it wonderful, like the rest.

[Amila Jay]

Hmm..kodak skies, very nicely portrayed, great write:-)