Inflamed

By Joshua

a short collection

Gratitude 

Gratitude is like a serene, crystal clear, unceasing lake that flows and trickles and fills in the gaps of one’s heart.

Humility 

Oh the severe crushing and liberating pressure of watching someone greater and more admirable and wondrous and then, humility. It humiliates and chides in mocking fashion whilst taking, grasping, the heart in starry profundity, occupies it, and threatens to consume you and your reality itself. 

Narcissus 

Is there beauty in the crystal clear reflections of a serene and still lake that peers upwards at you with undisguised curiosity, spite, mockery, pride, and poetic judgment. Are we so above ourselves that we do not believe we can fall into its depths, just like narcissus did?

Feeling

Blissful and blessed are our emotions, starry and wondrous colourful aurora patterns that illuminate our inner skies and threaten us with the capability to leap and soar above the mundane grittiness of logic’s soil.

And then we gracefully descend, endeavouring to scale up earthen peaks just for another glimpse of heaven.

Despondency 

Despondency, a punctured hole in your heart that you immediately realise cannot be patched, but I bask in it like how the cold blooded animal basks in the sun.

void

Wherein the colourful emotional aurora dissipates, wherein the void rises up the chasm of my heart, wherein it’s chambers proliferates a dark, unwilling, nihilism. 

By Joshua