First attempt at making a blueberry pie:

It's fine, Rewind To sweetest kiss The wine, #Divine On bloodstained lips A sign, Designed Could life be this? Resigned, We're blind Bereft of bliss And still, We wish... For sweetest kiss #vss365

I rest my heart In fallow field #Fertile, once But nevermore A soul to rend Forever tore The sweetest fruit Will never yield The fleetest moment Ever sealed Away inside My soul'd abide And in this tide Of drowning tears Lamenting I The wasted years #vss365

Buffeted by The winds of #chaos Butterfly effect Across the miles Though we shared Both tears & smiles The miles were long We lost the song Once was right Now only wrong Serpentile The blood grew cold Oh god, I feel so fucking old These winds now lonely Cold...hostile #vss365

It was his #turn. I could see him down to the minutiae: muscles in his jaw rippling, jaw clenching; eyes darting about, seeking escape; a single bead of sweat forming at his temple before rolling a lover's trace down his jaw. Unfazed, I pulled the trigger. Light's out #vss365

Wagered all & Lost my shirt Left bleeding, broken In the dirt Embraced the hurt That loving pain #Balanced on The edge again So calloused I endured the strain Picked up the pen Yet only bled And in the dark The good thoughts fled For monsters lived Inside my head #vss365

#Tenderly She took my hands Inside her hands ('Twas but a dream) Opening my eyes I scream While deep inside The flowers die Uttering a lonely cry I know my place No name nor face I know now That which I forgot Back to the dream It matters not #vss365

I sometimes yearn For the pretty words Wishing for them To bloom from my lips As roses #Stunning & sweet In their simplicity Yet the pretty things Wither & die On the vine of my tongue Leaving little But carrion comfort And sepulchral serenity #vss365

We can't #undo Mistakes of the past Instead, we chew Razor-blade promises While the lies Bleed out From lacerated lips: "I'll do better this time" We swallow As sanguine stew Defining our insanity - Same actions Over and over Expecting sweeter results From bitter fruit #vss365

The apocalypse *Will* be televised It'll creep up on us In asinine social media posts & 16 second sound bites It'll be politicians pontificating Nuclear weapon proliferating Hate ralley participating With no way to #undo No. No mitigating Under this cloud All suffocating #vss365

That look of unbridled freedom in your eyes as those endless, dusty miles disappeared behind us was all I needed to feel whole - to feel a happiness that had always been #forbidden to me. Maybe it was only a moment of perfection. But to me? It felt like forever. #vss365

Here I lay Both broke & bleeding All my happy thoughts receding Huddled in a ball, I cry Only wish I have: to die Can't ask why The question's pointless Screaming silent Blind & voiceless Still, inside I hear the voices #Mother speaks I have no choices #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #evermore - to start a wet and melancholy Saturday. #GoodMorning

Quothe the raven: Nevermore #Evermore, neath ebon skies Death lurks there Yet never dies And in the darkness Hearts grow cold Within the carcass Of the soul A midden heap Where angels weep It's lonely here The depths too deep No more warmth No one to hold #vss365

Now we find Ourselves adrift Split in twain By subtle #rift So short of shrift All patience gone Now alone Without, withdrawn Bereft of song No voice, no face We don't belong We have no place It won't be long Til night's embrace To disappear Without a trace #vss365

It #lingered in me The memory of you Sticky-sweet residue Clinging More deep Than pore-deep Cutting to the core Razor-sharp Pleasure & pain A testament To my inadequacies I the judge And the #judgement? Ever guilty #vss365

My heart was #barren. Empty & arid as the wasteland that stretched for what seemed like forever. Green things grew here, once. Lush & beautiful as the sweetest heart. But no more. I wanted to lay down. Let the dust settle on me as some desolate blanket. I kept going. #vss365

Life's a bitch & Then you die Or so they say It be that way Both grim & grey The skies still weep I greet the day In depths too deep The #doves still cry I cannot sleep Tis best to die Without a peep A test to try I take the leap No wings to fly Now off to sleep... #vss365

The time has come For us, my #dear To dance the wind And float away Perhaps we shall Return one day (Another falls I hear his calls) The dread footfalls With sickle-gait Our clock is ticking (Can't be late) Ravens flocking Need to sate Tarry not He shall not wait #vss365

We laughed in the face of #fury, buffeted as we were by the winds of innocence (or was it ignorance?). All hard planes & fissures, enough to make the bravest pause, still we crept 'tween its teeth to be chewed to shreds - masochism by mastication - grinning as we died. #vss365

I am an ember Not a #name No eyes to see No soul, nor voice Never free No life, no choice And still we all Must play the game Unwinnable With none to blame Dwindling This spark of life A cinder in the Endless night Soon to be Extinguished flame #vss365

I'll find my voice again. Or I won't. Either way, the world will keep spinning 'round the Sun long after I'm gone, and I just another name on a stone that people walk by without seeing. No grand #tactician in the sky, guiding. Just entropy & the merciless march of time. #vss365

Adrift in absinthe apathy Fools were we To be lulled to sleep Wheedled as we were By #wolves adorned as sheep Entranced by how They wove their words Blissfully ignorant Safe in our herds The wool pulled ever Over our eyes Unaware or uncaring Of the smallest of cries #vss365

Spoken version of today's #vss365 - #jade

Maybe I was #jaded Maybe I wasn't shit Cuz no matter How fuckin' hard I tried... I never made it I guess life just Forbade it So I took that razor - Shiny & sharp But still so fucking dark - And bladed Each cut deep Jagged & serrated And still In the end Was never sated #vss365

Spoken version of yesterday's #vss365 - #word #GoodNight

In my time of dying 'Pon long Belabored breath These #words My only comfort An epithet 'fore death Long gone The time of trying To grasp at straws be done And in our lives of lying We struggled neath the Sun Now no more fight 'Tis only night The ending has begun #vss365

Stuck inside This fucking #loop Ouroboros It mocks me so & All I really fucking know These coils which wrap Around my throat Sinuous & taut as rope Twisted knot To choke my dreams Strangled now It stops my screams To end this Everlasting game Whispering Forget my name #vss365

Raised up Dreaming of the stripes & stars But we right here Livin' within steel & bars Sportin' scrapes & scars Ain't no stones & sticks When everyday's a hustle Movin' zips & bricks & No magic tricks No, that shit's for kids The outcome death Or doing lifetime bids #vss365

We lay here Cradled in the #hands Of the indifferent infinite Children eager For meaning But we slip away Lost as hourglass #sand Our moment as ephemeral As tears in the relentless rain Here today Gone tomorrow #vss365