Poetry of Shawn Nicolen
Cute
What's that?
You think I'm cute?
What happened to the monster that you all told me I was then and forever?
You think now that I posess some sort of beauty?
Your wrong.
You told me I was loathe to exist in the minds of my peers, of all people,
of even the devine!
There were times that I wept, Abhoring myself, the living gargoyle.
flesh of the damned.
And now, I'm cute?
Well then, perhaps I misjudged.
Perhaps I was wrong.
The beauty is in the irony.
The monster is now within,
And I'll never forgive any of you
who planted the seeds of that damnation
and so I am damned and so are you.
Cute, don't you think?
Vivid Happy Face
Bright eyes!
Eyes aflame
hot with rage
within quiet,
quiet waiting
behind a mask
a front a smile
in form of a sheid of teeth.
Gnawing teeth.
Grating teeth.
Grinding. Lips parted
chapped and bloody from gnawing.
Nervously gnawing.
But the smile remains.
Bright eyes.
bright with flame searing into souls.
Gentle hands.
Easily bruised.
Young hands bruised when young.
Clenched reactively protectively.
Stay away.
He needs no consoling.
See how he smiles!
He is content.
Happy violently happy.
Too happy.
Sad to give and sad to get
but rather I smile than someone else.
The Mall
There is a shiny place where blind and conservative businessmen buy
their pre-packaged plastic dreams then pay seventy cents a day with a twenty
to buy sweet toothed flash frozen garbage over the counter from people
they expect to prostrate themselves and to like being called mechanical
sub-human underpaid brats who should look up to their deluded elders so
that one day if their capitolism spawned greed kissing play games with
your life politicians decide your ready you can be just like them and live
a lie through carbonated poison and telivised nightmares candy-coated for
your own good.
Tick Tock
time passes
and we mourn
it
silently
time dyes
and
it
is born
all at once
never in a while
never
then
always
now
its always
now
you cannot escape
now
time moves forward
but your always
now
you die and time continues
you lie and time goes on
you live
you exist
you be
you are
you see
you move
you:
now.
Time Enough
not enough hours in the day
I can never finish what I start
becomes a dream
something long forgotten.
not enough hours in the day
to feel
to write
to think
to rest
just respond to stimlui.
not enough hours in the day
running the rat maze of life
stop asking questions
and accept
and cope
and survive.
not enough hours in the day
To do what I have to.
To do what they want me to.
To do what I want.
A list of to do.
checks by a few
not enough hours in the day.
not enough.
never enough.
enough!