A Pair Of Bygones - In Serial Haiku Format

[Joey]

Predestined vapor
With airwaves psychedelic
Perception makes us

Infinitely sworn
To my lungs by absorption
Poison to the brink

Vapour to fluid
Blood level toxicity
And death is shallow

My brain can’t abstain
So I’ve never got to kick
Or quit with a friend

Who tells me we’re here
And I listen willfully
He says truth is love

So I’ll never feel well
Not enough reminiscence
Reminds voiceless blame

As I can’t hear him
He said he’d stay beside me
But no matter‘s made

The male gaze resides
Longing, soulful, and willful
Grace stands out to men

I'll never forget that time
When he would look at me and say
I love you - my friend

I can't remember
When someone loved my intense
need to lean in

Or when I couldn't
Nor could I sing to shoulder
him to my credit

The fluid vaporized
Once again to sporous toxin
I looked out and cried

 

[Joey]

At our life’s dead end
Stands a God and his tendrils
Reaching out for us

I lost my last life
My only life, and my last
Forever I’ll long

Long to live again
To hug and hold my lover
I wept for his loss

But when I was done
I knew it was for the best
He now has closure

I looked up and on
I was afloat, turbulent
I sped and I stopped

Now I’m at the gates
And I saw they’re eternal
They see my secrets

“Why do you stand here?”
The Lord stood in wait for me
As I was just one

For all eternity
This omniscient being
Now stops just for me

“I am dead.. afraid.”
I felt terrors unlike life
Or anything I knew

Eternity stared back
It saw through all my life’s deeds
I began to cry

“You’re safe. I promise you.”
The gates opened up for me
And I was afoot.

I walked in. I shook.
And what I saw was so grand.
My lover was there too.

In death we stay still
Til the end of time we wait
Then at once - freedom.

All who had lived life
‘Cross all time and history
We land all at once

And we’re all up here
We all reunite - complete
We’re all together

 

[Joey]

The haiku is my favourite format for poetry. I write a bunch of them probably a few times a week. Usually the bleed into each other like this. It's a good exercise, and it sounds nice To read.