Untitled.

Bored, just some thoughts.

Untitled – by Jesse Young

Grouchy flies dance ceaselessly,

I see their darting bodies, they do not buzz.

I lie outstretched in a pool thick foamy substance, floating.

Eyes sunk far back into their sockets.

I squander my time, listlessly, needy, hoping.

Palatable worry pierces my hardened exterior,

My eyelids flicker tentatively.

Straining, a murky outline,

A marble dais rises above the centre of the pool.

A jester takes the stage,

Frolics in an unnerving pantomime,

Transfixed by his deft movements,

I lose myself.

The jester points, into the cold distance, far away.

His cap’s bells jingle silently.

I turn, but the darkness that greets me, haunts me.

He urges my attention onward into the nothingness,

I balk, unwilling to explore further.

“Who’s the fool?” his lips jerk, mouthing noiselessly.

Yet I hear his words drift down to me, I know he is right, compounding my ire.

I shut him out, merge with the pool.

I lie outstretched in a pool thick foamy substance, floating

Eyes sunk far back into their sockets

I squander my time, listlessly, gloomily, expiring.

Groping at indefinite ideas,

Please, a vestige of coherence.

Hands feeling, searchingly appealing,

The jester’s face is caked in slime,

The countenance his, for though I no longer see,

The slanted, crooked smile meets my fingers,

The darkness is absolute.

Don’t Jump, Don’t look down.

Elevator opens
To the balcony,
12th floor.
Your clutching
The guardrail
Frantic eyes
darting
Manical laughs
Fill my ears
You dance,
on the edge
of a knife,
playing a dangerous game…

A Forest/Dusk and her embrace.

A Forest/Dusk and her embrace (2007)
by Jesse Young

Draped in an allure
T’was thick as to obscure
Entrap and betwixt its prey
She the lowly maiden fair
For whom many hearts despair
Neither her look nor her gaze
Whispered mischievous intent
Playfully naïve minx
Though illustriously aware
Many men claimed to have saw
For time immemorial
She frolicked the woods yore
Nubile forest nymph
Possessive of remarkable flair
But lo! To catch her eyes
She’d tear you to the brink
With her disconcerting incise
In a rare and fleeting moment of surprise
Barely a glimpse would suffice
Decreed to a life sentence
Inclined to chase this maiden fair
Far through all woods of yesteryear
Chasing a blank forgery of a heart
Long since faded, eroded imitation
All but lost to the winding passage of time.

Simple love rhyme.

Simple love rhyme (2007)
or
(The pretty indispensable curious alluring atypical novel puzzling illusory extraneous paroxysm­inducing preoccupation of a creature.)
By Jesse Young 

Apple of my eye
Dissolve the floodgates of my heart
Diamond of my sky
It’s through you, I channel my art
Soother of my soul
Coddle me with kisses
I am your devoted foal
Even if it’s hit and misses
Our passions spent
On a heart shaped box
Sweetly content
In mismatched socks
I offered a pair of mittens
In snappy winter snow
You gave me three kittens
So this of you I know
Throughout the beating squall
That tempest we heard and see
You’ve possession of me whole
Assuage all strife that burdened me
Carve our names into a tree
An august picnic under the willow
It’s love that rends us free
Your face buried in my pillow.

Shadow Lover

Shadow Lover (2007)
by Jesse Young 

(Verse 1)
There’s a tremor in my voice,
A quivering of lips,
Buckling of the knees.
Nonchalantly trading quips,
Belies a hidden tryst
I try to steal a glance,
furtively, to advance
dare I take the chance?
I wondered as we danced.

(Chorus)
And all the lights swirled around the place,
The heady afterglow and bitter aftertaste.
Cascading shadows obscuring my face,
I’m forever the shadow lover
I see through all your pretensions
and I’m not your man at all.

(Verse 2)
Sweet nothings from a lover
signed, sealed and delivered
But I am just another
Clandestine hush hush cover
“Could you ever understand me?”
I tersely replied
Stifling the tears,
Once reserved inside,
I peered at the mirror,
To find you looking back,
To a blank spot on the wall,
but for a phantom outline,
woefully faint and small.

(Chorus)
And all the lights swirled around the place,
The heady afterglow and bitter aftertaste.
Cascading shadows obscuring my face,
I’m forever the shadow lover
I see through all your pretensions
and I’m not your man at all.

(Bridge)
Oh no, no no no
You never ever see
But you happily venture,
To feign affection.
Yet you depend on,
Meee-eeee
I’ve got my place,
I’m forever your shadow lover
I see through it all,
Your pitiful,
I’m not your man at all.

(Verse 3)
Winking once,
As you poked my arm.
I smiled back,
Though, I confess,
You’ll never know,
The heartrending harm,
Your playful poke,
Was made to evoke.
I averted my gaze,
And sunk, into the void
The shadow world,
But you never noticed,
You never notice.

(Chorus x 2)
And all the lights swirled around the place,
The heady afterglow and bitter aftertaste.
Cascading shadows obscuring my face,
I’m forever the shadow lover
I see through all your pretensions
and I’m not your man at all.

Your pitiful,
I’m not your man at all.

I’m pitiful,
I was never your man at all.

The mindless never-after

The mindless never-after (2008)
by Jesse Young

Oh abiding pain,
In memoriam,
Mind abated, thoughts restrained.
My misshapen soul,
Itched, wallowed & lost control.
Sullied long to,
Labour a cloistered hole.
Though drawl,
Sexless nights held terrors,
Ambered in death’s thrall.
Onrushing visions spill out,
Traffic lights whirl,
Past & present cemented,
The future, I confess, not so sure.