The Sense of Alteration

Can you not see
The lines of view
The sense of alteration
In the vista ahead
Can you bear to witness
Smell the air and taste
The fear
Or is it sex you scent
Can you not see
Their point of view
Can you not feel
Emotion any longer or
Will you close your eyes instead
Plug your mouth and nose
Turn and walk back and away
The sense of alteration
Creeping ever forward
At your back

By: Daniel Smallegange

As You Stride By My Side

The tower of Babel
Ain't got nothing on you
Your legs long and trunk tall
Your incessant chatter and your blurred fingers
As you type type type
Documents of our lusts and wars
You silence only in order to
Eat in some breaths
As you stride by my side
Enemy prime and love first principal
You prolong your career as my
Primary adversary
With all your guile and charm
Your multitude of tones and speech
The hanging gardens you were in awe of
Their slopes reminding you of
Far away dreams
But they were destroyed
My enemy
My love
While we stride on purposeful
Our egos not unlike
The Colossus of Rhodes
Which duly crashed upon the earth
As you stride by my side
Eating in breaths during
Rare pauses and silence

By: Daniel Smallegange

Your Screed For a Better World

Your screed for a better world
I didn't read it
It was tedious and
And even more so was
Rife with friction causing errors
Of a grammatical nature
Also refrain further
From the usage of emotical symbols
Smiling and frowning
If you are to be taken
Seriously
Screedwise
You also mention
A better world if owls
Are put in charge
I didn't read it
But and
Might I suggest
If you want the owls or other avians
To take you serious
I would correct at least your
Friction causing
Grammatical errors and
Emotical symbols
Rife as they be
I didn't read it
Your screed for a better world

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by Daniel Smallegange

When Once We Kissed

There you are
Spying across the way
I see your eyes are black and glitter
I see your finger
Itching on
The trigger
I see your lips about to hiss
I remember vaguely when once
We kissed

Eyes locking
Heart stopping
At this and that lost
Occasion
But the silencer sound
Dims the glitter
And your lips
Twist all bitter
You didn't think
I'd come to our reunion alone my love
As your black eyes fade and your finger
Slackens
Loses its grip
Upon the trigger
I remember vaguely
When once we kissed

By: Daniel Smallegange

Upright Emphatic

If I can't get
Because you want
I shall transpose
The get
To not where you are so
Emphatically
Wanting
Why you looking so
Standing arms crossed
Tapping of your foot
Is disregarded
The idea of your
Want
Is what attracted me
So and therefore
You being removed
Dislocated from
Invalidates my desire
To get
But I would rather this
Than you win
If I can't get
Looking so upright emphatic
Arms crossed
Foot tapping

By: Daniel Smallegange

All Over the Place

Don't get your DNA all over the place
Don't sweat it out or drool
And stand up straight
What are you expecting
Answers to questions but there are none
The only answer is wrong and you
Your will is against the other wills
My will is irredeemable and also
Wrong facing
Stop leaning you'll fall
There is polish to your lies
And you look not inelegant at times
Spare me however those looks of
Admiration and or seduction
Spare me too the sweep of your embrace and the
Eye contact when you look downwards
Distrust and blood and sweat and drool
Your DNA is mixing all up
With mine
I feel the combination
I feel the closeness gripping
Like an ever tightening fist
Like a trap
Your DNA and mine
All over the place

By: Daniel Smallegange