Tsu's Book of Poems

[Tsume Rokaro]

A Funeral For Fun

There’s a funeral coming.
Gather round ye people.
Join the congregation,
Rejoice! Rejoice!

Today we’re burying
All the guilt we’ve had,
Crushing all the pain,
With a dash of dirt and pinch of salt.
That’s all I have to say.

Come like, come love,
Come adoration.
Join the merry crowd.

Oh wait, that’s right.
We’re losing all the people!

Call the morgue!
Call the undertaker!
We’re starting over new.
A brand new cast of emotions.
A complete revamp.

Here we have the recently revived
Fear, pain, and guilt.
Oh yes,
Please come on in
Join the kinder crowd.
We’re all related here.

Start the show with a menagerie.
A grouping of all of you.
Let fear and the undead take the place.
[backstage]
Yes fear.
Of course he can lead.
He did for years.
-Nix them all-
But.
-No buts.-
Crap.

Come congregation!
Let the show begin.
Once again, we have a funeral
The undead are dead and put to rest.
And kinder hearts reign again
Today, forever.
Hopefully…

~(c)Tsume 12-18-08

 

[Tsume Rokaro]

Losk

Pale white hands hold ebony.
The onyx pen trails red.
Pale gray-gold eyes,
Short white hair falls near the ears.
Black nails grip the wood.
Sweet, soft lips lined with black.
Sharp white fangs,
Shining canines show in grins.
Short-sleeved shirt stitched like a corpse
Closed from the autopsy.
Pleated skirt, laced with checks.
Over nets the skirt doth fall.
Black boots stretch up the calves.
Bonds of studded black
Adorn the small wrists.
A collor lined with sharp black spikes
And silver rings in my ears.
Shadows underline pale skin near the eyes.
I write with a heart.
One locked in and afraid.
My name is a story.
Long as time has flowed,
Short as a blink.
My name is Losk.

~(c) Tsume

 

[Tsume Rokaro]

Ivory

What is this place,
Called Neverland?
A place where children are children
And nothing evermore…?
Or the world of cards and queens,
Called Wonderland.
A place of puzzling adventure?

They say,
“It‘s where dreams come true.”
A lie is all I can tell you.

A world bound and blind
Is all I see.
Blind to the wonderless powers
Of a world thusly named.
Bound to it
Through ties unknown to many.

*“There is so much to learn.
You understand so little.” True for all who don’t look.

Search long and hard,
You’ll never find it.
Only can you stumble on,
Perhaps with help of a guide…

There is a place called Wonderless
Where dreams and thoughts collide.
The mental connection,
Hate or Affection.

Nothing and Everything.
A world for the lost,
The discarded,
The forgotten.
A world known as one and as many.

Can you find it?
Can you see me?
(laughter of a woman)
Call my Name!
Call My NAME! (more hysterical)

Ivory!
Ivory, Ivory, Ivory
[Black and white.
Forever.
Nothing.
Infinite.
Mortal.] Ending.

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*qoute spoken as = (think female Ansem)
Italicized=(whispered echoes)
[] = (Rapid succession and overlap--drakengard)

It's a half creepy blend of some of my favorite games and movies....*refs to Neverland, KH quote, Drakengard style, oddly enough--the Never Ending Story*

It's realy quite creepy to actually hear all of that in my head as it was typed here...o.o

~(c) Tsume

 

[Tsume Rokaro]

Falling Star

I watched
As a star fell through the sky.
A single beat was calling.
A single suffocating breath
Passed beyond my lips
And into the stars.
I sat alone
Staring at it.
Watching it die
As my heart slowed and stopped,
Acutely aware as the fire above
Burst into flames anew.
I watched it fall,
Fall through the sky.
Somewhere the light in my own eyes
Followed without a thought.
It left me lying in the dark,
Dead below the stars.
Vaguely aware, was I,
Of my life's passing.
I'm so sorry
But I must say
Goodbye.

~(c) Tsume

 

[Tsume Rokaro]

Secrets

A keeper of secrets.
A holder of souls.
One thread on the line,
Friends hang in the balance.
One slip of the tongue,
Unleashes hellfire.
The fate of two hung out to see,
The keeper, the holder
Oh no! That's me!
Set into motion.,
Words run hot,
Tempers blaze with battle glory.
Trapped in the midst,
My own fault to blame.
Emotions run cold,
Like ice in my veins.
Waves of black wash over my head.
Such sharp, cutting guilt,
I must be dead.
Though things work through
And the battle is won,
(No one lost in the fires,)
The salt of the sea
Has settled in my veins.
Keeper of secrets.
Holder of souls.
My treasure to keep.
My curse to uphold.
So many threads on the line.
Too many friends full of trust.
The curse is held on,
No matter my own cost.

~(c) Tsume

 

[Tsume Rokaro]

I'll Sing Alone

I sing to the moon at night
While holding onto stars.
And with every breath
It feels like something’s slipping passed me.

And as this moon waxes,
I can feel this calling
This yearning in my heart.
I want to fly.
I want to touch the clouds around me
To see those floating passed me.

There’s nothing I can do.
I’m just a simple shell.
There’s not a person
That can mould me anymore.
And by that small decree,
I’m alone under the moon crying:

Why?
Why can’t I have what I want?
Why is my song not heard?
If only the moon could grant my wishes
Then I’d see that light again.
I’d see that light again…

Lonely in this crowd of people
The sea forms up around me.
I hear the tide’s rising waves
Crashing into the shore,
Holding on to me for what it’s for.
All along the moon was war!?

No.
I read this wrong.
I screwed myself up.
What’s left to salvage?
What’s left to love?

I sit alone and sing
Sing right up to the moon.
Wrapping stars around me
All the while
Screaming out my doom.

With every breathe I realize
What it is I’ve missed.
I stood blind to the world,
Holding onto limitations,
Simple imitations.

I’ll be alone,
A simply song before the play.
Never once to be used again,
Save that one single debut day.
But there’s one thing I’ve thought of…
I’m alright with that.
No sense in trying to bend people
In ways they just won’t act.

I’ll sing alone,
Like wolves can only drone.
I’ll sing alone,
On this sinking ship I am.
I’ll sing alone.
I’ll sing….
Alone.

~(c) Tsume