jottings

Fainter than veins,
pale beneath skin,

a mocking echo 

taunts within,
uncertainty scoffs,

laughs at finality, 

certainty remiss.

a living ellipsis

unseats every period,

questions, unruly 

crowd uninvited

leaving you foreign

in your own, 

self unknown.

thoughts with doubts tinged 

until doubt remains

the only thought unhinged.

Spectre

The pause of your heartbeat

what you do not hear

what you fear

the skin that falls from your face

softly, unnoticed

replaced

your footprint unmarked

indiscernible, temporal

where you trod.

Idols that reign unseen

will you to race, heave, preen

without saying a word,

wield all power to be heard.