Fated For Loneliness

Sleep eludes the silent voice of suffering
Quiet nights endured alone wreck barren souls
Universal oneness with darkness
Universal separation unfolds
Pockets of light kiss the skin on occasion
Imitating joy others daily know
Solitude calls weary heads to rest
Solitude, the only place that feels like home

Color Theory

Green radiating from my imbalanced heart chakra
Powered by the aventurine in my pocket
Its glow dulls every day I don’t meditate 

Matching the dead green that overshadows the blue
In my eyes on my darkest days
Green, the color of health in my soul and the Earth
But the color of sickness in my body and mind
A color of duality
A color of mystery  

Mind Palace

I light up again in the pale moonlight
Silence is here
Not even a raindrop could make me listen
Dusk is my home
Nesting my loneliness in the shadows

The Son of Night

If the sun shines
And flowers bloom
Even in the most
Desolate of places
Why then can’t we propagate
Ourselves in foreign spaces

Thoughts on Duality

Like the red-stained ground of the morning
Or the powdery pink overtones of dusk
We are all tinted differently
Where the dark and the light meet 

Climate Change

I can hear the conifers crying
Decades of deciduous growth destroyed
I can feel the trauma of trees
Calling out in fear

Curtail

How do you slip out of the plane of existence
Not to a higher place
But to a nothing place
Everyone else traps you here with selfish insistence
By imitating love
Obligation isn’t love
Is there an exit that doesn’t draw a witness
Not out with a big bang
Out with a flickering

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Ash Jaudon has been writing for a lifetime, but only in recent years have they challenged themselves to publicly share their written and spoken words. Emerging as a poet has been the next step on an intense journey of authenticity. They are becoming known for their tarot-inspired typewriter poems, which can be found on their Instagram @liminal_luminarian . This is Ash’s first feature with The Short of It.

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