All Nonfiction
- Bullying
- Books
- Academic
- Author Interviews
- Celebrity interviews
- College Articles
- College Essays
- Educator of the Year
- Heroes
- Interviews
- Memoir
- Personal Experience
- Sports
- Travel & Culture
All Opinions
- Bullying
- Current Events / Politics
- Discrimination
- Drugs / Alcohol / Smoking
- Entertainment / Celebrities
- Environment
- Love / Relationships
- Movies / Music / TV
- Pop Culture / Trends
- School / College
- Social Issues / Civics
- Spirituality / Religion
- Sports / Hobbies
All Hot Topics
- Bullying
- Community Service
- Environment
- Health
- Letters to the Editor
- Pride & Prejudice
- What Matters
- Back
Summer Guide
- Program Links
- Program Reviews
- Back
College Guide
- College Links
- College Reviews
- College Essays
- College Articles
- Back
Contradictions
Rot to grow
A boneless flesh
In human-shaped shells
Under the eyes’ naiveté
Freshen away from death
Under beating logic
Crush a dancing end
And leave alone a man
To sing himself to sleep
And cry a toll of forgetting
On throbless heart
This cool immunity
Is a glass mirror
Of judging gazes
That try to reflect clearly
The blind of masks
This warm vulnerability
Cling the lips
To promises past
And breathe in the blue breaths
Above the surface grasping
But it bleeds through the fingers
Let go of speech
Show no love
To that which is imaged
And spilled out to be lost
Among their empirical reality
The fight is unwinnable but
Hide no hate
Keen and cold
As death and eyes
Only can be at the end
For a chance at infinity
Truer than their
Unperceiving warmth
Similar Articles
JOIN THE DISCUSSION
This article has 0 comments.