A Marvelous Method of Reclusion

Aloneness Time stands still Ever lasting True Consuming You embrace the solitude Walk the marvelous path of reclusion Mystic Consuming Gentle Safe An insect A guest at an event A small, dark room A peaceful, tranquil planet Preparing for eternity Jumped off the carousel Outside Pretending civilized Sad circus Aloneness Is deep You're still You surrender your soul to a ghost And when the shadows come to call Secret thoughts become conversation From in the corners of the box I chose to think outside of I forged four fragile bows to make a circle Layers of dust fall to warm my weary heart In the marvelous method of reclusion I'm preparing for eternity Jumped off the carousel Outside Pretending civilized Sad circus I've found myself but I don't know what to make out of this situation? Am I really awake? I wonder if time goes by too fast for those who've loved me in the past? Hurting are my hands and hurtful are the words that I am writing Layers and layers of dust coat my heart! Broken is the door and broken is the man who screamed and tore it down Futile are the attempts to change me And futile are my whispers in the dark Quiet is the man behind the window Quieter still the man behind the mask Black are these old brick walls I have laid Black are these cold brick walls I have painted Black is my ambitious, tainted art Black is my bleeding, misplaced heart Aloneness Takes hold While you sleep Forever lasting Grave Stealing Succumbing to the solitude You believe the marvelous dreams of reclusion Peaceful Mystical Serene Downstream time suspends As II drift Paralysis sneaks up And sedates me Upstream time flows Without me Goes unmissed I'm heading for eternity Jumped from the carousel Outside Pretending civilized Sad Civilized sad circus!

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

Alone I’ve walked the night Restless Thoughts keep turning Far worse to be unseen (seen) Weary My feelings burning How must I contend with this? Nom de plume? (genesis) I soar ever higher from shadows! The depths I have become! “Why can't you still see me?!” “Why can’t you see past the man I’ve become?!” Alone I’ve done what’s right Desperate Days unrewarding Far worse to be undreamed (dreamed) Polite My hidden plans gnawing How must I contend with this? Nom de plume? Yes, yes, my behavior! You’ve worried and watched me succumb! “Why can’t you still see me?!” “Why can’t you see past the man I’ve become?!” I know (It’s getting late) I know! (time has run aground) I’m tired … (saving face) And I know (once for all) This journey’s just begun I soar ever higher from shadows! The depths I have become! “Why can’t you still see me?!” “Why can’t you see past the man?!” (far away gone)

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

Good day Good play “Okay, if you say so” Good news Good weather “So you say, okay” Quite spectacular and strange this world That unfolds in front of me I live in the husk of this man I know you don’t know I’ll dream the day away (detached) Disengaged, in a world all my own Reclusive method refined (hiding) The weight of my darkened soul Oh no, my morose musings! (not again) Oh no, please whisper reason to me! Good job Good deal “Okay, if you say so” Good plan Good reason “So you say, okay” Quite spectacular and strange my world That unfolds inside of me I live in the husk of this man I know you don’t know I’ll dream the day away (detached) Disengaged, in a world all my own Reclusive method refined (hiding) The weight of my darkened soul Oh, not again! (not again) Not again! (here again)

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

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I'm found here (Between the lines) Living in parenthesis (Unseen) Here I am Let me qualify (The need to falsify) (How you see me) Who I choose to be Here I stand Need to amplify (The deeds that glorify) (How you see me) Who I want to be The space between The space between The space between The space between Here I hide Let me rectify (In ways that gentrify) (How you see me) Who I seem to be Here I go Interrupt the flow (To keep me in the know) (How you see me) Who I'll never be: (Space unseen) (Space unseen) (I'm an afterthought) My interpretive life The space between The space between The space between The space between (Me) (Unseen) The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between The space between

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

I don't know This dark voice Between (Me) I don't know This unseen voice In (Me) (No!) Slow poison Withering me From (Me) (I can't take no more!) I'm in fear of What it (Says) I'm in fear of What it (Wants) (Oh, not again!) (I'm here again!) (Time run aground and the ghosts of lost faces beset me!) (Leave her!) (Leave him!) (Leave them!) (Take it!) (Drink it!) (Do it!) (Cut it!) (Hide it!) (Do it!) (Do it!) (Do it!) (Do it!) (Do IT!) (DO it!) (DO IT!)

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

Far worse to be seen … (Unseen) Deep sadness permeates me (Consumes me) Oh, why i succumbed to the ways (The dark weather days) That emptied me (Carried me away) Who i thought i am The path i chose to go Is lost in this fog closing in (With a man I don’t know) All that i am All that i know All the things that matter most (To me) Every little hope Every little wish Imprisoned inside here with me! (And the man I don’t know) Far worse to be dreamed … (Undreamed) Deep paralysis sedates me (Entombs me) Oh, why i heeded the voice (Grew numb to the choice) That deadened me (Buried me away) Who i really am The path i need to go Is lost in this fog closing in (With a man I don’t know) All that i am All that i know All the things that matter most (To me) Every little hope Every little wish Imprisoned inside here with me! (And the man I don’t know) Oh, i know I won’t ever know (Can’t ever) Not when i’m this way (Every single day) My heart absorbs the pain Oh, i know I can’t live this way (Reclusive here) Surrendered day to day (I am all I am) All that i know I must go

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

He creeps through the dark cells of my soul. I hear my chains keyed, collapse and clatter and I am pulled, swept up from the floor on ties that bind me – I am a puppet! I am hoisted and hung out, dangled in a cold spotlight. No cheering, no applause. I cry out, numb, but no one can hear; I'm all alone and suspended in secret He shows me, in the distance, a city I know that's all aglow yet hollow. I'm thrust out, swung, drawn through the streets - a silent, sad show performing for no one He is the one! He is the man who's been pulling the strings all this time. Who can he be? I'm the puppet and he is the master of it all! He tied them all. He strung them all. He pulled them. He pulled them tightly. He pulled them unseen. He pulled them always Him! It's him! It's been him! Only him! Emerging from reclusive corners come all the lies that have been my life, forming shadow faced people reaching for me, arms out trailing their strings – they are all puppets! Then his face in their eyes appears in the cold spotlight, distorted and drowning. Oh no, please whisper reason to me! It's my face there reflected and staring! I am the one! I am the man who's been pulling the strings all this time. How can this be? I'm the puppet and I am the master of it all! I tied them all. I strung them all. I pulled them. I pulled them tightly. I pulled them unseen. I pulled them always Me (It's me) (It's been me) Only me

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026

A reason unseen in a dream waiting to be dreamed Cries out from the withered husk of this man Unremembered and buried on a shoal of memory: A little boy lost in a distant tide of time run aground Clutches his covers and prays in the night Sings a soft song for his mother and an imagined friend A self-imposed view through the space between the bars Of who we are and who we think we are Reveals all that remains to be seen in the windows to his soul; And now separated still, incapable of fight or flight He chooses to detach, disengage and Disappear once again in his marvelous method of reclusion

Submitted by The Void — Feb 13, 2026